Sorry, but I find that kind of remark offensive.
I've never bought online items but I don't see the problem in paying for things that give you a certain degree of enjoyment.
Are tobacco smokers losers and idiots? Well they spend a fortune on tobacco only to see each cigar vanishing in 3
Jim Leonard wrote:
Pedro Quaresma wrote:
Please don't get me started on Planeboring: Torment. That game should
never have been a RPG.
Ah yes, Pedro, our resident RPG snob. ;-) If Planescape: Torment is a
bad RPG by your standards, could you explain why? Is it all the dialog,
or bad
Dan Chisarick stated:
One class of games that may not fit the category of 'collectable' but
was still fun would be BBS games. Log in, take your handful of turns,
come back the next day and see what happened. I've never seen any of
these games in a 'boxed' format, and even if they were, I
This raises another question. Which one was the first known MPOG sold in a box? I'd risk saying Shadows of Yserbius or Neverwinter Nights. Yserbius wasn't online-only, so I'm not sure it should count.
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Pedro R. Quaresma
Salvador Caetano IMVT
Div. Sistemas de Informação / Systems and
My
remark was meant sort of tongue in cheek, and I certainly didn't mean to offend
anyone.I'm sure there arepeople who would label me as a "loser" for
collecting old computer programs (not to mention other things that I do).
Anyway, the comment was meant in a light-hearted tone, and I
Welcome aboard, you came at a good time, it's
been very active lately!
Brad
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From:
Per-Olof Karlsson
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:11
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Subject: [SWCollect] Another
visitor..
Hi everybody! J
Im a
Lee K. Seitz wrote:
Dan Chisarick stated:
I've seen people comment on missing the days of BBSs, but
there's not the nostalgia for it yet that there is for, say, classic
computer games. (Of course, we're also talking a smaller population
of computer users back then that were into BBSs.)
BBS
Howard Feldman wrote:
Stay awhile.. stay forever.. bwa-ha-ha-ha
(sorry, couldn't resist)
Hehe, I knew it was only a matter of time ;)
Speaking of that game, is that perhaps the first time a sample has been used
in a computer game? I would think so, but I'm not really certain.
Wow! This is the stuff I dream about, thanks SO much for that link.. Never
heard of this before! Wasteland here I come...
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Per-Olof Karlsson wrote:
Wow! This is the stuff I dream about, thanks SO much for that link.. Never
heard of this before! Wasteland here I come...
Wasteland already works under Windows so I don't know what stopped you
before ;-) But try it with a large number of games that do NOT work
under
Edward Franks wrote:
You aren't going to find many games that do turn-based combat these
days. Temple of Elemental Evil is the only one that springs to mind and
Who said I was looking for *modern* games? :)
Thanks for the Morrowind suggestion.
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Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
World's
I would also look into so-called turn-based strategy games such as Jagged
Alliance.
Stuart
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From: Jim Leonard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 4:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] Modern classics
Edward Franks wrote:
Lee K. Seitz wrote:
Of www.textfiles.com? Cool! (Hey, where'd the site go! I hope it's
only temporary.) Glad to see his documentary is in capable hands.
I should correct a misconception: He is doing 99.% of the work; I
am only advising on technical/style/research issues. But he is, so
Welcome aboard, Per-Olaf!
Marco
Per-Olof Karlsson schrieb:
Hi everybody! J
Im a newcomer to this list, and have just spent quite some time
browsing the archives. It seems Ive finally found home, at last,
hehe.
Jim Leonard schrieb:
I've been tinkering with this for a month now and have had such great
success that I thought I'd inform everyone about it:
dosbox.sourceforge.net
Wow! Thanks a bunch for this link!
Marco
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This
For some reason I thought you guys all knew about this already...sorry I
didn't mention it.
Stuart
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From: Dan Chisarick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [SWCollect] DOSBox: Getting DOS games to run
I don't mind scouting out some local places (I'm guessing hotels) for
prices. We should have a ballpark idea of the size event we're looking
to put on. I'm guessing it will be relatively small (smaller than
PhillyClassic) due to it being a first time and a pretty focused event
(compared to CGE
Of course, it depends on your definition of O as well. You could
count Midi Maze:
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gamecenter/GAMECENTER_COM%20-%20Feat
ures%20-%20The%20Hall%20of%20Game%20Innovation5.htm
And if you definition of MP is only 2 players, you could be talking
about Flash Attack:
Since you said computer game, I'll buy that...I can't think of
anything earlier. But if you want the first voice in any type of
commercial video game it's...
http://www.classicgaming.com/gotcha/gamecenter/GAMECENTER_COM%20-%20Feat
ures%20-%20Gaming's%20Triumphs%20and%20Tragedies6.htm
Okay, I'll
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