It good seeing new (old) releases on GOG. I hope they will prepare something special for their 10th anniversary, this September. :whistle:

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Bug-fix releases are awesome in my book, even if they are boring. We need a balance between developing new stuff and maintaining the existing code, because dragging along old bugs for years can become annoying. So it feels great when we get rid of bugs here and there. :D

Cheers, Wine developers and contributors! ^_^

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Quoting: KallionAnd if anyone seeks a refund for a game, it can be done respectfully. There is always a way. It's the will that suffers.

One can't refund a Steam game after a number of hours played, so it's not always possible, regardless of how civilized we are.

On the other hand, the loud "truckers" don't represent everyone, so there's no valid reason for a game developer/publisher to make the entire community suffer. It's definitely not fair towards the whole lot of good people who are civilized and grateful for whatever lands in the GNU/Linux world. That's why deciding to withdraw from making a Linux build based on negative feedback is not professional, because it's a shortsighted decision.

With early access and closed alphas/betas being common, and especially with so many GNU/Linux geeks happy to test such releases and share constructive feedback, you'd say the developers would tap into that kind of a resource. But in this case CDPR found it easier to highlight the "truckers", grab their toys and move away.

Just because we call them out for being unprofessional about it doesn't mean we're disrespectful, nor wrong. It's just how it is. Many of us can easily understand if they come out to say they don't have the resources necessary to produce a GNU/Linux build for a game, because it takes experienced developers (with GNU/Linux) to make it happen. So why not be truthful about the real problem? Not enough resources? Fine, then they should be fair about it, not punish everyone else if that's their only problem and they actually have the talented developers, time and money required to produce a GNU/Linux build.

If we would all pull out based on negative feedback, the world would "stop" in a matter of days. On top of that, isn't ignoring all the good people disrespectful coming from a developer/publisher?

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Amazing. 3 days later and they still didn't fix their broken reCAPTCHA implementation. I wonder why they keep the Ataribox website online if no one handles it. :huh:

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Quoting: tuubiIf 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 never owned a gaming console because I never found them interesting and useful enough. For that matter, I never even bought a handheld Tetris or some other game, because they are too "specialized" for my taste. :P

So if the brand new Atari VCS can do more things than a gaming console, I will consider it. That means it would have to be a decent PC under the hood, with a regular GNU/Linux distro. From what we know so far, that seems to be the case already. But we'll have to wait and see.

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Ha! I hope this will come as bug-free as possible, because it looks like a fun game to play with. :D

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Quoting: liamdawethe key fact here is that they haven't shown it actually working in any form at all. That's what worries me the most after all this time.

Secrecy doesn't worry me. And 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. For me, it looks like a nice Linux-based PC/gaming console, which is not particularly attractive considering the big number of emulators available for Linux. So right now I just stare at some pretty pictures and I hope it will all turn out OK, because it's always good to have choices when it comes to entertainment.

But what worries me is the fact that their press and contact pages have a broken reCAPTCHA implementation, and it's been hours since they announced the news. So their contact form is completely useless. Clearly the marketing and web development departments are out of touch, which it not encouraging. They claim they postponed the launch date because they ["weren’t willing to go forward with even one thing out of alignment"](https://venturebeat.com/2018/03/19/atari-unveils-atari-vcs-its-first-home-game-console-in-9-years/). But their contact form is completely "misaligned".

With the way things went so far, this project looks more like the personal project of 1-2 (ex) Atari employees, who worked on this in their off hours. Because it didn't show the proper pacing, nor the proper coordination for anything resembling a decent team behind the project. Oh well, we'll see what April brings. :P

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Wow, just hours after I mentioned the Ataribox in the Ion Maiden thread, we get this news. :D Cool! I hope it will be a great console/Linux PC.

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Games requiring more than 3GB of RAM per process benefit from the 64-bit architecture, and this has become the case for more and more AAA titles in recent years. But plenty of games and apps out there can easily live in the 32-bit world, and Ion Maiden should fit here very well. So I hope we'll have this option.

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Asking for 32-bit support for everything under the sun is of course not the point. But Ion Maiden fits more in the retro world than the modern one. That's why it makes perfect sense to have 32-bit builds. Even the original Crysis is a 32-bit game, so I'm sure there's no technical reason for Ion Maiden to be 64-bit only, especially considering EDuke32 is already 32-bit compatible.

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