it's not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers.

They can't forbid clean room reverse engineering. But they could definitely try to make life harder for people even without legal basis, just because they have money and lawyers to wave around. Hopefully this developer can get backing from EFF or someone who can advise how to fight off HDMI patent trolls.

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Very cool summary, thank you!

On this point:

On why the "rollback" feature is exclusive to the GOG Galaxy client

You can access all Galaxy builds with lgogdownloader, and essentially you can view each build as a DRM-free snapshot of the game. So you aren't stuck with installers if you want to make backups or rollbacks. There are tools to handle all that if you need to and they aren't exclusive to GOG's own Galaxy client. They do rely on GOG's Galaxy protocol though.

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It probably means new AMD GPUs are also not going to come out until 2027.

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Quoting: ArehandoroI'd consider Blade Runner a traditional point&click :)

Hard to say, Lucas Arts SCUMM engine itself was initially about 2D adventure games, but in practice it was something more like a programming basis, same way ScummVM may be more than just about adventure games.

But overall I'd say majority of ScummVM games are still adventure games.

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Quoting: ArehandoroAren't all supported games in ScummVM traditional graphic adventures (~point& click)?

Initially and most of them are, but they branched out into more types, like Blade Runner.

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Nice, waiting for Debian to rebase scummvm on SDL3.

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They’ve already won the phone market, the server market, and the professional workstation market. We’re just bringing them to the Linux desktop which has traditionally refused to adopt new technologies in a timely manner.

Thanks, but no, thanks. I don't need my desktop to be a container. And that's not a new technology by any means either. Immutable distros exist for years, for example OpenWRT. They have their uses like embedded scenarios indeed, but it's counter productive on a general purpose computer. Turning it into appliance and then looking for loopholes out of it when you realize you need a general purpose computer and not an appliance is a somewhat strange idea.

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Quoting: TheLinuxPlebI wonder what the exclusive fullscreen in the changelogs mean?

Yeah, not sure. There is no such concept in winewayland.

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Congrats! Winewayland got pretty good.

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Quoting: JarmerSo .............. business as usual for them. Shame.

I think he literally wasn't involved in their decision making until just when he bought it back. So it's too early to jump to conclusions just because he gave the regular non answer.

But I agree it's worse than clear yes.

He basically took over whatever GOG were deciding, so it's up to him now.

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