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[HartLord]

Do you know what Tolkiens, Gygax and Arneson have in common? They are all time travelers, they went to the future and played the full version of Dwarf Fortress and wrote an AAR.

The reason they took time to "write" their books was really so they could remove all the Dwarf Fortress references.

[Eктωρ]

Yeah, like renaming Adamantine to Mithril, seriously, it's too plain obvious not to notice.

[Toady One]

Ooo, thanks, Toady!

EDIT:  Hmm, some of the ones I was thinking of aren't there...  I vaguely recall a bunch of seasonal ones from a bit later tracking the progress of an entire fort, showing how to set up a farm, etc...  oh well.

I think I found those too.  I'll see if they still work in a bit.

[IT 000]

Wow! Amazing to see how far DF has come ^.^

But why were the magical elves removed? And what were the yellow goblins in 'fight'?

[Aquillion]

Wow! Amazing to see how far DF has come ^.^

But why were the magical elves removed? And what were the yellow goblins in 'fight'?

While the game was never publicly released with that sort of stuff, my understanding is that the 'magical' stuff in prerelease DF versions was all tightly scripted -- eg. you'd get the dead rising once as a scripted invasion on the fourth year or something.  This was eventually taken out because it didn't work well with Dwarf Fortress' goal of making a dynamic world where events like that would occur 'organically' -- it tied the game too tightly to telling one story, rather than letting it be a fantasy universe simulator that naturally produced its own stories.

[Christes]

... and now it's getting to the point where those things do happen organically.  Holy Crap.

[Malarauko]

This makes me so excited for the new magic stuff coming up. I'm not even joking but this game has consumed so much of my time I haven't even though about playing another game for a solid 6 months.

[peskyninja]

With the secrets coming,I'll finally transform that huge pile of useless FB tallow pile into gold,muhahahahahahahahahaha!

[Christes]

With the secrets coming,I'll finally transform that huge pile of useless FB tallow pile into gold,muhahahahahahahahahaha!

Knowing this game, your ability is just as likely to turn it into gnomeblight or kitten spleen.

[Malarauko]

Or the gold will still have the syndromes attached....

[Rexfelum]

I recall you mentioning the humans making campfires before, but it was cool seeing it on the screen.

Humans make campfires in the current release.  Those campers.

Why doesnt DF run that fast now?

Depends.  Did you look at all the videos?  Some were deliberately sped up to show a lot within fewer frames (which you can tell by all the skipped frames), but most run at the speed I get with a fresh fort.

And what were the yellow goblins in 'fight'?

I believe those would be Spearmasters.  I may have the color wrong.

--Rexfelum

[Scaraban]

>.>
<.<
Watching...

[Toady One]

I have the ones from 2005 now (one year before the first release).  I think these run in the currently released version, rather than the standalone exe for the 2004 movies.  Put them in "data/movies" and press semi-colon from the title menu.

The files here are all fairly large (3 to 5MB).  I'm not sure if I've numbered them correctly.

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[Aquillion]

Ooo.  Thanks, Toady.  That brings back memories.

Hrm, the first huntbug eventually gives me a compression error once I've let it play a while...  though that might just be me, since I know my computer's been having inexplicable compression errors with DF stuff.  The DF map archive chokes on it, too, though...  hrm.  Can anyone else manage to upload these to the DF map archive?  Probably we'd have to contact them to try and get any but the first, since they don't normally accept uploads above 1 MB.  But they seem like they're of enough historical interest to be worth trying to get them in there, if we can.