Quoting: ShmerlGreat development if Intel will keep drivers open.

I've never been a fan of two horse races.

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Pessimistic view: By the time all these battle royale for Linux games finally arrive, the whole battle royale craze will have begun to die in favor of the next big thing.

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I have to agree with Kimyrielle to an extent. It would be a much better allocation of resources to leave the ancient games and 2D pixel indies to the wrapper and emulator "porters".

Of course, I still welcome his work on the little stuff. How cool is it that we're getting N64 titles officially? All better than nothing I guess.

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[url=<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tfaN267lI_Y" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>]Compulsion Games has a bright future ahead![/url]

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Quoting: saclautaaI wonder how long Apple will keep trying to get away with the crap they've been pulling in recent years. First removing every port under the sun from their devices, now removing support for the most widely used graphics APIs... It's like they don't want customers anymore.

They want customers. They want customers who use peripherals that only plug into apple devices. They want customers that use programs runnable only through apple APIs. They want customers who cannot migrate away to competition.

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Quoting: tonRWarning: tonR harping about Linux/FOSS mobile devices again!

Well, nuff said. Mobile devices/Smartphone is right here and right now. It's no longer "the future". Apple shows they willing to throw away (not so) "open platform" Mac for (totally) "close platform" iOS. So, it is time for Linux/FOSS community to seriously R&D-ing on mobile devices. If not, our (not so distant) future generations might never know what is meaning of open platform.

And no, Android is NOT our viable future. I don't think "cocktail license" OS should become our future platform.

Open(ish)) platforms are a fluke of history. If the tech giants could go back and do it all over again, their platforms would be full-on lock down and lock in from day one.

I think you are mistaken. Open platforms became widespread despite tech giants determinedly creating locked-down ones from day one. Only a few such tech giants ever had sufficient monopoly muscle or clever enough ideas to allow their locked-down platforms to compete with open ones. For instance, the tech field is littered with dead Unixes once owned by proprietary tech giants who fought fiercely and stubbornly against the rise of open.
Personally, I think Apple is a bit of a fluke, and now that Steve Jobs is gone, now that it is managed by normal managers, it will eventually lose momentum; without monopoly power a walled garden run by ordinary managers will in the end be unable to compete with more open platforms run by ordinary managers.

You are clearly more optimistic than I. The biggest fluke I can point to being the IBM open PC architecture. We* are all using it today in some form because IBM made a regrettable (to them) design decision. A design decision which has taken its place as a warning to all tech companies thereafter: "Hold a tight grip on your platform or risk losing it". What incentive is there today to release highly interoperable hardware on an unlicensed open specification? Just look at phones and tablets :sick:. As much as it pains me to say, truly open specifications like that will never happen again without strong arm licensing like copyleft >> rooting for RISC-V but it is doubtful to dethrone all the established walled garden competition "safe" in the hands of megacorps.

*Desktop users, going by our GoL stats.

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Quoting: tonRWarning: tonR harping about Linux/FOSS mobile devices again!

Well, nuff said. Mobile devices/Smartphone is right here and right now. It's no longer "the future". Apple shows they willing to throw away (not so) "open platform" Mac for (totally) "close platform" iOS. So, it is time for Linux/FOSS community to seriously R&D-ing on mobile devices. If not, our (not so distant) future generations might never know what is meaning of open platform.

And no, Android is NOT our viable future. I don't think "cocktail license" OS should become our future platform.

Open(ish)) platforms are a fluke of history. If the tech giants could go back and do it all over again, their platforms would be full-on lock down and lock in from day one.

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They don't seem to have relied on Steam or Galaxy for multiplayer, so the release comes complete.

Good. This is an area that is sorely lacking in GOG Linux games.

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Also on itch.io.

I would like to trust the gamestore specific tags on GoL articles but they don't get applied consistently. :(

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Wow. Before the day's end I wouldn't be at all surprised to read headlines: "International Courts Unanimously Nullify Copyleft Licensing"

Wouldn't that just be the cherry on top of this shitty news day?

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