Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: wolfyrion

Quoting: elmapuli want to buy this games, but i'm not sure if any girl will want to be my girl friend knowing that i have such games on steam xD.
(well some fujoshis will not mind)

Well as a game collector I accidentally got My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant without me knowing and I was using ASF Bot to get the steam cards but friends can see my activity which games I am playing. After a while a friend msg "I didnt know that you like gay stuff".... I was like......... "EEHhHhHH? WTF???? :O

Well thats the price that all game collectors have to pay in order to grab all the games...

Not sure if this post got so many likes because you're a girl who games, or that you have an ex-boyfriend and are single...

But is it this Space Tyrant you're talking about? http://store.steampowered.com/app/562230/Space_Tyrant/ [External Link] Not sure what's 'gay' about it...

Maybe I'm just confused 'cause it' almost 5am here and I can't sleep... when you have insomnia everything is a copy of a copy of a copy....

You sure seem to be tired :)

The capitalization hints at " My Ex-Boyfriend" being part of the game title, though I didn't double-check.

I liked the post because the anecdote was funny, and I can relate as a "game collector" ;)
It seemed to me that wolfyrion was male, although I learned long ago not to make any assumptions about people's gender on the Internet (or to care about it, for that matter... :D)

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Well, after reading these comments, I hesitate a bit...

These games ought to be DRM-free!
Otoh, they have Linux support, and could offer lots of fun (not the least, joke and pun subjects).
The sad thing is that there is little on the way of gameplay or story.

But now that I think about it, it might be the perfect kind of game to practice Japanese at a beginner level (do you have other recommendations?)

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and an experimental KMS/DRM video driver

I've been waiting for this! Hopefully we'll be able to run steam or games directly without even a window manager (Valve, please Listen, and make Steam big picture a Wayland compositor!!!).

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From a quick skim of the LICENSE [External Link] file, it looks like the "engine" is open, but not the art assets. Fine by me.

The game isn't really free software, but I would allow at least the "engine" to be called "open source".
The problem is that I think it requires games maker to work, which is not free software, so I am a bit torn on whether to call the "engine" free software as well. Better than nothing, I wish more developers did this, that's also a great learning resource.

The game looks fun, I may check it out some day if I have enough time :)

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If some modders make a game based on this "novel", I hope they will keep the gender-swapped, renamed version, that would be fun :P

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Quoting: tuxintuxedoI am curious whether the AMD problems are driver related and in that case, which one (open-source/closed). Maybe knowing that and asking the community would speed things up.

I was wondering the same. I certainly hope that they are testing against the open one, as it's generally better and more compliant, in addition to the other benefits.

I am impressed with those guys, and I really hope the necessary UE changes went back in the mainline, (as it would mean more port, therefore more potential Linux gamers, and more potential buyers for their game, due to the filtering effect ;))

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Quoting: WJMazepas

Quoting: MayeulC

In the market for a pricey

No.

But I would be in for a cheap ARM laptop ultraportable, with a decent screen (slim bezels not to loose space).
I only need vim in a VT, and a couple of days of battery :)

OK, if you want to be fancy, add in links, ssh, and maybe, maybe some VNC or GUI of some kind (with a browser).

But all I personaly really need right now is a cheap, low-power portable terminal ;)

The Pinebook is something like you want. But the screen is low end.

I have a CHUWI Lapbook 14.1, which has a Quad-Core Celeron, 4GB RAM and a 1080p matte display. The battery lasts more than 8 hours with Ubuntu MATE. It comes with W10 but Linux worked with 0 issues. It could solve your problem a laptop like my

I've looked into it, it sounded perfect (even got the mail for placing an order) until I figured that it was using a Mali GPU :/

For now, I will keep my old Samsung notebook :)
That is, until I find better. But I will have a look at the other solutions offered here.

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Interesting read, although the ending was a bit confusing.
I hope some fans will turn this third epistle playable :)

As a side note, it looks like the hyperborea name was part of the early prototype.

And I could have sworn seeing

Spoiler, click me

the Borealis flash in the portal 2 drydocks (which would be coherent with this "fanfict"),

although my memory doesn't seem to be good on this one, as I couldn't find anything about it on the net.

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In the market for a pricey

No.

But I would be in for a cheap ARM laptop ultraportable, with a decent screen (slim bezels not to loose space).
I only need vim in a VT, and a couple of days of battery :)

OK, if you want to be fancy, add in links, ssh, and maybe, maybe some VNC or GUI of some kind (with a browser).

But all I personaly really need right now is a cheap, low-power portable terminal ;)

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Quoting: F.Ultra

Quoting: MayeulCI remember a game that lasted me six months, singleplayer on civ V (biggest map, slow time). But not every game is like this.

Usually, playing with your friends as an ally is less boring, as they can see your troops.

This is also a good candidate as a "mail-chess"-like (see freeciv 2's website).

A bit sad to hear this. Would love to hear the complete technical analysis of what happens here. The function names, actual differences, etc.

Is it floating point related, RNG related, other? Wine doesn't seem to have a problem with this. Wouldn't using some parts of winelib help? (It is LGPL, so definitely linkable against).

Wine does not experience this problem, but it will also not fix it. Because the difference in the floating points are due to the compiler (yes different math libraries can also cause this but there is a basic difference on the compiler level) so one fix would of course be to force all windows devs to compile with gcc, but for some strange reason most windows devs prefer the Visual Studio compiler.

Ooh,that's right :)

Another solution could then be writing a hybrid: separate the game logic/simulation into its own library (or object file), and link it later (might need a DLL loader, but I don't think it's that complicated; and maybe a shim or two if the calling conventions are different).

In any case, I trust Feral to be competent enough to know the right thing to do (and choose whether to spend time on doing it).

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