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Games: DOOM, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, Steam on GNU/Linux
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Hackaday ☛ Running DOOM On A Travel Router With Touch Screen
It’s just your typical AArch64 ARM-based system, with the gl_screen process running for the touch screen display. From there it was easy enough to deduce the settings to jot into fbdoom so that it too could use the same screen and touch inputs. After copying the compiled binary with SCP over to the router, it can then be started like any application. With touch inputs somewhat awkwardly mapped to certain areas of the touch screen, it’d be nice to see the USB 2.0 port used for USB HID inputs, but it does show how easy things can be when it runs something like Linux and you got full root access.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum receive clamshell makeover — iconic 8-bit legends join the handheld gaming wars
Retro Games Ltd and Blaze Entertainment put The C64 Handheld and The Spectrum Handheld up for preorder at $129.99.
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Boiling Steam ☛ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Legionbound - 2026-04-29 Edition
Between 2026-04-22 and 2026-04-29 there were 87 New Steam games released with Native GNU/Linux builds. For reference, during the same time, there were 765 games released for backdoored Windows on Steam, so the GNU/Linux versions represent about 11.4 % of total released titles. There’s a lot of games but of varying quality. Out of those I picked up Legionbound, another idle battler with a ton of options and combinations to try out, which is very addictive.