I find this sale incredibly confusing.

What I currently have is Serious Sam 3 BFE and Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Beta on Steam. I also have a Serious Sam 2 Windows CD (free from a graphics card purchase). What I want, is to get Serious Sam 1 and 2 running under Fusion on Linux Mint. I do not understand how you use fusion and what do I need to buy?

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I think I could find a flatpack of wine version 1.6 extremely useful, as about 6 of my old games (especially the early Command and Conquer series) need that version to play for more than 10 mins without crashing. However, I also need a newer version of wine for running Windows Steam and Steam based Windows games. Currently, I end up with the old wine 1.6 version as my default and use a new wine-staging version for Steam (as a staging version can co-exist with other versions of wine). I know I can use PlayOnLinux to install multiple versions of wine, but that needs virtual drives setting up. A flatpack of wine version 1.6 sounds much easier, but would it work as I expect?

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Quoting: ewertonurias"lower prices too"?
Omg... I'm Brazilian, our salary is R$ 1000, and a "GTX 1060 Galaxy 6GB 192Bits here costs R$ 1600.
Here practically everything is inaccessible.

Where do you live, it's also so expensive? Asking for curiosity.

I assume that Brazilian government import duties on computers and computer parts is still extremely high, as it was a few years ago when I was looking at deploying a large number of servers to Brazil (before I retired). The only way I found to reduce the cost back then was to contract with Dell computers, as they had an assembly plant in Brazil. I would not expect any of the graphics card board manufacturers to have an assembly plant in Brazil. So sorry, but I suspect that the end-user price of graphics cards in Brazil will be dominated by the government import duties.

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Seems like an obvious business for Intel to get into, with both their skills and FAB resources. I think there would be a reasonable chance for a 3rd player in the top-end graphics chip market, as the current 2 horse race is historically unusual. Also as all the gaming graphics board manufacturers are able to make boards for either NVidia or AMD chips, so them also making boards for Intel chips seems logical. I guess Intel execs have said "look at all the profit NVidia has made these last few years, we can do that too". From a Linux gaming point of view, with Intel's interest in open source drivers, then I don't see any down-side.

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I very much appreciate what you are doing with this new series. I wonder if occasionally you could cover some simpler games that do not require much investment in time (learning and completing). I particularly like games where there is a demo level to try before buying.

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As has been pointed out repeatedly, Atari cannot compete directly against Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, as Atari have very limited resources. So they must have a plan to hit an adequately sized sub-part of the console market cheaply. This plan has not been divulged yet, so presumably is either not fully-formed or needs to be kept secret for a while longer. So the current game is "guess the plan"!

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What should take a small team of engineers, designers and sales people long to produce an almost off-the-shelf small steam box? Historically, Atari did not take long (also with a small team) getting their Atari 520STM designed and into production 25 years ago. Even starting from scratch I think they can do it in less than a year. My plan for the year (not too serious):
1. Take 3 Months in getting hardware sorted.
Off the shelf parts working as a mini-steam-machine on a bench (e.g. Ryzen 3 2200, low-profile mini-itx motherboard).
Sort out simple cooling solution and simple wall-wart type PSU.

2. Take 3 months in getting software sorted.
Get licences to a few older Linux games and Atari Vault.
Get Valve support and agreement to use Atari branding on SteamOS.
Check software works on Platform and fix.

3. Take 3 months in finding a capable Chinese Manufacturer/Integrator.
Get good supply deals and do Q.A. on prototypes.

4. Take 3 months in getting marketing and sales channels operational.
Launch plan and early press release of units.

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Assuming that this system will use an AMD Ryzen R3 2200G APU or similar, does anybody know if it is currently possible to make a stable Steam gaming system using the new Ryzen APUs? I have searched the web, but cannot find a definitive answer. If not, then is a new kernel or new driver release expected to fix the problems in time for (I guess) a summer release of the Atari box?

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The old SkyRoads (1993) and SkyRoads Xmas Special (1994) still play great under DosBox and I still love that old synth music.
It will be great if the new game can give a fresh twist, without loosing the basic playability.

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Excellent news. However, am I the only person who does not understand how the clue "O VAIN ILLUSION OF GLORY AND GRANDEUR" refers to "Rise of the Tomb Raider"?

I can play all of the old tomb raider games on Linux using Wine, except I can't get GoG Tomb Raider III to start at all (tried several versions of Wine and all the WineHQ tips). Anybody have any work around for Ubuntu 16.04 (actually Mint 18.3 and NVidia)? Does it play well under VirtualBox or similar?

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