Quoting: JarmerI wanna try one of these adventure games, they look really cool and it's been years since I played a point n click adventure, should be fun! Which one do you think is one of their best to start on? Technobabylon? Maybe Strangeland?

I'd recommend Technobabylon. I also played Shardlight, Primordia and a bit of Resonance, and neither are bad, but overall I liked the story and characters of Technobabylon best.

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Quoting: denyasisFrom the job posting, remote work:

"No set hours or unreasonable demands"

Given it's an office setting, I'd imagine it's by choice due to family schedules, etc. So, it seems like they are standing by the work-life balance claim.

Besides it's 2022. People work weekends. It's no big deal.

Seems I misinterpreted no set hours as "no need to sit at your desk and twiddle your thumbs when your day's work is done" rather than "you work 40 hours a week but we don't care if you do all of them on Monday". In that case I could get behind this. Having my "weekend" not coincide with that of the majority could be beneficial at times.

Quoting: denyasisIf I had any concern, it would be the lack of pay rates, raises, or benefit increases? How do you know it's worth applying if they don't tell you how much the work is worth? Am I missing it?

Didn't see that either, and while it's a crucial detail, I actually find a lot of job offers lack that. Guess the HR types always hope they'll find someone willing to accept even less than what they think the work might be worth.

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Might have been something for my idealistic younger self. Now it's more about the $$$s and hopefully early retirement to clear my games backlog ;-).

But that one particular bit caught my eyes:

a sensible approach to work-life balance

Looking at the Wine patches list [External Link] on a regular basis (still waiting for some mfplat related changes), I get the impression that there is at least some kind of activity from CodeWeavers employees on any given day. Guess it's nice if people are motivated to put a few hours in on Saturdays and Sundays, but to me that doesn't feel healthy nor sustainable. Of course, for other contributors the weekend might actually be the only part of the week to spend some of their time on helping out, so some activity is to be expected.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeDid you ever play Legends of Valor?

No. And I don't remember hearing that name either. Though I vaguely recall a magazine article about an upcoming RPG set in a single, fully simulated city, which had piqued my interest way back in the past. Legends of Valor might fit the bill, though I neither recall the game nor the magazine. So it could easily have been something else, 5 years or a decade later. Until now I have assumed it was something that just never materialized, like the Amiga port of Darklands, but perhaps it just went under my radar.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAmbermoon was absolutely amazing to see run on the Amiga.

No doubt about that. When viewed in context of the hardware it ran on, I think it's on par with any AAA first person game you can throw at modern systems. But 30 years from now I'll likely still call those games dated :-). For me, 2D graphics age much better than 3D ever will.

Quoting: slaapliedjeOne of these days I'll put mine all together and play it (though with an 060, it should be very smooth).

I played on a stock A500 and what made the biggest difference for me was when I finally got a hard drive. The game read assets from multiple floppies on each area transition, so there was a lot of disk swapping involved and loading times were slow. With that out of the way, it was smooth sailing, even at 8 MHz :-).

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Quoting: slaapliedjeAlso, Ambermoon is on my list of games to beat.

It's my favorite Amiga exclusive RPG, so can only recommend doing that :-). Not sure how it'll hold up, though. Those early 3D dungeons will likely feel dated by today's standards. Though I guess the 2D parts and gameplay ought to be just fine.

Quoting: slaapliedjeWere you aware there is an effort to recreate it with open source for modern systems?

Didn't know that. Are you are referring to Ambermoon.net [External Link]? Looks like it is already pretty much complete.

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Quoting: F.UltraI remember the days when GUI:s used color:

That pretty much changed with Workbench 2.x, however.


Guess grey never gets old for me :-)

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Given those three alternatives, I'm still quite fond of the regular old Windows 2000 era look (the middle one). Good contrast, easy to see what's a button/tab/etc. and what's just text. Luckily, with my usage of Wine exclusively for gaming I don't really have to deal with Windows user interfaces.

At work, where I can't avoid them I always have to jump through hoops to get something that's halfway palatable.

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Looking forward to the first reviews and hands-on experiences by actual players. Then they only need to make it available in my country of residence :-). Wonder what I'll get sooner ... a new affordable graphics card or the Deck. Right now my bets are on latter.

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Interesting to see Circuit Superstars in that list. I've got my eyes on that, but ProtonDB shows mixed results, so I did not dare buy it so far. Guess I can reconsider during the next sale :-).

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