Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääSoo, could all this be possible to package somehow to a state that even a non-tech-savvy random occasional gamer could then enjoy Unreal Tournament on Linux? :huh:

moving a couple files around and setting an env var or two isn't "tech". nevermind being "savvy" about it.

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a "227 patch" but this time for UT99 is being worked on by the same guys from OldUnreal, since Epic finally gave its blessing (who'd understand the corporate shenanigans??) - https://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1569587267/135 [External Link]

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: mosMIA as it seems.

Any chance Liam could try and inquire with Nightdive on the status of the port?

I did, they didn't reply.

So did I. Neither did they.

Honest, caring management.

I say spam them with polite requests on SocMedia?

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MIA as it seems.

Any chance Liam could try and inquire with Nightdive on the status of the port?

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Quoting: dreamer_

Quoting: mos

Quoting: TheSHEEEPQuite frankly, DOSBox is not a good example of how to develop software, but it's the only thing we have doing what it does

https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2 [External Link]
also, unlike $subj not a horrible resource hog. you won't need an i9 to play anything decent. IF it works for your game at all, that is. DosBox has a lot of quirks thats true.

DOSBox is not that big resource hog TBH. It can run most games comfortably, as long as you configure it properly - this is the tricky part (use exclusively output=opengl or openglnb, avoid setting cpu.cycles, do not go overboard with forced scalers, never use frameskip, etc). But DOSBox has terrible defaults and it's documentation gives an impression that you need powerful CPU (maybe by 2001 standards).

Good to know there is an alternative, though - I'll check out if I can add dosemu2 support in steam-dos :).

Believe me, I wasn't born y'day, not re configuring dosbox anyway))) I've meddled with diff games/configs/builds, even tried Voodoo emulation (a couple of variants of it).
You DO need a powerful CPU, for anything heavier than, say, doom that is. It's almost official dev policy - they aren't bothered with performance I think. Nor their hardcore fanbase btw - look at relevant threads on vogons - they're more happy dabbling with shaders that add various 'oldie' looks (and ofc levy even more stress on your rig) than improving speed.

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPQuite frankly, DOSBox is not a good example of how to develop software, but it's the only thing we have doing what it does

https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2 [External Link]
also, unlike $subj not a horrible resource hog. you won't need an i9 to play anything decent. IF it works for your game at all, that is. DosBox has a lot of quirks thats true.

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Quoting: MblackwellI don't believe movie playback is supported

Well that already makes a case for subj
And if those

Quoting: Mblackwellinaccuracies and bugs

don't spoil the exp too much, it could be worth a try...

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Quoting: JolltAlso if you have the original and some features like splitscreen and better multiplayer doesn't interests you, the https://github.com/nukeykt/NBlood [External Link] based on Eduke32 is the BEST way to play besides this port. I would even say better than this port on some things people are noticing.

Out of interest, does NBlood support movies playback and other such stuff some ppl consider non-essential? Can it eg play CD-music off an original CD (or via some other means)? In other words is it a full-blooded port?))
And since we're here, what exactly is done better in NBlood according to some?

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