Awesome game.

I played Duke 3D on an Amiga 1200 through a Mac emulator. :)

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Quoting: GuestForcing players online to have a complete single player experience is evil, and if you WANT abuse like that then I question where your income is coming from and your morality.

Don't be an abusive capitalist apologist.

I have never used Ventures and I don't consider my single player experience incomplete. Also, no need to get insulting. You are like a child, grow the hell up.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm confused. Are you guys upset about an optional online feature in a game? You must really hate the Truck Simulator games then too for adding the similar World of Trucks feature.

You apparently missed the part about it being part of the single player game which gives online players an advantage over offline ones, so obviously should have been implemented for offline players. Similar to micro-transactions, except the cost is not being able to play offline if you want "the full single player experience". Both a ridiculous and a stupid move!

No, I got that, and it's exactly like how you can make more money with World of Trucks in ETS2 and ATS. I still think you're blowing it out of proportion. Melodrama over nothing.

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I'm confused. Are you guys upset about an optional online feature in a game? You must really hate the Truck Simulator games then too for adding the similar World of Trucks feature.

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Quoting: GuestBut there is a Linux native port of scummvm already.

Yes. The idea here is that you choose e.g. "luxtorpeda" as your compatibility tool in Steam, and then it will use the native Linux ScummVM/whatever to run the game. There's no ScummVM support at the moment, but it already supports a bunch of things like doom and quake3.

And for people asking about AGS. I just tried making an AGS package for it, and it sort of worked. I could not get the ags steam plugin to work, but I'm not super good with this stuff. Anyhoo, I will leave it up to the pros. :P

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Quoting: EikeCould this be done with AGS to run e. g. Wadjet Eye Games' games?

In theory yes, but using the other project, luxtorpeda.

Hang on, going to give it a try and get back to you. :P

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Quoting: Maweki Sam&Max hit the road? Are they really Proton-ing ScummVM instead of just using the native binary? That's amazingly stupid.

Valve can't really make changes to the files provided by the developer. And the developer (apparently) doesn't want to provide Linux binaries.

So, this is the only way this can be done.

Another way would be to make something completely separate from Steam Play that handles console games, and could load the launcher provided by the devs and just load the rom directly with its assigned core. This way they could bring quite a lot of games on Linux natively, AND they could implement this for Windows also, so that it would be much easier for devs/publishers to publish old games on Steam, since they could just upload the old rom and that's it.

The problem is that I'm not entirely sure if it's legal to do this as a third party, or if it is legal at all from some consoles.

Well, the fact that Steam Play in the settings is just referred to as "a specific compatibility tool", implies that Valve did not just intend for Wine/Proton to be the only such tool. It is also possible to add your own compatibility tools, like this one for native DOSBox [External Link]. So in theory this could be done for Java, ScummVM, DOS, MAME, native Quake/Doom/Hexen whatever.

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Again it seems to be a wide range of underlying tech. I think internal testing and subsequent whitelisting have more to do with ticking compatibility boxes than anything else.

Gorogoa is a Java game, for example. It's also one of the most clever puzzle games I have ever seen.

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2.8 is the result of a dedicated effort to improve the usability of the app for both new and veteran users. Now, if only we could get the same treatment for GIMP (along with a name change).

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So far I have found D9VK to work really well with Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, and Skyrim. The latter I'd have to play more to know for sure, but with DD, it's pretty much flawless. (plus a really good game to boot)

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