ZylonBane on 11/8/2009 at 17:57
Now is the time when we dance.
Adam Nuhfer on 11/8/2009 at 19:50
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Now is the time when we dance.
Does this mean I can lose the pants now? :eek:
Matthew on 11/8/2009 at 20:26
Like you ever needed an excuse.
lovethief on 11/8/2009 at 21:36
Waiting for full-featured VR-edition of system shock in maybe 15 yrs :thumb:
d'Spair on 11/8/2009 at 22:06
Yeah, there were the times.
ZylonBane on 12/8/2009 at 03:13
A quick recap of the world as it existed in 1999:* The Euro is introduced.
* Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic join NATO.
* The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
* SpongeBob SquarePants premieres.
* Columbine High School massacre occurs, forcing Irrational to demo System Shock 2 at E3 without showing any of the guns.
* Napster debuts.
* Microsoft releases Windows 98 SE.
* Apple Computer releases the first iBook.
* NASA crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon (intentionally).
* Sega releases the Dreamcast.
* The U.S. turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government.
* Gene Siskel, Stanley Kubrick, Joe DiMaggio, Boxcar Willie, Shel Silverstein, Mel Torme, DeForest Kelley, Mario Puzo, John F. Kennedy Jr, George C. Scott, and Madeline Kahn die.
Top-Grossing Films:* Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
* The Sixth Sense
* Toy Story 2
* The Matrix
* Tarzan
* The Mummy
* Notting Hill
* The World Is Not Enough
* American Beauty
* Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Other notable films from 1999: Being John Malkovich, Galaxy Quest, Fantasia 2000, The Blair Witch Project, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, The Iron Giant, Mystery Men, Office Space, Run Lola Run, and... Wing Commander (ugh).
Top-Selling Games(god this is depressing)
* Roller Coaster Tycoon
* SimCity 3000
* Who Wants To Be A Millionaire
* Age Of Empires II
* Starcraft
* Half-Life
* Command & Conquer 2: Tiberian Sun
* Flight Simulator
* Frogger
* Baldur's Gate
* Cabela's Big Game Hunter 2
* Wheel Of Fortune
* Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Gold Edition
* Starcraft Expansion: Brood Wars
* Need For Speed 3
* Monopoly Game
* Deer Hunter III
* Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace
* Combat Flight Simulator
And finally, a clip from the film "1999 A.D" (produced in 1967).
(
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO58SGiYwwo)
Kolya on 12/8/2009 at 07:01
And along came System Shock 2 and changed it ALL!
On a related note, let me dig up some ShockEd history: I just read the (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock_2) SS2 wikipedia article and there it says:
Yeah. Anyway, this misleading sentence, backed up by an even more misleading source, made me look up the actual release post on Sshock2.com. (
http://www.sshock2.com/showarchive.asp?month=8&year=2000) It's here, well a bit down on that page... There Saam says:
Quote:
We have compiled a working version of ShockEd, so now you all can start creating your own levels and space stations!
So this is where the idea originated that TTLG people had made their own level editor. Surely the word "compiled" just means that they gathered the necessary files in one zip-archive. Including shocked.exe, which was incidentally
compiled in debug mode. A mistake that could happen to anyone, including Irrational employees.
It does not mean, that a group of TTLG users had the source for shocked, which is largely the same as shock2.exe, but never spoke about or released it because they were bound by an (
http://www.sshock2.com/showarchive.asp?month=5&year=2000) NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) (again, somewhere down that page).
At least that's what I assume.
Enchantermon on 12/8/2009 at 09:06
Happy birthday SS2!
Nameless Voice on 12/8/2009 at 10:02
Quote Posted by Kolya
shocked.exe, which was incidentally
compiled in debug mode. A mistake that could happen to anyone, including Irrational employees.
I'm fairly sure they did that on purpose, so that they could debug errors as they happened, since DromEd was never supposed to be released to the public. Every single version of DromEd that has ever been released was compiled in debug mode.
Kolya on 12/8/2009 at 12:26
There goes my conspiracy theory! :(
