Quoting: F.UltraYes back in 1994 it was not problem to outperform a compiler by far. Also you basically targeted the 80486 or first Pentium processors and they contained very little of the "magic" that compilers are far more better to utilize. Since then processors have increased in complexity and compilers have gained tremendous optimizations.

Yeah I've read a ton of Michael Abrash's articles (have the Zen of Graphics Programming in my library too). It's very enlightening stuff, and really opens your mind to the challenges back then... Very much wish I had his books as a teen, would have kept me out of trouble and started my career 20 years earlier.

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From Ryan's blog:

QuoteHere's what you need to know about Nightdive: instead of shipping this in DOSBox or something, they rewrote the assembly to be portable, 64-bit clean C++11. Nightdive is hardcore like you wouldn't _believe_.

Holy shit! That's crazy... Sure, assembly is bare metal fast, if you're able to produce better code than a compiler can. Which I guess in the mid 90's probably wasn't unheard of.

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Quoting: x_wingCurrent Steam version is DRM free (you can play it even if Steam is not running), so you don't have to wait for GoG release if you want to buy it

That may be the case. But I like GOG as a business and want to support them, so my $$ is going their way.

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I'll be throwing my wallet at the screen as soon as GOG+Linux is up ^_^

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QuoteSolitaire Minigame - Take a break with Sigmar’s Garden, an original alchemy-based solitaire game.

Yeah I've loaded up SHENZEN I/O just to play the solataire game... It's, fun.

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Quoting: Romans_I_XVIIsn't UE4 open source? I know it's no small task; to dig in, understand their code, find the bug, fix the bug, and recompile. But I think it could be done instead of waiting on Epic.

Sorry, not open source.

We all have access to the source code, it is by definition "open source". It is not however, FOSS. This is where I think people get mixed up.

Open Source is not equivalent to Free/Libre Open Source Software. It is entirely possible, and absolutely okay to have open source software that you pay royalties for, ala, UE4.

UE4 is open source, but not free as in freedom.

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Sheeeeeiiittt... It looks intense!

"Bloober Team" as a name for them is totally at odds with what they create.

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"or resort to chair-throwing", cool, I'm gonna go all Steve Ballmer on everyone!

"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
*sweats profusely*
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
*throws chair at Darl McBride*
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"
"Developers"

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Tim Sweeney moans his tits off about Microsoft and Windows app store etc, but has been and still is damned slow to recognize that Linux is an alternative.

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Rather pleased I stopped supporting them years ago. When they stopped caring about DRM that was one notch on the hatchet. The next notch was bugger all Linux games in bundles. The final notch on the hatchet was when I realised just how little many very very good developers were getting from them.

I buy from GOG only now. Well, mostly. I'll buy from Steam if that's my only option, but that's not very frequent. Itch.io leaves a bad taste in my mouth with the unrestricted variety of ways people package stuff.

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