Still trudging through Shadowrun: Dragonfall. I might actually finish this one, you know...

Quoting: gradyvuckovicAside from that, do Godot and Blender count? I mean, they're on Steam. :tongue:

Tinkering with Godot sometimes feels like playing a game, so yeah, why not? :grin:

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWell I'll be....

I feel as if I've just seen a shiny new Bedford [External Link] van on the street. I honestly thought Matrox was defunct, or had been bought out by NVidia or ATi (as was).

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Quoting: slaapliedjeStill somewhat related to Linux, I installed the newly supported SVGA driver in the a0486 core on my MiSTer (which manages all the FPGA magic through Linux). Win95 is still f'ugly after all these years!

But the MiSTer plays many of the arcade games written for it flawlessly and I'm finally able to put my Mayflash F300 to great use!

I wish I could justify the expense of a MiSTer to myself. They ain't cheap.

Mind you, I still have (almost*) all of the computers and consoles I ever owned. I just need to get around to checking and replacing some of the parts on the older ones. Especially the Amiga 500+. Those things are actively suicidal.

*Someone stole my 48K ZX Spectrum+. But I also have the 128K model (the relatively rare Sinclair “toastrack [External Link], so I'm not really losing out there. There are some incompatibilities, but they're pretty minor and although the 128 itself had quite a short production run due to the sale of Sinclair's computer business to Amstrad, it was the template for all the Amstrad-built models so they're not usually a problem.

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Quoting: soulsourceI dug out the very first PC game my parents bought for me: The Settlers 2.

Oof. Way to make me feel old, man. I was in my 20s when the first one came out, and I still kind of think of the sequel as “the new one”. Great games, though.

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Have you ever had a game truly give you stress-sweats?

Speedball II. There have probably been one or two since, but for years it was the only game that ever made me break a sweat.

Anyway, I've stuck with Shadowrun: Dragonfall this week. And I'm kind of getting into it, although I'm also beginning to remember what annoyed me about the other games in the series. I always get the feeling that when you level up or buy gear, you really need to know what's coming next. If you make the wrong choice it can totally screw up a mission. Anyway, so far, so good...

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the one for gamers will be known as Xe-HPG

Catchy. Still, as the Commandante says, a third player in the market is a Good Thing. The duopoly needs a shake-up.

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Quoting: SolarwingTried to play final fantasy 5 using steamplay but still the fonts don't show properly yet.:sad: So I played my guitar instead.:smile:

There's more to life than videogames. Not much worth speaking of, but definitely more. :smile:

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I haven't been able to settle on any particular game this week.

I picked up Fallout 4 again, and tidied up some loose ends that I'd left, tinkered a bit in Minecraft, fired up KSP for the first time in months (possibly inspired by Bob & Doug returning home and Elon launching his giant soup can), trundled around a couple of racing sims... but that's been the story of my week. Nothing seems to hold my attention for very long. I hate it when that happens.

So, frustrated that nothing I'd played before was grabbing my interest, I installed Shadowrun: Dragonfall, because it's been in my library for years and I'd never got around to it before. I've played Shadowrun Returns and Shadowrun: Hong Kong, but not the middle one (I think I picked up Hong Kong in a bundle before the other two). And in both of those, it turns out I got about 12 hours in and lost interest. I dunno... I like the combat system in theory - it's basically cyberpunk XCOM - but I just find something unsatisfying about it in the long run compared to those games. Which is weird, because Shadowrun definitely has a better story.

F1 2018 is free on Humble Store

That'll do me! :grin:

Although the way my mind is at the moment, I'll probably end up driving a couple of practice sessions then leaving it...

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Quoting: LinasI read somewhere that Formula 1 has a lot of rules and limitations on how fast a car is allowed to go, because of safety issues. Imagine if you didn't have to worry about the squishy drivers, they could go much faster, and drive more aggressively.

They don't directly limit the speed, but yes, without a lot of the rules that are in place they could go a lot faster. Unofficially, F1 aims at an average laptime across the season of about 1:30s, although the circuits obviously vary in length, and a maximum straight-line speed around 220mph (350-355km/h). They also keep a close eye on cornering speeds and lateral G-loads, which is where the real problems arise with drivers: they have neck muscles like boxers.

Flying drone racing is already a thing, so why not car drone racing? I'd be into that. :happy:

https://roborace.com/ [External Link] :smile:

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It looked pretty good until the combat started. Or, rather... didn't. :grin:

Still, good luck to them. KOTOR works pretty well under WINE (or Proton), but the exciting thing about a reimplementation is making it work better than the original.

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