Matthew on 17/2/2010 at 14:59
Haha, I am bang to rights! I haven't read the article yet but noticed it in the contents and that brought the game back to mind. I do have it somewhere but bought it from a surplus software dealer when I had XP, so I never actually tried to get it running.
nuckinfutzcat on 17/2/2010 at 15:25
Win 3.1 in DosBox. That's Brilliant. I keep an old Dell Latitude for that and it's nothing but trouble. I'd like to see the writeup on that.
Renzatic on 17/2/2010 at 17:07
Quote Posted by N'Al
On that basis, Renz is clearly a dork, yes.
What the hell you blabbering on about? I'm sophisticated as fuck, son. :mad:
And I'd love to do a complete step by step writeup with pictures and everything, but now I'm having issues with my main comp, and my laptop here kinda sucks for anything beyond writing emails and checking out websites.
The hardest thing was finding a copy of Windows 3.11 to use. Once you get that, all you need to set up your little virtual drive folder in Dosbox, run setup.exe, then use win.com to execute it after it's installed. Also set it so Dosbox doesn't close when it exits Windows and returns to the prompt so you can install your soundcard drivers.
Like I said, it was surprisingly easy to do, specially once you figure out what hardware Dosbox emulates to do its thing. Plus, it actually runs dos games fairly well from inside of it. I tested out running Ultima Underworld and Blood from the file manager, and they clipped along at a fairly healthy pace. I'd almost say you could use it as a frontend if you want to.
Enchantermon on 18/2/2010 at 04:31
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
The version I played (CD, full speech) was windows-only.
Quote Posted by Thirith
If I remember correctly, there was a SVGA mode for the CD-ROM version of
KQVI which was Windows-only. Only the portraits were in SVGA, though, and perhaps the character zoom when Alexander walked towards the front of the screen may have been in higher res too.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Quest_VI:_Heir_Today,_Gone_Tomorrow#Versions) Ah, indeed. My apologies; I knew there was a DOS version with speech, but I didn't realize there was also a Windows version.
CocoClown on 18/2/2010 at 17:47
Quote Posted by Digital Nightfall
The version I played (CD, full speech) was windows-only.
And, as far as I am aware,
nerd: totally into math, science, programming, tech, etc.
geek: gets extremely excited about the stuff they love. tends to collect, obsess, etc.
dork: socially inept, lack of hygiene, unsophisticated, etc.
Granted, there's a ton of crossover on these.
I always had it as geek vs nerd being the other way 'round. Nerd being the obsessive type, geek being the type into knowing loads about something.
I guess everyone would rather be a geek than a nerd
Sulphur on 18/2/2010 at 17:49
Quote Posted by CocoClown
I always had it as geek vs nerd being the other way 'round. Nerd being the obsessive type, geek being the type into knowing loads about something.
I guess everyone would rather be a geek than a nerd
You know what's nerdy AND geeky AND dorky?
Picking nits over which one's which.
Sulphur on 18/2/2010 at 17:50
fuck guys did I just do a ZylonBane
Pyrian on 18/2/2010 at 21:02
Don't worry about it, we still love you hate him more. :cheeky:
