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Yes! I noticed it… eventually

Well, I don’t really like headphones, so mostly I’m using my living room stereo like it’s 1987 and I just got my first Amiga.

I do have a Sennheiser DT 990 Pro (3.5 mm TRS) because they’re supposed to sound “neutral” and their main purpose is to aid in audio …“work”… and voice chat. But they’re just fine for gaming, I guess, and have been trouble-free and fairly pleasant to wear (as big headphones go).

• Arch Linux

• Not impose container/sandbox/almost-a-whole-separate-OS-at-that-point packages on you; stay up to date; deliver a fairly vanilla Linux experience that leaves it up to you to “mold”; have most emulators, front-ends, Wine, Steam, launchers, drivers, utilities, bits, bobs, bells and whistles immediately available; be un-branded; not talk about dropping support for 32-bit games (although those are getting rare)

• Fix dolphin-emu; promote more bits, bobs, bells and whistles out of the not-terribly-reliable AUR (although right now everything I can think of builds or I’m building it “on foot” anyway)

• Nope, don’t see what for, except I suddenly seem to need xboxdrv again where xpad had been working great all this time (but I’m not sure if that’s Arch’s fault). Maybe if I play around with Bluetooth (again) and I can’t get it to work properly (again) I’ll try a more ready-made Arch-derivative, but probably not on the desktop/gaming PC.

Yes. I think Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2 were my last “anchors” to Windows (7, at the time). I barely ever booted into it… I wanted to be NOT IN WINDOWS more than I wanted to play big fat luxury games.

But I did keep it around until there just wasn’t anything left that I wanted to run but couldn’t. The first Humble Indie Bundles with games like FEZ and Limbo had been out by that point as well as a few bigger titles like The Witcher 2. Wine was much more painful than it is now.

I’ve generally made sure not to buy too “crazy” hardware (like Bluetooth controllers… yes, I’m old and a neophobe and I don’t know what else).

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Love the little lights winding their way across your desk!

They are the same game in many ways, but Paradroid has a flat top-down view with smooth omni-directional scrolling and can quickly become FAST AND DEADLY on any of the more dangerous decks…

This Quazatron? I’ve always adored Quazatron in static screenshots in magazines. An isometric/3D-ish Paradroid?! <3! But I guess the Zedex was too alien to me to get around to it.

That could be sweet. Of course, they’ve already tried that, but SteamOS wasn’t really ready then.

And I suppose anyone can get a random mini PC and install Steam on it…

As a non-owner of either handheld, I tentatively agree and would still rather get a Steam Deck.

Jumbling up that bit of rote code was the joke! But the semicolon isn’t supposed to end the line; it tells BASIC to suppress the newline after the print statement. Makes for a better endlessly scrolling text experience ;)

Excellent! :)

By now I just expect it to work, unless it’s some drm-tastic ultrapopular multiplayer game. I don’t even check protondb any more…

Wine has come a long way! Though Linux-native gaming is not on AAA studios’ radar…

I’ll have to check it out then.

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Good luck! I had a plussy growing up and enjoyed the faster disk drive, the advanced BASIC (compared to the VIC-20 and 64) and the machine code monitor/simple assembler it had built in. Nowadays there are quite a few good games too (homebrews and bootleg ports) but back then we mostly had to make do with C16 games (16K…).

No updates in a few years, I think, but maybe the ThED TED replacement chip is still going to happen? https://retrohax.net/the-thed-project-update-3/