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Comet 64 is a programming puzzle game about an old fictional computer
9 Feb 2021 at 10:37 am UTC Likes: 2
I love a bit of nostalgia like this. I had a 6502 assembler cartridge for my Commodore 64 but found it clunky to use so I wrote my own assembler and BASIC toolkit. I couldn't do that now! How I loved that machine. Ahh the ravages of time :dizzy:
The latest update to hybrid tower-defense sandbox factory game Mindustry is amazing
3 Dec 2020 at 1:11 pm UTC
A brilliant game. Worth buying :happy:
The classic Driver 2 has a new reverse engineered open source game engine
16 Nov 2020 at 11:36 am UTC
I loved the original Driver on PS1, great fun. Looking forward to playing this.
FPS game engine GZDoom 4.5.0 is out as the first 64bit only release
4 Nov 2020 at 6:18 pm UTC Likes: 1
Just installed GZDoom and Aliens: Eradication - very nice! Thanks for the HUDs up :grin:
Intel teases with 11th gen desktop Rocket Lake-S CPU info, max of 8 cores
30 Oct 2020 at 11:28 am UTC
I'm hoping I may upgrade my system around Xmas or thereabouts, after the dust has settled on AMD's stuff. My next CPU will 100% be AMD. My current i7 is the only Intel chip I've used since way back. I basically went from a full RISCOS setup (I'm not sure what the CPU was in the add-on "PC" card either) to an AMD CPU. I never bought cutting edge, I went for value for money. My next GPU I'm still undecided on.

Interesting times!
You can now order a PC case that looks like the classic Commodore 64
12 Oct 2020 at 1:21 pm UTC Likes: 4
Sweet :happy: Ahhh, those were the days!
Mindustry, one of the best open source games around has a huge upgrade in testing
17 Sep 2020 at 10:36 am UTC Likes: 2
I love this game. Excited for the update! I'd forgotten it was free :woot: I'd advise everyone to pay for it though, it's superb :happy:
APICO is an adorable upcoming casual sim about breeding and collecting Bees
12 Sep 2020 at 9:57 am UTC Likes: 1
"They're planning to promote bee conservation, with a portion of the sales being donated towards charities involved in national and international beekeeping" - I'm definitely getting this :happy:
Ventoy is my new favourite tool for Linux distro-hopping
28 Aug 2020 at 5:07 pm UTC
I've been doing this for years with a GRUB menu but anything that makes this more convenient is always welcome :smile:

Not that I distro hop as I've been using the same Arch install since 2009! It's come in handy for new installs elsewhere though.
My experiences of Valve's VR on Linux
12 Aug 2020 at 1:21 pm UTC
Great article and quite entertaining :grin: I'd love to go VR but need to upgrade CPU and GPU before that can even be considered. One consolation of late(r) adoption is it should all work better by then.

One question please: do you need Pulseaudio for this? I'm running Jack but do occasionally fall back to just ALSA for some games.