Cities Skylines is a very special game. I sunk way too many hours into this and still enjoy it on occasion.

There’s a nifty plugin that allows to overlay a png image with transparency so one could hobble together a map with imported heights data from e.g. NASA and overlay it with streets, rivers and train tracks from e.g. Google Maps.

This results in recreation of real cities within the engine bringing the hardware to it’s limits.

There are also hundreds of downloadable assets in the workshop.

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Liam doing the good work again :wub:

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure what I think about "removing micromanagement". Usually with this kind of game I'd rather micromanagement was made easier than taken away.

Played it yesterday. Agreeing on all points :)

It's still a fun experience so far.

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Found it :D I knew it's somewhere:

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Quoting: kaimanThalion, the developer of Ambermoon went under shortly after its release, and I assume the remains were scooped up by Blue Byte. Both games basically share the same look and feel, so it's likely a port (or rewrite) of the original engine.

For me, Ambermoon was pretty much the best RPG on the Amiga. But on the PC there were better games than Albion.

…and some years later - BAM - Avatar 3D. And I was like: I know that style :D

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Wow. Just wow. Guess I've to update http://wiki.linuxgaming.de/index.php/Albion [External Link] and https://beko.famkos.net/2008/05/24/albion/ [External Link] now :D

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Quoting: docofkultI have been contemplating doing a retro build for some time specifically for playing the Loki games. However, besides some dabbeling with Red Hat around the turn of the century, most of my Linux knowledge have been gained after Ubuntu came around. My initial idea is to do a close to contempary build with a contemporary OS as to not have to fight issues like described in the article. Hardware will likely be Pentium III and a 3dfx graphics card. Not too sure about which sound cards actually had good support at the time. I would appreciate any suggestions as to which OS to go with and any sound card recommendations.

SB Live 5.1 with emu10k1 chipset worked miracles back then. So much pain saved thanks to beeing able to open it "exclusively" multiple times. Do not confuse with the emu10k tho. That was garbage :D

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Those were the days :D

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Quoting: EikeNot everybody changed their computer yesterday, and Intel was better for decades.

^-- This.

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Well, the feature list for my recent Coffee-Lake is also impressive already:

• cpu_meltdown


• spectre_v1


• spectre_v2


• spec_store_bypass


• l1tf


• mds


• swapgs


• taa


• itlb_multihit

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