Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2010 19:21 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

As for Cortex Command, the 64-bit version doesn't work and crashes on startup due to a lethal typo. Nice testing!

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This Bundle is looking less and less impressive to me by the minute. Two down as unplayable, one I already owned (Osmos) and would be awesome but uses a font which is broken by a recent FreeType security update without a font fix (which has not been provided despite the passage of two months, so I'm LD_LIBRARY_PATHing in the old FreeType), two to go...

(Cortex Command's half-written work-in-progress status was also not made clear at purchase time. Sigh.)

(One would wonder why games haven't taken off in the Linux world, but with a >50% failure rate, I'm not at all surprised anymore.)

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 15, 2010 21:02 UTC (Wed) by svena (guest, #20177) [Link] (2 responses)

There was a problem with 64-bit (but only on Intel system) discovered during the beta of CC. I'm not sure if it's the same problem you're having, but if so it's more subtle than a mere typo.

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 16, 2010 9:29 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Hang on. It works on AMD x86-64 but fails on Intel x86-64?!

That takes talent :)

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 16, 2010 11:14 UTC (Thu) by makomk (guest, #51493) [Link]

Nope, it just takes incorrectly using memcpy when you should've used memmove under the correct circumstances. Well, that's what the rumour mill says anyway.

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 16, 2010 22:05 UTC (Thu) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link] (1 responses)

Wouldn't it be easier to just replace the font instead? At least that's what I did, works like a charm.

Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Posted Dec 16, 2010 22:43 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, but the font's quite nice, and the game looks so beautiful I didn't want to change the look of it. :)