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Armok

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2007, 03:56:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Xenomorph:
<STRONG>You might want to send a horde of elephants after Microsoft. </STRONG>

Good idea, VEEEEEEERY GOOD IDEA.

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #16 on: October 18, 2007, 04:53:00 pm »
Maybe DOSBox would work?
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« Reply #17 on: October 18, 2007, 11:18:00 pm »
Damn, beat me to it...

Still, DOSBox is HIGHLY recommended by me as well. How else would I run all the abandonware on my computer?

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2007, 02:17:00 pm »
I hear DOSBox and the like are too slow to run Noctis; unless perhaps you have an incredibly fast computer. Mine (1.4ghz) is too slow to run TES: Arena in DOSBox, for instance.

Worth a shot anyway I suppose. Yeah, and Noctis IV CE or NICE is incredibly good. Praise to the folks that worked on it.

Hrm. Vista users; could they run a Virtual Machine of something to accomplish older tasks? I'm thinking Win98, XP would probably be too resource intensive to run alongside Vista like that.

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2007, 04:13:00 pm »
VMWare has a free version. find a FreeDOS VMware client and run it in that.

VMWare doesnt emulate *ANYTHING* it doesnt have to, it sends the code directly to the CPU to execute so it is blazingly fast, but as of right now has no D3D or openGL acceleration capabilities... but for DOS stuff that doesn't matter anyway so it's perfect for stuff like this.

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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2007, 06:11:00 pm »
i think the free version of VM is still running on top of another OS, unlike ESX which is its own OS (or uses a stripped down version of something else).

you'll get better performance out of something like Xen, but youre right.  its a dos game.  who cares.

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2007, 06:17:00 pm »
There's a rather big difference between emulating a core and running code native on a core.  Yes, it runs via a host OS. The largest performance difference between running DOSbox and VMware + some version of DOS is the code is run natively on the cpu with vmware instead of emulation like DOSbox, which is an incredibly large performance difference.
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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2007, 08:40:00 pm »
Firstly, I'd like to thank yamo for giving the link to Noctis. Now I have a new game to play. It's odd; when you play it for a while, you discover that it's bizarrely fun, despite expectations.  For what it is, it has decent graphics as well. I've taken some snapshots in the game that turned out nicely. I'll post a few.

One of my first and favorite pictures so far.

Alien ship spotted! ...Wait, I'm in one, aren't I...

Panorama from the pole of a life-bearing planet.

A nice picture I took while flipping through viewing modes.

A gas giant accompanied by it's two suns, within a system that I've claimed for myself. I named the stars Sylveris and Sylveris Minor.

Lastly, a picture of a spiky plant I found in the Sylveris system. This area of the planet has transparent, obsidian-like hills covered by white grass; peculiar indeed.

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2007, 02:47:00 am »
http://www.gametableonline.com/

not so obscure a sight but the games are free, strategic, and clever.
fun quickies.

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« Reply #24 on: November 16, 2007, 04:47:00 am »
Just about my favorite game site.  This years crop is huge.  There are usually a few gems  each year.

http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2008.php
http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2008_student.php

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« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2007, 04:30:00 am »
OMG!!  i did not know these were available.  not that many folks have the OS for them...can they run on xp?  vista?  dunno.
http://www.trygames.com/game/aff=t_16re/vid=ad5a981d5655ba9aa5e1adf55a166973  http://www.trygames.com/game/aff=t_16re/vid=ad18faaca8c4a1cd2085941ef548f9e7  http://www.trygames.com/game/aff=t_16re/vid=af24d85964e65baaa87e96447f64a6a6

they were/are my favorite crpgs...not free but cheap considering how great these games are and the 1000s of hrs of gameplay...Gosh i miss JVC...wish he would do another turn based rpg....the puzzles are sooo cool..the games are like inside out rubiks cubes.  I hope this is not considered spam, i can't vouch for the download source but i think they are legit.(?)

heh, now if i can just find Wizardry 2-4...i even have a pad of graph paper, pencil sharpener and eraser heads....just waiting...  :D

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #26 on: December 28, 2007, 11:55:00 pm »
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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2007, 12:28:00 am »
i love searching source forge but there is soooo much there and i never get through more than a few pages before i wear out.....


special request*** a great mu/mush that heavily depends on mining/ player based economy...i've tried Dark Legacy and CORE but neither was in depth enough...DF-Mud?...ooooohhhhh

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2007, 08:52:00 am »
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Originally posted by yamo:
<STRONG>http://galaxyhack.sourceforge.net</STRONG>

This looks interesting. I'm downloading. Nice find!

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Re: Here's a neat game i came upon
« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2007, 03:56:00 pm »
http://egg.lcc.gatech.edu/index.php
"...computational affordances...“haptic” interfaces" http://egl.gatech.edu/?cat=2

http://mydreamrpg.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=102  
what is torque like...anyone had experience with it?...what is it's place in the game dev world?
http://www.areyouindie.com/showcase/list.php  
GIANT JOYSTICK!!!!
http://www.neurohack.com/transcendence/explore/index.html
check out the neuro hack sight for much coolness.
http://interactive.usc.edu/projects/
http://www.garagegames.com/products/29

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