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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2016-03-29, 14:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

After playing MGSV and Fallout4 for months, and essentially finishing them as much as I wanted to, I moved on to some online gaming I've been meaning to try. I'm playing CounterStrike:GO at the office on Lunch breaks. In the evening I've been playing Rocket League and GTAV:Online. I have the say …

Re: Neat little CRT terminal emulator

Posted on 2016-03-25, 13:42

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in Milliways

I stumbled upon this a few months back. It works very well and is fun to play with. Might be a window manager bug, but on Mate there is about 3 pixels of empty space at the top of the window above the monitor bezel.

Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro stick under Windows 10

Posted on 2016-03-22, 16:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Correction, he is still making them, you can sign up here: http://www.iowajohnsons.com/FFBVert/FFBVert.html The waiting list still looks pretty long.

Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro stick under Windows 10

Posted on 2016-03-22, 16:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That gameport adapter will not work. The Sidewinder series uses a proprietary digital protocol that is not compatible with a standard analog gameport adapter. There is a project to create this adapter here: https://code.google.com/archive/p/sw3dprousb/ More about it here: http://www.descentbb.net/ …

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

Posted on 2016-03-11, 14:55

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in Milliways

They pulled it off! With about a hour to spare they crossed the 300K mark.

Re: Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Posted on 2016-03-10, 14:51

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

SquallStrife wrote: They already confirmed that it would be in there. https://twitter.com/doublefine/status/673349405752188928 Kudos to them for the extra effort! That is not a trivial addition.

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

Posted on 2016-03-10, 14:48

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in Milliways

laxdragon wrote: I hope they bring back the cockpit view like in the old game. Awesome, question answered.

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

Posted on 2016-03-09, 15:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

I've been testing the Linux build, and it runs well enough. I sometimes hit a bug where the screen gets a large white bar on it. Still, it brings back that old Descent feel very nicely. I hope they bring back the cockpit view like in the old game.

Re: Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Posted on 2016-03-09, 15:12

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I'm not sure they will keep the original Maniac Mansion easter egg. In the old DOS version it was trivial to include it as it would shell out to the old .exe and launch it. Now they would need to rewrite that older Scumm engine as well to be multi-platform. It would be cool if they do it, but …

Re: Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Posted on 2016-03-08, 15:03

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

gdjacobs wrote: Are they using ScummVM for these? I do not believe so. They have the original sources to the scumm engine, which makes the porting work much easier.

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

Posted on 2016-03-08, 14:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

This looks much more like Descent than that other kickstarter: Descent: Underground. That one seems to focus more on the multiplayer, while this one focuses on the single player. I hope it makes a final surge, but I'm not sure it is going to make it.

Re: Day of the Tentacle Remastered

Posted on 2016-03-08, 14:48

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in Release Announcements

I'm sure I'm going to pick this up. Too bad there isn't a Linux version, that would be sweet. The new graphics look good, just cleaned up and not really changed. I wish they would have added more frames of animation, but that is probably way out of the budget for this sort of thing.

Re: Need for Speed II and SE Windows 7 x64 Guide

Posted on 2016-03-01, 17:13

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in Windows

I recently stumbled upon a SDL2 port of NFS2se. Check it out here: https://github.com/zaps166/NFSIISE I was able to compile it on Linux and it works nicely there. It should be able to be compiled for Windows as well.

Re: Doom reboot

Posted on 2016-02-09, 17:02

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in Milliways

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FWxCb_qU4 Well... maybe I'm getting old (get off my lawn), but there isn't much about this reboot that is drawing me in. But, I should really play it first before dishing out any real judgement. That box, it's just so ugly. Who thought that color scheme was a good …

Re: Any of you on Windows 10?

Posted on 2015-07-31, 14:28

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in Milliways

I've been running Windows 10 preview in a VirtualBox VM on my Linux box for 6 months or so. So I was well prepared for the release. I upgraded my gaming rig (i5 16GB) from Windows 7 to Windows 10 on release day using the media creation tool to skip the queue. My Windows 7 was starting to get a bit …

Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2015-07-30, 15:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My first time sitting down and using a computer was in 1984 or so. I was in 4th grade and the library had a small room where there was about 8 or so Apple II computers. It was here I was first exposed to the wonders of software such as the Oregon Trail and Print Shop. I spent many hours sitting in …

Re: What is the oldest non-PC technology that you still use?

Posted on 2015-06-29, 14:37

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in Milliways

Does a lava lamp count as technology? If not, then Vectrex!

Re: Test Drive III Framerate

Posted on 2015-06-29, 14:31

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Some that I liked: Test Drive II (somewhat dull) Wacky Wheels (like Mario Kart SNES) Outrun (not the best port) Nascar Racing (1994, little outside your range, but mentioning it anyway, as I put lots of hours into it) Vette!

Re: Glorious PC Master Race - An Endangered Species

Posted on 2015-06-25, 14:07

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in Milliways

This elitist attitude about the PC master race is just plain idiotic. So you can afford to spend 700 or more on a decent PC gaming rig. Does that really make you better than the console users happily playing games hassle free? There is room (tons more room actually) in this world for both to exist. …

Re: Test Drive III Framerate

Posted on 2015-06-24, 14:08

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I use cycles 4000 myself. Seems close to how I remember playing it. It really never was a smooth or even fun game to play. It was just novel at the time for being polygonal and open world. You could drive way off road if you wanted to.

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