Recent content by ntfwc

Still just a rumor, but I could see it. Hasbro has been having some good success, at least financially, with movies as of late. So it makes sense that they might want to own their own major animation studio. And Dreamworks did work on their first two Micheal Bay directed Transformers movies. I...

One thing I've really liked playing with, recently, are sessions. Usually sessions are desktop environments, but you can make dedicated custom sessions for specific software. That way you don't start any programs you don't need. So you can save the resources you would normally use for the window...

I've been waiting for this. Always puzzled me why they didn't release the Linux versions of indie games, but that is changing now. As for older games, the ones I've bought from them have worked perfectly on either Wine or Dosbox. Not sure why that would be. The OS is just a tool that lets...

As a few others said, it reminds me a bit of Super Shreddar. A bit too over to the top for his normal form I think, but perhaps discretion isn't the name of the game. In this shot, he also looks much taller than usual, could be the perspective.

I suppose you've never tried using Netflix from Firefox on Linux. Netflix already has DRM implemented through Microsoft Silverlight. Currently the only way to watch Netflix on Linux is to use a Wine wrapped version of Silverlight. Technically it is decrypting the data. Wouldn't be protected...

The article is a bit misleading. From what I've read, the CDM that will process the DRM-protected content will be a sandboxed third-party module you download from Adobe (Flash anyone?). It won't be part of the browser, it will be like a rather special plug-in. See I don't have any problem...

Compared to the other things a modern game would be using system resources for, decoding audio is dirt cheap. If anything I think using uncompressed audio will decrease the performance. It increases the disk read time and the RAM usage, likely by a rather significant amount.

This stream inspired me to write my own python program: https://github.com/ntfwc/Chat_Controlled_Gamepad Rather than talking directly with an emulator, it acts as a virtual gamepad that should be usable with any software that supports gamepads. It is limited to Linux, as it depends on...

It bugs me that the article didn't say the name of the tool used. It was nothing uncommon. It is a tool that comes standard with basically any Linux distribution. For those curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget The usual use-case is to download a single file, like the source code...

I don't doubt that packaging resources is popular. I was referring to designing an archive format where you could update the archive file in place without changing its size, in order to avoid possible fragmentation from reallocation. Since individual objects would likely change size in updates...

I think really big files are, in general, more likely to get fragmented. However, I suppose that if you had an archive file that you wrote directly over, without resizing it at all, future updates shouldn't make fragmentation worse. But then you are implementing a kind of file system in the file...

Blue ChuChus? Ha. I never actually bothered to get the blue potion that way. It was simply way too easy to just get blue potion through Boko Baba Seeds at the Forest Haven. I mean the place is covered in Boko Babas, the guy you trade with is right there, and you only need four of the things...

It felt strange recommending a game I had only read the description of in the past, so I went ahead and played it. Easy does seem like a good starting point. Despite the simple graphics, it does its job pretty well and, as a first time player, I found the interface pretty intuitive. Also, the...

I have not played it yet, myself, but Endgame: Singularity, from 2005, sounds just like what you are requesting. And bonus, it's free and open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame%3A_Singularity