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Just for all fans of the classic Raptor - Call of the Shadows, something to be happy with under GNU/Linux-libre: https://github.com/skynettx/raptor

Human being in favor with clear principles and so also for freedom in soft- and hardware!

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices: For a life of every being full with peace and kindness, including diversity and freedom. Capitalism is destroying our minds, the planet itself and the universe in the end!

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Re: Games under GNU/Linux-libre

throgh wrote:

Just for all fans of the classic Raptor - Call of the Shadows, something to be happy with under GNU/Linux-libre: https://github.com/skynettx/raptor

Kraptor is a free clone big_smile

https://github.com/antonialoytorrens/kraptor

On these old games' thread, check https://osgameclones.com first, because there
may be a libre clone (or engine reimplementation) ready to function
with the mentioned games.

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I saved a map.sqlite file on a later than 5.4.1 Minetest version.
Than I saw

AsyncErr: World data version mismatch in MapBlock (4,0,-9)
----
"ERROR: MapBlock format not supported"
See debug.txt.
World probably saved by a newer version of Minetest.

-------------
  Separator
-------------

2024-03-01 12:16:32: [Main]: Automatically selecting world at [/home/cody-u/.minetest/worlds/Test]
2024-03-01 12:17:01: ACTION[Main]: World at [/home/cody-u/.minetest/worlds/Test]
2024-03-01 12:17:01: ACTION[Main]: Server for gameid="minetest" listening on 0.0.0.0:56202.
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer [127.0.0.1] joins game. List of players: singleplayer
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ERROR[Main]: ServerError: AsyncErr: World data version mismatch in MapBlock (4,0,-9)
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ERROR[Main]: ----
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ERROR[Main]: "ERROR: MapBlock format not supported"
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ERROR[Main]: See debug.txt.
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ERROR[Main]: World probably saved by a newer version of Minetest.
2024-03-01 12:17:03: ACTION[Server]: singleplayer leaves game. List of players:
2024-03-01 12:17:04: ACTION[Main]: Server: Shutting down

when I tried to use that file on Minetest 5.4.1.

As sometimes I start a new world off-line with

world.mt
players.sqlite
map.sqlite
env_meta.txt
map_meta.txt
force_loaded.txt
auth.sqlite
ipban.txt

files, and just switch a file I saved from an on-line minetest server to my local minetest.

I'm glad you, throgh, and others, can still compile the version they like of minetest on Hyperbola.

If people want to port it for HyperbolaBSD, feel free. I will perhaps do so for my beloved version 5.0.

https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic … 7717#p7717

I see why there are many problems with

breaking portability
    ignoring backwards compatibility
    replacing existing services

https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … y_software

And also replacing paying with money you wish to pay with
"paywalls" and other things you may not wish to use.

People may like the games, but the policies of some people may change over time, and you may not wish to support some of those later policies, or your policies may also change.

Though it may than be hard to even keep nice historical records of what was before, when some people ignore backwards compatibility.

Or when technology is used to prevent copying, and/or using saved files.

I think some older cartridges may have battories that could lose a save file if it is not somehow backed up.

https://github.com/sanni/cartreader

Is licensed under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3
and maybe later, though I did not check the code yet.

https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic … 1465#p1465

https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic … 1484#p1484

I also read
Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella

that shows in it's conclusion how "copyright and patents" may try to take away your right to use your own property. Though this book is likely under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0

at least the printed copy I have.

https://mises.org/library/book/against- … l-property

We see, then, that a system of property rights in “ideal
objects” necessarily requires violation of other individual
property rights, e.g., to use one’s own tangible property as
one sees fit.94 Such a system requires a new homesteading
rule which subverts the firstoccupier rule. IP, at least in the
form of patent and copyright, cannot be justified.
It is not surprising that IP attorneys, artists, and inven-
tors often seem to take for granted the legitimacy of IP.
However, those more concerned with liberty, truth, and
rights should not take for granted the institutionalized use
of force used to enforce IP rights. Instead, we should re-
assert the primacy of individual rights over our bodies and
homesteaded scarce resources.

I did not yet switch from Trisquel to Hyperbola, but I like a large amount of Hyperbola's ideas.

https://forums.hyperbola.info/viewtopic.php?id=995

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Please be a bit careful with Ludwig von Mises as he is a defined idea-giver for the neoliberalism, which is in fact also to be clear recognizable point why our current situation is gone out of bounds. Sure thing: Too easy answered as there is much more behind, but the "neoliberalism" is part of many things and reasoning for the illusions people think to reach for endless growth on a planet with not so endless and not unlimited resources building with and on. So von Mises is in fact a very questionable person of history with his ideas.

Going a bit further into this means also back on free software: It should be more valued what was done and kept free as in freedom, not free as in egoism as nowadays some people think of. No, that is a generic meant as conclusion, not meant towards anyone here.

Human being in favor with clear principles and so also for freedom in soft- and hardware!

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices: For a life of every being full with peace and kindness, including diversity and freedom. Capitalism is destroying our minds, the planet itself and the universe in the end!

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throgh wrote:

Please be a bit careful with Ludwig von Mises as he is a defined idea-giver for the neoliberalism, which is in fact also to be clear recognizable point why our current situation is gone out of bounds. Sure thing: Too easy answered as there is much more behind, but the "neoliberalism" is part of many things and reasoning for the illusions people think to reach for endless growth on a planet with not so endless and not unlimited resources building with and on. So von Mises is in fact a very questionable person of history with his ideas.

Going a bit further into this means also back on free software: It should be more valued what was done and kept free as in freedom, not free as in egoism as nowadays some people think of. No, that is a generic meant as conclusion, not meant towards anyone here.

Neoliberalism? Never heard of that before. What specifically is questionable about him?

I don't know him much at all. but I just wanted to know the details

HyperbolaBSD: The Future of Secure Libre Lightweight Operating Systems!

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You can read here more about. Let's keep the thread on-topic!
It is too complex to be used as a simple quote, a simple line or any further simple explanation. So I link only that article here and keep the rest for any other time but not in this thread. The problem is nowadays that we do not look exactly on the whole and only some fitting details. The "Mises Institute" is inbound with much, very much more. Too much for this thread here, but especially those links should be researched quite more as only taking one single part.

So I state personal this: If people claim that Mises or Hayek (also mentioned in that article linked) have defined their way of thinking, the alarm-bell should ring. Why? Because think-processes are not defined only external and should result on also complex and long ways forward as life is on-going process of learning, not using predefined terms. Surely those people mentioned had their same ways, but when terms and people using them declare only external influence I personal question where the thought-process should be. Same as for free, libre software also: A movement depending only on some smaller group of names is not able to exist on its own as everyone should use a point for own points and conclusions.

Human being in favor with clear principles and so also for freedom in soft- and hardware!

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices: For a life of every being full with peace and kindness, including diversity and freedom. Capitalism is destroying our minds, the planet itself and the universe in the end!