Maybe that massive game development scene in soviet russia was a sign of the times to come, huh?
Alexey Pajitnov came from the Soviet Union and produced one of the most popular video game franchises ever, with ongoing sequels for nearly three decades and counting.
I expect most larger game publishing firms demand that you do not build in features to the game that allow you to buy less copies per person.
David Wong of Cracked would agree with you. But are there documented cases of couch multiplayer being cut from a PC or console game so that the publisher can sell multiple copies to one household?
Seriously, they just port the same code over anyway, why the hell can't you plug two USB game controllers into a PC and play a local multiplayer match? Never seen a single game support that
I'll show you more than "a single game". Street Fighter IV supports couch multiplayer, as does the (2 years delayed) port of Mortal Kombat (2011). So do a lot of the games on this page and on another page that nschubach pointed out. Look for indie and amateur games, as their developers are less likely to have console licenses to fall back on.
Why though does it need to be a Steam Box if it's really just a PC with SteamOS on it?
Because it ships with a gamepad and has a case designed to fit in next to a television. Your average PC has a massive case by consumer electronics standards: it makes Microsoft's infamously "XBOX HUEG" consoles look like a Wii or a PC Engine. It also ships with a mouse and keyboard and is marketed for use at a desk with a 19-24" desktop monitor. This is not the best fit for the sorts of games traditionally played on televisions, especially games that allow offline multiplayer using multiple gamepads. SteamOS and Steam Machine appear to be efforts to get more controller-friendly, Big Picture-ready games onto Steam.
With a Steam Machine you may not be able to play the newest AAA games, but you can play all the games you once enjoyed
Unless the game gets an update, and the update has increased the game's system requirements. Didn't this happen when Valve upgraded the Source engine not to run on older machines anymore, breaking existing copies of Half-Life 2? I know Sony did it with an EverQuest update back in 2001. Or is Valve going to do something like what Apple recently introduced, allowing users to download a previous version compatible with a given machine?
What window manager were you using?
Whatever window manager shipped as the default in Puppy as of early 2008.
There's usually a way to change this key assignment in a "control center" item somewhere
I looked but failed to find it. In the past five years, has the default window manager of Puppy added such an option to its control center, or has Puppy switched to one that has such an option in its control center? I'd download and try it myself, but at the moment, I don't happen to have a spare machine handy on which to evaluate the latest Puppy.
Why do we need a buzzword?
Because Slashdot limits the length of story titles.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
