As I come from a time before the internet, I first began coding on early 8-bit home micros from the 1980's. When I'm not developing audio plug-ins I have a side-project coding (and playing) some retro games in my own particular idiom here - https://www.acmtretro.co.uk/games/index.html (I made these back in 2020, because I had some, spare time...)
they run on original 48K ZX Spectrum hardware (the ZX machines were a big deal here in the UK back then), emulators, or as standalone games for Windows / Linux using the built-in emulation engine (complete with CRT simulation for extra retro goodness)
I bought an 8bitdo Arcade Stick back in July so I could play old emulated arcade fighters. Mostly Street Fighter 2 releases. Bought a Street Fighter Humble Bundle on a whim because it was very reasonably priced and had the SF 30th Anniversary with all the old arcade games I wanted. It also included SF 5 and SF 6. 5 is fun. 6 is really good and it's taken all of my attention away from the old arcade games.
8bitdo Arcade Stick: works on Linux? Specifically, maybe with MAME?
It absolutely does. Yes. I'm using it with MAME and with Steam based games.
With the announcement that they are finishing the story, I'm replaying (in my very limited free time) The Long Dark story mode. One of my favourite games of all time, sandbox wise, and the story is a nice addition
Far Cry 2. The last one before Ubisoft decided to lock away their games behind a Ubisoft account requirement.
Well, Valve did the same with Half Life 2 back in 2004, and they did get away with it. But of course Valve has proven itself over the years to be a valuable asset for (Linux) gaming. What does Ubisoft offer with their account, other than give us permission to play a game we 've already paid for?
I've just purchased Shadow of the Tomb Raider on Steam sale for $4.99 It works well on FreeBSD 14.2 with Mizuma. I need to upgrade my GPU. I play much less games than I used to. It will likely take me a long while to finish the game. But I recently have also played Terminator Resistance and all the DLC. That's also a pretty fun game. It's surprising how many titles I can actually play on Steam on my OS. I'm fairly certain if they work for me they also work on Linux.
I'm not that kind of gamer apparently, I like it though... but soon I realize I'm wasting my precious time that I could spend on other things and then I quit.
So when I was still young, in my youth I played Age of Empires, and Unreal Tournament aswel.
Now during pandemic I figured out there is an open source game that has an Age of Empires kind of game: https://play0ad.com/
I tested it back then and works fantastic! It's free, and I recommend it to others who ever loved AoE.
I'm not that kind of gamer apparently, I like it though... but soon I realize I'm wasting my precious time that I could spend on other things and then I quit.
So when I was still young, in my youth I played Age of Empires, and Unreal Tournament aswel.
Now during pandemic I figured out there is an open source game that has an Age of Empires kind of game: https://play0ad.com/
I tested it back then and works fantastic! It's free, and I recommend it to others who ever loved AoE.
I loved (and still sometimes play) AOE2 multiplayer, and I saw 0ad years ago. It looks more polished now, have you played it more recently?
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was on sale on Steam so I've been playing that game. It's actually kind of a hard game to get into for me for some reason.
I found that one quite hard and IIRC got stuck part way through. Got through Rise Of The Tomb Raider much more easily.
Enjoyed the 2013 Tomb Raider, and Tomb Raider II on Playstation back in 1997.
Finally getting back into playing Stray lately after no games for a while. It's about as hard a game as I like these days.
I'm fairly certain if they work for me they also work on Linux.
