OK, he sent the patches, but are the Nouveau people allowed to use them? I'd want to secure some assurances from NVIDIA that using these patches from a guy that's got access to NVIDIA's internal stuff isn't going to open me to a copyright lawsuit. It's not exactly "clean room".

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Quoting: GuestDon't mean to be rude, but only Decent3? What about 2 and 1!?! I can't play them out of order!!!

They already have fantastic open-source ports.

https://www.descent2.de/ [External Link]
https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/ [External Link]

I think those are game engine remasters, while this one is the actual game. I could be mistaken though.

There's also Chocolate Descent at https://github.com/InsanityBringer/ChocolateDescent [External Link]

I was very disappointed when I followed that link and there was a suspicious lack of anything about chocolate.

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThis is the ONLY Stardust [External Link] I will recognise.......

My preference:
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No....... This is Stardust........

This is madness!

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo it's basically XCOM with superheroes.

Yeah. But the "superheroes" thing likely leads to some serious emergent properties, which might make a very compelling, or perhaps game breaking, difference.

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Quoting: natis1I don't like platform support as a stretch goal, but it is made in Godot and they do go on a big tangent about only using open source tools they can control, so they would have a very hard time shirking responsibility if they decide not to deliver on Linux support.

Incidentally, looks like we're gonna find out whether their word is good--they've hit that stretch goal.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusProps for an inventive trailer, I guess…? What did I just watch? :dizzy:

It's educational though, innit? I had no idea Athens was like that.

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Well, I backed it. First time in quite a while I've done that.

Oh, this is interesting. I read through some of what they were saying about the game, and this caught my eye:

The Ur-Quan Masters is from an era of printed manuals and maps, where players took their own notes to solve puzzles and mysteries. Our plan is to translate the classic experience into the new game, where you can consult your interactive Star Map, and build your captain's log with a combination of personal notes and automated tools.

That sounds kind of neat to me. And yes, I definitely did take notes playing the old game, including a piece of graph paper on which I'd roughed out the, um, shortcuts-through-space map with notes about which hole brought me out where.

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If the plan is more sinister than anyone could imagine, then the game developers couldn't have imagined it, which means the game must be unfinished . . . they should warn us about that kind of thing.

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Sounds kind of interesting. It says PvP . . . can you play solo at all?

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Quoting: fenglengshunFor me, Ubuntu and anything Ubuntu-based just feels archaic. I've hopped on the NixOS and Universal Blue (Bazzite and Bluefin/Aurora primarily) train, and nowadays I can just define my system through a config file.

Uh . . . the way of the future, I'm sure. This is how we'll get all those Windows and Mac users into the fold--letting them define their system through a config file! Yup, I feel so archaic now. :tongue:

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