Nice! The new demo finally got an intro sequence!

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The demo was a lot of fun! I'm not sure if it was the british accent or the bedroom setting, but it did put me in mind of Simon the Sorcerer.

The Linux port is, as noted, broken OOTB. I get two black flashing windows, a cursor that goes haywire and following that a gnome-shell crash...

Besides the fullscreen fix I had to set a resolution manually in config.ini:

FULLSCREEN = no
RESOLUTION = 1920x1080

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I would love to see Liam review one of these - *hint, hint FunKey guys*!

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Quoting: GuestYou really need to get a crt :(

...and as a grand finale to the article series, blow it up using an erroneous xvidtune modeline. Always end with a bang!

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I loved Bluecurve back in the day! Never used Red Hat or Fedora, but I always pilfered the theme (and pretty backgrounds) from the rpms.

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Quoting: scaineFrom the #wine channel on the GOL discord, I've seen a few instances where Mesa 21 was causing issues with certain big games, like Red Dead Redemption. A few folk migrated from Padoka to Kisak just to downgrade to Mesa 20 until 21 had better stability. It'll be good to see how that stability shapes up now it's released!

That's good to know, but pretty normal for new releases. Major Mesa releases always have this boilerplate:

"Mesa 21.0.0 is a new development release. People who are concerned with stability and reliability should stick with a previous release or wait for Mesa 21.0.1."

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2021 seems to be the year for free retro adventure games set on a train!

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Quoting: The_Aquabataye, the 9200 a really nice card it's when AMD took over and it started having good open source drivers I think.

edit: It was a few years later, but when AMD took over it slowly began having decent open source support, and even before the unofficial open source community drivers were not bad at all.

Actually, The Weather Channel used Linux for some project and demanded FLOSS drivers. ATI payed Tungsten Graphics to develop them.

I don't think the specs was released at the time, only available under NDA for specific developers.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/06/09/0236221/weather-channel-sponsors-oss-ati-radeon-drivers [External Link]

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Quoting: GuestI'm using darkplaces (darkplaces-rev20140513-1.301.x86_64). Will have a try with quakespasm...

Yes, indeed, with that one it works. :smile:

Glad you got it working!

Googling the error message from your original message leads to this post [External Link] with the following suggestion:

"It is the demo1.dem in the pak2.pak that is causing problems in BengtQuake and DarkPlaces. For now, add +map start when running, or just extract everything except demo1.dem from the pak2, then get rid of the pak2.pak."

Might be worth a a try if you prefer darkplaces.

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Quoting: GuestHints anyone? Other mods (Quoth, Soul of Evil...) do run fine :cry:

Which engine? Works fine here with quakespasm 0.93.2.

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