Minotaur Arcade Vol 1 (Gridrunner/Goatup)

[gilesgoat]

I can confirm that MA runs under WINE and so I can play GR on my cab - hooray
It's only running on an IBM thinkpad so not a great spec. GoatUp is too slow to play and GR is OK at 640x480.
Giles, please delete this post if you feel it breaches NDA,

"You and your bloody Linux and WINE !!!" ...

.. because our Mame CAB runs on WIN10 and you may have noted that "Arcade Mode" defaults to J-Pac/I-Pac controllers mappings

Yes I don't think GoatUp does easily because it's lot more demanding has it has "tons of voxels".

Glad it works on WINE, I suppose it proves "I do things canonically Windows correct"

I don't mind people using WINE as long as they DO NOT pirate the game

[Jamesac]

The bit about all the voxels explains the slowdown on my Surface. I'll be home tomorrow night to put it to a proper test on the gaming PC, but just couldn't wait.

[Chris_R]

I shall stop messing with Wine!
I've managed to do some more GR testing today and raised a few issues, some are more by way of feature requests so feel free to ignore them.
I'll try and give GoatUp some love now.

[Baggypants]

The thing is I have not even a remote clue what it means "to accomodate WINE", I never done anything 'specifically' for it.

No one does anything 'specifically' for WINE. That's the whole point of it.

Don't call any undocumented secret apis, Target DX9 for best compatibility and it should work.

[Baggypants]

I don't mind people using WINE as long as they DO NOT pirate the game

OI, It's a compatibility api shim, not a bloody piracy tool. Also you know who uses wine these days? Valve.

[Jamesac]

Got to play it properly. Lightly fried from a 1500 mile road trip over the last five days so bug reports tomorrow, but-

[Chris_R]

OK, getting into GR quite heavily now. Just got to 106,000 and Level 16ish. I'm beginning to play it for the game it is and not just a PC version of iOS GR. One of the tricky things when testing is knowing when something that is different to iOS is a bug or is a deliberate change to the game play.

I'm getting to grips with the new enemies, haven't worked everything out yet. I became bovine once but I'm not entirely sure how at the moment. GR plays really well on PC, I can imagine it must be splendid in VR. The last couple of games I have managed to get in the Zone where the balance of my concentration on the various elements have felt right, the 5% of my attention that is tracking the Y-Zapper if keeping me safe from that while I focus on the rest.

The issue 616 I've raised is a bit of a pain and I'm not sure how to get into Endurance mode.

[Jamesac]

Down on the d-pad on the screen where you can select the level gets you to Endurance. I'm still exploring to turn up Classic, though.

[Chris_R]

Cheers I did find that out. I'd been trying to press Up on the D-Pad and that was starting the game. I'm doing Casual mostly with the odd bit of Pure. Loving it so far.

[PVB]

Any idea what “A "capable" PC” would be?

My Asus laptop can play first person shooters such as Aliens Colonial Marines (not a new game, obv.) at high res and settings at max.

It plays Gridrunner Rev at 4K res and is smooth as silk.

Spec:
ASUS ZenBook UX310UA-FB485T
13.3 inch QHD+
Intel Core i5-7200 Processor
8 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
Windows 10-64bit

[gilesgoat]

Any idea what “A "capable" PC” would be?

My Asus laptop can play first person shooters such as Aliens Colonial Marines (not a new game, obv.) at high res and settings at max.

It plays Gridrunner Rev at 4K res and is smooth as silk.

Spec:
ASUS ZenBook UX310UA-FB485T
13.3 inch QHD+
Intel Core i5-7200 Processor
8 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
Windows 10-64bit

Took me a while to figure out what GPU is in that thing, which is "at best" "comparable" to a GTX 920M that I find is "about 1/2" of the power of a GTX 970 which is "a totally minimal" if you'd ever plan VR.

Said that "I don't know" it could work ok it could not I have no idea, we are still working on min specs ( certainly you are NOT going to run VR in that laptop ).

CPU/ram/etc. should be ok no big issue the GPU worries me a little.

Intel Integrated HD shit it's never been "a big thing", I mean it's certainly looks like a good robust designed laptop but not exactly what you'd call "a gaming machine".

[Markie]

Will Gridrunner be available before Christmas?

[PVB]

There’s no way my lappy would handle VR, but looking forward to trying out the 2D versions.

[Markie]

Is there a rough idea of when these will get released on Steam and PS4?

[Jamesac]

12/21, per Yak. On PC at least, not so sure when PS4 lands.

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