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Qemu/Exagear + WINE?

Well, ED released a new video (comparing sound vs the Pandora and the GPD XD). The last time there was an uptick in orders was from the release of a picture of ED in Greece with a fully assembled Pyra with an opaque case. I think that this correlation indicates causation. People like to see the...

Re: x86 chips, I am currently more interested in the chances of getting an SoC with a decent FOSS graphics driver and/or Vulkan support. Would such a thing be viable by, say 2018? 2019? Partly, though, it is because the chance of a decent x86_64 chip being used seems to get more remote as time...

Surely such a thing can only be disliked or ignored/unnoticed?

I imagine it was the photos of ED in Greece with a prototype Pyra that was in an opaque case. If there are more pictures of something new (like ED playing a Dreamcast game -- maybe Shenmue? -- on a prototype Pyra) next week, I would expect a few more waverers to commit.

I used to have mouse glitches with Might and Magic: Wold of Xeen, until I fiddled with the settings and turned off autolock (or was it scancode use?). Also, the jumping (the glitch I suffered) seemed to be for left-clicks only, so if you can use right-clicks instead you should be fine (I think...

Thanks for that. I was expecting better of FlatPak, but it is still early. The article also led me to to discover Firejail, which can be used (with or without AppImage) as a sandbox. I cannot comment on its efficacy, but its user interface is pretty nice, claiming no dependencies but a...

Black is the new black! I could tolerate the red one, too.

I now feel vindicated that I pre-ordered my Pyra full-price via vouchers, as the referendum did worry me. Of course, I am still affected if the Euro price goes up. Even if the pound remains 10% lower, compared to the Euro, than before, that is only about £60. I am aware that that is enough to...

I have been aware of FlatPak (from before its name change) and my attitude now is the same as it always has been: "nice, but it is not ready yet". The sandboxing aspect is unfinished. In the meantime, AppImage, which does not require new software installed (not even Wayland), is better for now...

I am uncertain whether this is part of the standard AppImage system, but the AppImages I have tested all, upon first execution, gave a menu asking whether to place a .desktop file in the correct place for an application-menu entry. Subsurface does this. This does not happen automatically, as...

One nice thing about AppImage, as I understand it, is that there is no need for support: if you want to distribute your Pyra software in an AppImage, you can and it will work. You would need to produce a different appimage from the one you produce for your x86_64 machine, though. If DBP did not...

As I said, there will always be some culture still produced. In the UK, for example, we have (and have had for a long while): the BBC (public broadcaster, paid for by a special tax on televisions -- likely soon to be internet as well), the Arts Council (funded by general taxation and lotery...

My understanding of copyright law is that if item A is modified slightly to produce item B (let us call B a "Special Edition" like with Star Wars) then A's copyright status is unchanged. Also, if the changes to make B are slight, then B could have no additional copyright status (e.g. I doubt...

There is already an abundance of (in descending extent) music, movies and (computer) games. Even in the latter category, if none were produced evermore, I would have more to play than I could over the rest of my life, especially as I can well cope with the graphics of "major" commercial games...

I agree. There are a lot of videos like that out there, from Google or from small YouTube gaming channels, with annoying (to me) background music all the time. I just assume that it is used to cover up background noise or similar. Or perhaps some people actually like this kind of music with...

I wonder how bright the LEDs behind the logo are. If they are bright enough to make a decent torch/flashlight, then it may be most practical to replace the logo with a simple hole for the LEDs. How bright are the LEDs? Does the logo significantly obscure them? One nice thing about the Pandora...

In another thread I posted this:

PYRA: With bash as standard Though I prefer zsh as set up in Arch's liveUSB. PYRA phone capability: sendSMS 'D&D session tonight at 19:00; remember to bring your miniatures' $(awk '/RPGparty/ {print $1}' contacts.txt) PYRA: Battery included, but optional A pocketful of buttons Must control...

Hmmm... That chip position in the full-size card is quite suspicious. I remember around 1998 seeing someone open a phone to show (what appeared to me to be) a bank debit card in their phone. I assumed that they were charged directly from the card as they used the phone. So, either that person...