@Calinou

This is possible because Windows ran on top of DOS until 98/Me.

Yea, I knew that. Just couldn't remember if the cutoff was 95 or 98/Me. Thanks for clarifying.

@d3Xt3r

Even the original DOSBox supported running Windows btw

I didn't know that ...

I get your point about the differences between it and a modern VM. Although, with the 3DFX emulation, at least it has some 3D acceleration support. I guess I should have referred to it as a limited VM or perhaps a proto-VM?

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Nice to know that, for the devs of Blue Protocol: Star Resonance, it wasn't entirely their fault.

Good job, GloriousEggroll!

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Reading through the itch.io page was fascinating. It would seem that DOSBox Pure is much more than a DOS emulator. It would appear to be a VM as well. It states that you can install early versions of Windows in it (3.x, 95 & 98 were mentioned). And, as @legluondunet pointed out above, it also has 3DFX emulation. It can run games from within ZIP and ISO files as well. Impressive.

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Native Linux, always. We heard our Linux fans loud and clear: no Proton shenanigans this time around!

:wub: :wub: :wub:

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I have stability issues with Plasma as well, otherwise I'd be using it too. I like both XFCE and Cinnamon but Plasma was so intuitive and customizable.

On an interesting sidenote, I wonder if M$ is feeling the pinch? I discovered about two weeks ago that M$ is making extended security updates free as long as the user is willing to create a M$ account and enable the "synchronize your account" feature when they register for the extension. In the EU, they were forced to give the extension for free without the strings attached. Could they be realizing that users are not going to be strong-armed into an unnecessary and wasteful hardware upgrade (and hence, Windoze will lose a chunk of its market share)?

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I'm kinda curious, myself.

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I don't play online multiplayer games but I think it's good that you continue to report on the negative aspects as well as the positive.

Who knows, maybe some gaming corp. executive will see this and have an epiphany about recovering the potential income being lost by EA's stance on the matter...

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Well ... the last game I bought from EA was BioWare's Dragon Age: Origins. So, I guess the deal got sealed for me a long time ago.

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@rapchee

... is there anyone on windows 10 following this site? gaming on linux?

There are a number of us on this site that (willingly or unwillingly) dual boot for numerous reasons, so, yes, we would be interested in knowing this information.

Besides, the only gatekeeper for what news is appropriate for this site is Liam. It's his site, after all. :wink:

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Given that Morrowind came out on the original Xbox, I would have thought OpenMW already had controller support as it was part of the vanilla engine. If course, I'm a mouse & keyboard player myself.

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