I beat this back in the day on my Atari JaguarCD.

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Quoting: fenglengshunWell now, that should be in time for Ubuntu 23.04. Wonder if it'll make it to Debian 12 since we haven't yet passed the Soft Freeze deadline.

I'm glad for all the improvements for CJK and media playback. As someone who plays a lot of Japanese games, I'll take every improvements for them because good lord can those Japanese games can be very messy to run with a whole mess of dependencies to play videos, have fonts rendered well, and sometimes just to get running.

A massive thanks for all the people involved and congrats on the new release, here's hoping for a good 2023 for Wine and related projects.

WineHQ have their own Debian Repositories for current versions of wine. Though they are occasionally built a little weird, but overall do work great (if you've never installed wine from the Debian repos).

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Quoting: sarmadSpeaking of Atari, is the VCS still in the market and is this also releasing on the VCS?

Wow, not only is it still around but the classic Black Walnut color with 1 modern gamepad and 1 classic stick controller is actually on sale for a pretty reasonable $299:

https://atari.com/products/atari-vcs-onyx-all-in [External Link]

I know they just shoved a low end PC into a nostalgic case but apparently you can plug in an external hard drive and install Windows/Linux on it. There's a separate "PC mode" bundle which actually has a custom Debian distro pre-installed on a USB thumbstick that it can boot into. Honestly I am still sitting here shocked that this thing even exists and I can actually buy it right now and find it on my doorstep in a week. I am very oddly tempted, if only to own a weird piece of gaming history that probably won't be around for very long. Hmmm!

It's a decent spec PC, it's not 'just shoved' in there, and has a custom PCB. AtariOS is an immutable OS based upon Apertis (a Debian based distribution made for car infotainment systems). 'PC Mode' just means you can hit escape and boot off of either a USB device or an internal SATA m.2 SSD drive. You can even put Windows on it, though I don't, as a Linux user, understand why you'd want to :P

But I own two of them now. Their Speaker Hat sounds pretty decent for what it is, though it's such an odd device (I'm actually wearing it right now, it's a decent hat). There were a lot of comments that it's not much more powerful than a Raspberry Pi, but that's incorrect, I've yet to see gnome / kde run well at all on an any RPis, but it runs quite well on the Atari VCS.

Side note: The Games for the VCS are Linux games, and they are DRM free. You can actually take a game you bought from the Atari store, copy it onto a Linux drive and play it on Desktop Linux.

My biggest complaint about the system is that the Atari Store doesn't have a cart yet, so if you want to buy multiple games at once... well you have to pay for each individually.

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This sounds like a case of them wanting that extra delicious Steam Deck sales, but didn't spend any time testing it on anything else. Sad, really. I'm hoping Hogwart's Legacy will just work on desktop Linux.

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They need to work with Frontier to develop a new Star Raiders...

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Quoting: sarmadSpeaking of Atari, is the VCS still in the market and is this also releasing on the VCS?

I ordered a second one. If you're in the USA, you can order one... Apparently they're still trying to figure out distribution to other countries. I saw at least one dude have a family member buy him one so he could have them ship it to the UK... pretty ridiculous.

The system is awesome though, slap in some more memory and an ssd and you can slap Linux on there and use it for a bit under Steam Deck performance (I should actually test how close they are to each other). Really neat looking system to have under your TV, that can be a full blown computer.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, that's odd. Well, it's like Game of Thrones. Sure they had some framework of what was supposed to go on... but GRRM only said they could make the show if they could figure out who Jon Snow was, and apparently they had, so at least they were some big fans... but I think after so many years of working on it, and then getting other deals to do, they decided to jump the shark and screw up the last few seasons... or something. Sure seems like they were burnt out working on the show. Wonder if something similar happened here, where he flubbed season 4 on purpose so Netflix wouldn't renew it. Same too, the show was fantastic.

Yeah, that reminded me Game of Thrones finale mess indeed. Very comparable disappointment.

Not sure if you finished CV show, my favorite was Styria story arc there, and it was messed up the worst in the last season. Characters treated so badly, key themes developed before - ruined, time not given to show character development and etc. while at the same time the season wasted a ton of screen time on repetitive action scenes in general.

The burnout is real. Like for book writers like GRRM, at least you can try writing some other stuff, or take a break and decouple yourself from a story. Likely why he's taking so long for the next book... But when you're a TV show writer with deadlines... I can totally see why shows start to suffer the longer they're around, unless they get handed off to other writers, but that can make the show suck in different ways as well. (See shows such as Dead Like Me)

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: slaapliedjeYeah, sort of like the 'Star Wars Effect' where they decided they didn't need to use any of the vast amount of material made by great writers to create the sequel trilogy... instead they winged it without making a cohesive trilogy, and just did 'nostalgia' mode, as if they could remake the original better...

The extra bizarre thing about this show is that the same writer made all four seasons. Without knowing that, you'd assume they replaced him in the fourth season with some random writer who decided to mess it up.

Yeah, that's odd. Well, it's like Game of Thrones. Sure they had some framework of what was supposed to go on... but GRRM only said they could make the show if they could figure out who Jon Snow was, and apparently they had, so at least they were some big fans... but I think after so many years of working on it, and then getting other deals to do, they decided to jump the shark and screw up the last few seasons... or something. Sure seems like they were burnt out working on the show. Wonder if something similar happened here, where he flubbed season 4 on purpose so Netflix wouldn't renew it. Same too, the show was fantastic.

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: hardpenguin

I never really played the older games and wasn't until watching the truly incredible Castlevania Anime on Netflix that I felt pulled into the world.

Yesss, that show was fun!

Quoting: slaapliedjeAgreed! I held off too long to watch it, I feel.

A fair warning - it has very interesting writing in first 3 seasons, but season 4 fell off the cliff so badly - I was extremely disappointed. It's as if the writer sabotaged most interesting story arcs and characters on purpose.

And I haven't played the games either, looking at it simply from standpoint of writing quality and characters I cared about.

It's really something bizarre I almost never experienced before, to have such good potential and start that ends so extremely badly in the finale.

Yeah, sort of like the 'Star Wars Effect' where they decided they didn't need to use any of the vast amount of material made by great writers to create the sequel trilogy... instead they winged it without making a cohesive trilogy, and just did 'nostalgia' mode, as if they could remake the original better...

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I can't remember where I actually put my Switch, that's how much I used it before I got my Steam Deck... got the KillSwitch replacement case over the weekend as well. It's rather nice. Only downside is I can't find a carrying case to keep the charger, and other accessories like the dock in it, that also fit the dbrand KillSwitch case...

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