Quoting: RickAndTired

Quoting: slaapliedjeHow intensive have people found the shader caching to be? On the AtariVCS with Debian installed it takes a really long time to process. Sure it isn't a power hkuse, but I feel it is more about the APU in that than the CPU. Does it eat VRAM?

All 12 cores on my Ryzen 2600 run at 100% for multiple minutes during the shader caching for me

Holy crap!

It doesn't even really seem to kick the fan up on the VCS, but it only has 2 cores / 2 hyperthreaded from my understanding.

Anyone with an AMD graphics chip want to try out Sunset Overdrive? It was a slideshow on the VCS, and initially ran terrible on even my pimped machine (i9-9900k w/ 2080 RTX). Finally became a bit playable later, but I think the engine isn't very well optimized as it still randomly drops to single digit frames. Game was annoying so I stop playing, but maybe I didn't play long enough for it to be more open.

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How intensive have people found the shader caching to be? On the AtariVCS with Debian installed it takes a really long time to process. Sure it isn't a power hkuse, but I feel it is more about the APU in that than the CPU. Does it eat VRAM?

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80It's funny looking back, back in the 90s "cheats" used to be a "feature" you literally paid extra money for a players guide or game shark or whatever to get special new capabilities.

Yeah this times a thousand remember Total biscuit used to say i used to be able to put a cheat code in now i need to enter my credit card info[/quote]This is why it's almost a breath of fresh air for me to just play games on an Amiga or Atari ST. That and to be able to just double click on an icon or put in a (sometimes virtual) floppy disk and have it load up the game. No DLC, no pay to win, Just the game to play!

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Quoting: AkienAs the upstream repo is archived, it doesn't accept contributions, but there seems to be an active fork rebranded to Open Brush, with initial Linux support: https://github.com/icosa-gallery/open-brush/pull/4 [External Link]

It's also having a contribution from one of the original committers on the Google repo, so likely someone from Google: https://github.com/icosa-gallery/open-brush/pull/2 [External Link]

Exciting to see where it goes :)

Sweet. I mean it was one of the bundle in applications with the HTC Vive, so I've had it for years at this point, and it always seemed to be an amazing idea that needed just a *little* more to be epic.

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Quoting: cybikYeah there's gonna be a community Linux build in a bit.

Sweet, in all honesty they should have released this as open source from the beginning. It really seemed something that should have been out there to be easily modified by artists posing as coders.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: slaapliedjeProbably quite a lot, as it gives games a bit more marketing than they otherwise would in the now flooded Linux game space. I remember there was a time when Steam first came to Linux where I would try to buy as much as I could (as long as it wasn't clearly just garbage), but had to stop as there were just too damn many games coming out!

I remember trying to write about every single thing too, back then I actually could, now each game I cover means another misses out....

For sure. I was going to write some articles, but there's the whole thing of needing to have my real name on here, and I'm too much of a bastard to do that :P

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It's official, the Atari VCS can run Quake II RTX!

(small print: must be ran through streaming from a computer that actually supports RTX)

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Nice that this is getting updates still. Would be sweet to get Vulkan and Ray tracing support!
I need to sit down and get my HOTAS mapped out for it.

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Quoting: iskaputtActually bought the title after this article, but haven't been able to play yet. Would be kind of interesting to see if and how much impact GOL articles have on Linux numbers, especially when it's something positive like this one here. It's at least not a rare sight to see people post messages such as mine under similar articles.

Probably quite a lot, as it gives games a bit more marketing than they otherwise would in the now flooded Linux game space. I remember there was a time when Steam first came to Linux where I would try to buy as much as I could (as long as it wasn't clearly just garbage), but had to stop as there were just too damn many games coming out!

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: slaapliedjeIs it explained why the glitches are there? I mean to me it looks like just a graphical glitch like the memory is reading the wrong tiles and just makes a flashy weird mess. I kind of accepted it with the rubble at the beginning, but one of the beasties I attacked in the tutorial dungeon didn't seem like it belonged.

It all belongs. It's a weird game, in a good way.

Sweet. now it needs an AtariVCS port, as it seems like weird would fit :)

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