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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 46: Bursting Bubbles
18 Feb 2025 at 5:01 pm UTC Likes: 1

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part46.html [External Link]

> One technical question: When upgrading libraries like SDL from Red Hat 8.0, how do you manage potential conflicts with software that still relies on the older versions? Do you use symlinks or isolate environments, or is there a method to ensure system stability while updating?

Really the package manager takes care of that within reason. In the case of SDL I just removed the original SDL packages and any dependencies, and then installed the new packages in their place along with whatever packages I was told were removed. That I was able to install yum thanks to Fedora Legacy helped a lot with this.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer
14 Jan 2025 at 6:42 am UTC Likes: 3

Cheers for the kind comments everyone. :happy:

> In my understanding Lost Boys did not close, they became Guerilla Games.

You are not wrong in that Lost Boys Games did become Guerrilla Games, but best as I can tell, that is separate from the Lost Boys Media Lab whose work is described here; certainly Roll'm Up itself from 1997 predates the founding of Lost Boys Games by a number of years. That said, this is certainly far more complicated than I first assumed.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer
13 Jan 2025 at 8:29 pm UTC Likes: 3

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part45.html [External Link]

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 34: Abusing the System
13 Nov 2024 at 8:27 pm UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPSn1NcAix8 [External Link]

If you can forgive the swearing, this is a very accurate response to that part of the game...

ASYLUM from Senscape finally has a release date - March 6, 2025
4 Nov 2024 at 9:38 pm UTC

In the year 2025
If Senscape is still alive
If Asylum can survive
I might buy

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 44: The Legend of Kobo
15 Oct 2024 at 7:48 am UTC Likes: 3

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part44.html [External Link]

GOG Autumn Sale now live with the re-release of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis
26 Sep 2024 at 1:55 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: emphy
Quoting: hardpenguinHot take: GOG wouldn't be worth it for us Linux gamers if it wasn't for Heroic and the projects it relies on (like gogdl and comet).
Heroic is awesome, but gog would still be worth it for the drm-free downloads.
I mean, that, and the fact that it is still a store which sells games that can offer full Linux support.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 43: Demons and Angels
3 Sep 2024 at 1:37 pm UTC Likes: 2

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
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Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 42: Upset the Applecart
6 Aug 2024 at 1:16 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: emphyAlso note that the first myth has been ported to this version and is available as a plugin with the name: The Fallen Levels v2.
Neat, I did not actually know that.

Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 42: Upset the Applecart
5 Aug 2024 at 7:57 pm UTC Likes: 4

Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part42.html [External Link]