i dont like the trend here...

why have 2 abstraction layers, Crostini for debian and an virtual machine for ubuntu + steam?
an virtual machine seems like an waste of resources, but if they are doing it, maybe crostini was not good enough...
what will hapen when people try to install games from gog? they will install on crostini or this ubuntu?

looks like they are doing an android all over again, looks like google and microsoft see's linux as an runtime to run applications, just like java and flash were.

instead of native support for linux applications we have this abstraction layers, WSL on windows, crostini and this on chromeOS.
on windows i can understand since its a different kernel, but on chromeOS?

i dont know what they are doing but i dont like the trend here, looks like an walled garden.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: elmapuli'm still wondering who is the target audience for that...

I for one think their needs to be a third competitor!

Not that I'm saying Atari is in any position to be that, but you basically have Microsoft and Sony. Nintendo is still around, but the Switch is a middle range.. is it portable, is it not? system, so kind of weird, and low powered at that.

What would have been cool is if Sega and Atari had teamed up together to build a system (and it came out at the appropriate time / place / specs) AND wasn't trying to be a computer and was only really a game system. That's where I think Nintendo got it right, it's not a multimedia system like the Xbox / PS#.

I'm sure some of us would appreciate just a dedicated gaming console for once. Can't tell you how many times I've booted up my PS4 to play a game with my brother, and then we had to wait for the OS to update... then the game to update... It actually makes me not want to play that often.

the issue is, this thing cost as much as an Ps4 or xbox one base (i dont know about the ps4 pro and xbox one x price)
it has no games from thirdy parties (at least not the big studios), and even if it had, the graphics would be inferior because the hardware is inferior.
(not to mention that sony will launch ps5 and microsoft will launch xbox series)

if it dont attract developers it wont attract end users, if it dont atract end users it wont attract developers, and i dont see they solving any of those issues to break the cycle.

its a device for atari nostalgic people and linux fanboys and that is it.

it wont improve our ecosystem, nor give the atari brand the recognition it deserves, we should have spent the money on godot or something.

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i'm still wondering who is the target audience for that...

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the unity logo is low res or its just me?
i mean, can the developers tweak the logo as they do with godot and as some games did with the n64 logo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoNf7senfuk [External Link]

in any case this looks great, i was playing RE2 on emulator a few days ago and seeing the differences between pc, n64, ps1 and other consoles on youtube, they made an good job at making the game look like an old school game.
and if the game is any good, its an must have.

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the music on this demo was meh...
too weak

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Quoting: Dunc

Quoting: elmapul"Removal of the obsolete 32-bit PowerPC architecture."
lol, hard to believe that it was still there

Although I usually find the removal of whole architectures kind of sad, even I have to admit to wondering what it was doing in there in the first place. Apparently there was a release of NT 4.0 for PowerPC [External Link], but how many people ever used it? According to that article, “The number of software titles which will run in 32-bit PowerPC native is less than 5 from what I’m seeing online.”

(That said, I now have a desperate hankering for a PReP board. I've never actually wanted to run Windows before in my life. But PowerPC Windows... that's kind of cool. :grin:)

i think it reffers to run wine on powerpc, not po...
wait, there was an windows for power pc...
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC [External Link]

hell...

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"Removal of the obsolete 32-bit PowerPC architecture."
lol, hard to believe that it was still there

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holyshit, this thing uses lua to code? holyshit you have to code?
and how they will manage infinite loops and bug code running on their servers?

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this is the perfect "game" to premier the state share feature.
in ordinary games, it sound like cheating because you can skip all the levels directly for the one you want to play instead of unlock it, but in that case its make perfect sense and it really cant be replicated without streaming.

sure you can download the 3GB world that your friends created, but by the time you finish downloading they may have modified something, then you need to start another download for the changes, again and again until youre synced , then you can finally start colaborating with the number of players depending on the connection of everyone...

with state share on the other hand, things get easier.

i still dont like the idea of creating content so others can profit of it and give me an salary as an prize if i'm the best creator...

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omg, that is beautyfull and its looks like an proper video game, instead of an life sim.
i love this asthetic of games like horizon chase, Drift Stage and now this one.
reminds me of the good old days when games were games.
gmaes like outrun (or topgear in case you live in brazil or other countries were outrun was unknow and topgear famous), road fighter, topgear rally 64, star wars racing, pure fun games instead of car sims =D

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