Re: Could anybody with a retail CD-ROM copy of Descent verify their hashes?

Posted on 2016-03-16, 14:19

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For some reason I thought that the CD Audio tracks were included with the DOS CD version as well... As for the high-res version, at least D1X-Rebirth supports Mac game data, although some stuff like sound does not work for whatever reason. I wonder if the sound effects are of higher quality in the …

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Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games

Posted on 2016-03-16, 13:57

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Updated the list. Somehow I get the feeling it's going to be dominated by HL2 mods...

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Re: Total conversions/mods that became standalone games

Posted on 2016-03-09, 16:57

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A while ago I read about a game called Wings of Dawn which runs on the FreeSpace 2 engine. It turns out that this game was originally a total conversion for FreeSpace 2 that was released in 2010, but last year the author started reworking it into a stand-alone game using the open source engine of …

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Re: Overload - A new, 6DOF shooter being made by members of the original Desent team

Posted on 2016-03-08, 19:52

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I usually play Descent with the WASD + mouse configuration similar to the default settings in the Sublevel Zero prototype. Never really tried it with keyboard only, at least the default keyboard configuration doesn't seem super comfortable.

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Re: Overload - A new, 6DOF shooter being made by members of the original Desent team

Posted on 2016-03-07, 21:32

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I've played the teaser a bit, everything is cool. The original game's mechanics and level design principles are all there, but somehow the pacing felt more slow-ish - although maybe I shouldn't have maxed out the graphics settings.

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Re: Overload - A new, 6DOF shooter being made by members of the original Desent team

Posted on 2016-03-07, 21:08

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The playable teaser has been released: http://playoverload.com/playable-teaser/

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Re: Garbo archive

Posted on 2016-03-03, 16:31

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Recently I discovered that a substantial part of the files from cdrom.com, ftp.sunet.se and a few other file archives from the 90s has been preserved by the Wayback Machine via their HTML mirrors: o GamesDomain file archive from 1997 (ftp.sunet.se): http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/pc/games/gamesdomain/ Many …

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Re: Descent / Descent II internal screen capture function

Posted on 2016-01-13, 12:04

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PhilsComputerLab, ripsaw8080, thank you very much for the clarification!

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Descent / Descent II internal screen capture function

Posted on 2016-01-12, 20:16

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I apologize in advance for this somewhat unusual question. I am trying to determine if the screen capture feature that is built into Descent and Descent II is broken, or DOSBox somehow interferes with it. I am not asking advice on how to take screenshots in these games - the internal DOSBox screen …

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2015-12-27, 15:06

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gerwin wrote: I am reluctant to change the actual priority/order of loading these, since the source is very specific about loading individual unpacked DEH files first. But the parameter above works around it in this case. Thanks a lot!

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Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04

Posted on 2015-12-24, 13:49

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Here's a little issue that I discovered when running the HacX registered PWAD v1.0 in MBF with the Freedoom Phase 2 IWAD. While the game worked more or less fine, MBF used all message strings not from HACX.DEH, but from the BEX lump in the Freedoom IWAD. The same happens with PrBoom and prBoom+. …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2015-12-19, 12:55

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I've long wondered, what's the definitive version of this game? I think there's the initial CD release of the game which still uses the alien invasion/occupation plot. It sure is quite a cliche, but it's makes a lot more sense than the prison scenario that replaced the earlier story in the EA …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2015-12-17, 18:39

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DOS shareware v1.01 was found recently in zipped form among new CDs submitted to Hallfiry's collection: http://kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n=-2&ext … ax=2359948&o=da Download: ABUSE101.ZIP

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Re: There is no successor to Warcraft II

Posted on 2015-07-30, 19:46

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Wyrmsun indeed uses a modified Stratagus engine, and the art is consciously made in Blizzard style. However the author has put in new features like individual unit names and traits (inspired by a similar system in The Battle for Wesnoth ), a turn-based Grand Strategy mode, unlockable tech tree …

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Re: What old game would you like to see remade?

Posted on 2015-07-30, 15:44

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Terminator future shock I would even settle for seeing it with an original-unreal engine Apparently there's been a Win32 port project called FutureShock32: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd7YLZF-s5Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXsRuO68Is However, it seems to have been put on hold for copyright …

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Re: There is no successor to Warcraft II

Posted on 2015-07-30, 15:39

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mockingbird, you might want to check out Wyrmsun.

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Re: Open source DOS games

Posted on 2015-07-29, 20:48

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Totally forgot to mention Ronny Wester's Cyberdogs and its sequel C-Dogs . The author also had several other games for download alongside their source code packages, but the Wayback Machine has apparently not preserved them. Game developer Markus Mück has released free full versions of some of his …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2015-07-15, 11:48

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BTW, abuse2.com had an unofficial port of the v2.00 demo to Linux: linux_abuse_v2.tgz A Mac demo is available here . It's still the four-level version (unlike the EA/ORIGIN DOS demo which only has three levels plus the tutorial). Does anyone know when the registered version 1.0 (the one available …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2015-07-14, 19:28

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So? No one have any rare versions of the game? What I forgot to mention in the first post is that DOS v1.0 can be found on several magazine cover CDs in unpacked form: http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n=3600&f=$2FDosgames$2FAbuse http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n=3001&f=$2FProg0105 …

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Re: Abuse (Crack dot Com) releases

Posted on 2015-07-12, 17:15

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The alien plot was replaced with the genetic experiments plot in the version published by ORIGIN/EA. Aliens are mentioned in versions up to 1.10. Version 0.33 does not have any opening crawl.

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