Quoting: Nezchan

Quoting: GuestI'm not terribly familiar with it but there is actually a broad strong history of making pervy games. This bundle is not interesting to me but hope you are all having fun whatever you are playing :)

Heck, people were making porn games back in the Atari days. It ain't a new thing.

Quoting: JetriJokes aside, might get $1 tier for Highway Blossoms, which looks like a sweet yuri VN, but honestly, I don't understand how this was put together - for example, why on top of all these (mostly) oddities is goddamn Clannad?

I'm not a VN sort of person, but I've heard really good things about Highway Blossoms.

Quoting: TuxgamerPeople buy this stuff? Let alone are interested in it?

People like things you don't? Inconceivable!

The great Custer's Stand, and that game that was like Kaboom, but it was dropping man juice from above. Yes, even the 2600 had 'adult' games.

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Quoting: Ardje

Quoting: DuncI'd almost forgotten about this. That said, the Christmas period is the right time to release something like it, so I wouldn't have expected to see anything until Q4 or late Q3 anyway, and this does look like a reasonable upgrade; the main complaint about the original spec was that it just didn't look powerful enough.

Wait and see. As before.

If they change it now, I don't expect them to release this year.
The Smach Z team had to design the core board themselves due to rhomb.io.
They are at it since late 2017. They now have working small series which need another iteration to squash the defects that were emitted by some of the units.
So that's about 1.5 years from a total new design of a cpu board before the now expected delivery to the crowd funder.

And you are right, the main reason I did not fund the Atari at that time, was that it came with an old soc, while the Smach Z was announced with a new soc.

The difference here is it's pretty much a standard board in a small case (at least that's what the original looked like). They may have to move some things around to make it fit right for them, but that's easy enough to do. Thermals aren't going to be as tight as they would be in a hand held.

They at least make it sound like AMD is helping them out with some of that anyhow, and from what others have said, the thermals on the original board weren't going to work out, but the newer one should do better with heat/throttling.

We do need to remember that this is not really Atari, but just some French company that bought the name many years ago. Then went bankrupt, and had to auction off IP to get back to business. Too bad Battlezone is no longer owned by them, we could have gotten the new version on Linux. It's fun by the way, especially in VR.

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The original Hammerwatch was a blast, my brother and I played it multiplayer. I need to get this.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: einherjarWhich is acually the best Nvidia Driver to use Proton?
I actually use the 396.54 for my 1070TI

418.43

Is also has transform feedback which allows e.g. hairworks in The Witcher 3

I always wonder if we'll ever get support for the extra settings like that.

For example, PhysX in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, or the Physx in Borderlands. Or the hair effects in Tomb Raider, etc.

I still need to get past that first boss in Witcher 1...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeIs anyone else annoyed by the trend of calling games 16bit these days? Sure call the art style out as 16bit pallete, or something. But for me unless I could take the game and compile it for system X and it would run just as well, it isn't truly 16bit. Just call it Old School style, or retro.

Hm. I think there's differences between 8 bit retro and 16 bit retro. Maybe we could qualify it by decade or semi-decade...

My point though is none of these games could be working on the old hardware. They may have pixelated art, but could never be accomplished within the limits of the old systems.

Funny enough, there have been ports for Limbo at least to the C64, and some are working on porting it to the Atari 8bit as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdiSanGogSQ [External Link]

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedje

Happy GoL cake day, slaapliedje!

Does your name mean "sleeping song", btw?

Thanks, and yeah literal translation I think is sleeping song, which is a lullaby. I got it from a song title from a band called The Legendary Pink Dots.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: Xakep_SDK

Quoting: liamdaweSeems they forgot to update the version string, still shows up as 3.16-7 even though it's updated.

That's a bug, you should restart steam to update version string in settings.

I did, many times, it didn't change.

Speaking of bugs, one thing I'd like fixed that I noticed lately (and weirdly also affects Windows) is that when you have Steam running and it shows up in the system tray on Gnome (with the top icon extension) it doesn't show it's running in Gnome's icon bar/dock. Same thing happens in Windows 10's task bar. Icon is there to launch, but it doesn't show it as running, but is in the system tray.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: slaapliedjeNice avatar pic, though I must say I am terrible at Bounty Bob Strikes Back!

I had been so completely addicted that I even started dreaming of hopping around platforms.... that was back in the days of my Atari800. I still play it in the emulator now and then (that's where I have the avatar from...)

I have it as a rom image on my Atari Max cartridge for my 5200. Apparently it is THE rarest game on that platform, but man is it hard. I don't think I ever played it on the Atari 8bit, but did play a lot of Miner 2049er! And clearly lots of Bruce Lee.

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Is anyone else annoyed by the trend of calling games 16bit these days? Sure call the art style out as 16bit pallete, or something. But for me unless I could take the game and compile it for system X and it would run just as well, it isn't truly 16bit. Just call it Old School style, or retro.
By the way, games like Retro City Rampage do actually run on old hardware, along with some other new stuff coming out.

Ha, if only we could get some of these 'retro' games running on old 16/32 bit systems...

Would love a game like this on my Amiga 4000.

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Quoting: GuestYes, I immediately grabbed Aragami yesterday.
Also on sale is Overload [External Link], though only at -25%. Still undecided if I should wait for a better chance. I probably will, as I won't have much time to play in the coming month or two....
(That I buy it is not in question :D)

Nice avatar pic, though I must say I am terrible at Bounty Bob Strikes Back!

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