Quoting: redneckdrow

Confidential issue #12092

What? I switched to AMD specifically to use drivers that offer a first-class FOSS experience, and to avoid this kind of vague chicanery.

Part of the point of FOSS is, you know, being open about issues! I get paranoid about this crap ever since I first started reading the likes of Brian Krebs and Bruce Schneier years ago.

This seems to be the fix for the confidential bug:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/31914 [External Link]

It's related to WebGL so I'm guessing a security issue in a browser, that's about to be disclosed?

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White? No.
Beige? Hell yeah!

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There was a 96KB FPS created in 2004 [External Link]. Would be fun to see what could be done with 4MB twenty years later!

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: whizse(A brownie point if you can tell what game manual(s?) it's from!)

I don't know any, but I want the information.

It's from Tex Murphy: Mean Streets (1989).

The game had a feature called RealSound (tm) which made it possible to play digitized audio samples, like speech, using the PC speaker. The cable in the picture was the suggested way to improve audio quality and volume.

Not sure if RealSound was used in any other games.

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Exclusive leak reveals the "impressive leap in audio quality":



(A brownie point if you can tell what game manual(s?) it's from!)

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Among other things I've played and quite enjoyed the old Renegade Ops [External Link]. It was only very recently made playable (without needing workarounds) with Proton Experimental.

It's still listed as Unsupported but I hope it will be re-evaluated soon as it runs great!

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Quoting: neolithHoly cow, that is not a cheap controller! It has got some nice features, but that is a lot of money.

??? A lot of money? It's half the price of the DualSense Edge! :tongue:

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Quoting: tuubithose halcyon days of yore.

:tongue: :tongue: :tongue:

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Quoting: ElectricPrismYeah No. Unreal Engine is a deal breaker because Source Games have details that are mathematically authentically Valve suchas the lighting flicker interval and variations, mathematical interval variations of electrical shocks, sounds, and other content.

"While the code was indeed used in many Valve games, it actually predates the company. The flickering light effect was likely written by none other than John Carmack for “Quake” in 1996. That was part of a library of flickering presets compiled by John Romero in 1993 while working on “DoomED”:"

https://www.alanzucconi.com/2021/06/15/valve-flickering-lights/ [External Link]

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Quoting: PhlebiacWikipedia doesn't provide any background info, but the developer and the publisher are one and the same. Perhaps Agustin had a falling out with Alejandro; wouldn't be the first time game IP was the victim of feuding founders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosys [External Link]

Dang, if true, that would be very sad :sad:

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