Old, old games?

[Worm_in_a_Box]

So, anyone here is a fan of abandonware like me?
I used to play a few MUDs, Space Quest ,Quest for Glory, and atari old and crazy games. And also the classics like Jazz Jackrabbit, Aladdin, Lost Vikings and Carmen Sandiago.

[leech]

I don't think you could tell that I do :D

Leech

[Thirsteh]

In my opinion, MUD's aren't "abandonware" but rather "eterniware" --- hey, that was a nice expression.

[Snorri Kristjánsson]

MUD ahhh all those hours on the 2400kb modem:KS But can you remeber classics like Eye of the Beholder and Heroes Quest those weree the days:rolleyes:

[Dragonfly_X]

Yeah, Space Quest... all the time, Quest for glory(all 5 of them), Iceman, etc.

This all brings me to my next question... Since I'm not able to play any of my old games on my WinXP box, would it be possible to install and play games like Zork Nemisis, 7th Guest etc through cedega?? :-({|=

[Artificial Intelligence]

I think you have a better chance to run them through Dosbox. They are dos related?

[Snorri Kristjánsson]

At kveldi skal dag leyfa,
konu, er brennd er,
mæki, er reyndr er,
mey, er gefin er,
ís, er yfir kemr,
öl, er drukkit er.

;) ég sé að Það eru fleyri af okkur hérna.

[Artificial Intelligence]

Í vindi skal við höggva,
veðri á sjó róa,
myrkri við man spjalla,
mörg eru dags augu;
á skip skal skriðar orka,
en á skjöld til hlífar,
mæki höggs,
en mey til kossa.

Jeg kender min Hávamál ;)

[Worm_in_a_Box]

I managed to play all Hero Quests from 1 to 4, and Space Quest in dosbox. Hmm, still having problems to run Quest for Glory 4 1/2 =/ . Do we have anything for those games, besides dosbox?

[leech]

MUD ahhh all those hours on the 2400kb modem:KS But can you remeber classics like Eye of the Beholder and Heroes Quest those weree the days:rolleyes:

Eye of the Beholder was great, but give credit where credit is due. Dungeon Master! I miss the old 3D dungeon crawl games like Dungeon Master, they were great.

Here's some classics, Bruce Lee, Alternate Reality (which if I could program I would work on a free remake, maybe using the Crystal Space or the Ogre engines.), the old Ultima games... those were the days of great games.

All Everquest and World of Warcraft are at their most basic level is glorified Muds.

Leech

[Lord Illidan]

Eye of the Beholder was great, but give credit where credit is due. Dungeon Master! I miss the old 3D dungeon crawl games like Dungeon Master, they were great.

Here's some classics, Bruce Lee, Alternate Reality (which if I could program I would work on a free remake, maybe using the Crystal Space or the Ogre engines.), the old Ultima games... those were the days of great games.

All Everquest and World of Warcraft are at their most basic level is glorified Muds.

Leech

I like Tyrian. It was a real cool shooter. Worked on XP, never tried it in Linux Dosbox, though will give it a try.

P.S. Glorified MUDS they might be, but I think MMORGs is a better term... lol, imagine telling my friend he is playing MUD.

[leech]

I like Tyrian. It was a real cool shooter. Worked on XP, never tried it in Linux Dosbox, though will give it a try.

P.S. Glorified MUDS they might be, but I think MMORGs is a better term... lol, imagine telling my friend he is playing MUD.

:D Cool, I am so going to start telling my friends they're playing with MUD.

Leech

[Worm_in_a_Box]

Call me a grumpy if you want , but the original old Muds were tooooo much more fun... like, they got all the big-heavy graphics, and animations , etc...,etc..., but a bad story and absolute no roleplay at all.........2400 modems.....ah....those were really thedays ._.!

[Galoot]

Everyone here knows about BBSMates (http://www.bbsmates.com/), right? If not, think Classmates.com for your old BBS pals--minus the spam and the "connect fees."

[handy]

Has anyone got Carmageddon to run in DosBox?

I love that game, no way it would run on xp. :(

[Edit:] I think the screen res' would be a problem, dosbox being limited to vga.

handy

[BoyOfDestiny]

Hurray, I'm not alone. Anyway I get my old school fix with advmame, dosbox, mednafen, and zsnes.

Yes tyrian works in dosbox. Haven't tested all my Sierra games yet... Did test/play ;) larry 1-6, kq1-7 except 2 (turns out 7 has a dos version on the CD [which I found at home during xmas], sq 1-5... I think lsl7 also has a dos version on cd... Need to find my discs...A lot of epic classics work besides Tyrian.

Thanks for reading my post:

It seems tyrian2k is now freeware!

http://www.liberatedgames.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=49&rid=0&S=7ee80bcc698fdfb3e717711b744207aa


http://members.iinet.net.au/~vannevar/tyrian/downloads.html

P.S For Tyrian or Tyrian2k: for even more old school fun, type "destruct" (without quotes of course) at the title screen. Awesome scorched earth style game!

EDIT: Also my avatar is the Two Guy's from Andromeda, Space Quest IV version. =)

[Worm_in_a_Box]

LOL, Carmageddon, how could I forget the classics of senseless killing?
I think that it won't run in dosbox, but there is a good chance of it working in wine or cedega. Thinking now, it might work ,if Hero Quest 4 worked o_0"...

[leech]

Carmageddon rocked.

You want to talk old stuff. On my Atari Mega STe I had a 1200 baud modem and tried to download a 1mb demo (The Demo scene rocked on the Amiga, and the ST had some decent ones too). After finally downloading it (about 3 days later, due to disconnects, etc) the damn demo didn't even work. Came to find out later that it didn't work on the Mega STe and only the 1040 ST or older. I was pissed.

My first modem by the way was a 300 baud one that I had connected to my Atari 800XL. I can type faster now then that thing could send text :D

Those were the good old days. I really want to start up a project to recreate Alternate Reality, and maybe finish it off... since only two parts of t were ever created (dungeon, city). That was the best idea for a game, and was the first game ever to actually use bitmapped walls :D

Ubuntu has several Muds in the repositories, maybe we should start one up?

Leech

[Worm_in_a_Box]

I don't know picles about administrating a MUD, but if you need any extra hands, I can help _O/ !

[handy]

DosBox site says Carmageddon is broken. :( Runs far too slow with black stripes, after taking forever to load.

oh well, there may be another way? If not today, then tomorrow... :p

[Dragonfly_X]

I think you have a better chance to run them through Dosbox. They are dos related?

I'll give it a shot! :D

[handy]

I got Carma to work on xp, I'm sure that it wouldn't in past attemps, long gone!?

So, I'll continue trying to get it to work in Ubuntu, until I run out of patience.

[jobsonandrew]

I got carmageddon working brilliantly with DOSemu.. only problem is it asks me for the CD and theres no real cracks out there for it anymore..

Ive been trying to get Carmageddon 2 working under WINE.. It runs... but its so slow its not worth playing... and i dont get any sound... anyone had any luck with wine? are games always going to be slower in wine??

[juamez.]

I just tried carmageddon 2 under wine, and it runs but at a lousy framerate. Sound works though, it's just painfully slow. Too bad, because it's a nice game. :)

[grossaffe]

So, anyone here is a fan of abandonware like me?
I used to play a few MUDs, Space Quest ,Quest for Glory, and atari old and crazy games. And also the classics like Jazz Jackrabbit, Aladdin, Lost Vikings and Carmen Sandiago.

Space Quest IV was awesome.

I'm a fan of the old DOS star trek games
Star Trek: The 25th Anniversary
Star Trek: Judgment Rites

[grossaffe]

I got carmageddon working brilliantly with DOSemu.. only problem is it asks me for the CD and theres no real cracks out there for it anymore..

Ive been trying to get Carmageddon 2 working under WINE.. It runs... but its so slow its not worth playing... and i dont get any sound... anyone had any luck with wine? are games always going to be slower in wine??

I believe Dosbox is supposed to be better than DOSemu at this point. also, if you have the CD files but not the CD, couldn't you just mount the directory of the files as a CD? Don't know if DOSemu does that, but I do that with Dosbox

[oldrocker99]

I started back in '83 with a VIC-20, then a C-64. The best game for the C-64 was probably M.U.L.E, still a ground-breaking game design. Many people have wished for a modern version that could be played, say, online.

ELITE was pretty cool, using about 95% of the C-64's RAM, and sucked a lot of people in (it lives on in oolite, in the repos).

Play on...

:guitar:

[jetsam]

Looking for the name of an old mac game (greyscale era) where you did operations... It was very detailed, and had such careful pacing that if you bothered to play the game, you knew that you were never gonna even start to operate in an unofficial manner.

It was very scientific and about as objective and dull about the whole affair as imaginable. I just can't remember the name. This question has an answer. The game is educational and scientifically minded.

[CharmyBee]

Life & Death (http://www.mobygames.com/game/life-death/cover-art/gameCoverId,185216/)?

[jetsam]

I don't think that's it. That looks better :)

The one I remember was boring. That one is blue and black and red all over.

Wow. This topic is fascinating. This is like a taboo for video games, and it's hard to find objective info on. Nobody wants to teach kids to operate! Makes sense, actually. I'm sure there's a book that rates them all somewhere. We can move on. Thanks for the lonk.

Everybody talk about railroad games or something.
lol

[rp3]

I started back in '83 with a VIC-20, then a C-64. The best game for the C-64 was probably M.U.L.E, still a ground-breaking game design. Many people have wished for a modern version that could be played, say, online.

ELITE was pretty cool, using about 95% of the C-64's RAM, and sucked a lot of people in (it lives on in oolite, in the repos).

Play on...

:guitar:

Ditto, but I loved/lived the Ultima Series, I can remember playing the first one in my dorm room for days on end..

And who can forget the original ZORK, I used to play at a friends house with his Mom, and we would be up all night drinking coke and mapping the game... Then to finish and realize we missed some points...

Oh yes those were the days... C-64 and 300 baud BBS and Dungeons and Dragons the rest of the time..

Making me think back...

:)

[jetsam]

Would you like...

The can with the bubbled lid
or
The jar with the rusted top?

[mrsocksman]

Install Vavoom. I forget if it's in the normal repository for ubuntu but you get like DOOM, Heretic, Hexen and Strife. It is amazing, I love it. No need to put it in a emu and it automatically and legally obtains the .wads(wads is right, right?) for you when you start one of the games.

[tinaitsprano]

Oh man, I love those old Sierra games

[rbaleksandar]

Adventure games from the old days are something that I can't stop playing even if my life depends on doing that. :D There are some great titles in the last couple of years too, but the big BOOM (of Loom :D). So tools like DOSBox or ScummVM are a delight for the heart.

[SoFl W]

I remember playing Wizardry on an apple, was pretty far along when I reversed two numbers and transfered myself into a brick wall. I didn't want to start over so I never played again.

My favorite BBS game was LOD (Land of Devastation). I looked it up once and the author was thinking about making an Internet version but I don't think it ever went anywhere.

[ronnielsen1]

I've used this site for old abandonware games. All the ones I've tried work well in dosbox
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[cariboo907]

I've used this site for old abandonware games. All the ones I've tried work well in dosbox
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We don't support this type of activity on the forums.

[formaldehyde_spoon]

We don't support this type of activity on the forums.
Does this activity have a name?

[lisati]

Does this activity have a name?

It's a secret...... :)

But seriously: links to some sites are discouraged because of the potential for legal complications and/or illegal activity.

[ronnielsen1]

Sorry:(

[Renny722]

little later but I played/still play nintendo's original duck hunt. Graphics are bad but its such a classic game

[ronnielsen1]

Duck Hunts Great. Have that on Wii Homebrew

[Yeeha]

Indiana Jones: fate of the atlantis... That brings memoryes. Triplane Turmoil was great game to play with friends. Those who like Triplane might wanna try Clonk.

[jetsam]

Zork: The Next Generation.

[cgb]

One of the first games I can remember playing on a computer was Bards Tale on a Apple 2e.. Dungeon mapping was quite a pain but what an adventure at the time. Also good classic dos games I liked were Jones in the Fast Lane and Rampart... Any of the police/kings quest games were always great as well, or for that matter anything by sierra at that time...

[WhiteMagicRaven]

Install Vavoom. I forget if it's in the normal repository for ubuntu but you get like DOOM, Heretic, Hexen and Strife. It is amazing, I love it. No need to put it in a emu and it automatically and legally obtains the .wads(wads is right, right?) for you when you start one of the games.

It might help you http://www.doomworld.com/classicdoom/ports/index.php
Or use DOSBox http://www.dosbox.com/
And yes this is awesome games i love them, and even play this online. Plus HeXen II
if problems with hexen2? use this http://uhexen2.sourceforge.net/

[formaldehyde_spoon]

Zork: The Next Generation.

Even better: Zork 1, 2 and 3, the text adventure games. Classics!
My first ever games.

[jerrrys]

Even better: Zork 1, 2 and 3, the text adventure games. Classics!
My first ever games.

still playing them

158536

[formaldehyde_spoon]

still playing them

158536

Nice!
Good to see the greatest game ever made (Nethack) there too...

BTW, what is that icon set?

[jerrrys]

default.kde located in synaptic package manager (gnome)