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Cake day: June 14th, 2023
  • monolalia@lemmy.worldOPMtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Nethack 5.0.0 is out!English
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    1 month ago

    Still stuck? I was going to wait for it to show up in the repos, but it hasn’t so far. So here’s how I did it (for my regular user account, not system-wide):

    git clone https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack
cd NetHack
sys/unix/setup.sh sys/unix/hints/linux.500

    Now you’ve got a Makefile in the top-level NetHack as well as the src subdirectory. Find the else #!WANT_SOURCE_INSTALL block in both and edit HACKDIR to set the directory for the game itself and SHELLDIR to set the directory for the launcher script.

    (And if I actually knew how to use make, I’d probably have a less clunky method than this. Anyone?)

    make fetch-Lua
make all
make install
  • monolalia@lemmy.worldOPMtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Civilization VII Linux and Mac ports announcedEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I dunno. There’s no Proton on Mac, so lumping Mac and Linux together when they really just mean Proton wouldn’t make much sense. There are native Mac and Linux games on Steam, and the Steam store page has icons and system requirement tabs for all three OSes, neither of which happens with Windows-only games. “We’re also releasing Civilization VII for MacOS and Linux / SteamOS” also sounds like they’re talking about actual Linux and Mac builds. It could all be miscommunication, of course. That wouldn’t surprise me.

  • monolalia@lemmy.worldOPMtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Civilization VII Linux and Mac ports announcedEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Seems pretty clear to me: “We’re also releasing Civilization VII for MacOS and Linux / SteamOS” doesn’t just not mention Proton, there also isn’t a Proton on MacOS Steam. And you don’t get Linux and Mac system sepcs and platform icons on Windows-only games on Steam whether or not you can run them with Proton; you get ”Steam Deck Verified”.

    (I’m half expecting them to walk that back later but for now the message seems clear.)

  • monolalia@lemmy.worldMtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.world•Dual Boot?English
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    3 years ago

    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 games. But I did keep it around until there just wasn’t anything left that I wanted to run but couldn’t, or not well. The first Humble Indie Bundles with games like FEZ and Limbo had been out by that point as well. 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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