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Quoting: Craggles086So the official DOSBox is version 0.74-3, and this Staging is version 0.79.

No one thinks we might be ready for a version 1 yet, after how many years of DOSBox?

Just to be clear, despite the name, this is a separate fork and project from the original DosBox:
https://dosbox-staging.github.io/about/ [External Link]

(Yes, it's a confusing name considering the Wine and Wine-staging relationship which is quite different.)

Both projects might reach 1.0 at some point, but they have different developers and different goals.

It's even sillier to think that DosBox-X is yet another project as well.

Curious; Luxtorpeda supports DosBox Staging? I thought Boxtron would be the one to support that

I seem to remember hearing that Boxtron kind of ran out of steam a little while ago. Maybe Luxtorpeda is sort of extending to fill the gap, or something.

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Quoting: sarmadThe whole world is into some state of unexplainable shopping frenzy nowadays, so this is not surprising.

Maybe everyone fears the coming recession and wants to get theirs while the getting's still good.

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Quoting: FisterfrankAny word on the dedicated supported “dual boot” that’s suppose to be included in steam OS 3 update?

Gotta say if there was, I really wouldn't care.

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I notice that there are free to play games in the "Top sellers, by revenue" category. How does that work? I guess 30% of zero is better than nothing . . .

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI've also found the 'hit a key and type' method of launching applications far more useful than digging through menus.

Doesn't do much for me. I have two basic categories of applications: The few I use all the time, which I have stuck in launchers on a taskbar. And the ones I use every once in a while, whose names I can't recall off the top of my head, but I'll know them when I see them in their menu category. That second sort, typing doesn't help me much with launching. The first sort, I click the launcher.
Use cases vary. I'm glad I use Linux, which has interfaces that are good for lots of people's use cases instead of Windows "one size fits poorly".

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI rather liked the woody look. I've had a computer since I was a kid (and I'm in my 50s); they're not a new whizzbang futuristic idea any more. A computer case is basically furniture. Most of my other furniture is wood. So I thought it was kind of refreshing for a computer case to go for that woody warmth.

While I can kinda relate to this there is also an element of "Oh gawd...it's a Buick Roadmaster!" or some throw up paneling from a rumpus room remodeled in the 70's.

I'm probably not one to talk, as even though there are many models and styles of the old 2600, I refuse to own any except the wood paneled heavy sixer, which I now have a second on the way :P

I don't have anything against the wood, I like wood. Problem is the original s76 wood just looks like crappy printed vaneer. It has that cheap tacky thing going on.

There is that. I probably like the wood concept in theory better than I would have liked it on those actual cases.

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"Dangerous work" is kind of understating it, I would think. The doctor seems to have the "superstition" that he can survive hanging around plague victims. You wouldn't catch most medieval people falling for that one.

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That looks really weird.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSweet, GURPS rules? Would be amazing if it did!

There are GURPS rules for Girl Genius. I supported the Kickstarter, got that sweet hardcover rulebook in a drawer in the little table by my armchair.

Yeah, I think I did something silly and got the 'Retail package' and have like 5 copies of it or something...

Do I need to post a shelfie of my GURPS Collection? :p I need to stop buying books... or I need to buy more book shelves...

More bookshelves, obv. :grin:

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Quoting: EikeI need to make a confession. I bought a Steam Deck just because I found it cool, without an actual use case for it. Yesterday, sitting in the bed playing "Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack" [External Link], I found that I do have a use case. :)

Thanks for pointing out this game! This genre is dear to my heart.

GoL had an article on it a little while ago.

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