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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The Circus Linux! website can be found here:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/circus-linux/ [External Link]

A Linux Journal article that covers Circus Linux! by Marcel Gagné can be read here:
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/cooking-linux-learningdisguised [External Link]

And Bill Kendrick's personal webpage can be found here:
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Eike2015 called and wants its Humble Bundle back!

Are they not all Steam keys though?

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This is about the third or fourth GOG.com giveaway where I find that the game is already in my library.

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Quoting: mr-victoryIf performance is a problem, what prevents you from using virtual machines?

With this game not all that much since it is not hardware accelerated, but that would be missing the point of the whole endeavour in this case. It is also not like the lags ever made much of a difference when playing the game, just that it was not as speedy on real hardware as the marketing copy promised.

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Quoting: GuestAny trouble with getting a 16bit X server to fire up? 8 and 16bit windows are something I'm surprised hasn't been emulated more properly for those games which need it.

Actually on Dianoga I typically keep it at 16 bit colour depth as 3D games seem bound to the X server colour depth as opposed to their own in-game settings, and I do not want the performance overhead most of the time.

As for 14 North Chilean Guanacos, I am afraid I had to look that up... :whistle:

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Quoting: robvvI was expecting a review of Llamatron ;-)

Ha, well, if we are looking for Linux releases of games from 8/16 bit computers, perhaps the next instalment will not disappoint. :whistle:

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