doctorfrog on 6/3/2009 at 09:18
Can you use the WMD mod with the polygonal Duke Nukem mod? I just replayed DN3D a few years back, but looking at those screens makes me want to play again. I can hear the groaning wails of the flying tiger-striped aliens and the pew pew of their irritating little lasers.
Secret Level: I played the demo for Duke Nukem on the sly at my call center job in 1996. It was the first PC game demo I ever played and the first full PC game I ever played on my first PC: a 100mhz Pentium, with a whopping 32 MB of RAM. Duke was gaming on a level entirely unlike I had ever experienced on consoles. Those were the days where playing a shareware demo (not a pre-release alpha version of a game) took hours of time.
In Spelunky, I just got enough money for the tunnel man to dig to level nine. I'm progressing relatively slowly, with over 500 deaths and no wins yet, but still having a lot of fun with it. Arx Fatalis has also floated up to the top of my queue, and I'll be playing that next.
Shadowcat on 7/3/2009 at 23:20
I just noticed this:
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http://www.scummvm.org/?shownews=20090122.xml)
Quote:
We are pleased to announce the start of an affiliate program with the excellent Good Old Games service, also known as GOG.com. Just click on their button on the sidebar and you will be brought to the site. Register there and buy some games. You will get your game, cheap, fast and legally, and the ScummVM project will get a share of the proceeds.
Look for the GOG logo underneath the right-hand menus.
So I wondered if DOS Box had the same thing happening, and although I'm not seeing anything explicit in their news item, they do feature a link with a similar URL, so I suspect you can donate to the DOSBox project in the same manner:
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http://www.dosbox.com/)
edit: Or, of course, you could just donate to ScummVM and/or DOS Box development directly. They both have facilities for doing this.
Chimpy Chompy on 9/3/2009 at 00:50
Oh you bastard, for a second I thought that meant Lucasarts classics were being released on Gog.
Instead we just get the other odd bits that run on ScummVM - I mean ok the adventures of George Stobart are entertaining enough, but it's a sore disappointment when I want Day of the Tentacle.
Shadowcat on 13/3/2009 at 15:50
Empire has jumped on board with the Pro Pinball series (minus The Web, though?), which means that "Timeshock" (quite simply the best computer pinball table ever, IMHO) can be had for just US$6.
Big Race USA is on the way as well! Fantastic Journey too, although that got uncharacteristically poor reviews for a Pro Pinball game (never played it myself), so I kinda wish they had The Web instead; but they got the two I really wanted to see there :)
Apache vs Havoc too, for the helicopter sim fans. I don't know if Commanche vs Hokum will eventuate on GOG, given the recent Enemy Engaged 2, but that's also very cool to see.
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http://www.gog.com/en/search/sort/publisher/Empire%20Interactive)
Matthew on 16/3/2009 at 10:40
I picked up The Web and Timeshock for 99p each many many years ago, but never got round to playing them. :o Are they accessible to people who are hopeless at pinball?
Shadowcat on 17/3/2009 at 07:11
That's an awesome deal! I'm unsure what you mean by 'accessible'. If pinball does little for you, then these games most likely won't change your opinion. If you like it but simply aren't that good at it... well, I'm certainly no wizard and I've always enjoyed Timeshock, so I figure there's a good chance you'll like 'em enough to try to improve your skills a bit :)
In any case, you needn't repurchase them if you still have the CDs. I've found that I can get Timeshock working perfectly on my dual-core WinXP/SP2 machine simply by setting the game's compatibility mode to Windows 95; and I can run it without the CD in the drive, but still with the redbook audio, by using Daemon Tools.
At present, the GOG version is a DOS version of the game, running though DOSBox, and as well as the performance hit (at least on older machines), it restricts resolution and colour-depth, which is a shame given that the Windows version goes up to 1600x1200 and 24-bit colour, and consequently still looks gorgeous today.
So although my PC seemed to run it very smoothly in DOSBox (amazing what modern hardware can do!), I'd definitely recommend using your existing CD versions to get the better graphics, and using Daemon Tools (or similar) if you're having issues with the redbook music (and/or simply want to keep the CDs safe).
Matthew on 17/3/2009 at 12:55
Thanks for the advice! My situation is definitely the latter, I love pinball but I'm just useless at it. :p
Zerker on 17/3/2009 at 22:48
I found them very enjoyable with a lot of very handy features (building queues, unit customization, auto-hotkeying, grouping units into companies, etc). The research tree can be a little overwhelming at first, but it's not too bad once you get used to it. You can even set the AI to take over tasks that you don't necessarily want to handle (upgrading weaponry on buildings, research choices, etc). I'd say you should give it a try.
Mind you, I've only played Earth 2150 and the Moon Project. I have no familiarity with Earth 2140, Lost Souls, or Earth 2160.
