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

Posted Dec 15, 2010 23:25 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica) by svena
Parent article: Humble Bundle 2 is live: 5 great games, no DRM, pay what you want (ars technica)

Oh, gods, is it just a giant Flash-based game? A 300Mb+ Flash game?

I guess we are out of luck hoping for it to work on 64-bit then. But, equally, I guess speed and 3D support is hardly of the essence for it either, so it'll probably run under virtualization. I'll try that. (What a kludge!)

64bit flash is tolerable-to-decent now

Posted Dec 16, 2010 2:32 UTC (Thu) by jthill (subscriber, #56558) [Link] (1 responses)

Preview 3 of square, native 64bit, works real nice, fullscreen HD (except under compiz), the kid's games, the works. Booting into XP for comparison you can tell it's still slower but it's getting subtle.

64bit flash is tolerable-to-decent now

Posted Dec 16, 2010 9:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Interesting! Still non-free so rather icky, but we couldn't expect miracles. I'll try it out (though again I don't see how it could get Machinarium working, as that appears to contain its own nonfunctional Flash player).

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

Posted Dec 17, 2010 15:59 UTC (Fri) by stevem (subscriber, #1512) [Link]

Works just fine for me...

...in a 32-bit chroot on my Debian system.