Quoting: Purple Library GuySome people much more knowledgeable about such matters than me are saying that doing what's needed for making games run is really a very small subset of what Wine has to do, and so the task is feasible. I'm kind of surprised that games only use such a small subset of what software more broadly uses; I guess if I thought about it I would have figured that games do the kinds of things programs generally do, except with more demanding graphics, and so making games work would need a fairly large subset of what Wine does.

This sounds like a very targeted approach, supporting a specific title or game engine. For any given game, sure 90% of the API is probably unnecessary- But if you want to support every title from the Win95 era up to the as of yet unreleased title that requires Windows 11 I would guess much of the API is necessary.

Also. as TheRiddick pointed out, this effort doesn't need to concern itself with DRM, anti-cheat, launchers. game store fronts and all the other stuff.

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Quoting: a0kamiAlso go check Marc Ten Bosch and his Miegakure project, I used to get the 2 people confused.

It's been 13 years!

Someone should give Bosch the Douglas Adams treatment. Have his publisher lock him in a hotel room and don't let him out until he finishes the damn thing!

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Quoting: tohurwon't admit it because they would have to abide by the GPL

LGPL and no. If it's internal to the company they can do whatever they want. (L)GPL covers distribution of the software.

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Quoting: elmapulwhy the Meta tag?

Presumably meta as in news tangential to gaming but not about a game. Not Meta as in Facebook.

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I'm curious if this is a fuckup with the version of Proton it was tested against? Recommended runtime is set as "proton-stable" which today should be Proton 7 today. But the game was verified 3 February 2022 when the stable release would have been 6.3.

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Oh, it's totally despicable behavior alright. Pure scum.

The comments about gaming and open source seems like a very poor attempt to garner some sort of Robin Hood sympathies.

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Nvidia source release on friday?

So, NVIDIA, the choice is yours! Either:

–Officially make current and all future drivers for all cards open source, while keeping the Verilog and chipset trade secrets... well, secret

OR

–Not make the drivers open source, making us release the entire silicon chip files so that everyone not only knows your driver's secrets, but also your most closely-guarded trade secrets for graphics and computer chipsets too!

YOU HAVE UNTIL FRIDAY, YOU DECIDE!

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/03/cybercriminals-who-breached-nvidia-issue-one-of-the-most-unusual-demands-ever/ [External Link]

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Quoting: UnixOutlawBought - great cause! Only just read David Kushner's "Masters of Doom" - mostly about the two Johns... Thanks John Romero!

A great read!

If you haven't already read it, check out Hackers by Steven Levy. The whole book is fascinating, especially the story about the wild early days of Sierra On-Line.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerThere is a reason why Steam is so popular i think: you click "PLAY" and, well, then you play! Maybe The Dark Mod gets to Steam just like Super Tux!

TDM on Steam was in the works when Valve did the whole Greenlight thing. Don't really know why there haven't been any other efforts?

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Konami went on to state: "Also, bumblebees cannot fly as the lift generated by the wing does not support the weight."

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