Quoting: robertosf92Wish they added the option of using libre engines for some of those games, imagine if they provided a installer for OpenMW along with morrowind or openrct, julius, augustus...

Man that would be awesome

Or even just a link to the related open source project on the download page ...

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: BlackBloodRumoptions in the case of games likely to remove content or remove it from you: - GOG

As best I can tell, GOG doesn't list prior versions for download. If you haven't previously downloaded a prior version, you have essentially the same problem...

The ability to rollback versions is supposed to be available in GOG Galaxy but, unfortunately, not via the offline installers.

GOG: The rollback feature - reverting to a previous version of the game [External Link]

I'd love to have this feature available with offline installers as well. Apparently, you have to request the older version of the offline installer from GOG Support. Haven't tried that approach myself, so I can't confirm if it works.

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Quoting: soulsourceCan OpenTTD still use the original game files?

Yes. See this link [External Link].

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Quoting: Leahi84The real problem is if Sawyer ever takes the rights to RCT away from Atari. Apparently he's extremely hostile to OpenRCT2's existence and will go after it if Atari ever loses the rights. So it's in everybody's best interest that Atari keeps the rights, or is able to outright purchase the rest of his games from him.

Atari bought the publishing rights to RCT this year, apparently. Sawyer's alleged stance quoted here and there seems more lawyer than human (and indeed appears to be signed to that effect), so I hope that's not his actual (informed) take on the situation. Extremely dispiriting and about as out of touch if that were the case.

such is correct. To my knowledge, Chris Sawyer has never expressed a public opinion regarding the various open source projects related to his software. Chris' legal team has always been very attentive to the protection of his interests. I have read the opinion [External Link] issued by his legal team. While it is written in a manner intended to protect Chris' interests, there is nothing in it to suggest that they are hostile enough to take legal action at the first opportunity. If they were so inclined, they would have already done so as Chris retains the trademark and IP rights to RCT. The license agreement with Atari would not prevent them from taking action.

For general knowledge, Atari purchased the publishing rights for RCT3 this year, not the trademark and IP rights for the RCT franchise. They already have the publishing rights for the other RCT games.

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualKepler and earlier don't support Vulkan 1.3

Yep. My first "gaming" laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T440p, has a Kepler GPU -- the Nvidia GeForce GT 730M. Vulkan 1.3 support is incomplete, although it is pretty good with the 470 series driver (but DX11 support is better in Windows).

Quoting: Vortex_Acherontic*Happy GT 730M noises*

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Lol. Loved the creativity of the "scary" proprietary software stories. :tongue:

Of course, what's really scary is that they are true stories ...

:shock:

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Doesn't really affect me. I don't like multiplayer games, can't play first-person shooters :sick: and much of what EA makes these days doesn't appeal to me.
:whistle:

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoC'mon!
This mutant spawn is not even available by default...

Are you sure? As far as I know all you need to do to use UMU in Lutris is to select Proton as a runner

From the release notes [External Link] for v0.5.17:

EXPERIMENTAL support for umu, which allows running games with Proton and Vessel. Using Proton in Lutris without umu is no longer possible.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI find people who think their narrow knowledge specialty is the only important thing really annoying. And this is just ridiculous--I have lived through the entire trajectory of computing being even slightly accessible to people, starting from the TRS-80 model 1 my dad bought when I was 12, and there was never a time when many people would have understood that kind of note. Which doesn't say they shouldn't have notes like that--there are perfectly good reasons. But you can't have a declinism story when we were never in a place to decline from.

Absolutely! I especially agree with the point about narrow knowledge specialty. It is possible to put things in layman's terms and still make an accurate and clear statement. Plain language legal contracts demonstrate this. Some might think that the failure to do this in many professions is because it would remove the exclusivity of their club ... but I think that it is simply that they get so used to thinking in their professional shorthand that they forget that outsiders do not speak it too.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleThe last "generational leap" I experienced was when micros went from 8 bit to 16 bit. We went from C64, ZX Spectrum etc. to Amiga, Atari ST.

Ever since then it has been mild increments at best.

You don't consider 16-bit to 32-bit or 32-bit to 64-bit to be "generational leaps"?

Granted, the basic hardware infrastructure did not change so obviously and the UI change may not have seemed that significant but the changes under the hood were not what I would consider mild.

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