Quoting: tony1abLess talk about vulkan and more games using it!

Patience, young one!

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How is this a confirmation, though? It looks like they're just joking around.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeGranted with us begging and pleading for Linux ports, I could only imagine how hard it'd be begging for it if there were Commodore, Atari, Apple, Microsoft and Linux to write for. Then again I wonder how many devs would just support the other ones since Windows is still and historically such crap? :D

Though back in those days developers didn't have as many high-level/cross platform tools that they have today; a lot of stuff had to be coded directly in assembly -- amounting to a new project from the ground up for each 'port'.

Given that it took IBM PC compatibles more than half a decade after Amiga's demise to catch up with its multimedia capabilities, it's fun to speculate as to what would have happened if Commodore wasn't such a criminally mismanaged company, etc. Though without the ascendance of intel, especially the i386, it's hard to tell how the free software world would have developed, or if it could develop at all.

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You have to admit, though, Rock Paper Shotgun has a pretty creative title for the news article:

Batman foils Penguin [External Link]

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Quoting: edoSo the best batman game ever (related to everything except performance) won't come to linux. Bad news definitely.

'The best' is *very* debatable. Certainly the largest, though.

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This would have been a nice 'high-profile' addition to the roster -- but that's about all it would've been.

I'm a filthy double-booter; so I've played it on windows. I luckily didn't run into too many technical problems, but I was extremely frustrated by the fact that before the :whistle: 'fix' :whistle: the visuals were demonstrably worse than the console versions at supposedly highest settings -- blurry textures, ugly post-processing that you couldn't turn off, missing effects, etc. etc.

... and the game itself was an outright mediocrity; save for a couple of interesting ideas here and there. (Which ideas, tellingly, were adopted from Arkham Origins. Actually I'd be happier if AO gets a Linux port sometime down the line.)

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The 'pearl' indicates that it's a text adventure written in perl.

I'd say it's either Zork, or The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ported to Linux as perl scripts.

It could be something else, though.

The pearl might be a pointer to the creator of perl, Larry Wall.

So it might be a version of Leisure Suit Larry.

... or, Larry Wall's 'Wall' might be supposed to remind us of the 'all warnings' argument to gcc.

'All warnings' could refer to a game with a post-apocalyptic theme.

So it's THE LAST OF US, folks. And this will mark Naughty Dog's transition to Linux exclusivity. You heard it here.

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The only problem I have with wine is that I can't get games running under it to recognize my Logitech F310 controller.

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I read 'discounted' as 'discontinued' at first; which made me go ouch.......

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velocibox

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