Quoting: DuncOoh, I've a lot of fond memories of this. In fact, it's one of the few 20-ish-year-old games I do have any genuine nostalgia for, because I didn't play most of the big names until much later.* It was the first game where I felt like I was really travelling the world. I'm sure the depictions of the real-world cities weren't remotely accurate, but they were closer than we'd ever seen before.

My first experience with this feeling of travel sits squarely with GTA: San Andreas. The only one after that perhaps was years later with Minecraft. If only the San Andreas Multiplayer project were an engine reimplementation, I would have built and run it already.

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I flown several different aircraft in this and I can definitely say you need at least a joystick controller to be able to manipulate everything. Flightgear might be what pushes me to finally try a full joystick.

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Excellent. I hope they also address HiDIP scaling.

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Some Xonotic and CTF Minetest. I need to scratch that flag capture itch.

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Quoting: 3zekielYeah, Hangover is also based on qemu user mode. If it works that's very cool :)
For me, I think games are art, as such, they don't really enter the "proprietary software" category. For the privacy part, I run steam in a sandbox.
I'm way more concerned with what "ring -1" stuff my CPU runs behind my back, because no sandbox and pretty much no analysis can save you from that ...
I'm just concerned by how usable the platform would be (Power based I mean).

Being totally open, here are the hurdles that I hit moving from Debian amd64 to Debian ppc64le:

1. Some Debian packages I use were not yet buildable for PowerPC (the PowerPC repository has successful builds for 95% of packages, compared to x86), so I must build the programs for source for now.

2. Firefox had to be updated to 68 before it was fully usable. This was only a problem for Debian 10.0 and 10.1.

3. Only the cli (whiptail "GUI") installer is available on the ppc64le image, although I always install from cli anyway. This might be an issue for most others however.

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Quoting: 3zekielActually, can you run steam games on powerpc with qemu usermod ?

Or a Wine accompaniment program called Hangover, IIRC. Although I don't personally have any interest in running proprietary gaming software.

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To be fair, there are probably a shit ton of undiscovered vulns for Power9.

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They should release the code so that others who are willing and able to do the maintenance can do so. lol

Proton/Wine/Eon == Gaming on Windows on Linux

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Super Tux Kart is one of the better works proving that free and open games do not have to look like home made amateur projects.

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Complexity is an enemy of security.

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