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Fun fact: There was an interview where Warren Spector said he made Deus Ex because he was frustrated by Thief forcing players into combat, and "Deus Ex exists today because I said, 'I'm going to show...
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And like.. maybe go easy on the coke, dude?I'm sure Deus Ex was a great and influential game at the time, but Thief definitely did the whole stealth thing better than Deus Ex (I think shadows don't...
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dhewm3 1.5.3 Release Candidate 2 is out: https://dhewm3.org/#dhewm3-1.5.3-release-candidate-2It fixes a bug in the gamepad support and I updated the integrated minizip library.I also updated all the...
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Imagine being so annoyed by the coil whine of the (external) PSU of your NAS that you build a ventilated, noise dampening box for it..
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Just in time for the Easter weekend, version 1.5.3 of the "dhewm3" Doom3 Sourceport is released!See https://dhewm3.org/#dhewm3-1.5.3Biggest changes:* Gamepad support!* Taking screenshots in JPG, PNG or...
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The official dhewm3 downloads include binaries for Windows and 64bit (x86_64) Linux, but Mac users can get also get a fresh 1.5.3 build, thanks to @MacSourcePorts !Download it at...
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Random realization while hacking on dhewm3 (Doom3 source port), which so far sticks to C++98: When the Doom3 source was released in 2011, the C++98 standard was about as old as the C++11 standard is now.
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The "Console Wars" series of Ctrl+Alt+Del Comic must be the dumbest and most annoying of them all.In comparison, even Loss isn't that bad o_O
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lol after clicking around the settings and not changing anything it's back to the old layout
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By the way: You probably remember that Reddit post about Vultr changing their TOS to steal your data from two weeks ago or so.I learned today (more or less randomly) that they backpedaled on that and...
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The Descent 3 Source code has been released (under MIT license): https://github.com/kevinbentley/Descent3> This is the latest version of the Descent 3 source code. This includes the '1.5' patch that...
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(Found this through a post by @rohit_n on cohost: https://cohost.org/rohit/post/5583600-descent-3-s-source-c)
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TIL that GCC's __builtin_alloca_with_align() may release the memory at *block*-scope, unlike regular alloca() (or __builtin_alloca()), which releases the memory at the end of the function. 🤡 Clang also...
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The Linux (amd64) binaries I provided with the 1.5.3 release of dhewm3 turned out to be buggy.I uploaded new ones: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/releases/tag/1.5.3Funny that it took three weeks for...
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