Feel free to add Valdis Story: Abyssal City [External Link] to the list, one of my most favourite games of all times. A damn fucking shame if the linux support is dropped, but let's hope for the best.

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Quoting: n30p1r4t3Yay! No more Headaches!

Yeah, good luck with that. The game still performs like arse and chromatic aberration is still as bad as before.

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Chromatic aberration ruins this game for me. Not even blur is as bad.

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It does not start for me.

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Quoting: oldrocker99Also, any DOS game (for Windows, OSX, or Linux) sold by GOG does use DOSBox...

That's my point, I don't see why it is such a big deal. Even if they didn't officially show the pengiun icon, you'd be able to download the windows installer, unpack it with wine and use it with a native DOSBox.

I agree with the point about DRM free version of kotor and kotor2 though, both games are amazing (and flawed, but who cares), both should work on wine.

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Wait, isn't it a dos game? You can run almost any of those on dosbox. (And the one from gog.com is most likely using dosbox.)

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Quoting: Maquis196But doesn't that just make sure it's a directory? if the variable is empty then it runs like it did before but will only delete say... your home directory?

That's not how it works. If the test fails to run (the result is false), if statement goes to the next elif (if present) or to the else. You can always check it for yourself:
var=''
if [[ -d "$var" ]]; then
echo 'will work anyway'
else
echo 'will fail'
fi

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Quoting: FlutterRageI think there are more validation checks necessary instead of just checking if the variable is empty. At least check if it's actually a directory. If I used such a bad error handling on my clients' systems I'd be in huge trouble.

Yes, [[ -d "$STEAMROOT" ]] would have been a much better solution.

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Quoting: sonicAnd thats why I have another user account for running proprietary apps...

It's impossible to close source in a shell script. So a complaint about proprietary software is completely invalid here.

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It is already fixed in beta client.
if [ "$STEAMROOT" != "" ]; then
        rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"*
fi

These guys seem to be rather bad at bash. =/

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