Not a remake or remaster or rerelease of something old, but something inspired or influenced by something either popular or a cult classic. Also this could extend to hardware/tech too, not only media.
Metal Gear Rising
I would really enjoy a new comprehensive story-driven-but-still-strategic hybrid game like the 90s game Reunion. It was weird, stupidly hard and even unfair if you didn’t know where to go and when, but it’s also the most challenging game I ever completed without any hint book or walkthrough, ever.
Some of the music slapped, too.
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Daria
Diane from Bojack was directly inspired. It’s far from the same, but they share a lot of similar themes in the later seasons.
There actually sort of is. Mike Judge or his artists released a “where are they now” a while back which depicts grown up characters from the show
Seven kingdoms. Late 90s RTS. I still play it and absolutely love it. It got overshadowed by C&C massively.
Thanks for the spontaneous nostalgia trip. I was playing it, or rather its sequel, in the 2000s after I got it from a magazine.
There’s a HD Version of Seven Kingdoms 2 on Steam. I think I might grab it.
The original is free and open source and has been upgraded if you prefer it
I still play this one. Just love it.
I am a big big big Linux fan, but I feel that after 30 years, it is time for a non-monolithic kernel. I know Linus hates the idea of microkernels but the era of Rust is finally here and it shows that safe microkernels are fully possible now, and I believe the advantages and modularity can be amazing for a new era of open source computing.
I’m ready for it, but it needs to be GPL3. I’m sick of vendors like Amazon and Nvidia using the Linux kernel but not publishing their drivers. Open your drivers, or dont use the kernel, that simple.
I’ve had it on my “to try” list for a while, but haven’t set aside time yet. It looks pretty good on paper, though.
New OSes have a tough hill to climb, with a mountain of hardware drivers. Until theres a decent corpus of drivers, running on bare metal is limited to a small few number of people.
Ive tried redox before, its in a very basic state, ive never gotten it to boot on real hardware and there are only a few basic utilities and Netsurf installed
Yeah, building an OS is a lot of work. It may be a while (if ever) before Redox is a daily driver; it took Linux 10 years before it was a viable option, and another 10 before it was common… and that was back when there was far less hardware to support. Uphill battle, like I said. However, it’s actively developed, has more than one contributor, and ticks the requested boxes: Rust, micro, modern.
Windows, Mac, Freebsd, etc all use some sort of modular kernel. Linux finally going to a microkernel or even a hybrid kernel would be one of the first basic steps towards modernizing Linux. So it will probably happen in 10 years or so.
What does that mean for modularity and support?
Microkernel only refers to the core, right? Is the idea that it can make inbound guarantees on drivers and firmware? Does it not still depend on the extensions being secure even if your micro kernel is?
Some of the devs around Linus are getting warmed up to the idea of a microkernel. Statistics have shown better boot times and better overall performance. As they put it “guess Tannenbaum was right all along” 😂.
Anyway, it should just be a matter of time now. Linus doesn’t like the microkernel idea because it risks stability for the sake of modularity. You maintain the entire code base with a monolithic kernel (drivers, FS, everything), while with a microkernel, you just maintain the kernel, everything else is modular, maintained by someone else, thus, things can go bump in the night. The former is better for stability.
Don’t break userspace.
Yep, his main motto 👍.
Those are not really the same thing. You can still run something as a microkernel and maintain it as code bases completely under your control and developed in lockstep or even in one giant repository if you really want to.
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Microservices and microkernels are not really that similar. The great advantage of a microkernel is not so much the separation of concerns but the fact that less code needs to run unsandboxed in kernel space where every bug can potentially corrupt other parts of the kernel or lead to security holes.
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Homeworld
As a game there’s been a few attempts, none have captured the simple beauty of the original, even if they were good in their own right.
Winamp.
There’s WACUP, but it’s not the same and you can’t run it natively on Linux.
What specifically do you like about Winamp? I miss the whacky skins and even more so the Milkdrop 2 visualization system. There are some hacky ways to get it to work for Foobar or AIMP. I haven’t checked what’s the case for Linux media players though.
Nothing too fancy, I like that it can load Fraunhoffer’s mp3PRO plugin 😂. Sadly, I converted most of my collection to mp3PRO back in the day and there’s just too many titles in there to redownload everything. So basically, I just need a player that runs natively on Linux and can load Winamp dll plugins, that’s it. Well… it would be nice if it replicated the classical Winamp look as well 😁.
Though I do agree, Milkdrop 2 was awesome 👍. It runs with Winamp in Wine though, so that’s not such a big deal.
Nero’s Soundtrax application, bundled in the Nero Multimedia Suite, is capable of encoding and decoding this format into several others.
It’s available for free now: https://nero-soundtrax.en.softonic.com/
If you’re willing to run a windows VM you could probably convert them back to normal MP3s.
That’ll just make them sound awfull. I know I can, I even have an old copy of Adobe Audition 1.5 that runs perfectly in Wine and supports conversion to mp3PRO and back (Adobe Audition was Cool Edit before it got bought by Adobe), but… that will be the second time these files have been converted 😔.
I’ve been using aimp2 for many years.
On LInux? I thought it was Windows only.
Yeah on Windows. I guess it’s probably not multiplatform.
There’s winamp in the browser now
Yeah, but I can’t load I/O plugins on it… my main point of concern.
Ah, I see.
QMMP is good enough for me on Linux, feels like basic WinAMP which is all I need.
It takes Winamp dll plugins?
No, I meant it as a question, does it take Winamp plugins 😂.
Cuz I have this oddball mp3RPO plugin… sadly, I converted most of my media back in the day to mp3PRO (storage was expensive back then, I was a student, low on funds… 🤷). It’s a discontinued codec now from Fraunhoffer (the idea was the same as with HE-AAC, spectral band replication, but do it with mp3) and… I just can’t be bothered to redownload all of my collection to mp3/aac. There’s just too many titles and that’s the main reason why I still use Winamp on Linux, the mp3PRO plugin for Winamp 😔. If I could load that dll in any other player out there, I would gladly switch, but I can’t 😔.
Ah :). Hmm, well someone else had a similar situation as you, perhaps xmms with those tweaks would work?
OK, I tried loading the library on Audacious x86, no dice 😔…
ERROR ../src/libaudcore/plugin-load.cc:70 [plugin_load]: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so could not be loaded: /usr/lib32/audacious/Input/libmp3PRO.so: undefined symbol: xmms_cfg_open_fileIt’s just way too old, support for XMMS and everything GTK+ related was dropped a loooong time ago 😔. Maybe with some sort of a wrapper… IDK… maybe it could work… have no idea where to start though…
Oh well, back to using Winamp 5.24 with Wine I guess 🤷♀️.
Shit, I had no idea 😱… I have to find this library, it must be burried somewhere in archive.org.
And isn’t XMMS dead? Though Audicious is a decendant, I’d have to check if the library is compatible. Still, it’s a starting point!
Thank you a million times kind stranger 🤗🤗🤗!
EDIT: OK, requires a bit more work than what I was hoping for… the library is probably x86 only, so I’d probably have to use the x86 version of Audacious or any other XMMS compatible player, but still, as I said, it’s a starting point 🤗.
I would just like to play them, I wouldn’t recode them, will loose audio quality cuz this will be their second recode.
There was a 1999 PC game called Drakan: Order of the Flame which was a pretty good time. Third-person action-adventure sword and sorcery that had some fun hidden secrets, a variety of weapons with different strengths, dragon riding… To expand on that, and probably make the protagonist a bit more realistically dressed, would be enjoyable
I remember playing the sequel when I was younger and remember having a blast. I don’t know of a good dragonriding / sword & sorcery game that’s come out in ages, so a remake of these games would be amazing.
The French Revolution
An RPG in a weird and alien place like Morrowind. And no, Skyrim doesn’t count.
Black & White 1 or 2. Game was basically made for VR but was released in 2001/2005 and was awesome. It could be huge if handled right with some AR elements.
Oh yeah, that would be a GREAT VR game!
Something like Baldur’s gate with good ol’ realtime with pause. Baldur’s gate 3 is a great game, but playing it feels like divinity and not baldurs gate
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The Sony Ericsson T105.
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Firefly
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Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
I printed out a 40 page gamefaq so I could 100% it as a kid, I liked exploring the multiplayer maps by myself 🥲 kinda liminal
SimEarth. Loved that game, but I want modern graphics and a better environmental model for other planets.
That game is awesome. I still boot it up every couple years.
I don’t even need great graphics, just use modern CPU power to ramp up the simulation complexity and that’s an easy buy from me. Probably won’t happen though, it was pretty niche even for it’s time. It wasn’t really even a game, just a piece of software that was fun to mess around with.
