Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2016-12-03, 18:21
Downwell is quite a fun little NES-style/vertcial falling platformer/roguelike game. It's a little addicting unlocking game palettes. I like the C64-like one (pastel).
Re: Favorite MIDI game soundtracks?
Posted on 2016-10-09, 02:18
Oh boy let's see here... -Sierra adventures (too many to list) -LucasArts adventures (too many to list) -Warcraft II -Blackthorne -Descent -Thexder 2: Fire Hawk -Zeliard -Dark Forces -Tie Fighter -Heretic -Hexen -Arena -Daggerfall -Hocus Pocus -System Shock
Re: Getting on Half-Life Multiplayer Servers
Posted on 2016-09-23, 23:20
Yes, the old WON version of HL has unofficial patches that allow you to play on WON2 community servers. Tried it out once. Quite nostalgic. It's not just the interface that's different, though. The rendering engine is different as well and also quite nostalgic. That said, if you use your WON HL CD …
Re: Star Wars Despecialized Editions
Posted on 2016-09-17, 14:36
Despecialized are the only existing unaltered trilogy versions in HD out there. That's why I like it. Only problem is they're not 1080p, just 720p.....yet anyway. It doesn't help LucasFilm's case that the current Blu-Ray quality that's sold is absolutely horrid with incorrect colour timings and …
Re: Sierra Humble Bundle
Posted on 2016-09-04, 20:48
A little correction, Humble greyed out my key for KQ Complete Collection because it saw I already "owned" it. However, you can force it to display anyway. So I did and tried to redeem the key on Steam and it worked!
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-04, 20:26
Good point. On a similar note, I don't think preserving any quality for modern pop music is helpful or even necessary as they're all produced with lossy compression and earbud headphones in mind. If they don't respect their music, why should I?
Re: Duke Nukem 3D 20th Anniversary
Posted on 2016-09-04, 19:42
They made a new engine from the original source so they wouldn't have to pay royalties to everyone who has worked on the modern source ports up until now (like JonoF, TerminX, countless others). They want all the money for themselves, basically. I wonder how they're getting around paying Ken …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-04, 19:37
Secondly, is RAM usage really that much of an issue? What exactly is the hassle? How exactly would you notice your system taking a hit with today's systems ? This is a problem with people that back newer rescores hungry file formats fail to understated completely, they fail to realize that not …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-01, 23:50
...if they've been mastered properly for vinyl. A lot of times they aren't.
Re: Sierra Humble Bundle
Posted on 2016-09-01, 03:20
One bonus is the $15 tier includes a Steam key for the King's Quest Collection which isn't available on Steam anymore. Everything uses DOSBox. For the King's Quest and Space Quest collections there are actually two versions included. The 2006 Vivendi release rip (which has the SQ1 and KQ1 remakes …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-09-01, 03:12
First of all, I didn't say that, GuyTechie. Think you messed up the quote tags there. Just wanted to clarify that. Secondly, is RAM usage really that much of an issue? What exactly is the hassle? How exactly would you notice your system taking a hit with today's systems? Thirdly, I also catalog my …
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-08-31, 01:41
Keep the MP3s and upgrade your speakers instead. You won't hear a difference going from 320K MP3 to FLAC, but you'll have multiple eargasms as soon as you ditch that soundbar and get a set of real speakers. whynotboth.gif WAV. plain and simple, works on just about everything. Literally no …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2016-08-31, 01:39
vladstamate wrote: No Man's Sky (on PS4). Damn I like that game, I cannot stop.... What is it you like about it, out of curiosity?
Re: Whats a good format to have music in?
Posted on 2016-08-30, 00:31
Start with FLAC and then compress down to any other format you need. But don't try turning a compressed format like MP3 into a FLAC as that won't gain you anything but a larger file size. All the compression artifacts inherent in lossy codecs will still be there. You'll have a perfectly lossless …
Re: Desecration of old hardware
Posted on 2016-08-28, 21:43
In the same way, vintage camera enthusiasts and collectors get upset when Star Wars fans buy an authentic Graflex camera flash handle and gut it to turn it into Luke's first lightsaber. As a result, when one of them tries to buy one from said enthusiasts, they hike the price up really high.
Re: Goldeneye 007 for XBox 360 (unreleased)
Posted on 2016-08-26, 23:33
MrEWhite wrote: At least we have Perfect Dark for the X360 😜 I wish they'd release it for PC too. Don't have a 360 anymore. I still have my N64, though. I suppose there's always emulators...
Re: Most famous shareware CD series?
Posted on 2016-08-23, 04:18
I still have a handful of Electronic Entertainment/E2 demo CDs that came with some monthly PC magazine of some kind that my dad used to get. Also two Gamefest CDs. Fond memories of those discs filled with games I thought I'd never get to play full versions of (Dark Forces, Full Throttle, etc).
Re: do build engine games have benchmarking feature?
Posted on 2016-08-03, 20:41
No idea, but I really want to play a Duck3D game now. That sounds like fun.
Re: What music are you listening to?
Posted on 2016-08-01, 22:47
Arjen Anthony Lucassen Pagan's Mind Dream Theatre Lately, anyway. My longtime favourites are Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Delirious?, and U2.
Re: GTX 970 "3.5GB Edition" $30 refund in the USA
Posted on 2016-08-01, 22:38
Dangit, I'm in Canada. Whatever.
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