Enchantermon on 20/6/2009 at 15:32

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King's Quest and Space Quest are some of the best games ever made in the all-but-dead Adventure genre. I was incredibly excited when Vivendi released the Sierra Classics collection, although I can never seem to get rid of the little pops in the background music. At first, I can deal, but it gets annoying after a while.

Anyone remember Castle of Dr. Brain and Island of Dr. Brain? I'm playing through Island right now, trying to get the maximum high score. I remember when I was much younger getting so frustrated at some of those puzzles. I barely had the memory capacity (in my head) to complete Castle's gate puzzle on Standard, and I remember getting so incredibly lost in the elevator mazes. Island's polymino puzzles were a beast sometimes, and I never could figure out how you were supposed to solve the logic gates outside of trial-and-error (though now that I'm much older and have had some programming classes, I should be able to understand it; haven't gotten to them yet, though).

But yeah...Monster Bash, Paganitzu, Pharaoh's Tomb...awesome stuff.

Lemmings. I loved Lemmings. Until I got to the later stages and couldn't win them to save my life. But I would still play all the way there. I remember having a small notebook that I would write all of the level codes down in so I could remember them. It's still around...somewhere.

Anyone play The Fool's Errand? It was amazingly fun. Sometimes I play the whole game, and sometimes I start it up just to play a few rounds of Thoth. Cliff Johnson has released it and five other games of his as Freeware. You can download them (http://www.thefoolsgold.com/downloads/index.htm) here. (http://www.thefoolandhismoney.com/05-the-fool-and-his-money/index.htm) The sequel has also entered its final beta stage! :D
I remember when I had lost the Wheel of Fortune that came with the game for copy protection purposes. I was devastated, because you couldn't get into the game without it. I actually e-mailed Cliff Johnson and asked if he could somehow send me another one. Fortunately, he was pretty cool, and attached to the e-mail a cracked copy of the executable. :) This was, of course, before he released the games on his website.

What about Rogue? The journey through the Dungeons of Doom to retrieve the Amulet of Yendor while avoiding the dangerous monsters and hoping that you're lucky that day. Ah, memories.
I use (http://dfendreloaded.sourceforge.net/) D-Fend Reloaded as my DosBox frontend. I didn't even know there were others out there.

EvaUnit02 on 20/6/2009 at 17:51

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I tried that one, it felt really bloated. I dumped it fairly quickly.

I loved MechWarrior 2. I got given a gift (in 1996, I was about 9) of the bundle with it, the Ghost Bear Legacy expansion and NetMech. I liked GBL much more than the original game, the storyline and missions were far more interesting, IMO. I used to play NetMech deathmatch with my older brother a fair bit, great times.

MW2:Mercenaries was a terrific game as well, I didn't like as much as the older MW2 titles though.

A few years later I bought some bundle of the original MW2+GBL remade using the Mercs engine, not the later Titanium trilogy. It ruined the feeling of the games, IMO. I really regretted selling my original DOS copies.

Coincidentally a BattleTech cartoon started airing on TV around the same time that I was heavily into the games. I was overjoyed seeing that. In the show they even had "Advanced Imaging" sequences where the mech battles would be animated in primitive CGI, I thought that stuff like that was neat at that age.
The show was about an Inner Sphere military unit called Somerset Strikers fighting the clan Jade Falcon (at the very least), revenging the loss of their colony world Somerset.

Eshaktaar on 20/6/2009 at 19:15

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Hm, both UW 1 and 2 run smoothly on my machine (using latest DOSBox & D-Fend Reloaded).

sergeantgiggles on 20/6/2009 at 19:33

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(http://product.half.ebay.com/Star-Wars-X-Wing-Collector-Series_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ53190699)

It was lucasarts made. They made new briefing rooms/on ship navigation and they added textures to the models used in the originals and more customizable joystick support.

There is also a Tie fighter mod for X-Wing alliance, but I don't think they finished all the campaigns.

Zerker on 20/6/2009 at 20:38

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It's just a matter of setting the right number of cycles to emulate the approximately correct CPU speed.

I have UW 1 set to 12500 cycles and UW 2 set to 20000 cycles. Both run great, even on my damn Eee PC.

It's easier with games that do their own cpu scaling; those you can just set to "max" and they'll run great regardless. The UW games have funny behaviour with strafing if they run too fast, however.