Your Ultimate Handheld Linux Port Manager for various linux handheld devices.
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PortMaster has an official Steam Curator page! Give us a follow for news on steam games compatible with ports! #portmaster
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Last month a port engineer published Super Hexagon to PortMaster. This game is an important step into the future of PortMaster games. Open up this thread to understand why. 🧵
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Still, Westonpack is a MASSIVE leap for PortMaster and the SBC community. Its author, BinaryCounter, is an insanely smart engineer and developer. With brains like these, the future is bright indeed!
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Westonpack doesn't solve everything though. We're still beholden to other hardware limitations like memory, cpu, and vram. Pokewilds for example runs only by using Westonpack, but loads a lot of textures into memory quickly--unsuitable for devices with less than 2GB RAM.
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By doing this, Westonpack lets games render directly to the full display and work without traditional desktop window management—ideal for handhelds!
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Westonpack acts as a middleman! It wraps apps that are built for X11/Wayland and translates their graphics calls to something KMS/DRM can understand.
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In order to reduce overhead, manufacturers use kms/drm or direct rendering instead. For retroarch and common applications this is not a big deal. But for ports it's a showstopper if something requires a display manager (as in, it doesn't know how to draw anything otherwise).
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Super Hexagon uses a new runtime called Westonpack. Westonpack is a middleman translator for games that expect a display manager typically found in desktop environments. Most of the retro handhelds we work with don't have display managers.
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23 Feb 2025
Garden Story is free on Epic Games this week! Support for it has been added and the port will be updated very shortly.
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Steam Winter Sale is LIVE and that means PORTS!! 🎮 I created a watchlist last month that isn’t consistently updated, but it does have a ton of PortMaster ports listed. Most are under $10! Remember to check the port’s install instructions before buying.
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16 Dec 2024
Coming soon. The port for Dungeon Antiqua (paid game), a simple RPG inspired by the Wizardry and Final Fantasy games of the 1980s and 1990s made by @frenchbread1222 with the Pyxel retro game engine from @kitao #retrogaming #8bit #python
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PortMaster now supports the Pyxel retro game engine from @kitao and we are happy to add Vortexion from @badcomputer0 to our list of ports. More games to come :) #retrogaming #8bit #python
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24 Oct 2024
Every doom fans got it. It's Classic Doom, a Doom 3 mod which works perfectly with our Doom 3 port ✅ @PortMasterLinux
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21 Oct 2024
It's time to get VERY SPOOKY! Haunted Lands, Halloween Forever, and Satan Loves Cake are now available on #PortMaster!
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Coming up next: the much anticipated #VictoryHeatRally and #Dokimon!
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14 Oct 2024
Our Port of the Month for October is Help! No Brake! No additional game files are needed, this one's ready to go. You can submit your high score on our discord to participate!
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11 Oct 2024
#rpgmaker fan games Pokemon Reborn and Pokemon Rejuvenation are now on #portmaster! These games are a bit memory-heavy. Save often!
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Some of these are already available to play on linux arm handhelds via #PortMaster. Others might be coming soon! If you’ve been waiting for a sale, now’s your chance!
10 Oct 2024
We've teamed up with our friends @TopHatStudiosEN to celebrate the GameMaker Awards in a Steam event 🏆🎉 Wishlist upcoming games and grab some award nominated GameMaker titles on discount!
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ALT GameMaker Awards 2024 - Steam
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Wow, 555 #portmaster downloads for #ufo50 in about 36 hours. I wonder how many sbc gamers decided to buy the game solely because of the new way they could play it. 🤔 Mossmouth really did hit a home run with this.
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7 Oct 2024
#UFO50 is now available on #PortMaster! Purchase the game on Steam and add the game files to play on the go!
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I’m not shy about how I do ports. Here’s a brief overview of how I approach #GameMaker porting to linux small arm devices. I hope it’s useful to others.
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