I remember leaving the computer on all night, connected tenuously to the internet by my smoking hot 56k modem so I could download the Quake demo, which was a whopping 20Mb file. Imagine my sorrow when I found out the connection had dropped and I had to start over again. This is what led me to learn of Getright.
Dark times.
Holy shit, Getright. Now that brings back memories!
Werewolf2000adSuckers, I know exactly what went wrong.Registered Userregular
To this day, I still giggle when I remember the late 80's computer magazine article that questioned the value of this new-fangled upcoming "CD-ROM" technology by pointing out how many years of work it would take for a game to fill one to capacity - From a single graphics artist making 320x256 256-colour images.
Console release does not necessarily mean controller support on PC <side-eyes at Mass Effect series>
(I know "it's better with KBAM" but damnit, my couch is way more comfortable with the big TV and the fact that controller support was removed just irks me)
Ugh... I hate that. It's always the same thing. "Why do you want to use a controller? How is it better than KBAM?"
Because couches and TVs.
KBAM on your lap is uncomfortable as fuck and not pet friendly.
Yeah, we go through this every few weeks or so. I'll play with either; I grew up on KBAM, but I'm no stranger to FPS with a controller. If I'm sitting at my desk, I'll probably be KBAMing, and if I'm sitting on my couch in front of my 55" plasma, I'm assuredly using a controller.
Both setups have their merits, use what works for you, a pox upon any game that doesn't support both options (*cough*MassEffect*cough*)
HiT BiT🍒 Fresh, straight from Pac-man'sRegistered Userregular
His was my first console:
And this was my first computer:
Standard (MSX) development led by Microsoft.
Model (Hey, nice name!) manufactured by Sony.
First game I owned and played on it was Nintendo's Donkey Kong.
Last game I played on it was Sega's After Burner.
Funny, I just realised of these facts as I was typing them.
Ah memories. One of my birthday presents was going from 8MB to 16MB of RAM. Yes, megabytes. Good times. That computer would be a surprisingly good DOSBox machine if I could ever find it.
My DOS machine is an old Toshiba Satellite laptop. It's a 486DX clocked at 75MHz with 20MB of RAM (2x8MB sticks, plus 4MB soldered onto the mobo) and a 2x CD-ROM drive. An external 3.5" floppy drive, 12" 640x480 LCD screen (with included hardware contrast slider), PCMCIA ethernet card with included dongle, and a massively upgraded 550MB hard drive round out the package. Weighs over eight pounds.
I would have gone with one of the Pentium 100s, but this was an era before laptops shipping with soundcards was a standard thing, so many business portables didn't include them, so I'm just holding on to them in case I need spare parts. The one I have now was a "multimedia" (remember that word?) business model, which is why it rolled off the line with both speakers and a CD-ROM drive.
So now I get DOS games from Steam and strip the DOSBox files from them and FTP them to my laptop and play them that way (it's kinda fun to see my framerate tank in Doom II when a ton of enemies are on the screen and I start firing the plasma rifle), although I'm thinking of getting an old CRT monitor and using that for it instead since the refresh rate on the laptop screen is abysmal. It's blurrier than a fingerpainting by Micheal J. Fox.
My first console was an SNES, which my entire family played. My first computer, again family-owned, was a Windows 95. My personal computer didn't come until 2003 or so, but I kept that sucker running for ten years straight.
I do remember buying Starflight around 1987 or so and marveling that the game was so big it came on something like 5 or 6 floppy disks.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
I do remember buying Starflight around 1987 or so and marveling that the game was so big it came on something like 5 or 6 floppy disks.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
Return to Zork came on 14 floppies; 1.44MB 3.5" ones, too. That's the big one I remember.
I do remember buying Starflight around 1987 or so and marveling that the game was so big it came on something like 5 or 6 floppy disks.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
Return to Zork came on 14 floppies; 1.44MB 3.5" ones, too. That's the big one I remember.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 was seventeen floppy discs. I still have that, somewhere.
Console release does not necessarily mean controller support on PC <side-eyes at Mass Effect series>
(I know "it's better with KBAM" but damnit, my couch is way more comfortable with the big TV and the fact that controller support was removed just irks me)
Ugh... I hate that. It's always the same thing. "Why do you want to use a controller? How is it better than KBAM?"
Because couches and TVs.
KBAM on your lap is uncomfortable as fuck and not pet friendly.
Yeah, we go through this every few weeks or so. I'll play with either; I grew up on KBAM, but I'm no stranger to FPS with a controller. If I'm sitting at my desk, I'll probably be KBAMing, and if I'm sitting on my couch in front of my 55" plasma, I'm assuredly using a controller.
Both setups have their merits, use what works for you, a pox upon any game that doesn't support both options (*cough*MassEffect*cough*)
A pox indeed! I've been burned so many times by games that I know are on console, so I automatically assume they have native controller support. Divinity 2 was probably the most recent one that stung the most.
I started with the NES and didn't really get into KBAM until I got my Pentium 200. I remember buying a SNES styled Logitech Controller too. I loved that thing.
I prefer controller but recognize KBAM is optimal for certain genres. I waffle between controller and KBAM for FPS depending upon my mood. I tend towards using a controller on single-player games regardless.
I do remember buying Starflight around 1987 or so and marveling that the game was so big it came on something like 5 or 6 floppy disks.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
Return to Zork came on 14 floppies; 1.44MB 3.5" ones, too. That's the big one I remember.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 was seventeen floppy discs. I still have that, somewhere.
I do remember buying Starflight around 1987 or so and marveling that the game was so big it came on something like 5 or 6 floppy disks.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
Return to Zork came on 14 floppies; 1.44MB 3.5" ones, too. That's the big one I remember.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 was seventeen floppy discs. I still have that, somewhere.
Egads!
A Japanese IT department with completely asinine operations requirements? Color me surprised.
+1
KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
The winner of the Mass Effect "Collection" is JasonFour.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to add you as a friend right now. Try adding me and I'll send it over.
Just reminded me of a general Steamgifts FYI for everyone:
You can use the email address provided by Steamgifts for the winner of a giveaway to send a gift directly through Steam instead of waiting on a friend invite. In fact, it works even better since Steam will automatically send a friend invite with your gift.
I learned that after several Steamgifts giveaways caused my friends list to grow a good deal--and I rarely send out friends invites so...yeah.
So since there's a bunch of ancient beings here, maybe someone can help me since we're on the subject
I remember as a young lad playing on some computer type system where the monitor basically had 5 colors: black, dark green, green, light green, white
I played some SWAT game I think where you are walking upwards shooting things, and also there was some sidescroller kung fu fighting game
When you mentioned the SWAT game, I immediately thought of this one I played on the ATARI 800 XL, but then it had more than 5 colours, so it might have been the same game on a different system.
When you mentioned the SWAT game, I immediately thought of this one I played on the ATARI 800 XL, but then it had more than 5 colours, so it might have been the same game on a different system.
Ah, revel at those perspective lines...a dark age before the Revolutionary Super FX Micro Chip.
KalnaurI See Rain . . .Centralia, WARegistered Userregular
Atari 2600 was my first console. We got that when I was . . . very young.
I'm almost 35 now, and I have had 2 computers that were specifically mine. Both prebuilt. Family/couple-wise, I've gotten to work on/interact with about 6 different computers on a semi-daily/daily basis. The first computer the family got was a Gateway in about 1998.
However, I've had the Atari, NES, SNES (<3), N64, Playstation, Gamecube, Playstation 2, NDS and 3DS. I freaking love console controllers for this reason.
I even have an adapter for my computer that allows 2 SNES controllers to be plugged in for . . . reasons.
And my favorite game of all time will always be Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, because it was the first video game I bought with my "own" money (allowance, which we didn't get in my family for a good long time). It was quasi-magical.
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Forever Zefirocloaked in the midnight glory of an event horizonRegistered Userregular
Ah memories. One of my birthday presents was going from 8MB to 16MB of RAM. Yes, megabytes. Good times. That computer would be a surprisingly good DOSBox machine if I could ever find it.
To throw in my old computer story, I didn't get a computer of my own until relatively later (I was 14, 1994). It was a 486SX-25. It came with 2MB of RAM. A friend of mine gave me a copy of the Doom shareware but I was unable to run it due to the RAM being too low, so I talked my mom into buying some. We got a 4MB SIMM from Sams Club and it was $270. I just bought 8GB for about $85. It also had a 101MB hard drive which we later upgraded to 512MB, I believe, when it died. It had a 2400 baud modem, which I used on local BBSes quite a bit. I used my birthday money later that year to buy a 14.4k modem, the fastest I knew of, which I think was about $110, and it was amazing. I think I could download a megabyte in a little over 10 minutes. Good times.
Anyway, just booted up Planetside 2 for the first time in like 8 months and holy crap a lot has changed. I got refunded for a bunch of perks that went away, I guess. I'm currently sitting on 323 certs, 3.3k SC, and 750 blue glowy circles with no idea what to do with any of it.
Our family's first computer was a TI-99/4A, Christmas '83 that took cartridges or could have a tape drive hooked up. After that (other than a Nintendo), we got a Tandy 1000 HX for Christmas '87, which came with 2! 3.5" drives. Even a year or two later, friends were buying 286s with 5 1/4 floppy drives. Unfortunately, for being ahead of the times, I wasn't able to trade games with any of them till they finally got newer drives.
The blue glowy circle things are your resources. It costs them to spawn vehicles and MAXes, restock grenades, restock medpacks, etc. Gone are the days of infantry, armor, and aviation resources. You earn them the same way, though.
A base connected to the lattice has infinite resources (IIRC; I'm pretty sure they've implemented this part, but it hasn't really affected me yet). One which is disconnected can run out as its defenders spawn stuff to help them defend. Then, it gets easier to take the base that you've starved out.
To whoever mentioned the witcher earlier. important alchemy advice.
Some alchemy ingredients have two attributes. The first attribute is used to make the potion. The second attribute is used to match up and give your potion a second effect. match them all in your ingredients to accomplish this. I remember there being a white secondary effect and a black one.
you need strong alcohol for brews and can refine it from cheaper ones. I don't know how far you've gotten but the wiki has a checklist for the various chapters.
So what can people tell me about Crusader Kings 2? The idea of a dynastic succession game intrigues me, but I have heard the games are kind of difficult to get a handle on initially.
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My family's first computer was a ZX81, I recall.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
Egg all of the things...
Yeah, we go through this every few weeks or so. I'll play with either; I grew up on KBAM, but I'm no stranger to FPS with a controller. If I'm sitting at my desk, I'll probably be KBAMing, and if I'm sitting on my couch in front of my 55" plasma, I'm assuredly using a controller.
Both setups have their merits, use what works for you, a pox upon any game that doesn't support both options (*cough*MassEffect*cough*)
As it damn well should be.
Steam | XBL
And this was my first computer:
Standard (MSX) development led by Microsoft.
Model (Hey, nice name!) manufactured by Sony.
First game I owned and played on it was Nintendo's Donkey Kong.
Last game I played on it was Sega's After Burner.
Funny, I just realised of these facts as I was typing them.
I'm reasonably certain Starflight was a 2 disk game. The square EA trifold sleeve-boxes back in the day wouldn't have fit 5-6 floppies.
My DOS machine is an old Toshiba Satellite laptop. It's a 486DX clocked at 75MHz with 20MB of RAM (2x8MB sticks, plus 4MB soldered onto the mobo) and a 2x CD-ROM drive. An external 3.5" floppy drive, 12" 640x480 LCD screen (with included hardware contrast slider), PCMCIA ethernet card with included dongle, and a massively upgraded 550MB hard drive round out the package. Weighs over eight pounds.
I would have gone with one of the Pentium 100s, but this was an era before laptops shipping with soundcards was a standard thing, so many business portables didn't include them, so I'm just holding on to them in case I need spare parts. The one I have now was a "multimedia" (remember that word?) business model, which is why it rolled off the line with both speakers and a CD-ROM drive.
So now I get DOS games from Steam and strip the DOSBox files from them and FTP them to my laptop and play them that way (it's kinda fun to see my framerate tank in Doom II when a ton of enemies are on the screen and I start firing the plasma rifle), although I'm thinking of getting an old CRT monitor and using that for it instead since the refresh rate on the laptop screen is abysmal. It's blurrier than a fingerpainting by Micheal J. Fox.
That's possible. It was a long time ago and I had quite a few games then. Could be conflating memories. Starflight sticks out because I adored the game but it could have been any number of other games that came in a big box on a fat stack of floppies.
Steam | XBL
Memories.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2 was seventeen floppy discs. I still have that, somewhere.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO SIT IN THE BIG CHAIR, MEG!
A pox indeed! I've been burned so many times by games that I know are on console, so I automatically assume they have native controller support. Divinity 2 was probably the most recent one that stung the most.
I started with the NES and didn't really get into KBAM until I got my Pentium 200. I remember buying a SNES styled Logitech Controller too. I loved that thing.
I prefer controller but recognize KBAM is optimal for certain genres. I waffle between controller and KBAM for FPS depending upon my mood. I tend towards using a controller on single-player games regardless.
Egads!
Steam | XBL
A Japanese IT department with completely asinine operations requirements? Color me surprised.
Me: Steam, what the fuck?!
Me: ...Oh yeah.
Also Thanks to @Isorn for his gift of Murder Miners AND A copy of Space Farmers. Thanks so much my dutchie friend.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
I remember as a young lad playing on some computer type system where the monitor basically had 5 colors: black, dark green, green, light green, white
I played some SWAT game I think where you are walking upwards shooting things, and also there was some sidescroller kung fu fighting game
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
Just reminded me of a general Steamgifts FYI for everyone:
You can use the email address provided by Steamgifts for the winner of a giveaway to send a gift directly through Steam instead of waiting on a friend invite. In fact, it works even better since Steam will automatically send a friend invite with your gift.
I learned that after several Steamgifts giveaways caused my friends list to grow a good deal--and I rarely send out friends invites so...yeah.
First come first served!
Galciv2 :Ultimate eternal climax edition
Terraria!
Crusader Kings 2
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
When you mentioned the SWAT game, I immediately thought of this one I played on the ATARI 800 XL, but then it had more than 5 colours, so it might have been the same game on a different system.
I never do, I even worry about entering steamgift stuff
thankfully the 2 steamgifts I've won I've beaten!
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
Noooooooope.
Also, I'll be on PlanetSide 2 later tonight; shoot me a message in-game if you'd like an invite to the org.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
Ah, revel at those perspective lines...a dark age before the Revolutionary Super FX Micro Chip.
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
I'm almost 35 now, and I have had 2 computers that were specifically mine. Both prebuilt. Family/couple-wise, I've gotten to work on/interact with about 6 different computers on a semi-daily/daily basis. The first computer the family got was a Gateway in about 1998.
However, I've had the Atari, NES, SNES (<3), N64, Playstation, Gamecube, Playstation 2, NDS and 3DS. I freaking love console controllers for this reason.
I even have an adapter for my computer that allows 2 SNES controllers to be plugged in for . . . reasons.
And my favorite game of all time will always be Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, because it was the first video game I bought with my "own" money (allowance, which we didn't get in my family for a good long time). It was quasi-magical.
The soundtrack is fucking stellar, seriously one of my favorites
...and then the composer didn't work on games ever again
XBL - Foreverender | 3DS FC - 1418 6696 1012 | Steam ID | LoL
The level select/map theme is awesome, in all its low-fi glory.
To throw in my old computer story, I didn't get a computer of my own until relatively later (I was 14, 1994). It was a 486SX-25. It came with 2MB of RAM. A friend of mine gave me a copy of the Doom shareware but I was unable to run it due to the RAM being too low, so I talked my mom into buying some. We got a 4MB SIMM from Sams Club and it was $270. I just bought 8GB for about $85. It also had a 101MB hard drive which we later upgraded to 512MB, I believe, when it died. It had a 2400 baud modem, which I used on local BBSes quite a bit. I used my birthday money later that year to buy a 14.4k modem, the fastest I knew of, which I think was about $110, and it was amazing. I think I could download a megabyte in a little over 10 minutes. Good times.
Anyway, just booted up Planetside 2 for the first time in like 8 months and holy crap a lot has changed. I got refunded for a bunch of perks that went away, I guess. I'm currently sitting on 323 certs, 3.3k SC, and 750 blue glowy circles with no idea what to do with any of it.
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
Who're you ingame? Want to try to join in on the madness. I might even fly crash a galaxy for the group!
I am, as [almost?] always, Elvenshae.
I'll hop on to invite you, but I'm still doing work so I can't play at the moment.
@Sir Carcass
The blue glowy circle things are your resources. It costs them to spawn vehicles and MAXes, restock grenades, restock medpacks, etc. Gone are the days of infantry, armor, and aviation resources. You earn them the same way, though.
A base connected to the lattice has infinite resources (IIRC; I'm pretty sure they've implemented this part, but it hasn't really affected me yet). One which is disconnected can run out as its defenders spawn stuff to help them defend. Then, it gets easier to take the base that you've starved out.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
Steam Support is the worst. Seriously, the worst
Some alchemy ingredients have two attributes. The first attribute is used to make the potion. The second attribute is used to match up and give your potion a second effect. match them all in your ingredients to accomplish this. I remember there being a white secondary effect and a black one.
you need strong alcohol for brews and can refine it from cheaper ones. I don't know how far you've gotten but the wiki has a checklist for the various chapters.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534