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Games: Steam Machines, Godot News, and Linux on Consoles
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Nate Graham ☛ The Steam Machine is here!
For a while now, my colleagues and I over in Techpaladin Software have been working on software support for the Steam Machine, so it’s so awesome to see the product released!
Like everyone else, I was surprised by the pricing… until I went out and looked at what other hardware costs these days. It seems like in the past 6 months, everything with RAM got 50-100% more expensive. It’s kinda nuts. In light of, shall we say, industry trends (ahem), the price seems reasonable to me.
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Godot Engine ☛ Changes to our Contribution Policies
Godot is growing fast, so here is how we are dealing with the huge increase in contributions.
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The Sega Mega Drive Can Now Run The Latest Linux Kernel
The Sega Mega Drive came out almost 4 decades ago in Japan, 38 years to be precise. So it's wild to think that a console that is 40 years old can ruin the latest Linux Kernel. Linux on a Sega Mega Drive... I bet you never thought you'd see that headline, huh?
So how is this working? Well, I spotted the post on Hackaday and have spent a while looking into Motorola 68000 chips and the early days of Linux. The creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, had been working with the 32-bit Motorola 68000 series on his Sinclair QL personal computer, so this chipset has its roots in the creation of Linux in a pretty integral way.
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Video Cardz ☛ PlayStation 5 Slim can now boot Linux through PS5 Linux loader
The PS5 Linux project has received another compatibility update. The loader now supports PlayStation 5 firmware 7.61, which also brings support for PlayStation 5 Slim consoles.
Andy Nguyen, also known as TheOfficialFloW, said the update uses another patched vulnerability. He also confirmed that users on firmware versions between the previous supported range and 7.61 need to update specifically to 7.61.