Re: Tetris for Windows 3: Hidden "background" settings dialogue box?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 08:37

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I'm not sure of anything like "Resource Hacker" but capable of working with NE type executables. (Resource Hacker complains and refuses NE type executables) Assuming there is one, it's probably possible to inject the menu item itself with such a utility. Probably could also be made to show up with a …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-05-02, 11:58

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Speaking of doom, I also ended up playing a game that wasn't a game at all in Doom4Vanilla. Of all the DeHackED stuff, REKKER and Batman Doom are rather interesting to look at as well as this. There's also Vesper but that's for the new "MBF21" that DSDA-Doom springboarded into action, but that's …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-04-29, 02:37

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Lawnie wrote on 2022-04-28, 18:43: According to Doomwiki they obtained a licence from id Software to use the Doom 1 engine (and presumably the assets), which meant that they weren't in any legal trouble. Oh, I guess I confused it with the situation with D!Zone.

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-04-28, 02:27

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This weeks scripted video was another Worthwhile DOS Game to add to the 100 list. This time it was two of them! Hell to Pay and Perdition's Gate! I'd love to give these maps a try someday. Kinda funny they were treading a legal gray area selling them as commercial products without a agreement with …

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Re: Music covers in video game soundtracks

Posted on 2022-04-18, 04:34

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Neon Tiger's stage theme in Mega Man X 3 could count as this even though Capcom stated it being a strange coincidence. Also there is a brief nod to Unreal's temple theme in one of the Vigilante 8 N64 tracks, but I dunno' if this counts as what you're talking about.

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Looking for a missing utility "Unreal NST"

Posted on 2022-04-10, 07:14

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Internet Archive just leads me into a bogus loop so I assume the crawler never archived the download, Google returns 0 results. All I know is the filename: "UNST1beta.zip" The most recent snapshot of the tools page just shows a link that just causes Wayback to go to "Welcome to the Internet Archive …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-04-06, 01:54

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NAM would be hilarious to play in co-op, assuming the lame networking in Build doesn't fall apart and desync. I actually like NAM more than WWII GI, but it's still not like, the best game ever. It's a acquired taste though.

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2022-03-28, 15:36

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Has someone mentioned Interstate 82? I was so stoked to get it and while it was OK it was pretty underwhelming... I only played the demo, while I like that it ran on the same tech as Heavy Gear 2... I hated the fact it was reduced to "Twisted Metal" style gameplay where everything is a health bar, …

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Re: Any Unreal Tournament gamers here?

Posted on 2022-03-28, 10:43

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I thought UT3 was fine as a UT game (all things considered). It did definitely have launch issues and technical issues regarding the Gamespy account dependency though (later resolved with the Steam release), and UE3's new way of defining addons (install into your documents and add long explicit …

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Re: Any Unreal Tournament gamers here?

Posted on 2022-03-25, 10:43

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The only reason I got into UT2003 and UT2004 was for the mods, I never really cared about the base game. That's still the case now. I still wouldn't mind if anyone wanted to do anything UT99 related with me if you can put up with the fact I have played these games for years and I have a very bizzare …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-03-24, 23:19

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Oh, THAT figures... Well, it's good to see it's appearances hasn't changed much at all at least!

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-03-24, 23:11

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leileilol wrote on 2022-03-24, 23:05: still in this heck but hey look i've got the hat finally! gosh, you mean those character classes don't already start with that hat in PSO2?

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2022-03-16, 17:28

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Oh, forgive me. I never watch videos anymore on the actual page so I completely missed the comments. Yeah that's uh, really crummy. You'd think Apple would care a lot about their own software quality.

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2022-03-15, 17:42

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root42 wrote on 2022-03-14, 21:40: The McCake Roland MT32 Emulator https://youtu.be/Yo0I6IF8iDc There's some weird popping going on in the audio when you're showing off the differences between MT-32 and the McCake, your microphone is fine though. What's going on with the audio capture I wonder? It …

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Re: Has anyone heard of the "TC" series of 16-bit Windows 3.1 games?

Posted on 2022-03-14, 23:15

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leileilol wrote on 2022-03-14, 22:52: welcome. new level. change design.

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Has anyone heard of the "TC" series of 16-bit Windows 3.1 games?

Posted on 2022-03-14, 22:39

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On a shovelware CD I've owned for years now called "The Complete Encyclopedia of Games Vol. 2" there's a series of games, all prefixed with "TC" done by a person by the name of "Anthony Carin", with a PO box address listed in Plainsboro, NJ. There was also a AOL email address listed to with the user …

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Re: Is there any way to install a MS Windows shim on a Linux distro through Wine?

Posted on 2022-03-11, 06:30

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Things I've had to use ACT Shims in on Windows (to varying degrees of unsuccess) I had not needed so under Wine, are you sure you need such things? It doesn't just run as-is under Wine? I had no idea Wine even had the "AppCompat" thing implemented at all. GOG installers that try to install sdb's …

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Re: Tell us which videogame sounds or voice-clips are the most burned into your brain for life

Posted on 2022-03-08, 22:22

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Here's some: "Warning: Unauthorized transit gate activity detected. Incoming hostiles." "Deploy wide spread, Riley take point." "Roger, heading zero-one-niner." "Switching to secured channel." "New mission orders received." "AHH! The fuel leads are jammed! I can't get loose! Cut the fuel leads!" --- …

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-03-07, 15:43

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Hi-Octane was knocked out by Bullfrog in a few weeks but it's still a good game. Hi-Octane happens to be one of the few MS-DOS games I know that uploads custom sound samples to AWE32 cards, the music sounds way more interesting when played that way as opposed to just standard General MIDI. Though …

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2022-03-03, 13:07

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Despite not having any kind of modding tools or editor, I still like playing through Gunmetal because the maps are quite nice visually despite the game being stuck in 256 colours land. (in 1998 no less!) The soundtrack is great too.

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