Congratulations and best wishes.

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What are some of your favourites you still play thanks to DOSBox?

Civilization 1, and 2 -- the latter on windoze3.11 which runs very well inside dosbox. (It would be so great if these two were on GOG, with the original booklets, etc. I have a jewel case budget release of Civ 2, which comes with a 'tech tree' poster, but I've never owned a legit copy of Civ 1.)

Also Volfied ... I've been playing it for more than 20 years now, and I think I've beaten it *once*.

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Quoting: haikuWell 55$ + 10$ for the case + 5$ for the alimentation + 10$ for the SD.. ~roughly 80$

The lowest configuration at ~€75 has no RAM or SSD, though. When you start adding those in, prices start climbing up very quickly.

Also, what's the hardware compatibility situation with these NUCs? At least on the RPi, you can be confident that with Raspbian you won't run into any issues.

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Quoting: subSounds good.
Looking forward to it.

Things I'm interested in.

Does it come with Vulkan support? (Proper Vulkan support)
And will it be a viable option to drive GC games via dolphin? :)

In case you didn't know about this youtube channel: https://youtu.be/gPLnXpdcP-A [External Link]
This guy makes emulation review videos for various systems on the RPi (alongside other things). I'm sure there will be videos dedicated to Dolphin.

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I have an original Pi which craps out while trying to import some Python modules ... I'm ogling this one so badly.

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Quoting: Para-GlidingI would like to try AS:Odyssey (ancient greek <3 : do we meet Thales, Aristoteles or Plato?)

(A somewhat young) Socrates is in the game, alongside a few other spoilerific figures.

I don't have the game; though I've seen bits on youtube. They even went through the trouble of including a short 'Socratic dialogue' betweem the player character and the man himself ... though frankly it's pretty cringeworthy if you're familiar with the Platonic texts. It's a missed opportunity really; they could've done a lighthearted parody.

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I just broke my record in NES Tetris, on fceux; new record is an admittedly modest 310174.

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Quoting: einherjarShould they work for me for free? Why?

Miss the point much? I'm not talking about getting stuff for free; it's the oddity of the fact that the subscription model comes to mind as the first example for 'supported software', and for an operating system no less.

In the enterprise, companies pay fees for a wide range of rights, including calling the developers themselves to fix & recompile a bit of software when something goes wrong. However in the consumer space, the 'subscription model' merely deigns to allow basic usage -- I consider things like security updates within the scope of 'basic usage' -- only as long as the payments keep coming in. Unlike the enterprise support model, it's an arbitrary constraint on your rights over the hardware you own.

Consumers 'renting' software appears to be becoming 'normal'; that's what's unsettling.

-- also, although beside the point, I've also made small contributions to open source projects that I depend on; and I'm hoping to do more once I straighten out my financial situation. (Including supporting this website obviously.)

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: keanI would even pay for it if everything works well.

I'd happily sign up to that, $10/month for a Valve developed Linux OS which provides the best possible gaming experience for Linux? Hell yes, give me that.

Kinda off-topic but I'm somewhat terrified that the idea of a 'subscription model' OS comes so naturally to people nowadays.

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Quoting: GuestSo, the list of candidate replacements are: Debian, Mint Debian Edition, Manjaro, Endeavour, Mageia and i forgot another one: Suse ? Many will jump ship and the Linux gaming landscape will be fragmented as ever ! :P

openSUSE will have to go through some changes soon -- though exactly what at the technical level I don't think anyone really knows right now. They're establishing a foundation independent from SUSE. Even the name & logo etc. will have to change. Check out: https://lwn.net/Articles/790298/ [External Link]

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