@Calinou, thanks for the info. By the way, few Feral ports do use Vulkan.

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Very cool devs who made a sale to honor John 'TotalBiscuit' Bane after his passing to donate the entire income of the sale to his family. I will never forget that gesture.

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@Calinou, cannot Linux version's settings be forced with config, cfg, ini, autoexec, etc edit?

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I sincerely hope that this means I can play the new Q2 chapter natively!

Edit: To my despair, just as the update logs say, Quake II RTX's support for Quake Quake II Enhanced's new maps is limited. It can load some of the Call of the Machine maps but additional weapons from Quake and Quake II expansions appear to be missing. I even tried to load the Nintendo 64 port's opening map, it loads and plays fine but level exit trigger seems to be broken.

Sigh, I guess I will wait more...

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Split screen coop, nice!

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@SynicalSpghtti

I guess this really does add to the 'they lost the source code to Red Alert 2' rumor I've heard about. Unless surely it means they're working on a remaster, right? Right?!

I lean towards potentially remastered honestly.

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Looks like Luxtorpeda currently only supports OpenLara for TR1, and OpenTomb for TR2-5:
https://luxtorpeda-dev.github.io/packages [External Link]

d10sfan is usually all over these things, so maybe he ran into some issue with TR1X?

Official page and the GitHub repo of the engine mention decompilation as well as reverse engineering. d10sfan hesitates to include tools made possible by such methods due to legal risks involved. re3 fiasco left a sour taste on everyone unfortunately...

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Platforms

Added support for macOS 10.4 PowerPC
Added support for Windows XP

Wot? PPC support? For Mac OS X Tiger? Really?

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I guess it won't run HL maps without tons of tinkering.

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Older games in the series had Aspyr Media responsible for the Linux and macOS versions, but it looks like this is an internal build this time as Aspyr have not been mentioned anywhere.

I genuinely wonder to what extend Aspyr and Feral's ports are Linux native. Well, at least Virtually Programming was somewhat transparent that their eON wrapper is used to translate Windows calls to Linux (or something like that) akin to Wine. While texting this I found that Feral's ports are shown as Feral3D in MangoHUD. IIRC, Feral's ports are rumoured to be called InDirectX (no idea if true or not). Anyway, it looks like those ports aren't exactly native, rather wrapped/translated similar to Wine. Yet, I failed to understand how come Feral's ports unable to play cross-platform multiplayer. Pity...

By the way, I am aware of other semi-native porting tools such as ToGL, Mono, dotnet, Unity (uses DLLs).

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