Indeed, you are right. Strange...

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They should put this up on Desura, it might get it a bit more Linux attention.

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Sounds like an interesting read. ;)

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My personal preference is for games to start with a configuration launcher, so they do not have to make any assumptions at all.

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I have no idea why the website is not working for you, since the Wiki seems to still be up and the downloads are hosted on Icculus:
http://icculus.org/piga/Files/Soul-Capture/ [External Link]

It should run on Ubuntu 12.04, but unfourtantly Gambas 3 does not appear to be packaged on Ubuntu yet. You can grab it from a PPA from here though:
http://kalaharix.wordpress.com/2012/04/22/installing-gambas-3-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin/ [External Link]

And to think I thought Fedora was slow at packaging Gambas 3 when it came out... :rolleyes:

You will also need glc installed, and ffmpeg for encoding. I will leave you to figure out how to do that on Ubuntu.

glc is the best program I have found for Linux game capture; all Soul Capture provides is an graphical interface for it.

What I personally would love would be for Soul Capture and glc to be packaged for RPM Fusion at a later date. This would make it a lot easier to install it on Fedora.

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Sorry, but this should not function any different than glc - it is simply a graphical fronted for it.

As for the lack of debs, I do not have a Debian based system (at the moment) to build from, even though Gambas has the ability. You can try the autotools build or simply grab the Gambas project and run it from the IDE:
http://piga.tropicalwikis.com/wiki/Soul_Capture#Download [External Link]

You will need the Gambas runtime as well as glc and ffmpeg installed.

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Well, my only comment here is I do not buy the argument that Valve is somehow magically different from every other gaming company. I am not sure which way that points though.

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Quoting: "Chuck, post: 4157"Also, how will the Steam client handle games that are not ported to Linux? Would it use its own wine-wrapper or simply gray them out?

I would assume it would simply be like the Mac version. Why do people think on Linux you naturally would think about looking at Wine?

Quoting: "Chuck, post: 4157"I know a lot of the true hardcore open-source zealots will essentially bash Steam on Linux, but for gamers and for those of us who don't feel so strongly about certain aspects of GNU/Linux, if this actually happens I think it could only mean good things. Hopefully it will at least motivate hardware manufacturers to write better, more complete drivers.

Okay, first, opening with such wonderful phrases as "open-source zealots" is part of the reason why the tone on the Phoronix Forums (for instance) often goes down the tubes. You are going to have to accept that when you are on a system that was built on a lot of ideals, for some strange reason people are going to feel strongly about it, and they are often going to have worked with the platform a lot longer than you have. So give them a little respect, okay?

Now, we are not necessarily saying this a bad thing. But for those of us who already love Linux and already do enjoy gaming on Linux, we do not want to lose what we already have just in the name of potential future growth. We are not against the growth, or are ourselves in favour of anything else contained in many of allegations that are often hurled against such sentiments. We simply want to make sure it does not hurt what we care about, and why we became interested in the first place.

I am not trying to be aggressive or aggravating - but I have seen things happen like this before and I want people to know that it could happen here too.

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Actually a fairly fair assessment by Alex there. I am only really interested in the port of the Source engine and games. I am a bit leery of Steam itself.

And it is true that Valve has (not entirely deliberately) hurt things I care about by overshadowing things in the past. That was one of the reasons that, even when I was stuck on Windows, I never played their games. I was waiting for Valve to do something for me first.

So we will wait and see if that time has come. Sorry if we are getting any of you people down. ;)

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Assuming this is true, I think what is more likely is for companies that previously did support us, such as Croteam and the people behind Red Orchestra, will come back on board once again. They have basically already stated their only real issue (though never forget the power to find other excuses...) is the fact there is no Steam for Linux.

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