Quoting: gbudnyThe result of Benchmarks is interesting to me.

All dependent on the hardware and drivers used of course. I will note though that the period Linux Games review I linked was ran on a computer using the original Radeon DDR card which while more powerful would be using basically the same drivers I have been using with my Rage 128 Pro.

Quoting: gbudnyDo you plan to write the article about Devil whiskey for Linux?

I had never even heard of this game before, so thanks for the suggestion. I will certainly consider it. :smile:

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Quoting: gbudnyYou forgot to mention that Sin was ported to Linux PowerPC.

Not so much forgot as it was not directly relevant in my case, but it is still cool to know for those with an interest in such hardware. Same with a lot of the Loki Software games.

Quoting: gbudnyYou can also use Mac OS X 10.6 with Rosetta to play Wages of Sin on the intel Mac from 2010 (or Mac Pro 2012) or earlier. I didn't tried myself.

Considering I already had to install SiN on Windows 98 for the benchmarks I just went ahead and started playing Wages of SiN from there. I managed to find a loose Wages of Sin jewel case at a Goodwill while thrifting a few years back.

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Quoting: LightkeyOkay, now you've lost me again, guess it is a different title.

Enjoy the mystery. All will be revealed! :whistle:

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Quoting: LightkeyI must say I'm surprised I didn't hear of the next title before (I think I found the right one searching the interwebs) but that's always welcome.

It pays to sift through eBay listings sometimes.

I have another four articles pretty much drafted so I will be going back to a weekly schedule for these at least until February comes around. We'll see if I can match what I managed this time last year.

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The fan patch for fixing Area 57 can be downloaded here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/sin_gold/fix_area_57biomass_reclamation_center_locked_darwin_chamber_3_bug_fix [External Link]

A review of the game by Matt Matthews for Linux Games is archived here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20030219214553/www.linuxgames.com/?dataloc=/reviews/sin/ [External Link]

And my raw SiN timedemo data can be found here:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/sin-timedemos.txt [External Link]

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So if anyone wants a better look at the packaging you can watch this video from ShooterGameBox:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vAfmXP16Dg [External Link]

Just playing the game from Steam is cheating of course... :whistle:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSeriously have to ask... how is it that Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition is verified, but the others that use the same engine are marked as Playable.

Well, I encountered a crippling memory leak when trying the Enhanced Edition of Planescape: Torment from my Arch Linux install despite the Enhanced Editions of Icewind Dale and Baldur's Gate working just fine. Strangely enough on the exact same hardware no issues occurred when I launched the game from my Rocky Linux partition.

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Quoting: PixelDropSo paying $5~8 more for the option of DRM free feels... almost dirty because it's basically telling me if I'm not going to be "using" the DRM free aspect then I'm wasting money.

I don't know, I think that is a fair surcharge for actually being able to own the game indefinitely.

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Cheers everyone for the kind words. :happy:

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Quoting: PenglingWas it commonplace for budget CD-ROM releases like this to have a Windows binary and then also include the source-code because they're obliged to and for the sake of everyone else? I've actually never seen that before.

I really do think it is just a function of how cheap this retail release was, with it only being a happy accident that it made it more GNU GPL compliant. That said, the back of the keep case says "Any unauthorized copying, editing ... of this PC CDROM, or any part thereof, is strictly prohibited" which does not exactly seem right now does it?

Quoting: LightkeyDon't remember why but I somehow got two different copies of that anime shooter. One in cardboard box and one in DVD case, so they had at least two print runs. :wink:

It is not actually the Anime inspired one I am covering, it is the one that inspired an Anime. :whistle:

I am of course very jealous of you having two copies of it. :unsure:

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