What game are you currently playing?

[N0t_mINe]

Holy crap, I fell of the transfusion forums again. Time to rectify that little mistake.

[Tchernobog]

I have always been around.



What I have not been doing lately is playing very many games, but I did just complete a casual go through Doom again since I got Dave Taylor's original Linux port working with the funky VoxWare MIDI musserver patch with my Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects card. A fascinating bit of hackery.

[Tchernobog]

War! Age of Imperialism

[Tchernobog]

Took another long break but I am back at it now.

[Tchernobog]

[Tchernobog]

[N0t_mINe]

I guess Haunted Dorm wouldn't make for good visuals?

[Tchernobog]

Something fun I might as well share here: I can get the old Linux version of Shogo to work on my modern Arch Linux install again!



It started giving me segmentation faults around five years ago, but it turns out that was due to a bug in the Gallium3D drivers that was fixed in April 2022:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/1924

There are still a few hoops you need to jump through, namely removing the bundled libSDL-1.1.so.0 file and then extracting the legacy libraries included in the Shogo-Libraries.tar.gz archive from the Blood Wiki into the same directory. After that set "MaxFPS" "60" in the autoexec.cfg file to cap the framerate. All arguably still simpler than using dgVoodoo2 to get the game working on a modern Windows environment.

Biggest problem is the bottom three arrow keys on my keyboard have died, so I had to limp through the menus with just the up arrow and set my mouse sensitivity in the config file.

[N0t_mINe]

What's with all these key boards dying?

[Tchernobog]

What's with all these key boards dying?

In fairness the keyboard I have been using is a Macally iKey from the year 2000 that I picked up from a local thrift shop in 2007 for a couple bucks. So all in all it has given me 16 years solid service. I originally just bought it as it did not have a Windows key.

Currently debating if I should take this as an opportunity to go mechanical and shell out for something like a Das Keyboard, or if I should lean more retro and try the beige Perixx PERIBOARD-106M. The Perixx has been very well reviewed for a membrane keyboard so far.