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05-30-2005, 04:30 AM
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#16 | | Barbarian Artist
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05-30-2005, 04:43 AM
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#17 | | Need coffee. Need coffee. Platinum Contributor
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| I think all the 2D scrollers and the like would have made great Clie games....  but that is just me, I grew up in that era....
Don't you ever sleep Jack?  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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05-30-2005, 05:37 AM
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#18 | | *** The Angel Defends ***
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Trans-dimensional Limbo
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by Cyker DOS rules. Some of the best games ever written were for DOS! :mrgreen:
Typical thing really, they couldn't do so much with the graphics so clever programming and good game design was essential. The music they managed to pull off with nothing but an Yamaha OPL3 FM synth always impresses me...
Nowadays they just throw pretty graphics at us and forget to actually make a game a lot of the time
I just wish I could get all my old Demoscene programs to run under emulaton - I have things like Crystal Dream 2 and Second Reality on my MindCandy DVD, but it's just not the same...! |
I agree totally - I find it difficult to get a good game nowadays - everything is graphics - I like UT2004/Quake 3 once in a while - its great to let out frustation by killing people LRC ... but games like the 2D version of Prince, Pacman, BalckJack just to name a few that I played were awesome -
I am honestly thinking of reverting my system entirely back to DOS and leave it like that - but then ... 
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05-30-2005, 12:01 PM
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#19 | | Samsung Omnia i910 Silver Contributor
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| LOL I was thinking the same thing in passing, but I would hate to see how fast a llitle CGA hardware-timed game like "Bouncing Babies" would look blurring it's way along at 3.0 Ghz!
Prince of Persia rocked on even my 7Mhz CGA-flavored XT, and I ran SimCity as well, although it was a "leave it running all day" proposition!
I have remained true, and have had a version of SimCity on almost every machine since, including SC3K on this PC, and SimCity on my TH55!
DOS was extremely cool, and familiarity with it made all the difference when I started playing with Windows. Heck, I still catch myself calling folders directories.
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05-30-2005, 05:15 PM
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#20 | | Barbarian Artist
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by SamuraiCatJB I think all the 2D scrollers and the like would have made great Clie games....  but that is just me, I grew up in that era....
Don't you ever sleep Jack?  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
Sometimes.
I love side scrollers also, and I was hoping for more since I havd my little tiny Sony gamepad.  Dammit, why didn't anything support my keyboard. Grumbles. I would've thought that the directional buttons on the keypad would've worked for everything, but nooooooooooo.
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05-30-2005, 05:18 PM
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#21 | | Barbarian Artist
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by strider_mt2k LOL I was thinking the same thing in passing, but I would hate to see how fast a llitle CGA hardware-timed game like "Bouncing Babies" would look blurring it's way along at 3.0 Ghz!
Prince of Persia rocked on even my 7Mhz CGA-flavored XT, and I ran SimCity as well, although it was a "leave it running all day" proposition!
I have remained true, and have had a version of SimCity on almost every machine since, including SC3K on this PC, and SimCity on my TH55!
DOS was extremely cool, and familiarity with it made all the difference when I started playing with Windows. Heck, I still catch myself calling folders directories. |
My 386 DX ran old 286 games at the speed of blur, even with the turbo turned off.
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I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles.
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05-30-2005, 05:20 PM
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#22 | | Barbarian Artist
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by seraphim_9:11 I agree totally - I find it difficult to get a good game nowadays - everything is graphics - I like UT2004/Quake 3 once in a while - its great to let out frustation by killing people LRC ... but games like the 2D version of Prince, Pacman, BalckJack just to name a few that I played were awesome -
I am honestly thinking of reverting my system entirely back to DOS and leave it like that - but then ...  |
Just install DosBox, I'm running it on a Mac.  Sooon, Star Control 2 will be running, I just figured out how to edit the config file, so I'm creating a custom one.  It's weird with this virtual z: drive it creates.
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I be a hearty pirate that plunders many waffles.
The Dread Pirate Monkey Gizmo has scurvy! :) Nintendo DS and Wii, me gaming machines of choice. |
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05-31-2005, 02:23 AM
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#23 | | *** The Angel Defends ***
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by JackAxe Just install DosBox, I'm running it on a Mac.  Sooon, Star Control 2 will be running, I just figured out how to edit the config file, so I'm creating a custom one.  It's weird with this virtual z: drive it creates.
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thats an idea I could use  .. wait a minute - is it one of those Mac-only things or can I use it on anything - knowing you it would probably be Mac only  ...
What is Star Control 2 ???  - or is that a really dumb question 
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05-31-2005, 04:51 AM
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#24 | | Barbarian Artist
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| DosBox is available for every platform, the link I provided in the first post will send you to a download page.
You've never play SC2.  It's one of my favorite games, and I consider it the best of its type. It's a cross beyond Astroids and a massive Sci-Fi RPG game. Well kind of.  Anyways I loved it and would like to play it all the way through again. http://sc2.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
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01-02-2008, 07:27 PM
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#25 | | Registered User
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| Has it gotten to work with input on tungsten e2 yet? |
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01-03-2008, 01:02 AM
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#26 | | Lifeflash'd and loving it
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01-03-2008, 02:50 PM
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#27 | | Custom User
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| i would love to see old DOS games on my palm (not only doom and quake and such...) like keen4e, or digger, or even triplane turmoil
sad... is any from our awesome developers willing to get some extra work? maybe you phreak  I would pay a few € to be able to do this  if possible...
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01-03-2008, 03:37 PM
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#28 | | Lifeflash'd and loving it
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| Quote: | Originally Posted by Church Punk
sad... is any from our awesome developers willing to get some extra work? maybe you phreak  I would pay a few € to be able to do this  if possible... |
Ah, hahaha...  I only accept $, sorry, and only from non opensource projects 
I doubt I could do much work on it. Busy with other projects  and don't have much (any) experience writing emulators. 
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01-03-2008, 03:48 PM
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#29 | | Beta Tester
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| The project doesn't need people who write emulators, it needs people who can bind the Palm input methods to a pre-existing framework -- the heavy lifting in DOSBox was completed long ago, which is why the final bits aren't all that alluring for coders to tackle.
Also, you might want to take note of this: http://www.emuboards.com/invision/i...ic=27399&st=105
-PalmDOSBox has been canceled, and the dev team was supposed to be working on porting QEmu instead. However, there hasn't been any activity on a QEmu port in the past year either. The source code for PDB isn't available on the sourceforge page, just the PRC (in violation of the GPL).
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01-03-2008, 03:55 PM
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#30 | | Lifeflash'd and loving it
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| /me shrugs
Maybe Ill take a look at the code tonight (got like 40 people asking me for stuff lol)
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