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Latest Comments by walther von stolzing
In the mood for a free game? DEATHBASE 900,000,000 is currently free on itch for today
11 Dec 2017 at 10:31 pm UTC

I was finally able to play after today's update (kept segfaulting previously); it's really good. Though I hope it doesn't turn out to be as addictive as Super Hexagon ... I lost countless hours to that game.

Steam now has a form of platform-specific wishlisting, to help developers see demand
7 Dec 2017 at 6:44 am UTC

I feel a bit more guilty for dual booting now; I only filter out OS X, so stuff on my wishlist won't show up as Linux-specific wishes. On the other hand, they won't show up as wind0ze-specific wishes either; but still....

GOG now have Epic Pinball and the platformer Jazz Jackrabbit with Linux support
30 Nov 2017 at 7:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: MarkyI would instantly jump on an official wine wrapped port of DooM 2016, for example.
Off-topic, but: On my computer, DOOM 2016 (Vulkan) runs better on wine, compared to native wind0ze; the latter has some annoying visual artifacts, stuttering at places, etc. -- under wine-staging there's none of that. I have no idea how or why, but it's pretty amusing. The win partition is clean (just a few games) and well-maintained, so it can't be a borked installation.

GOG now have Epic Pinball and the platformer Jazz Jackrabbit with Linux support
30 Nov 2017 at 4:28 pm UTC Likes: 1

I have fond memories spending hours on the Jazz Jackrabbit Christmas episode that came with some UK based magazine's demo floppies -- way back in 1996 (maybe?). (For me that's an era with very few 'fond memories' to begin with, haha. [high school]) The price is a *little* too steep for me right now, but this is really exciting.

Anyhow, LGR's a huge fan, and he has several episodes on Jazz Jackrabbit; here are the links:
View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

View video on youtube.com

Open source game engine 'GemRB' for Bioware's Infinity Engine games updated
29 Nov 2017 at 1:13 pm UTC Likes: 1

They seem to be focused almost exclusively on BG1&2, and IWD1. It's been a while since I last played around with GemRB; but the status of support for PST seems to have stayed the same. It says 'roughly completable' [External Link], but a lot of UI elements didn't work at all, making it 'roughly playable' at best.

GOG Connect adds more games, act quick
2 Nov 2017 at 3:26 pm UTC

Quoting: pb
Quoting: wvstolzingI keep checking daily for this; if it were possible, I would've liked to carry everything over to GOG.
If you want to save yourself some checking, you can subscribe to this thread: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/gogco/discussions/0/357288572115294089/ [External Link]
This is great! Thanks a lot.

GOG Connect adds more games, act quick
2 Nov 2017 at 1:04 pm UTC Likes: 3

I keep checking daily for this; if it were possible, I would've liked to carry everything over to GOG.

Playing Doom 3 on Linux in 2017
1 Nov 2017 at 1:21 pm UTC Likes: 1

A Vulkan renderer [External Link] for RBDOOM-3-BFG appears to be in the works.

Humble Bundle has been acquired by IGN
13 Oct 2017 at 8:23 pm UTC

Quoting: JahimselfI agree with every point mentioned by Liam. It is nothing encouraging to hear such a "news". It's been quite a long time that I dislike IGN way of testing game and spamming news which sound pretty much like bad advertising against big cash and without any journalist skills... I really wonder what is the point of this. As IGN looks right now I kind of think that they completely scammed humble store...
That's pretty much how I think as well.

Wine Staging 2.18 is out with fixes for Battle.net, Uplay & Origin also bugs fixed with Overwatch
5 Oct 2017 at 8:38 pm UTC

Finally, uplay is fixed ... but now I see that the AC Chronicles games aren't working.