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Latest Comments by amatai
Stone Age co-op farming sim Roots of Pacha is live on Kickstarter
23 Feb 2021 at 4:58 pm UTC

Nice, It looks like a promising pixel Vintage Story

Is opening up your source code worth it? Terry Cavanagh thinks it was for VVVVVV
11 Jan 2021 at 11:46 am UTC Likes: 4

The licence basicaly says "if you make money with this give us a share" wich is okayish for me.
I have more tolerance for commercial stuff having open but not OSI or FSF licence -it probably wouldn't be open otherwise- than for non commercial code that don't have an OSI or FSF licence.

Valve dev clarifies what some of their upcoming and recent Linux work is actually for
15 Nov 2020 at 11:48 am UTC Likes: 14

Quoting: rustybroomhandleI still want to know what the mission is with all of this. Not technically, but from a business perspective.

I get it, Linux customers are paying customers, but Valve have contracted several companies, individuals, fulltime employees, contact with GPU vendors etc. This seems like way more financial and time investment than what our meagre 1-2% is worth.
1-2% of Valve revenue is still something like 25 to 50 millions dollars. I suppose that pay for a few fulltime employees

Beamdog need testers for major updates to Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
13 Nov 2020 at 12:36 pm UTC

Quoting: mos
Quoting: amataiYou can play the original game with GemRB
And probably get yourself a vastly inferior experience (judging by lately trying IWD2 with gemrb; yes I do know, but still).
Having to bother with installing widescreen and other weidu stuff and generally tinker with a 20 yo release and still not to make it work remotely as smooth as EEs is somewhat.. discouraging.
BG is not IWD. I had taken less than 10 minutes compiling and configuring stuff then I have starded playing (I used the DVD version of BG) with fullscreen and stuff. There is not so much improvement from EE beside multiplayer. It's like having one or two mods defaut in the base game. (I have still bought it to play multi with friends)

Beamdog need testers for major updates to Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
12 Nov 2020 at 8:10 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: kaimanI'd buy those games on the spot if only they were compatible with the original save games. Even though I've spent countless hours on BG1 and BG2, I never actually finished either of them. But I still have save data from some old backups dating back to 1999 and 2003 respectively. If I could pop those into the new edition instead of having to dig out the old CDs and fiddle around to get the games installed and running eventually I would have done so for quite a while now.

But the prospect of starting anew is somewhat discouraging. I had finished Planescape: Torment back in the day, so it was less of an issue to revisit that in form of the EE, and I loved it! But with Baldur's Gate I really don't see this happening any time soon.
You can play the original game with GemRB. I have done that myself to finish my run before doing a new run in EE.

What have you been gaming on Linux recently? Come have a chat
8 Nov 2020 at 11:44 am UTC

Some itch.io games from the big bundle. I may buy a controller for them. Maybe the switch one.

Out of the depth but I don't understand much. It commes out of early access yesterday or something like that so I decided to give it a try.

Amoung Us (Proton) with friends. I don't think that the game deserve that much attention, but, hey, I can't keep relationship with 9 friend that I were slowly loosing so that's nice I guess

Baldur's Gate engine remake GemRB celebrates 20 years with a new release
24 Aug 2020 at 9:48 am UTC

I remember playing the first two Baldur's Gate on Linux on it back then when they were only a handfull games on Linux.

What have you been playing lately? It's chat time
13 Jul 2020 at 7:52 am UTC Likes: 1

Mount and Blade 2 on proton and some weird itch adult's game.

What have you been playing recently?
21 Jun 2020 at 2:12 pm UTC Likes: 3

Total War Warhammer 2 and some decent free renpy porn games that I've found on itch.io

Defold Foundation awarded a grant to bring support of Web Monetization
13 Jun 2020 at 2:18 pm UTC Likes: 1

Technology is never neutral. We should think about what usage it will bring and I highly doubt it will be easier donation for open source project (beside there are already 1 bilions and half competing standard on that)