Quoting: pete910LGP activated there games on steam when they shutdown, It's how I got x3:r on steam. Don't quite remember how though :dizzy:

Huh, I know I have most of the games on Steam, problem is Steam doesn't have most of the LGP games there as the native version for Linux. X3 does, but like Shadowgrounds only has the Windows / Mac version on Steam. Cold War only shows Windows, etc.

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I thought this happened a long time ago (the removal of Games for Windows). Like back when that service was murdered. Think of all those old games that had integrated this garbage, and the other one that died, Gamespy... definitely made a large section of software unplayable. But I know when it happened years ago, that most things that had any sort of community had Games for Windows removed.

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Speaking of AMD... was looking at the Asus G15 Advantage. Only things I see wrong with it is..
1) the 15" is missing the ten key...
2) they should switch to 16:10 monitors.

In fact, we should start a movement to stop buying 16:9. They suck for everything except movie watching.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library GuyCrypto is fake money.

I'd wager to say in effect it isn't money. Years ago, people started to sell coffee for bitcoins around here. I don't think anybody is still doing that. If you sell your coffee for x bitcoins, with which you could buy you new coffee beans and pay your rent and everything, you don't know if it's worth half next month and you cannot pay your rent - or maybe double. Same for the customer. Money with such fluctuations doesn't work. Even currencies with huge inflation are less bad - at least you know which direction it will take.

Really, it's more a vehicle for speculation. Which currently probably makes it a pretty good investment, if you're someone who can afford to be investing, because everything that's primarily a vehicle for speculation is doing well right now and will continue for as long as central banks pump money into the markets and the net worth of the very rich continues to soar (a not unrelated phenomenon). This is true whether it's crypto, high end art or antiques or other collectibles, or whatever.
Presumably there has to be a ceiling somewhere; as the guy said, "If something cannot continue forever, it will stop."

I mean at the current prices for 'retro' systems, if I sold all of mine off I would have a rather nice chunk of change!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: ManillaBuy bitcoin now(or start mining whatever crypto you can) unless you still think its fake money.

Crypto is fake money. So to some extent is actual money--government-backed money lasts as long as society isn't collapsing. But if that happens, nobody's gonna value crypto either; its perceived value depends on the same kind of social illusion. If anything, crypto would go down faster. If you think things are going to collapse, buy gold, and make sure you have the physical stuff in your hot little hands because again, if things start to collapse, getting some rube their gold is going to be low on the banks' priority list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPHXQY65-qY [External Link]

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Quoting: ManillaI am one of those new steam users. Funnily enough, I came across this page while browsing for linux help with older AMD GPUs. I had to create an account to reply to this.

I switched to linux from windows about 3 months ago when the latest windows update completely corrupted, not just my one computer.... But rather my entire home network of 4 windows computers (which had not been updated yet) and two routers. Never had anything other than windows 64bit installed on them. Both routers had latest stock firmware. It was the last straw for me. Windows updates have caused me SO MANY problems with lost data in the past that I just couldn't for it anymore. So I intentionally got fired from my job for refusing forced medical tyranny and for the last two months I have been hammering away at learning his to be proficient enough with linux to maintain another 4-machine home network and have loved every second of it. I melted down manjaro like 7 times doing everything as root because I didn't know what I was doing. It was a blast. Now I'm sticking to debian for now....

However, there is A reason for this spike other than the windows 11 rollout disaster. That would be 'ol Mr. William "Epstein Airlines Platinum Member" Gates' recent exposure as one of the most diabolical "public figures" the world has ever known. Then you start thinking about all those old rumors about how gates stole IP to create windows, then developed it into a government sanctioned monopoly. Everything begins to make sense. Microsoft has been allowed to swallow up whoever the want in whichever sector they want. They are the "yang" to facebook's "yin" and it is oh so clear as day now. Windows is an advertising platform that can also run AAA games(which are all just xbox ports anymore). Its also designed to keep the end-user mildly retarded so they never feel the need to troubleshoot or debug their own issues.

This has ZERO to do with features of steam or Linux. Look at that spike. Look how steep it is. Find another spike that steep. I'm sorry but that first reply had me cracking up. Talking about some obscure new feature or whatever... Guys, it's so obvious. This is the great reset. Do we let them reset us? Or do we reset them?

Buy bitcoin now(or start mining whatever crypto you can) unless you still think its fake money. Then stay the course. Fake money is backed by mortgage backed securities that end up being treated as collateral (by the fed)to then issue more fake money. Thus, creating an infinity loop of lies and total control over our entire global economy. You'll thank me later.

And so that's my "why I switched to Linux" story. 😊

Ha ha ha, well at least you switched to Linux, I don't know about all the other stuff... Bill Gates has always been shady, as has Microsoft's behavior. Nothing recent about it.

It is sad when Linux gets more users NOT because it's good and free, but because Microsoft's products are getting shittier every year. It's like dating the average looking girl because all of the others are hideous, not because she's got a good personality, and the others are bland.

Also... and I shouldn't even acknowledge this, but... 'medical tyranny'? (shaking my head...)

Edit: Ha! Manjaro is NOT a beginner distribution at all! If you have any Debian questions feel free to ask, I've been using it for decades at this point, and I know others here too are huge Debian fans!

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Quoting: damarrinGreat article as always.

Anyone know how LGP’s DRMed games fare now? I have a few of those, including X3, but haven’t tried installing any recently.

The DRM itself was pretty permissive and innovative, but of course it needs a server to be running.

Last I checked, there were installers that removed the server check. I'd have to poke around online to see if I could find the link though.

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Quoting: ThetargosAhh! The memories!

UT99 was about one of the first games I had on Linux running with Glide on a Voodoo Banshee and later on a Voodoo 3.

Quake 3 ran much better for me back then on Linux than Windows, maybe due to the miniGL implementation Windows used for 3dfx cards and the overall good support for OpenGL through Mesa. I was there when even though 3dfx had gone, support for its hardware was strong (albeit only one VSA-100 was usable on those cards), performance was rather good, as well (for the time, until the GeForce 3 brute forced its way to the top).

nVidia had a rough time back then with its detonator drivers, which could literally explode and leave you with a softlocked system (basically only the mouse cursor worked, all else was frozen, even networking), and it was like that for some years (actually, the last time I got that softlock should have been somewhere in 2010-ish with my then trusty 9800GT). Man! Those were fun times!

And now Voodoo 3s fetch a huge price because they can be used in Amigas...

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Quoting: pete910This brings back some memories :cry:

For me it was ut99 and Q3A , Them where the days......

Used to have some epic times in at lan parties with mates.

Ah, those were the days when the UT games actually came with linux support (even if you had to download the installer afterward). That all changed with UT3, which got delayed and delayed and finally Icculus said it wasn't going to happen because of middle-ware. Sad days. So Epic HAD a history of supporting Linux, they just bailed on it, and even though other games could have been released on it, they have not been...

I've been hankering for finding Heavy Metal F.A.K.K. 2 for Linux, but haven't managed to locate it. I do have Heavy Gear 2 and some of the other Loki releases. Also have most (all?) of the LGP releases.

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: BrisseIt's already vaporware.

Who knows maybe it'll condense into something later 😉

Then they can call it H2O

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