New from twitter:

Sean Barrett announces that he'll analyze the source code on twitch [External Link]

He's also forked the source code, tidying it up, etc. [External Link]

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Asking as an ignoramus: Apart from stuffit expander, and project files for a (classic) Mac IDE, what exactly is Mac-specific in this source code? Does it require audio-visual libraries specific to classic Mac OS? Otherwise everything seems to be in standard C (I mean, it's not PowerPC assembly or anything; though it might still contain some of that inline); so how hard would it be for someone to make an SDL version?

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Quoting: damarrinI like how there’s a line in the screenshot.

Surely it's the titular 'line'. I would've appreciated a spoiler tag at least.

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I'm piss poor, so I'll may the minimum to get Mini Metro; and I'll make sure all of it goes to GOL.
When I'm less of a pauper (if ever) I promise to make a proper contribution.

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Being a fan since 199-something, I couldn't resist buying Civ VI during a humble montly a couple of months ago. I've only played two extended games so far; while its MILES ahead of vanilla Civ V, it hasn't really 'clicked' with me yet. I haven't quite got the hang of the districts system yet, though; so maybe, over time, I can get to enjoy it.

Right now, I'd still prefer playing Civ V.

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Quoting: GuestI still play it on a breadbin C64 from time to time. With the same old joystick. Some of these old floppies still work. While the interface of these game is dated, if you are the public for that kind of humour, these games are still relevant and will stay so for a long time.

:)

P.S. How many old farts are we here ? :)

I wish I had kept my C64 & 1541-II

Old fart likewise. As to gaining more traction among the young ones, I think schools might be our best bet; that makes it all the more important to drive M$ out of schools (or whoever's peddling useless tablets to schools nowadays). That's because unless a kid is lucky enough to have family or friends to introduce him/her to Linux (and better yet, Linux + the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, the BBC Micro, all of that fun stuff) then that kid is very unlikely to find out (or do anything) about it.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAnd Atari was supposed to own them.. it's a whole thing...

The unconsummated Atari deal, how Amiga bailed themselves out at the last moment, etc., is an interesting story ... like pretty much all stories from the Amiga's short life.

One can always read about such things, of course; but we also have the chance to see the people who were personally involved. This is a really great documentary, that I'd wholeheartedly recommend -- it's sold on Steam; before that it was a kickstarter:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/551260/From_Bedrooms_to_Billions_The_Amiga_Years/ [External Link]

There's really well made, informative, accurate stuff on youtube as well. The following excerpt has plenty about the Atari deal, from Jack Tramiel's perspective (Atari stuff begins on the 10:30 mark):

View video on youtube.com

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: kneekooAnd there's the fact that they didn't put up a (marketing) fight to attract people like me, who never touched an Amiga system before.

If you'd mixed up Amiga and Atari back in the 16bit A500/ST days, you'd have had both camps coming after you with torches and pitchforks. ;)

I'd fear a personal 'Jack Attack' from Mr. Tramiel himself.

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Quoting: 1xokBut now I'm back to staging. However, this is stuck in version 2.21. Has anyone under Ubuntu ever played with the Devel-branch Doom 2016 or made GTA V work?

This doesn't answer your question, but I also have a 970, and I've been able to run DOOM 2016 Vulkan on wine-staging <2.21 (can't remember the exact version, I've uninstalled the game several months ago [takes too much disk space...]) with absolutely no problems -- perfectly smooth at 1080p, locked at 60fps.

... in fact, for some odd reason, on my system the wine-staging performance was BETTER than what I got on native windows. On the latter I kept getting odd artifacts (effects like sparks and flames froze up, littering the scenery), and the occasional stuttering. On wine, there was none of that.

This is on Fedora, with wine from the winehq repositories. I didn't have to tinker with the prefix with winetricks etc., at all; it worked 'out of the box'.

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Gladia-Bots? 'Bots owned by the woman from Solaria? Hmmm.....

(Joking aside, this looks very interesting.)

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