> Dune 2000 gained new weapon damage calculations that are more faithful to the original game

Oh, cool :) I had serious problems with finishing one of the first missions due to being overwhelmed by enemies in first 30-40s - perhaps now campaign maps are more balanced.

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Wait, wasn't this software development "halted" because the author was offended by "SJWs taking over" Linux community? He changed his mind or grew up?

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI should try this out. Was playing Stonekeep on my laptop the other night. Got to ask, is there anyway to implement touch screen passthrough for DOS games? Would be incredibly awesome for games like that!
Guess I should look into it.

SDL2 handles this (SDL_TouchFingerEvent), but someone who owns a touchscreen would need to implement this and send us pull requests.

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Quoting: jensVery cool, thanks for the hard work and cool to see dosbox (staging) moving forward!
3dfx support is still work-in-progress right? (Not that 3dfx is super essential, the other changes are way more important)

Yes, it's on our roadmap for 0.77.0 [External Link].

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt's been a LONG time since dosbox mainline had a proper new release.

10.5 years since last major release (0.74) and 15 months since last tiny security bugfix (0.74-3)…

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Also a tip: DOSBox Staging is now the default DOSBox client in Lutris - whenever you use a "DOSBOX" installer for a game - Lutris will download DOSBox Staging for you :) Hopefully, they will upgrade to 0.76.0 soon.

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Quoting: ShmerlI think any modern game shouldn't be using X, unless it somehow is coded with X directly? That's a bad practice. If it's using SDL and the like, it should work with Wayland directly, without X.

Unfortunately, it's not as easy :( Wayland is not enabled by default for SDL yet (users need to opt-in), and for good reason. Some Wayland compositors (Mutter-based) do not support Server Side Decoration extension (which is a requirement for SDL) - consequently, SDL Wayland Windows won't be resizable, have problems with going in/out fullscreen, etc. It's work in progress.

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Quoting: DiableI'll buy a AMD card when they have working Linux drivers available at launch.

I think you should quantify this statement to: you will buy AMD card *at launch* when the Linux drivers will be available *at launch*. Otherwise, it doesn't make much sense.

Quoting: DiableI'm not waiting six months for the Mesa guy to get their new cards working when Nvidia has Linux drivers available for their new card on day one. I'm not supporting a company that treats my OS of choice like a second class citizens.

You got it backwards - NVIDIA releases drivers at launch day because they don't care - if the driver is broken, they will release the fixed version after some time, perhaps, maybe. Right now NVIDIA driver is broken for kernel 5.9 for example.

AMD does things correctly - starting work on supporting new GPUs in kernel early and improving it over time - support for RX 6000 series landed already in kernel 5.9 (released ~3 weeks ago) and Mesa 20.2 (released ~2 weeks ago). We can't say how good the support will be until the cards start showing up, but AMD seems to be gradually improving the process of working with open source. Also, RDNA2 is a refresh of RDNA, not a whole new architecture.

BTW, if you use Ubuntu LTS, then AMD releases closed source version of their drivers to be used until the open source version is provided via LTS point release. So this way you *have* an option of using your GPU at launch.

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I love this game, highly recommended :)

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I'm glad they have rpm package… but it would be nice if it was available in the same repo as Visual Studio Code and PowerShell.

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Quoting: MilaniumOnly 3 things are from Tyrian https://github.com/OpenHV/OpenHV/tree/master/sources/artwork/Tyrian [External Link] most of it is actually the Hard Vacuum graphics which are surprisingly complete. Try guessing which building/unit are pixeled by us. :)

Hmm, in the first screenshot alone I see 3 sprites from Tyrian: tank, orange ball on the left, and "plane" icon in the panel on the right (colourized to blue from original brown). But that's not bad, the creators of Tyrian left the art on "do whatever you want/can with it" license - I'm glad someone is using it for creating a new open source game :)

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