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Posted: 24 Jan 2007, 07:53
by BDCoolio
el_matarife wrote:You young whipper-snappers haven't lived till you've had to go through your command.com and autoexec.bat to get enough lower memory to play an Origin game like Wing Commander Privateer. You folks have no idea how mindblowing memmaker was.
Dear God - I remember having to do that too (with Privateer) ...
You're scaring me.
P.S. - That and Master of Orion are my all-time favorites.
Posted: 24 Jan 2007, 08:22
by el_matarife
Psilon Empire for life! (P.S. 3 NEVER HAPPENED)
Posted: 24 Jan 2007, 09:49
by smoth
starcontrol 1 and 2.... the supox rock you all! Starcontrol 3 lacks the *SPECIAL SAUCE* and leaves me *FRUMPLE*!
Posted: 24 Jan 2007, 12:51
by Michilus_nimbus
smoth wrote:Starcontrol 1 And 2.... The Supox Rock You All!!!!! Starcontrol 3 Lacks The *SPECIAL SAUCE* And Leaves Me *FRUMPLE*!!!!!
Capitalized every word and added more exclamation marks to support the truth of the sentence.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 12:13
by kineticdeath
our first comp didnt even have windows, it was DOS, and you had to type in commands to get anywhere, it was kinda fun, I miss old zone66, but even using the DOS box programs it refuses to run on my compy now, such a shame. May the classics be remembered always lol
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 16:10
by CautionToTheWind
el_matarife wrote:go through your config.sys and autoexec.bat
fixed
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 16:19
by Pxtl
Michilus_nimbus wrote:smoth wrote:Starcontrol 1 And 2.... The Supox Rock You All!!!!! Starcontrol 3 Lacks The *SPECIAL SAUCE* And Leaves Me *FRUMPLE*!!!!!
Capitalized every word and added more exclamation marks to support the truth of the sentence.
Wow, I missed this nostalgia thread. Yeah, I remember fiddling with the EMM386 and Himem stuff to get SC2 working. Those were the days- having 4 different boot disks depending on which game you wanted to play.
I have some maniacal schemes for an SC2-based Spring mod, but I'm a lazy bum with a full-time-job, so it'll never happen.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 16:45
by Zoombie
StarControl FTW! SPATHI! SPATHI! SPATHI!
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 17:58
by rattle
For any of you SC fans there's a windows remake of Star Control 2 (was about 400 MB all together), google for a link.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 18:16
by KDR_11k
You meqan Ur-Quan Masters?
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 18:22
by Pxtl
rattle wrote:For any of you SC fans there's a windows remake of Star Control 2 (was about 400 MB all together), google for a link.
It's not just a remake, UQM is the original game. It's the source/resources from the 3DO version, hacked into a PC form.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 18:40
by rattle
Yes that's more accurate, never played the 3do version nor the original though, don't like it much either.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 18:45
by Pxtl
rattle wrote:Yes that's more accurate, never played the 3do version nor the original though, don't like it much either.
heretic!
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 19:01
by rattle
DONUT CALL ME HERETIC YOU THREAD DERAILER! :P
Probably would've liked it if I got to play it when it came out in 91(?).
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 19:04
by smoth
the game's story was what made it interesting, flying around, figuring stuff out etc.
As a note you will never find out why melnorms deck changes colors.
Posted: 31 Jan 2007, 19:15
by Pxtl
smoth wrote:the game's story was what made it interesting, flying around, figuring stuff out etc.
As a note you will never find out why melnorms deck changes colors.
It wasn't just that - the combat system was wonderful. I got SC2 because I was a fan of SC1 - I didn't even know it was an adventure game until I got it (SC1 was a simple turn-based strategy game with the combat-system from SC2).
So many RPGs crush you with boredom. SC2 remained exciting to the end (well, I guess there were some dead spots of resource harvesting and mapping quasispace portals).