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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.

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Further links and resources can be found on the official website:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/retro/part43.html [External Link]

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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.

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

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Cheers Doug, I was more than happy to bring some fresh attention to your games.

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Just to show that some progress is being made on the next article, I will post these recordings:
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/Wololoo [External Link]
https://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/Just%20Run [External Link]

Now, can anybody here actually figure out how to playback the files? :whistle:

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Well, that is the first day one purchase I have made in a long while. Seeing as how I used to mess around with the itch.io version of the game.

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Quoting: GuestI'm not intentionally trying to be argumentative, just when I saw the headline "Descent 3 has been made open source" I was like OK a game like wesnoth or 0 A.D. That's not the case unfortunately.

No worries, although in terms of a commercial proprietary game later releasing both its source code and assets to the community, I would say Warzone 2100 is the most cogent example I can think of.

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Quoting: GuestNot really Decent, rebirth doesn't come with the game data. You have to buy it yourself, so does Descent2.de. It looks that this one is too.

So the exact same situation as with Doom or Heretic. The bespoke license used here is tricky, but the same was true for Doom and Heretic initally too, before id and Raven smartened up and adopted the GPL instead. Just a vistege of the code coming out so early on.

Quoting: GuestIt's not really open source, in my opinion, because while the engine is now open sourced, the game data is not. I think it's kind of disingenuous to call it an open source game when the game in entirely isn't open source. Just the game engine.

Well, it is certainly not free media; I could muddy the waters and say any software not created through the open source development model is not "open source" too, but at a certain point that is just arguing semantics.

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I have been meaning to get to the Descent games for my Retro Linux Gaming Computer articles one of these years.

I guess this will make covering the Loki port even less special, but in the best way possible. :happy:

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