Quoting: TheRiddickBethesda won't even allow other companies to port and manage a linux version like Feral, which takes all the trouble out of producing and supporting a port that people have argued is NOT WORTH IT for the profit.. whatever.

Come on, they already have a Linux version. I don't know why they don't publish it. Maybe they're afraid of support.

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Quoting: Leopard

Quoting: 1xok

Quoting: LeopardMaxing out revenue.

I would say Valve is maxing out revenue by collecting every cent.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds look after themsleves.

I don't get it.

Last time i saw , Valve was not a charity.It was a company Like GOG , EA, Sony , Bethesda etc.

Yes, Valve makes money with everything also with Linux and MacOS. That's clever.

I don't see it as a strength if a company can only earn money in the current mainstream as is the case with Bethesta. Take a game like Alien: Isolation from SEGA. Without the Linux and Mac sales it would not even have been profitable. Five percent extra income can mean a lot. Bethesta waives it. Bethesda not going broke because of this. But I don't see why it is so clever to not support a platform. SEGA, 2k or Warner also make a deal with Mac and Linux sales. Why not?

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Quoting: LeopardMaxing out revenue.

I would say Valve is maxing out revenue by collecting every cent.

Take care of the pennies and the pounds look after themsleves.

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I already bought it because it runs meanwhile perfectly under Wine. It's a pity it will never be officially released for Linux, because of Bethesdas NIH-Syndrom and Denuvo.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: AsuI've played it on C64. omg the memories...

Quoting: KuJo

Quoting: AsuI've played it on C64. omg the memories...

Same here!

I still play it on a breadbin C64 from time to time. With the same old joystick. Some of these old floppies still work. While the interface of these game is dated, if you are the public for that kind of humour, these games are still relevant and will stay so for a long time.

:)

P.S. How many old farts are we here ? :)

I can only play the C64 version. This is the only true version. ;)

It runs perfectly in vice (command x64) after installing dos1541 and one or two other roms from https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~schepers/roms.html [External Link].

Nearly all C64 games can be found here: http://www.c64games.de/ [External Link]

It feels like you're finally in paradise. :)

I recommend vice to any old C64 veteran. Vice is so damn good.

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I think it would have been difficult to develop and update an AMD-based Linux system with a kernel older than 4.15 for such a small company.

I'm skeptical. They didn't present a concept. Working closely with Valve would certainly be helpful, but I do not have the impression that there is a connection. On its own it becomes very difficult to impossible for Atari.

But they have beautifully rendered pictures.

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With Wine-Devel many things don't seem to work. When starting Doom 2016 it complains about a missing Vulkan library. GTA V can't even get to the black screen. Generally I get a lot of error messages.

So I'm still using the latest staging version. At least that's how things work on my system (Nvidia GTX 970 / Xubuntu).

For the Devel-branch I had installed:
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

But now I'm back to staging. However, this is stuck in version 2.21. Has anyone under Ubuntu ever played with the Devel-branch Doom 2016 or made GTA V work?

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I use it for Doom 2016. Doom don't work with wine-dev on my system out of the box.

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Quoting: KimyrielleWhich gaming relevant patches are in Staging that didn't yet make it to the main branch?

For me the GTA V black screen patch. Is nearly impossible to start the game with wine versions < 3.1 if you have Nvidia hardware. See:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=32038&iTestingId=100843 [External Link]

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Quoting: tpau

Quoting: 1xokThanks for the info. But who is Alistair?

One person that created this fork https://github.com/wine-staging/wine-staging/ [External Link]

It is not bad if it is over as long as the patches are upstreamed.

I think the main problem is, that there is no easy working repository for 3.x any more. I didn't test the stable branch so far, but I would expect the same problems I had with 3.1. All this is time consuming. In that time I prefer to play native Linux games and wait until there is a well maintained repository for gamers again. I, for my part, would pay for it as long as the results are published under the same license as Wine. Patreon?

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