I admit, I am interested in this. It looks cool and if rumors are true, it will be a cool little gaming box based on linux.

But, they want me to pre-order it?!? And a full year in advance? Hell, I'll be shocked right now if this console EVER ships... I'm surely not going to give it my money a year in advance and hope they ship a product at all. Even if it does ship, what is the chance it will actually be worth the money they want for it.

IMHO, only a fool would pre-order this... And they better have a lot of spare cash because they will be lucky if they ever get anything of value in return.

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I bought my copy... It seems to be 15% off everywhere too.

Find it on: GOG, itch.io and Steam. Puppy Games also have a Patreon to support future games.

It is also available on Humble Bundle. Which also has it for 15% off... and you can get 10% more if you are a Monthly subscriber.

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I learned about puppygames back in the time of the first humble indie bundles. (and pre-steam on linux.) After getting one title, I ended up buying everything else direct from puppygame's website.

Even though I am not completely sold on this title based on the preview videoa, I will pick it up. Supporting the dev is part of the reason, but everyone of their other games has been more fun then I initially expected.

FYI,,, the games I have from them are:
Titan Attacks (space invaders clone)
Droid Assault
Revenge of the Titans (tower defense)
Ultratron (robotron clone)

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That looks pretty cool...

And Free too... WOW, I'm impressed.

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For the record... I just bought Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition on steam. It was released about 2 weeks ago. (A remake of a 15 year old game.)

Despite being 2 weeks old... it requires 32 bit libraries.

NWN:EE 1.74 should run on any recent Linux distribution, but will likely require some 32bit packages installed. These instructions are on a best-effort basis. You will likely have to adapt them to the Linux distribution of your choice.

The following components need to be available on your system:

* OpenAL
* GL (likely provided by your 3rd-party GPU driver, or by the X11 driver-package)

Again, please note that all of these need to be available in their 32bit variant. For 64bit Linux installs, there’s usually a way to install 32bit packages (either by using multiarch support or by installing separately-named packages).

For Ubuntu (16.04 64bit), to satisfy all install requirements, do this:

$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install lib32stdc++6
$ sudo apt install libopenal1:i386

Respectively, for 32 bit installs, you can omit the add-architecture step and the :i386 postfixes.

When in doubt, use ldd to find out which libraries you are missing:

$ ldd nwmain-linux
linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xf77d8000)
libGL.so.1 => not found
libopenal.so.1 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libopenal.so.1 (0xf14bf000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0xf14ba000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf1343000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0xf12ee000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf12d0000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0xf12b3000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0xf10fd000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0xf10f4000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf77d9000)

For other distributions, please refer to their user manual or package manager.

So even if you are using 64 bit distro... you will still need 32 bit libraries in order to play games that came out last month.

That being said... If the 64 bit drivers install and allow 32 bit access through an interface, we should be ok with future updating.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: TeodosioI would buy it if it weren't for all the Endless games included. Amplitude (the developer) made a point not to support GNU/Linux.

In case of bundles that's not really a reason. You can explicitly deny them any money by customising the distribution. I always zero the non-Linux games when I buy bundles.

I didn't know you could do that. How? I googled for "humble bundle customizing" but doesn't seem to be what you're referring to.

Same here...

I know you can change the amount paid to devs, but not individual devs. I would only pay the linux devs if possible,

Ok, I just looked, and now you can do this... there is an arrow in front of the developers now that allows you to give them separate amounts. Unfortunately, it is too late on this bundle... I picked it up already... $12 for Tooth and Tail (which is a $20(US) game) was too good to pass up in my mind. However, I will start only paying linux devs in any future bundle. After all, I only play the linux games.

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Quoting: ColomboI am very disappointed in this game. I can't even run it and devs completely ignore it.

Same here. The game crashes and nothing is done.

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I'm currently on 384.130... but this sounds like a reason to upgrade to the latest.

Can I get it for 32bit??? :P

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Well, technically,someone who is having problems buying food could have had a good paying job in the past and a steam account with a bunch of games in it. They may not being able to afford new games but they should be allowed to access their existing games. (and actually having older games would be a reason why they need 32 bit support.)

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While processors have been capable of 64 bit operations for at least 15 years now, even older computers should not have a problem with 64 bit processing. Most computers that can't either are likely to be really obsolete, or small tablet or appliance type computers, not a general purpose computer or laptop likely to run a full fledged distro. (I am sure there may be exceptions put in my earlier example of the 12 year old AMD Sempron... Sempron was the low end of the performance curve and it supports it. (the 1st 1 gHz AMD Athlon shipped in Feb 2000... so we are talking nearly 20 years of 64 bit CPUs; remember atholons < 1 Ghz also could run 64 bits.)

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All that being said... if you want to run 32 bit, you can. You just will not get updates anymore. 64 bits can run on pretty much any computer from the last 20 years... if you want to stay 32 bits, it is not realistic to be supported with the latest releases and you can stay on older drivers/releases.

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That being said, steam currently uses 32 bits... so do many of the games on steam.. even some of the recent ones. As pointed out by others 32 bit processing may be necessary. Basically, this can be done through interfaces the pose as 32 bit libraries, upconvert the addresses and variables from 32 to 64 bits, call the 64 bit equivalent, then downconvert the results to be returned to the calling program. Of course these libraries will still need to be supported to account for any changes in the 64 bit libraries.

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I have a 12 year old linux system. It has an old Single Core AMD Sempron Processor and integrated graphics. Even it is running mint18-64 bit. With 2GB of total memory, it still has the power to run the latest version of Kodi even with 1080p resolution. (admittedly, that is all I have it do.)

Even a cheap 12 year old processor can do 64-bit... Very little reason not to be on 64-bit on linux.

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