Here's a thought. They (various developers) are more than welcome to release buggy pieces of crap on Windows, to then later release a properly patched / fixed version for Linux :)

This game did that, and it seems Bard's Tale IV is doing it as well. I do find it odd that they had to get a third party to do the port. I backed this game, and have been following the thread on Steam where Liam asked on the progress (thanks for that!)

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Quoting: thelimeydragonThe people behind this device are not trustworthy in the slightest. I wouldn't give them a penny.

There is a very long post about tacos and the Atari VCS (ex Ataribox) on Atari Age saying the same thing.
Though there is one of the moderators there that knows someone on the team making it, and says it's a legit project. Though I hadn't read his opinion on it recently, that was a ways back.

But yeah, it isn't like this is the 'old' Atari, or even the Tramiel Atari. It's what's left of Infogrames' Atari.

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I backed it for the Atari 800 model, and look, I already got it!!!

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Quoting: tofuheadMicrosoft owns inXile studio? so what makes them qualify as indie developers, and asking support in fig?

@14: no, this trailer kind of made me even more interested just because of that :)

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To be fair, the first game had a 3 legged hooker in it.

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Robotron 2084 on the Atari 5200 with the joystick coupler I 3d printed is fun as hell to play, but damned hard!

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Quoting: iwantlinuxgames

Quoting: slaapliedje<snip>
I tried to tell it where my Quake II install was for the full game, but the file selector was kind of janky, so I beat the free levels already. Need to figure out how to ask me where the levels are again!

cd $STEAM_INSTALL_DIRECTORY/steamapps/common/Quake II RTX/./find-retail-paks.sh
however, it will probably still fail...failed for me.....i just copied EVERYTHING in my quake 2 install directory to the Quake II RTX directory, and skipped anything it wanted to overwrite, except pak0.pak. you WANT to overwrite pak0.pak with the one from your retail install.

Yeah, that's what I ended up doing.

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: MohandevirPeronnally I will probably use Stadia, if the subscription plan is flexible enough, to play games I can't play on my Linux rig. I'm a big fan of the Steam Link app, on my Nvidia Shield which is, by far, the best client I ever tried (and I've tried a lot of them). I'd be really surprised if Stadia was of better quality than that (local streaming vs streaming from internet).

GeForce now is a good alternative for streaming my Steam library from Nvidia's servers, but it seems to run on Windows instances... Yuk!

Now, if Steam could offer something similar to Stadia on a "Stream your Steam library" model. It might ease a part of the 30% cut critics.

Love my Steam Links. They pushed out an update even, not too long ago.

I trust Google about as much as I trust a fart not to stink. Wonder if this will just end up like the playstation plus, where you get some free games each month, but have to pay for the subscription plus whichever game you want to not actually own.

I got 2 Steam Links when they were on sale (5$). Just for the HDMI cable included it was a no-brainer. Lol!
It might be related to my personnal network setup, but I have to admit that my Nvidia Shield is giving me much better streaming performances, with the Steam Link app.

But I understand your distrust of Google. That's why I said that I would use it only if I can't play a game on my rig. It's just that my desire to support Linux gaming is stronger than my Google distrust.

I got my second Link for $5, but had the first one since they were released.

Thought about getting an nvidia shield, but never did. Was going to try the steam link app on the raspberry pi, but haven't yet.

If you have the budget, I highly recommend the Nvidia Shield. I'm an EboxTV (Legal IPTV supplier in Canada) user and it's even better than my supplier's IPTV box in terms of image quality, performances and stability (there's an official EboxTV app for the Shield specifically). That's the first reason why I bought it and I was curious to see GeForce Now in action. Then I tried the Steam link app and I was positively surprised. To me, the Shield is "One device to rule them all". With Kodi and Libretro, it's a complete media box, I have nothing else hooked to my TV, since. That's my personnal experience though. It's always a matter of what you need. :)

Ha, right now I have a Steam Link, Raspberry Pi, PS4 Pro, Switch and Atari 5200 connected to my TV.

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Quoting: sub

Quoting: GuestOMG, it ran faster on my Voodoo 20 years back :-)

And I'm sure, I was more impressed back then! :)

(Had a shiny new Voodoo 2 at the time, iirc)

Edit: Also, impressive how id software managed to release Quake 2 just slightly more than one year after Quake 1.

My system ran at 31-34 FPS solid. I thought it was much faster before I turned on the FPS indicator in the settings, but it ran very smoothly. Then again I have a i9-9900k, and a 2080 RTX.

I tried to tell it where my Quake II install was for the full game, but the file selector was kind of janky, so I beat the free levels already. Need to figure out how to ask me where the levels are again!

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Quoting: Mohandevir

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: MohandevirPeronnally I will probably use Stadia, if the subscription plan is flexible enough, to play games I can't play on my Linux rig. I'm a big fan of the Steam Link app, on my Nvidia Shield which is, by far, the best client I ever tried (and I've tried a lot of them). I'd be really surprised if Stadia was of better quality than that (local streaming vs streaming from internet).

GeForce now is a good alternative for streaming my Steam library from Nvidia's servers, but it seems to run on Windows instances... Yuk!

Now, if Steam could offer something similar to Stadia on a "Stream your Steam library" model. It might ease a part of the 30% cut critics.

Love my Steam Links. They pushed out an update even, not too long ago.

I trust Google about as much as I trust a fart not to stink. Wonder if this will just end up like the playstation plus, where you get some free games each month, but have to pay for the subscription plus whichever game you want to not actually own.

I got 2 Steam Links when they were on sale (5$). Just for the HDMI cable included it was a no-brainer. Lol!
It might be related to my personnal network setup, but I have to admit that my Nvidia Shield is giving me much better streaming performances, with the Steam Link app.

But I understand your distrust of Google. That's why I said that I would use it only if I can't play a game on my rig. It's just that my desire to support Linux gaming is stronger than my Google distrust.

I got my second Link for $5, but had the first one since they were released.

Thought about getting an nvidia shield, but never did. Was going to try the steam link app on the raspberry pi, but haven't yet.

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We should keep in mind that this is the first official release of Quake II since forever for Linux. Pretty sweet that nvidia released it for Linux too.

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