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[BigD145]

There was a virtual aquarium 'game' called 'El Fish' which would spend forever pre-rendering graphics for genetically evolved fish for your fishtank.

Sadly, the game starts with a CPU speed test; since and most modern PC's complete the test task in under 1 minute, giving Zero; and the game then divides something by that Zero...

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Fish

HOLY CRAP! THAT'S WHAT THAT GAME WAS CALLED! I've so downloaded this. I had a demo for it years ago, and always wanted to get the full version, cause it only had a few fish or something. Plus our comp was old to the point where animating a fish took hours sometime. Gonna see if DOSbox'll fix the divide by zero thing.

And I could never figure out SIMEarth. And I've never found a guide that helped much.

This quote makes me laugh: "SimLife and El-Fish tax the powers of today's computers to their limits... it will be a few years before this marriage of simulation and animation will make it into our homes. But eventually, we'll wonder how we ever put up with two-dimensional computer creatures."
It's very Elfish.

[dizzyelk]

And I could never figure out SIMEarth. And I've never found a guide that helped much.

In case you haven't read the last few pages of this thread, I did post a link to a guide that you may find helpful: http://www.glennsguides.com/2009/05/simearth-living-planet-dos-pc-game-free.html

That's just an install guide, I can get it running, I just can't figure out how to make the damn game work. Read the manual, read several guides, and all my critters always die. Plants, now, plants I can get all over the damn place.

[Sirus]

Does anyone want to try a Gene Pool tournament thing? At the very least, it seems fun.

Might be fun. I'd probably join for a laugh.

[InfiniVide]

Does anyone want to try a Gene Pool tournament thing? At the very least, it seems fun.

I'm up for that.

[Skyrunner]

Where would that go? Forum Games? Other Games? As in, the thread.


I really wish I was able to code things like that ,because I feel like ripping it apart and adding stuff like predators, currents, and other stuff D:

[Sirus]

I'd put it in Play With Your Buddies, as it's a multiplayer game in the loosest sense of the term.

[Alehkhs]

Hell yes. I'm always up for more of Ventrella's ALife programs!

[miauw62]

Try Godville

(btw, about that, there is a guild in the game that has the name slaves to armok)

SimEarth is a delicious game tough.
I love working with DOS, even tough its from before my time.

Takes some magic to make it work, but im good in computer magic.


EDIT:

It works, i did it on my own, and the moment that i heard the intro music i was all like: 'FUCKYEAH! AWESOME!'.
Was hard not to scream at my computer screen in joy.

[Solifuge]

This quote makes me laugh: "SimLife and El-Fish tax the powers of today's computers to their limits... it will be a few years before this marriage of simulation and animation will make it into our homes. But eventually, we'll wonder how we ever put up with two-dimensional computer creatures."

I actually remember the days when SimLife taxed my grandparents' computer to its limits. I remember custom-making a pokemon-themed ecosystem, and being frustrated by the Pidgeotto boom that wiped the Ekans out of existance.

It was a sad day.

[Korbac]

This quote makes me laugh: "SimLife and El-Fish tax the powers of today's computers to their limits... it will be a few years before this marriage of simulation and animation will make it into our homes. But eventually, we'll wonder how we ever put up with two-dimensional computer creatures."

I actually remember the days when SimLife taxed my grandparents' computer to its limits. I remember custom-making a pokemon-themed ecosystem, and being frustrated by the Pidgeotto boom that wiped the Ekans out of existance.

It was a sad day.

YOU TEMPT ME, SOLI! 

[Mephansteras]

I love games like this. I'll need to read through this thread carefully at some point to see what gems I can pick out.

[Aklyon]

I like this thread. I think I'll sit and watch how it goes.

[jaxy15]

Posting to follow.

[Sergius]

Not really a simulation... in fact, not really even a game. But The Chronicles of Jaruu Tenk is definitely sit-and-watch.

You have a few camera controls and I think there are 2 or 3 objects in the world that you can actually interact with. Mostly it's a bit of a virtual house with virtual (preprogrammed) inhabitants. You can run it or set it as a screensaver.

[alfie275]

Darwin bots is kind of cool.