Well, the "publisher" of the rerelease is Night Dive Studios, who's also responsible for all the Putt Putt and Freddie Fish rereleases recently.

They're, of course, using DOSBox for the Tex Murphy games. Overseer however is a Windows binary, so no dice. No idea how it works in Wine; the AppDB page [External Link] says it might. One person from Night Dive Studios idles in #scummvm, and he said he might look into using Wineskin for a Mac version and go from there.

Naturally, I'd prefer REing the engine, GPLing it and merging it into ScummVM.

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Quoting: imantsBecause face it many old games will be ported using wrappers

I'd rather they'd contribute to Wine in that case, Wine being FLOSS and all.

Quoting: CaldazarWow Liam, you seem to have made quite a name for yourself on being a heck of a nuisance

I for one thought Liam was pretty...milquetoasty. So I'll apply for being "worse cop".

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Quoting: HyeronThat was no claim, mind you.

Then it's a weird non-sequitur. Their claim was always that it's not "financially feasible"; nothing to do with the code being available.

Quoting: HyeronValve begs to differ.

Well, considering that prices on Steam are in Euro for me...

Anonymous, that's not really my kind of music. :P
I would link you to my last.fm profile [External Link] now, but they're down at the moment (in fact, they've been having problems for a while now).

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Quoting: liamdaweNo matter what people say about this eON tech if they fix it up enough that performance is the same as Windows then that's great

You seem to be using a definition of "same" that I was previously unaware of, because by the conventional definition, that's impossible.

Quoting: HyeronCDR doesn't give a hoot

Yup.

Quoting: HyeronI do NOT believe the source to TW2 is lost

Wait, what? That's the first time I heard this claim.
Losing the source for TW2, in this day and age of proper source control and backups, and in the span of a few years, would be remarkably stupid.

Quoting: GuestDrMcCoy might not lose his $10.

10€.

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Looking forward to that game.

And I'm glad that the title is correct German and not some mock-German or incorrectly inflected or something.

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Except for Steam integration for achievements.

Which are currently broken on Linux, at least for me: http://steamcommunity.com/app/302950/discussions/0/540743757481750153/ [External Link]

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Quoting: BerillionsDrMcCoy : You're still pessimistic in your life ?

I prefer to call it "realistic" :P

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Quoting: oldrocker99the company owns and runs GOG.com

The company that hasn't even bothered noting when a game uses DOSBox or ScummVM. Neither for those projects' sake, nor for the customers' sake. And I don't think I have to remind anyone about GOG's weird stance on Linux support and their justification thereof; now hopefully changed, but we'll have to see.

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In what way do you mean "crappy 8bit era game"?

1) You lambast a few specific crappy games
or
2) All 8bit era games are crappy

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Well, we will see, I guess. Just remember what I predict; I intend to be a smug asshole about it afterwards. You're free to do the same in the unlikely case I'm wrong. :P

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