Speaking of the old computers, there were two awesome RPGs on the Apple IIGS: ExplorerGS was the better one, but the other was pretty cool, in its own way.
I can't remember the name, though:
tile-based; large tiles, at that.
starting area (for one of the scenarios) had 3 shop-tiles below you and a river to the right. As you went north, there was a small hut containing lots of skeletons. Following the river would eventually lead underground with spiders and such.
You could buy a boat, and fire from it.
combat was 'walk into monster' or something (probably F) to fire a ranged weapon.
and the one with the quote from Elvira on the failings of competing CASE methodology tools
what did people use modems for in 1971
Dialling into mainframes.
I bet that's one of the ones where you slam the phone into a pair of suction cups
okay, right
but like what was on the dialler's end besides the modem? they didn't have man-portable personal computers back then, did they?
A computer terminal. At first these were basically a line printer and a card reader, then a line printer and a keyboard, and later a CRT and a keyboard, plus something to send input to the remote computer and output the info it got back, via printing it to paper or to a line on the screen.
When you open a terminal window on a modern unix or mac system, you are literally opening a virtual emulator of one of these early machines. They're even distinguished by TTY#, where TTY still means teletype
one of my favorite things was plugging that phone handset in
One of Neal Stephensons better bits of writing, in my opinion, is when he refers to the act of putting the handset into that thing as "an informational soixante-neuf"
Okay, so in this zone Uldum in WoW it's an egyptian themed area and you do quests for a guy named Harrison Jones, in which you uncover lost artifacts and fight against "Schnottz" soldiers.
Later on you find this guy Schnottz and you do some quests in order to gain his trust to infiltrate his organization. One of the quests you go and gather uniforms for his troops, and the name of the quest is "fashionism". He has a commander who got turned into a turkey by a curse. His name is Gobbles.
Harrison Jones was/is in some quests in Outland, too
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I remember firing up GEOS for the first time. I was completely amazed at how brilliant the idea was. I was a wee, wee lad but even I understood this was pretty brilliant. 30 seconds later I realized how awful joysticks were for GUI use and removed the disk from my C64.
Harrison Jones was/is in some quests in Outland, too
Harrison Jones is in the very beginning of Zul'Aman but he gets shot and dies as soon as you go in. Later there's some quests in Grizzly Hills where you work with him and it ends up he wasn't actually dead. But in Uldum he's a really badass and his quests are really fun. They even recreate the set-piece from Raider's of the Lost Arc with the fist-fight in front of the plane.
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I can't remember the name, though:
tile-based; large tiles, at that.
starting area (for one of the scenarios) had 3 shop-tiles below you and a river to the right. As you went north, there was a small hut containing lots of skeletons. Following the river would eventually lead underground with spiders and such.
You could buy a boat, and fire from it.
combat was 'walk into monster' or something (probably F) to fire a ranged weapon.
Anyone remember?
A computer terminal. At first these were basically a line printer and a card reader, then a line printer and a keyboard, and later a CRT and a keyboard, plus something to send input to the remote computer and output the info it got back, via printing it to paper or to a line on the screen.
When you open a terminal window on a modern unix or mac system, you are literally opening a virtual emulator of one of these early machines. They're even distinguished by TTY#, where TTY still means teletype
one of my favorite things was plugging that phone handset in
Which I guess is good because before that it was fucking Danger Zone.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
text editors and word processors are very different
both are still in heavy use
One of Neal Stephensons better bits of writing, in my opinion, is when he refers to the act of putting the handset into that thing as "an informational soixante-neuf"
Later on you find this guy Schnottz and you do some quests in order to gain his trust to infiltrate his organization. One of the quests you go and gather uniforms for his troops, and the name of the quest is "fashionism". He has a commander who got turned into a turkey by a curse. His name is Gobbles.
I lost my shit.
I know they're different, I guess I just like the phrase "word processor" a lot
it seems so cool
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
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Someone burn the germs in my body with a torch.
This torch.
Harrison Jones is in the very beginning of Zul'Aman but he gets shot and dies as soon as you go in. Later there's some quests in Grizzly Hills where you work with him and it ends up he wasn't actually dead. But in Uldum he's a really badass and his quests are really fun. They even recreate the set-piece from Raider's of the Lost Arc with the fist-fight in front of the plane.
I'm liking Horatio Laine in new DM.
You make it hard for people on my side of the argument to remain on that side.
thx
Because me posting anywhere else is, at this point, a really terrible idea.
I think it's a rolling decree that he periodically refreshes
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Wait until Redridge, the entire second half of the zone is one long Rambo reference.
Don't be on that side. 8)
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
A Nazi turkey named Gobbles.
The best.
http://www.fuguri.net/browse.php#search.php?tags=tron&category=Any&dimensions=Any&exact=exact&size=Any&mood=Any&content=SFW&sort=Date&order=Desc&r=255&g=0&b=0&handler=Remote&mode=form
http://i.imgur.com/GUydV.jpg ?
don't go back in there man
:^: on the daft punk and olivia wilde ones
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
yay http://www.fuguri.net/images/15695.jpg
I skipped Redridge. God, I don't care if they revamped that place, I'm never going back.
In Darkshire at the moment, and hoping this takes me through till STV.
I like this, this is neat
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Here are a few more that weren't tagged...
http://www.fuguri.net/detail.php?scrape=30798
http://www.fuguri.net/detail.php?scrape=30746
http://www.fuguri.net/detail.php?scrape=30779
http://www.fuguri.net/detail.php?scrape=30921
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I shall hold out for American McGee's Tron.
Dude, the new Redridge is actually completely awesome. I've heard the new STV is as well.
Example?
Compression artifacts are quite distinctive.
I'd watch the shit out of that