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Re:Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf] by pluijzer on Saturday June 17, 2023 @08:25AM (#36369624)
PS:T is also available for iOS, Android and Switch. The controls have been adapted for the platforms and play great.

And ofcourse like others have pointed out the Steam Deck is amazing also older games.

The new Monkey Island is also available for atleast the Switch btw.

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Re:Planescape: Torment pitch document (1997) [pdf] by j1elo on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:10PM (#36372134)
Sadly the deprecation of 32-bit Android apps has done a lot of damage to backwards compatibility...

Wonder what would have happened if Android was a Microsoft platform :-)

https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/87197/pst-ee-on-androi...

Basically, the game doesn't work any more on my Android 13 device, because devs need to go back to it and recompile the sources for 64-bit ARM.

Naturally with a change like that with no compatibility layer available, there will be tons of apps and games left behind as abandonware, because their devs have better things to do (if they are even still around, at all!) than going back and recompiling all their source code. We'll see if BeamDog ever gets to it for PS:T!

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