Quoting: Craggles086Does this make Civilization one of the longest running games franchise?

Elite predated Civilization by a few years, but Elite Dangerous bears little resemblance to the original Elite, whereas Civilization is technically the same game.

Wikipedia got a list of the longest-running video game franchises, because of course it does!

Both Civ and Elite are on it, but maybe not where you expected them to be:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-running_video_game_franchises [External Link]

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Quoting: StalePopcornHa! Our family got our first microwave mid 80's too!

...and you could finally make fresh popcorn!

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Quoting: CatKillerThe Darkside Detective games are excellent, and play really well on the Deck.

I was quite tempted by these [External Link]. But sadly not included in the sale.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAnyone have any idea what those

Optional Splitlock changes to help gaming

do?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Splitlock-Hurts-Gaming [External Link]

Some more info on splitlocks here: https://lwn.net/Articles/790464/ [External Link]

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Quoting: LembrittI want to upgrade to 1 TB. But have not seen any in my region (Sweden) that don't cost you an arm and a leg.
If you have any tips, please let me know.

I guess wait and see if they turn up in the EU storefront. They seem to have much (all?) of the other Deck bits.

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Quoting: damarrin

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs is just me, or does the phrase

loading throbber

sound kind of rude?

It doesn't sound rude, it sounds enticing.

Are we due some Steam client rule 34?

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Quoting: StalePopcornProtonDB posters are stating that it runs better in Linux than it does on their Winduhz installs

I hear you look better playing it on Linux too!

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Quoting: Avehicle7887

Indeo IV50 codec support.

Hmmm, I wonder which old games use this.

Quite a few oldies. Note that this is specifically for games using the ir50_32.dll. Wine already had some support for the Indeo codec through quartz/DirectShow.

AS for specific games, off the top of my head, Kings Quest 8 needed this dll. Interestingly Microsoft have disabled this dll in later releases so those games are broken in their native environment but will work in Wine...

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Quoting: Linuxeryes i edited the post now and downloaded and extracted but got even more confused

Yeah, so a binary Linux release is still on the TODO:

"In addition, a Flatpak/snap (or similar) package is planned for version 1.10, alleviating the need to manually compile the project. If you don’t want to compile the code, it might be better to use Windows for now or wait for version 1.10."

From: https://theforceengine.github.io/downloads.html [External Link]

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Quoting: Linuxerok so the packages here https://github.com/luciusDXL/TheForceEngine/releases/tag/v1.09.100 [External Link] are

TheForceEngine-v1.09.100.zip 7.8 MB 2023-02-16T19:55:02Z
Source code (zip) 2023-02-16T19:48:03Z
Source code (tar.gz)

but which one do i choose?? the top one is much smaller than the others? why is that? the size is also not indicated on the "source code" ones either? (but they are larger size) why is this? is it some sort of "light version" or what?

what exactly do i do with all this? :huh:

The first one is Windows binaries.

Sourced code almost always takes more space than a compiled binary.

(You are allowed to download the files and check yourself :wink: )

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