Quoting: Lofty

Quoting: suchDRM in fn Dino Crisis? Just install Duckstation, problem solved.

And using the right combo of setting it probably looks better. There are also texture packs for the PS1 game that will run via duckstation..

However.. Look into the drama surrounding duckstation and the main Dev. He is literally blacklisting certain Linux Distro's in the source code ( Which by the way is not fully FOSS & has a strict license )
Not to mention not supporting AUR or Flatpak. At some point i would not be surprised if he entirely stopped supporting Linux altogether. Fortunately before it was locked behind a restrictive license the code was essentially all complete. So a Fork will be possible at some point, even if it takes some time to get upto Duckstation's quality.

I think is not that simple as you put it. The Flatpak it have some issues that the App Image do no have so that why he remove it. For the not supporting AUR or packaging on general the problem that people start posting issues that where directly related from the packaging in the duckstation repo instead of the packagers that made it, so it all snow ball from there. In one hand there is a guy that is working for free in a project that he have joy on doing it and in the other hand is a lot of work to maintain some thing that has grown a lot.

That say, I believe that he could handle it really more gracious and not burn all the bridges in the process. But is easy to talk from the distantance

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One of the first games that I bought! And it was called Circle of Blood, I have to save for a year to been able to buy it the original cd. Really fond memories, I still prefer playing on scummvm :grin:

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I had installed duckstation emulator because I wanted to play RE1, I got derailed playing NWN 2, Metal Gear Solid and Monkey Island but for sure I now have to add the second part! I'm playing RE4 on the Wii, I believe that I'm at half on the game so it will take me another four years to finish and take the other two!

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Quoting: ShmerlI don't get why they need to go around translating DX11 into Vulkan, can't they use Vulkan directly?

And if they want a lighter abstraction, why not use other layers on top of Vulkan like wgpu or something like that? DX11 doesn't sound like the best option.

I think that was included because you can build a xna game with fna docs [External Link] so, if your older setup use DX11 you don't have to do anything else.

But I didn't went to the documentation in full, perhaps there is something more.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: GuestIt is prohibited for an employer to spy on its employees in any way. This type of function is therefore formally prohibited in the professional field.

Depends where you are. Lots of companies in lots of countries already keep tabs on what employees are doing and looking at.

I believe that in all South America when your employee gives you a computer all the content of the computer is property of your employee (At least I know that happens in 8 of 11 countries), the first thing in what I thought is this going to be the panacea of the middle manager and number crunching bosses. Almost all the companies uses Windows, if they don't have a contract as partner, is all the people now how to use (Including IT guys), so deploying this in all machine they will now what are you doing all day, or if you are not doing something for the company all the hours they are paying you.

More troublesome is the public offices that you have to give your information, they will also take screenshot of that ? Make me glad that my country on a very controversial situation some public offices start using Linux to not pay the licenses fees of all the machines, so at least some data will not reach them so easily.

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumEA doing something to benefit the gaming industry and gamers as a whole?

Can someone go check hell please? I'm concerned that it might have frozen over. :unsure:

On 2020 they made accebility a main thing,news link [External Link]

The video of Karen was really mind blowing the first time I saw it, and made me think how many people can also play games with all this thing on place.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: redmanthe whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....

FWIW, they made it available again, on Disney+.

I search for it and will be pass by the Disney grinding machine... A new season without two main characters, more PG approve, more episodes... Good for the actors I think, bad for the rest...

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Quoting: ObsidianBlkThe way licensing is handled in video games bothers me greatly. To build a product that you want people to enjoy and play but using a license that can either expire (putting a timer on your product) or be pulled on a whim... why do this? It's one thing if the developers, themselves, choose to withdraw their product, but for the IP holder to have the power to do this seems absurd. You either let developers create their game with your IP, and then, there it is, or you don't.

This doesn't happen with movies! If a movie is made by a studio using some other company's IP, you don't see those movies suddenly disappearing from distribution once some license expires. If this happened, I'm sure that Super Mario Brothers movie from the 90s would have disappeared a long time ago, but it didn't. All those Uwe Boll movies, that butcher the IPs they used, are still available.

Why do video games get abused this way by IP holders? This bothers me greatly.

Not only videogames suffer from this, the whole Netflix and Marvel fiasco comes to mind. Daredevil never got the finish it deserve and the episodes are not available....

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Quoting: Klaas

Quoting: subThough, he doesn't complain and sees other benefits.

Yes. It's baffling. I've worked for them for free and got one hint about a bug. I'm so happy…

Is not about the free work, not about the money, he was doing the work anyhow, is about his passion about doing it and how now he can contribute to something more about the game. That is the thing that he is gaining.

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Quoting: Plintslîcho

Quoting: redmanNow I have to wait the Remastered to be on GOG.

It's already available at GOG.com as well. It's only just called Quake II [External Link] .

My wallet dread this knowledge... I have a new game now :grin: thanks for the info!

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