Had to show you guys this. That copy of Hard Nova you see in my previous post has the manuals and floppy disks all in a white envelope from the factory. Those disks sat in one position so long they left imprints on the envelope. Never have seen this so pronounced in all my years of collecting. Luckily both disks imaged just fine, although disk 2 could not be read on the last few sectors. A good blow and shake and another attempt at a read from disk 2 and all worked fine from there.

liqmat wrote:

Had to show you guys this. That copy of Hard Nova you see in my previous post has the manuals and floppy disks all in a white envelope from the factory. Those disks sat in one position so long they left imprints on the envelope. Never have seen this so pronounced in all my years of collecting. Luckily both disks imaged just fine, although disk 2 could not be read on the last few sectors. A good blow and shake and another attempt at a read from disk 2 and all worked fine from there.

Looks like a cheap (yet slow) way to copy disks 🤣

Munx wrote:

liqmat wrote:

Had to show you guys this. That copy of Hard Nova you see in my previous post has the manuals and floppy disks all in a white envelope from the factory. Those disks sat in one position so long they left imprints on the envelope. Never have seen this so pronounced in all my years of collecting. Luckily both disks imaged just fine, although disk 2 could not be read on the last few sectors. A good blow and shake and another attempt at a read from disk 2 and all worked fine from there.

Looks like a cheap (yet slow) way to copy disks 🤣

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Second coming confirmed!

sf78 wrote:

Second coming confirmed!

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What kind of game is that?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

What kind of game is that?

this is supposed to be the imprint on the sheet that Jesus was covered with (when they took him down from the cross IIRC) and on the right side there is a reconstruction of His face = something along these lines

Its a singe of the second coming of the floppy disk belonging it the grate admin from the havens to bestowed a new system patch among his users.
Id think he'd be using automatic updates by now... or at lest a flash drive

Inbe4 I get stuck by lighten.

Traded in some boring loser triple-A titles (Mass Effect, Far Cry, Dungeon Siege, Doom 3, etc... bunch of rubbish really) at a local gaming shop & walked out with these gems. Fractal Design Dabbler 2 ended up being a disappointment (it's a paint program, not an interactive fractal generator like I was hoping), but the Space Bar is a find. A surreal '90s adventure game I've never heard of, written by Steve Meretzky & published by SegaSoft of all companies, on six CDs for Win95 AND PowerMacs? YES PLZ. Gonna have some fun with this one.

xjas wrote:

Traded in some boring loser triple-A titles (Mass Effect, Far Cry, Dungeon Siege, Doom 3, etc... bunch of rubbish really) at a local gaming shop & walked out with these gems. Fractal Design Dabbler 2 ended up being a disappointment (it's a paint program, not an interactive fractal generator like I was hoping), but the Space Bar is a find. A surreal '90s adventure game I've never heard of, written by Steve Meretzky & published by SegaSoft of all companies, on six CDs for Win95 AND PowerMacs? YES PLZ. Gonna have some fun with this one.

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I hate to tell you this but Mass Effect is considered one of the greatest games of all time. Same for DOOM 3 and Far Cry. I almost wonder if that wasn't sarcasm from you.

^^ L0L you need to tune up your sarcasm detector. You really weren't sure??

I had multiple copies of Mass Effect 1 & 2 from a friend leaving town, so I kept one of each for myself. I am well aware of how critically acclaimed they are. I'm interested in them from a story perspective (always up for a good sci-fi epic), but to be honest I don't know if I'm ever gonna get around to playing them; I'll probably just watch a let's play eventually.

Far Cry isn't really my thing, and I tried Doom 3 and it didn't grab me. Didn't have the fast pace of original Doom, didn't have the exploration elements I usually like, didn't have an interesting story. May as well pass it on.

I played mass effect. Lets just say, it failed to get my mass erect. Wasn't bad, but just didn't do it for me. D3 and FC were okay, but I only played them once.

That spacebar looks interesting though.

Yeah, this kind of thing is super subjective. I almost always go for games that are creative and weird & unafraid to try things out of left field (even if those things don't really work out), to ones that do everything extremely well but ultimately end up being pretty conventional. FWIW I always preferred Rise of the Triad over the original Doom, even though ROTT was less way less polished and technically "worse."

Picked up a few titles in yesterday's delivery 😀

A few days ago, I went to the thrift store and spotted a copy of Test Drive: Off-Road for only $3 (and was bought on a day where a 40% off sale on media was going on so it was less than that), another DOS+Win9x racing game for my collection.

bjt wrote:

^ I guess Magnetic Scrolls are the UK equivalent of the Legend adventures. […]
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^ I guess Magnetic Scrolls are the UK equivalent of the Legend adventures.

Some new games here over the last few months.

is that version of POD in English, and what is inside the box? only CD in jewelcase? been looking for one without any luck.

Received those two this week:

Tie Fighter disc is still sealed.

Now to find a joystick with an ADB connector...

Pools of Darkness for the Amiga 500, a game I've been hunting forever, finally in my possession:

More games in the mail (self-bought new year gifts..)

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Received those two this week:

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Tie Fighter disc is still sealed.

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Now to find a joystick with an ADB connector...

Loads of those on eBay, just search for "joystick adb". 😀

svfn wrote:

bjt wrote:

is that version of POD in English, and what is inside the box? only CD in jewelcase? been looking for one without any luck.

I have a feeling it might be French. Will check it out later.

Edit: Yeah it's French. In the box is just a registration card and the game in a jewel case, with a small jewel case manual.

A friend of mine gave me a few old (PowerPC) Macintosh games for free today, she recently attempted to install them on her Intel iMac and said they didn't work which is no surprise considering Apple dropped support for running PowerPC applications several years ago. Nevertheless these should be good additions for the G4s in my collection.