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Quoting: Nick_AvemStill no true 64-bit support which is somewhat of a pain :sad:

You can still install Ubuntu or Arch which provide 64 bits OS for pi4.

There is also a 64 bit version of Debian for the Pi, but I haven't tried it.

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I already have Halcyon 6: Lightspeed Edition and regular Stellaris from some kind of bundle or sale previously. I don't think getting the Galaxy Edition or the Windows stuff is enough for me to be interested in this bundle.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnI'm currently enjoying the irony that I've spent well over £1000 on a new computer, I'm about to spend another £1000 on scorching new AMD kit, and I'm buying an awful lot of pixel art games. Cos they're genuinely incredible

I console myself with the knowledge that I also play some 3D games that need all the power I have (or more). However, it is somewhat amusing to have put well over $1000 into a machine and then play games that would play just fine on written off (a.k.a., free) hardware from work after my installing a Linux distribution on it.

Of course, I've also upgraded written off hardware from work to make it more usable for the relatives I've given it away to.

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I don't know why it's such a terrible thing to keep using the computer definition of emulator as it originally existed in order to be clear. The computer term 'emulator' was coined to specifically mean 'software that imitates hardware.' Software that imitates software is generally referred to as a 'wrapper.'

I like keeping the definition of 'emulator' because then I don't have to explain every time I use it whether I'm talking about hardware or software. It's an explanation in itself, unless of course you have people watering down its meaning. So, yes, I insist that emulator means 'software that imitates hardware.'

Incidentally, Wine for ARM by itself runs Windows ARM executables in Linux. To run Windows x86/AMD64 executables, you need to use an emulator (usually qemu) somewhere in you chain. The nice thing about some of the newer implementations is that you don't have to emulate an entire system but only part of it.

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Unigine's benchmark tools using this engine are fairly famous (Heaven, Valley, and Superposition) and come in handy on Linux for OpenGL performance evaluation. It would be nice to see Vulkan added to the benchmarks. Of course, I'd love to see some actual games using the engine. Oil Rush had fairly impressive visuals back in the day.

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I've been using AMD video cards for a while now, and it doesn't seem like too much hassle to me. I am running an Ubuntu variation, and I use a Liquorix kernel repository and an up-to-date Mesa repository, and that works. If I had an RX6000 series card already, the firmware would make that more of a hassle, but I don't expect that to be the case much longer.

If you want to run Debian, I suggest that you don't run a video card newer than the version of Debian you wish to run. If you stick to that rule, AMD on Debian is pretty easy. You don't really have to do anything except enable non-free repositories and install the linux-firmware package, which you're probably going to have to do in any case. There are ways to run newer cards on Debian, but it is always a hassle to run anything newer than what came with Debian plus whatever happens to be in backports.

Just to be clear, I run Debian in a lot of places, just not on my main desktop to game. I use it on all my servers both at work and at home, and I use it for older or underpowered machines.

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So apparently the short answer to my question is: No, you have to play the business simulation to success before you can do any free roaming.

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What I would enjoy with the Truck Simulator series is a 'free drive' mode where you could just drive the roads without worrying about the business simulation. Does this exist? I haven't investigated thoroughly as to whether or not this is possible in these games. It could be interesting for those who just want to virtually explore different parts of the country/world that these games cover.

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I picked this up while it was on sale. For me it was worth it just for nostalgia alone. It really is reminiscent of playing Streets of Rage 2 and 3. My brothers and I played SoR 2 so much back in the day. I'm not as good at this (at least yet) as I got to be as SoR 2. It will be more fun if/when I get one of my brothers to play with me.

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I don't know. I've had a game with V-sync on as the default say it was running at 144 fps all the time other than brief drops when loading. This is with a Vega 56 card.

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