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General / Re: Aquaria Demo - Linux & Wine (good news!)

« on: December 09, 2007, 06:25:44 pm »

Oh I didn't check the forum yet. Did you check the wine appdb? I made an entry there.

http://www.zaphire.ca/aqpatch/aquaria-dialog.zip
That's the patch from Alec, that allowed me to enter the registration and activate Aquaria. It doesn't require MSHTML/gecko.

It runs perfectly fine. Couldn't get any better.

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Games / Re: Mac Indie Games

« on: November 20, 2007, 05:07:30 pm »

I guess Penumbra Overture should be released for Mac soon. The linux and windows version were released a long time ago, but there is a Demo for Mac. Let's hope they release all versions at the same time when the second and last Episode of Penumbra is released (Q1/2008)

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General / Re: bitblot IRC

« on: November 11, 2007, 12:45:46 am »

Just added the channel/network to my Konversation-Joinlist

I like IRC much better than forums

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General / Re: Steam?

« on: November 05, 2007, 08:26:28 pm »

I as well am rather peeved that Steam won't allow you to choose your install location (i.e. my external hard drive) thus my meager laptop hard drive is full.

I guess you can circumvent that "Usability-Error" of Steam on Windows too. I don't know if the Filemanager and Filesystem provide the comfort of symlinks, but you can mount a harddisk to a directory. Maybe you can also mount a directory of your external drive to a steam subdirectory (that's "bind mounting" on linux).

Topic: I use steam, but i really prefer a normal downloadable version, because I really think that Steam still has some serious Usability problems. Also, i don't think that you can (already) distribute linux-games over steam and as soon as a linux-version is available i'd prefer to use the native version and i could run into problems trying to convert the steam version into a (native) steam-independent version. I don't know if steam provides functionality for such use cases.

If you can, do both.

I had a flawless purchase when I bought Penumbra: Overture, so that's a good example, but when I bought Half-Life Episode 1it took weeks until it was correctly purchased, for some reason and that was the first purchase I made on steam.

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General / Re: Supported Platforms

« on: October 24, 2007, 08:58:22 pm »

I saw the youtube video of that game (awesome atmosphere & music btw) some months ago on a website and so i decided now to have a look at the development state

Thought of playing it with the compatibility layer, but as i see there are plans for a native linux version?
Great

The FAQ says something different. Is it up to date?

It really looks fantastic. I couldn't imagine playing a 2d-game again, before i saw Aquaria.