Oh wow. Why didn’t my HEMA bubble tell me about this before?

That’s freakin awesome - for a game!

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Quoting: mrdeathjrIn my case solve invisible things in richard burns rally
:smile:

I'm curious. Did you know there were invisible things?

Asking because it came as a surprise for me on some games when I could suddenly see something that was missing before. Cinematic videos included :woot:

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80

Quoting: GroganThere's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I'm glad he's still working on Linux gaming. Back in the good old days, he was the guy for porting Linux games. I played a lot of them.

Some of his work still runs perfectly to this day, even if the Loki installers don't. For example, Unreal Tournament 2004... in one of his patches he included a 64 bit build. I still run that SAME game (with the directory copied to new computers over the years) on a pure 64 bit system simply by dropping some older 64 bit libraries in the program directory. (e.g. libstdc++.so.5)

He still does porting work he did the turok ports to linux for nightdrive

Indeed, he has a Patreon thingy going where you can read on his current shenanigans: https://www.patreon.com/icculus [External Link]

Ryan is busy, as usual :) We can be happy to have him around.

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M.A.X.: Mechanized Assault & Exploration

Just by the off chance that anyone is still into this and wants to multiplayer: Mechanized Assault & eXploration Reloaded [External Link] is still out there.

The release is basically fine but very old.
The GIT develop branch has a lot of changes under the hood (mostly moving to SDL2) but we didn't reach release quality [yet]. It also uses CMAKE nowadays so it should be way easier to compile too.

Disclaimer: Yes, that's kinda my baby.

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Wonder what they fixed for Elite Dangerous. Mebbe that one missing folder one has to created on first launch? Wouldn't know of anything else not working ootb.

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Welcome to team Vertical, Liam 😀

Did basically the same some years ago. I also had the choice between CSL and Anker for starting out and read that they are basically the same. After some weeks of getting used to this I noticed that my always sour wrist would feel a lot better. I didn’t like how light the Anker feels tho (and I smashed it all over the table on various occasions due to the unusual height).

Eventually I settled with an Autley, that is a somewhat heaver and a lot larger, fitting my hands better. The internal batteries can be recharged via micro USB connector (and also operated while charging) and can go for days. I’m very very happy with that model.

This one has some really weird plastic tho that sometimes feels very yuk and moist. No idea what this is. I guess the quest for the perfect Vertical will never end.



Originally noted at: https://beko.famkos.net/2021/08/04/on-vertical-mouse/ [External Link]

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Quoting: CybolicI think this discussion is turning heavily into forum material, but I just have to jump in and mention that I was one of the ones who loved the "buttons on the left" choice for no other reason than it put the close button where it belongs - the same place as on AmigaOS :D

On _your_ Workbench perhaps :P

*runs for cover

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Quoting: Grifterpressure-vessel-wrap[14224]: W: Binding directories that are located under "/usr/" is not supported!

Pressure Vessel is sandboxing used by more modern Proton and there are very good reasons for not adding /usr to the container and it comes with a ton of caveats: https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/tree/master/pressure-vessel [External Link] and this is a PITA for some other applications too. For example Opentrack and it's wine-glue :angry:

It speaks for itself that X3 is noted as example why this approach may have issues:

Some games have distinct app IDs but share data: for example,
X3: Terran Conflict (ID 2820) and X3: Albion Prelude (ID 201310)
share SteamApps/common/X3 Terran Conflict.

And

For example, if X3: Terran Conflict and X3: Albion Prelude
are to share data, they would have to both be run with for example
--freedesktop-app-id=com.egosoft.X3TC or --steam-app-id=2820.

…let me know if someone finds the OFF switch for this.

Edith says: There is even a ticket for /usr/local https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/issues/30 [External Link]

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Love the X series (Frontier owner here). Wrote various articles like how to get a headtracker working with this and even started to get into writing extensions for it myself.

Unpopular opinion but I even like Rebirth ;-)

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I also fell into that rabbit hole of self built keyboards[1] and this looks like a typical "60%" to me.

Zack recently crammed all that is to know about this hobby in a single video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYcNi9hKxDk [External Link]

Ah… and if you think DIY is cheaper think twice :whistle:

[1] The market for purchasable full programmable keyboards is like non existent and the few that exist are really expensive so any newcomer to this is welcome.

Edith says: Oh yeah, and PBT caps. Do never go with something else :grin:

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