Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeSo is there any confirmation if steam-input/steam is required for it to work?

Might get one on my next payslip, same time I'm pretty happy with my 8bitdo 2c ultimate which is a fantastic controller especially for the price

I would guess that Steam would be required. At least at launch.

I didn't own the original Steam Controller so I could be wrong. But from what I understand it was initially tied to Steam. A separate driver did eventually surface, to use it as a generic HID USB gamepad. But it was developed by third party, not Valve.

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The original zsnes took some years after release before coming out FLOSS, so fingers crossed?

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I wonder what it is that they're getting at here.

People use Blender to make creative stuff. They need the creative stuff to feed their models?

Either that or the PR department had money to burn, looked at the list of previous sponsors and felt excluded?

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The original SC was $49.99 on release in 2015. Adjusted for inflation it would cost around $70 today, if I'm not mistaken.

I guess the new one is a little bit pricey, but nowhere near as expensive as Xbox Elite controllers or similar premium models.

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Quoting: RTherenI can't help but think "That looks like a record player without the arm" xD

I was thinking hot plate:

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Quoting: Linuxwarper2015 was, correct me if I am wrong, one of the years where DXVK/VKD3D and other Proton fixes and codes were maturing or being improved.

You're a bit off, Proton was released in 2018.

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Quoting: chr- when this work is finished: Wine (arm) itself can run outside FEX (and Wine would use FEX still for the x86 games)

Possibly/hopefully. This is all best guesses. I think the Android patches that went into this release was only to make it build again on modern platforms?

Would be fun if someone could interview the developer(s) and find out what their plans are!

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AFAICT GameNative et al seems to use proot to run x86 builds of Wine using Box64.

I have no idea of doing it slightly more native will be easier/faster?

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Quoting: ROllerozxaImproving the loading of game mod DLLs sounds interesting but what got my attention was the firstmost line, Wine running on Android? 👀

Yep, it was (somewhat) supported starting with the 3.0 release but ending with 7.0. I think the arm build was only able to run WinRT binaries (Windows apps for arm) so usefulness was pretty much limited to Android on x86. That will probably change now with FEX that emulates x86 on arm64.

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Quoting: F.Ultraare we 100% sure? The MR consists of 15 commits done one month ago which all seams to be legit and in fact does bring in zink

50% sure! From the comments: "This MR was meant mostly as a half joke for April fool's day, but it works and I think it might be an interesting solution overall."

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