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Portal Now Available On Linux
alancronin writes "Valve have released Portal for Linux through the Steam platform. If you have a copy of the Windows version you will automatically have a copy of it for Linux in your account. There are also rumors of Portal 2 coming soon."
Linux users now can do cake jokes.
Circumcision is child abuse.
The thing I found weird about this, is I've been running Portal in Wine for ages, and it seems to run better than it does under Windows!
Since Phoronix claimed originally it was both just to clear it up only Portal 1 is out for Linux, there are no hints about Portal 2 despite this article stating it and linking to a source for Portal 2 (the source of that info is an idiot). Daily linux gaming news can be found on www.gamingonlinux.com by the way :) where we actually check facts properly ;)
In British English company names are considered collective nouns, and given that Timothy is British there does not appear to be any error here. For once.
Shhh, don't say this too loud, you might hurt some Windows' users' feelings.
And yet if the game looks the same and plays the same, then what were those functions even being used for in the first place?
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Left4dead 2 (beta) is also in there. That's a new game.
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And yet if the game looks the same and plays the same, then what were those functions even being used for in the first place?
They were the delay loops Microsoft put in to ensure the Xbox ran faster on slower hardware.
Less sarcastically, it's hard to not produce a feature-complete Direct3D now because most of the work is done with shaders. To emulate it, you have to take the DirectX shaders and convert them to OpenGL shaders, and everything should look the same. This is probably why Wine's implementation of new Direct3D versions seems to run more games than the older versions with lots of fixed-function APIs.
I do not believe you are reading between the lines.
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...there does not appear to be any error here. For once.
The night is young.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
Thanks :) Going by the other replies, it seems like I already have...
Console gamers are a fussy bunch. Giving them 6 year old games for free is unlikely to be much of an incentive, live and PSN already give them access to cheap or free games, they all look forward to their next Mario, Zelda, Halo, Gears of War, God of War, Uncharted etc. Unless Steam can entice them with something new that competes for their fanboi love I think Steambox will fail miserably at appealing to a new audience, it is going to have to rely on existing Steam fans.
Let me know when there's a DRM free version; preferably FOSS.