I'm not american. I thought everyone there wanted to live far from town in a cute suburban neighborhood or a small town etc... confused

An operating system's primary function should be to run uaer applications with minimal overhead. Not a tech demo to glorify M$

Hi, I'm the lead dev so I can also answer:

1. Nothing specific to Linux/BSD. The hardest part of the codebase to work with is probably the movement/collision/AI code which is very hard to follow. It's hard to change because any change can break things in subtle ways.

2. Nope

3. Probably the networking code. Sopwith always had network code (it was written as a tech demo for an early LAN) but almost nobody ever got the chance to really use it. Seeing it finally working over TCP/IP was very satisfying.

4. I'm planning on adding a level editor which I think should really open up the game to expansion.

5. Fun and comical gameplay. Trying to avoid debris as everything around you is exploding in complete chaos is hilarious to me.

6. No plans for these at all, I'd personally be against adding them. I want to keep it as a great old game, not a lame modern one. I could talk at length about this kind of thing but that's the brief summary.

7. I've actually considered this, yes. The original HUD is very ambiguous and hard to read; effectively just some small lines with no labels. I've actually gone as far as to mock up some better graphics but there's no integration into the game yet.

8. Yes, support for custom levels was actually added recently and the latest release includes an example level. There is not yet a level editor, however, which is a big obstacle for modders. I also think that to make modding interesting the game will need expanding to support different gameplay types, new types of planes, enemies and items, etc. I have some ideas but a level editor should be the first priority.

9. I've personally lost interest in the modern game scene. There have been a couple of recent games I've enjoyed, Elite: Dangerous is one example. I suspect it's partly because I'm old now and don't have the time to follow this stuff. In general I tend to prefer playing (and modding) older games and have had fun recently introducing my daughter to them.

Calling it abandonware seems like a strange choice of phrase: it has been open source (GPL2) since the early 2000s, and SDL Sopwith (linked in the post) is based on that source. So it very much still is in active development.

Sure. The SDL port (I'm the maintainer) is still under development, and new features continue to be added. The original graphics and sound are deliberately preserved - the goal is to make it a great old game and not a lame new one. The project was admittedly dormant for a number of years and I've just recently come back to start working on it again.

The most significant development recently is the addition of support for custom levels. Until now there's only ever been a single level that can be played over and over. Other features added in previous versions include medals, swappable palettes (to emulate old displays), the in-browser version and TCP/IP networking.

People who waste their life away with worries and panic are not part of the solution. Buy solar panels, switch to higher efficiency machines, get a bicycle, use the train. See if your power company has a plan based on renewables. Plant trees, vines, bushes, buy flower pots or even a cactus. Do something OTHER than sitting on your ass with your armchair activism and annoying the silent but hard-working people who invest their whole lives into becoming greener.

I will not take this unnecessary Wisk.

Does this affect ecosystems outside the immediate coral region?
Not everyone is a Floridian. Sure , it's a sign of climate change etc. but it wouldn't hurt if the media delved a little deeper sometimes.
I guess I'll just ask Chat GPT, because AIs are generally more useful than humans these days XD

Wasn't it BSD? Now it's PHP?

My ukrainian wife runs everything through chatGPT as if it was a spell checker. Data speaks for itself. It doesn't matter if you use Google translate or even a grammar checker that came with Word 20 years ago. My English teacher refused to accept my homework because I used a fucking THESAURUS to change some words for fancier ones and said it was too good to be true and that's not the level of fluency I usually demonstrate in class.

As a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma patient I also have cells multiplying out of control inside my lymph nodes and with a metabolic rate comparable to liver cells.
You're going to give him a liver in the thyroid and bone marrow. The lymph nodes also connect with your blood stream so it can easily spread to every part of your body and then you'll have 200 livers growing inside of you. That's also what happens in the terminal stage of liver cancer. LOL
And the new livers, assuming they don't clog your lymphatic system, will create pressure on other organs just like cancer does. Enlarged lymph nodes in your abdomen, specifically, will compress the intestine and cause epic constipation issues. My thyroid tumor makes it hard to swallow food and they say they won't take it out unless it turns malignant or makes it harder to breathe.

I have found there's a lot more stuff I can cheaply watch than play. Very high quality material in great abundance. And I already played enough shooters in the 90s. Games are full of ads and grind. Why bother doing something repetitive to get a bit of storytelling when you can just watch a movie?

People writing pages these days don't even bother optimizing images and have 300 divs inside each other for a layout not terribly different from what we had in the 90s. And loads of dependencies like giant CSS and JS files and god knows what. It's nice they have gigabit connections but I would still like to browse the web when I have low signal. Which happens a lot in ye olde Europe when you go inside 500 year old stone buildings.
Do note: I used to work for a startup that targeted developing countries with 10 year old low-end phones etc... with clever use of unicode/emojis instead of images and very tight hand-coded svg I once made a webpage in 16KB. I use lots of image optimization tricks from the old days, like lowering image color depth to 16 bit and whatnot.

And those who made fun of us nerds went on to become succsesful supermarket clerks or heroin addicts instead of silicon valley millionaires or other successful professionals.
There isn't much to gain from idle chit-chat and subjective conversation with drooling idiots who have an opinion on things they never personally experienced or read about.
The time I spent with my family was... sitting quietly staring at the TV screen. That's what my mom did too. And she had a console in the 70s. Played computer games until she passed away in 2010.
I think this guy doesnt know much about history. Maybe he should spend some screen time on Wikipedia or Netflix, watch some old movie set in the 80s with bullying and teen pregnancy.