old-school gaming

[Zyphrexi]

how many of you play old school games? and what kinds?

Right now I've been playing the old BUILD engine games, trying to get jfbuild to compile, but I think I need fmod for it.

[kbless7]

well old school for my age is Banjo-Kazooie for N64. i've been playing around with that lately. awesome with a 360 controller

[grossaffe]

how many of you play old school games? and what kinds?

Right now I've been playing the old BUILD engine games, trying to get jfbuild to compile, but I think I need fmod for it.

i'm an old-school gamer. got me 3 SNESes, SNES emulator for my computers, SNES->PC controller adaptor i built by hand, DOSbox for old-school dos games (Star Trek 25th anniversary is great for nostalgia), still love me some Doom when killing time (gotta love doom on an mp3 player before class)... yeah, i think i may be a little old-school.

[Crafty Kisses]

how many of you play old school games? and what kinds?

Right now I've been playing the old BUILD engine games, trying to get jfbuild to compile, but I think I need fmod for it.

I play DOOM, and I'm still trying to find Wolfenstein for Linux. :(

[crazyfuturamanoob]

I play sometimes old c&c games,
like ra2 and tiberian sun

Im a hardcore c&c player, or at least I
was, until ea ruined c&c... :(

[spec-chum]

Definitely. ZX Spectrum games with FUSE and old arcade games with sdlmame. I'm quite partial to a bit of Doom every now and then too. :)

[grossaffe]

I play DOOM, and I'm still trying to find Wolfenstein for Linux. :(
does wolfendoom work on linux?

[Dark Aspect]

I play DOOM, and I'm still trying to find Wolfenstein for Linux. :(

Wolfenstein 3D works with dosbox,just increase the CPU cycles in the dosbox.conf if the game is slow.Wolfendoom should work though dosbox too if you have doom binaries that old,the oldest one I have is doom95 so.

anyway,for old games I play:

Doom
Quake 2
Wolfenstein 3D (Via Dosbox)
Commander Keen (Via Dosbox)
Duke Nukem 2 (Via Dosbox)
Duke Nukem 3D High Res pack (via jfduke)

And for people having problems getting jfduke to work on 64-bit like me,no I don't remember how I got it to work.I think I moved various 32-bit libs to my lib32 folder,I never got eduke to work though.

[Nick Blinko]

I play older fps games
the first three quakes
doom
duke3d
Kingpin
etc..

lately I've been trying to get Sin to run natively on linux, but the installer is screwed up.

[jofish15]

Old skool? How about Zork! Oh yeah, I like me some text-based adventuring. Its like choose your own adventure on the computer.

[a-guitarist]

Old School, hrm, not sure if it qualifies, but Alpha Centauri, Fallout.

Greg

[landeel]

SDLmame, Gens, Kega Fusion (under wine)...
Playing Double Dragon, Sonic, Streets of Rage, Street Fighter... Now that's old school! :)

[Whiffle]

Commander Keen from time to time here.

[ABX323]

I played Duke Nukem on Commodore 64.:shock:

[jcwmoore]

love the old dos games. DosBox is a wonderful thing!

I play Aces of the Deep, Arena, Oregon Trail. I'd like to play Lords of the Realm 2 but that isn't for dos, that I know of.

[solitaire]

Does playing "Dope Wars" count? :D:D

[Crafty Kisses]

does wolfendoom work on linux?

I'm pretty sure it does.

[Archmage]

aptitute install hearse

Since than I'm playing round about 1 hour each day Nethack.

[compiledkernel]

Hrmmm....floppy x386 install of Mechwarrior 1 (actually ran on a CGA screen).

Dosbox runs it quite beautifully.

[desertboy]

Is Skool Daze "old school" enough

[rastari]

you can't beat a good bit of pong or possibly pacman

[Fire_Chief]

I've played the original Castle Wolfenstein from the Apple II days in DosBox. (ah, the soft glow of green monochrome....)

[atomkarinca]

Prehistorik 2 through DOSBox and Beneath a Steel Sky through ScummVM. Especially I love Prehistorik 2. First time I ran it with dosbox, I was so happy that I was gonna cry.

"Yeaaa... My game is still working in 2008 !!
Programmed in 1992 on at .286 12MHz.
...Enjoy oldies!!"

[raydeen]

TES Arena + Dosbox = much fun. You'll have to crank up the CPU cycles to between 15,000 and 20,000. It's actually more stable then it was on a regular PC. I don't think it's ever crashed in Dosbox. Gonna have to try Daggerfall next...

[sackbj]

Would this be an appropriate place to ask about roms and emulators? I also saw that someone uses a 360 controller. I have some old roms that I would love to play again. I had an old Logitech Wingman controller but assigning keys to it was a total pain. Emulators had a really hard time with any kind of diagonal movement.

Old school for me are games like:
Super Mario World/RPG/All-Stars
the SNES Bomberman games
Sonic Spinball
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

[themuddaload]

I play sometimes old c&c games,
like ra2 and tiberian sun

Im a hardcore c&c player, or at least I
was, until ea ruined c&c... :(

on tiberian sun i can never beat the level where you have to take your hover tanks past the big nod lazer thing, it makes me sad. ='(

any hints =)

[solitaire]

on tiberian sun i can never beat the level where you have to take your hover tanks past the big nod lazer thing, it makes me sad. ='(

any hints =)

Do you have the ability to build "Sandbags" or Walls on that level? it's been ages since i played that game!!

Think there is a way round the back on that map, bit hazy on it, but i'm sure there was a way to get a tank to a hidden Nod power station...

[themuddaload]

Do you have the ability to build "Sandbags" or Walls on that level? it's been ages since i played that game!!

Think there is a way round the back on that map, bit hazy on it, but i'm sure there was a way to get a tank to a hidden Nod power station...

yeah, i found that, but it wouldnt knock out the tower...

[grossaffe]

Would this be an appropriate place to ask about roms and emulators? I also saw that someone uses a 360 controller. I have some old roms that I would love to play again. I had an old Logitech Wingman controller but assigning keys to it was a total pain. Emulators had a really hard time with any kind of diagonal movement.

Old school for me are games like:
Super Mario World/RPG/All-Stars
the SNES Bomberman games
Sonic Spinball
Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

I use SNES9x + gtk/openGL for SNES emulation. i don't have a Wingman, but i do have a rumblepad2 and it works fine with that. for the most part, though, i use real SNES controllers. nothing can give you the feeling of playing an SNES like using a genuine SNES controller.

[sackbj]

I use SNES9x + gtk/openGL for SNES emulation. i don't have a Wingman, but i do have a rumblepad2 and it works fine with that. for the most part, though, i use real SNES controllers. nothing can give you the feeling of playing an SNES like using a genuine SNES controller.

Are you using some kind of adapter or are you saying that you just like playing them on the SNES?

There was an old wrestling game for SNES (I think it was WWF RAW) where the two guys would lock up and a bar would appear over their heads. You had to press a bunch of buttons to get the bar to tip in your favor. Whoever mashed the most buttons in a set amount of time would win the lock-up and would pull off some kind of move like a throw or something. If you won by a lot you could pull off a special move. The thing I remember about that is that there were two buttons on the SNES controller that were concave down. I got so many blisters from those after a couple hours of RAW.

[RiceMonster]

I've been playing Descent II lately, which is pretty fun. I use DOSBox for all the older games I play such as:

DOOM
Wolfenstein 3D
WarCraft 2
Commander Keen
Quake
Duke Nuke 'Em 3D
STUNTS
Jazz Jackrabbit

Yeah, I like old school gaming.

[kidux]

Yep. I love the older, simpler (programming wise at least) games. I've been playing a lot of Baldur's Gate lately, but also the Quest for Glory games, Shadowcaster (my all time favorite FPS), Doom I&II, Planescape, Alpha Centauri, and of course Zork.

[Zyphrexi]

I never quite got into zork... it's cool and all, text adventuring, but I could never quite picture it, and I always got lost. Also I seem to die a lot. Personally I like crossfire, nothing beats running your own server.

[JohnSearle]

Are you using some kind of adapter or are you saying that you just like playing them on the SNES?

Taking a quick look at EBay, it would appear that there are adapters to plug old GC / PS2 / SNES / NES, etc. controllers into a USB port. Does anyone know if these adapters work in a Ubuntu environment?

Two examples:


SNES Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/SNES-to-USB-adapter-Super-Nintendo-to-PC_W0QQitemZ200217918745QQihZ010QQcategoryZ74943QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
GC / PS2 Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/Trio-Linker-PLUS-2-Gamecube-PS2-Dreamcast-to-PC-USB_W0QQitemZ310043319700QQihZ021QQcategoryZ41059Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)


- John

[el mariachi]

how about rpg's? anything around like Chrono Trigger for the pc? (maybe linux... :D) I still spin my N64 joystick a lot hehe

[grossaffe]

Taking a quick look at EBay, it would appear that there are adapters to plug old GC / PS2 / SNES / NES, etc. controllers into a USB port. Does anyone know if these adapters work in a Ubuntu environment?

Two examples:


SNES Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/SNES-to-USB-adapter-Super-Nintendo-to-PC_W0QQitemZ200217918745QQihZ010QQcategoryZ74943QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
GC / PS2 Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/Trio-Linker-PLUS-2-Gamecube-PS2-Dreamcast-to-PC-USB_W0QQitemZ310043319700QQihZ021QQcategoryZ41059Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)


- John

if you want an SNES adaptor, build one that connects to a parallel port. i built one that takes five controllers and it does work in linux.

[el mariachi]

if you want an SNES adaptor, build one that connects to a parallel port. i built one that takes five controllers and it does work in linux.
show us *drools*

[grossaffe]

show us *drools*

I followed the instructions from here: http://www.tolaris.com/snes-to-parallel/

I chose to take the path of using a 5-player adaptor to steal the female snes jacks from. I also had an old extension cable that i cut open and stole a fifth female jack from. here's what it looked like when it was all done:
http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s109/Grossaffe/DSCN1156.jpg

[acoustibop]

Taking a quick look at EBay, it would appear that there are adapters to plug old GC / PS2 / SNES / NES, etc. controllers into a USB port. Does anyone know if these adapters work in a Ubuntu environment?

Two examples:


SNES Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/SNES-to-USB-adapter-Super-Nintendo-to-PC_W0QQitemZ200217918745QQihZ010QQcategoryZ74943QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
GC / PS2 Adapter (http://cgi.ebay.ca/Trio-Linker-PLUS-2-Gamecube-PS2-Dreamcast-to-PC-USB_W0QQitemZ310043319700QQihZ021QQcategoryZ41059Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)


- John

Many of these adapters do work in Linux - I have to say the only one I've tried was a no-name Playstation controller adapter and it worked fine.


how about rpg's? anything around like Chrono Trigger for the pc? (maybe linux... :D) I still spin my N64 joystick a lot hehe

You can play Chrono Trigger on the PC (Windows or Linux) with the appropriate emulator: I'd recommend ZSNES (in the repositories) for the SNES version, or pSX Emulator (http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/) for the Playstation port.

[grossaffe]

Many of these adapters do work in Linux - I have to say the only one I've tried was a no-name Playstation controller adapter and it worked fine.




You can play Chrono Trigger on the PC (Windows or Linux) with the appropriate emulator: I'd recommend ZSNES (in the repositories) for the SNES version, or pSX Emulator (http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/) for the Playstation port.

really? there's been quite a few sound issues with zsnes, i'd go with snes9x +gtk and openGL.

[el mariachi]

too bad that's not very legal..
and too bad there aren't games like that for the pc

[grossaffe]

too bad that's not very legal..
and too bad there aren't games like that for the pc

lets just go under the assumption that you ripped the ROM that you own yourself and are keeping it on your computer as backup. ;)

[acoustibop]

really? there's been quite a few sound issues with zsnes, i'd go with snes9x +gtk and openGL.

But for most people - certainly myself - the sound problems are easily fixed. ZSNES is certainly my emulator of choice for SNES games. ;)

lets just go under the assumption that you ripped the ROM that you own yourself and are keeping it on your computer as backup. ;)

But isn't that what we all do? :???:

[grossaffe]

But for most people - certainly myself - the sound problems are easily fixed. ZSNES is certainly my emulator of choice for SNES games. ;)

I guess i'm just an snes9x person. but still, how can you not like the snes9x with gtk and openGL? its awesome!


But isn't that what we all do? :???:
of course http://www.extremeskins.com/forums/images/smilies/paranoid.gif

[k33bz]

wow, ya'll called snes and n64 old school gaming. Sorry folks, to me that aint that old. I play old school games, things from teh DOS gaming era, as well as atari and the ancient commodore 64.
that to me is old school gaming.

[Artificial Intelligence]

What about trying Tyrian (now known as OpenTyrian it went Opensource): http://gaming.gwos.org/doku.php/games:alphabetical:o:opentyrian
Very addictive.

[grossaffe]

wow, ya'll called snes and n64 old school gaming. Sorry folks, to me that aint that old. I play old school games, things from teh DOS gaming era, as well as atari and the ancient commodore 64.
that to me is old school gaming.

that ain't gaming, that's archeology.

[Grishka]

that ain't gaming, that's archeology.

archeology? here's an excellent excavation site. ;) http://worldofspectrum.org/

[el mariachi]

Day of the tentacle seems cool :D I'm only 18 so I grew up with SNES and Sega Mega Drive (genesis) games that my neighbors had. My dad had a Spectrum (we still have it, but only the keyboard, I think you need something more to make it work (?))

[Grishka]

Day of the tentacle seems cool :D I'm only 18 so I grew up with SNES and Sega Mega Drive (genesis) games that my neighbors had. My dad had a Spectrum (we still have it, but only the keyboard, I think you need something more to make it work (?))

that's not a keyboard, that's a whole computer. :)

[el mariachi]

that's not a keyboard, that's a whole computer. :)
really? because my father told me there's something missing.. like a cassette player or something. Do you really need that? (guess the games need to come from somewhere...)

[Grishka]

really? because my father told me there's something missing.. like a cassette player or something. Do you really need that? (guess the games need to come from somewhere...)

Spectrum can load software from a casette recorder or a disk drive, but it will boot and can be used without them, for example to write simple programs in BASIC. a TV set is needed to see what's going on, though. :)

[Sockerdrickan]

but still, how can you not like the snes9x with gtk and openGL?

I don't want to count how many times you said "snes9x with gtk and openGL" in this thread :)

What's so good about GTK when there is a rendered awesome GUI?
Why say it uses OpenGL when zSnes can, too? :)


For me it's GameBoy games all the way though! :D

[k33bz]

archeology? here's an excellent excavation site. ;) http://worldofspectrum.org/

:)

im lovin this site, old *** games:guitar:

[grossaffe]

I don't want to count how many times you said "snes9x with gtk and openGL" in this thread :)

What's so good about GTK when there is a rendered awesome GUI?
Why say it uses OpenGL when zSnes can, too? :)


For me it's GameBoy games all the way though! :D
probably because that's how the thing was introduced to me. you could compile it without gtk, but when i first saw it, that's how it was called and it stuck with me.

[schtufbox]

I've been playing Skool Daze on a Speccy Emulator recently. Now that's literally old school gaming.

[rywibr]

yeah, for me old school games was around the snes times, and the gameboy. Not the fancy gameboys you have now like the color or the SP or whatever, but the good old black and white, bulky, lovable gameboy.

Actually, it was more like black and green :P

but yeah, about as close as I get now are my good ol' emulators... I gotta get myself an older system again

[grossaffe]

yeah, for me old school games was around the snes times, and the gameboy. Not the fancy gameboys you have now like the color or the SP or whatever, but the good old black and white, bulky, lovable gameboy.

Actually, it was more like black and green :P

but yeah, about as close as I get now are my good ol' emulators... I gotta get myself an older system again
I got me two original gameboys, an original Nintendo, and three Super Nintendos :D

[drunkmatador]

Relatively old school. Some of my favorites are Metroid, Earthbound, Heroes of Might and Magic... all the Squaresoft games. But metroid about takes the cake.

[Grishka]

Relatively old school. Some of my favorites are Metroid, Earthbound, Heroes of Might and Magic... all the Squaresoft games. But metroid about takes the cake.

great games! I've never played Metroid Primes, but Super Metroid and Metroid Zero were, and still are, great, great games. perhaps the best platformers ever, IMNSHO. yeah. as for Earthbound, I'm eagerly waiting for Mother 3 fan translation team (http://mother3.fobby.net/) to finally get their work done. as for HoMM games are also very good, but the best game in the series is In the Wake of Gods - an unofficial expansion for HoMM 3.

[der_joachim]

I like playing old adventures from the Scumm era. ScummVM is in the repos and I have a few old Lucasarts games lying around. Lots of fun.

As a side note, yesterday I finished Discworld 1 for the first time. DW2 was easier in my memory, but I'll have to install it to find out.
DW1 is insanely difficult to solve. Thank the intertubes for walkthroughs. :|

The openTyrian link is dead. Here's the project page (http://code.google.com/p/opentyrian/).

[el mariachi]

what about old-school-ish games for the pc? Stuff like Cave Story and the in-dev Fez.
I'm don't know much about old games so it's hard to find alikes and remakes. Any good ones out there?

[drunkmatador]

Cool, never heard of that! Wake of Gods, I mean. So would I have to download HoMM 3 again or could I just get that? And more importantly.. will it run in wine?

[nomhire]

In my case, SNES Games ^_^.
I think SNES era was the greatest in the videogames history. We played incredible games for this system just like: Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat, Super Metroid, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 3 (Final Fantasy VI in Japan), Chronno Trigger, Super Mario All Stars, Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, and a long etc.
Greetings.

[Grishka]

Cool, never heard of that! Wake of Gods, I mean. So would I have to download HoMM 3 again or could I just get that? And more importantly.. will it run in wine?

you need HoMM 3 with all expansions (eg. a Complete edition) to install Wake of Gods. WoG can be downloaded from, for example http://wakeofthegods.strategyplanet.gamespy.com/download.shtml (the site looks odd in Firefox, you have to scroll all the way to the right.). I remember playing WoG under Wine, but that was over a year and a half ago, and I think I had to install it in Windows. don't know how it works with Wine now, though it's got silver status in Wine application database (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=7029). anyway, this addon changes and enhances HoMM 3 in so many ways, that it basically becomes a different game overall. the sheer amount of new options and customizations possible is overwhelming at first. :-) and it takes some time to understand all of the new stuff. WoG official campaigns are a bit buggy, but there are many excellent custom maps available around the net. also, you can play old HoMM 3 maps and campaigns with modified rules and stuff. Heroes of Might and Magic V is just plain boring in comparison (though I know some people absolutely HAVE to play their games in 3d).

[sixdrift]

Someone mentioned old school, then someone mentioned archaeology...

I have a playable Atari 2600 and about 30 original games for it. It is a one-owner system, I got it as a kid.

Oh, and I played Pong when it first came out in a console.

But now, Doom and Quake are as old school as I care to do.

But Chopper Command on that Atari... good times... good times.

[Helios1276]

Playing over some Amiga classics under an emulator..the C64 was good but the Amiga rocked!

[DoktorSeven]

I love the entire spectrum of oldschool games. I have a ton of emulators installed on my machine, from Stella (Atari 2600) through Mupen64Plus (N64) and ePSXe (PS1) and play them all (please, no pSX advocacy, I still have much better luck with ePSXe!).

Heck, I like all these older games much better than anything released in the past 5+ years...

[Xcursion666]

nobody on this thread mentioned the ultima series or might and magic or any of the other roguelike or dungeon rpgs for dos:mad:
i have ultima 1 - 6 and might and magic 1 - 4 and i use dos box to play them

plus i have ultima 1-4 for and might and magic 1 and 2 for c64 i have hundreds of dos and c64 games on floppy disks plus i have some on magnetic tapes(i dont use a c64 emulator i have the real thing):guitar:

[oldrocker99]

Playing over some Amiga classics under an emulator..the C64 was good but the Amiga rocked!

Did it ever; I was one of the first people in my county to have an Amiga and one of the last to quit. Coming to Ubuntu reminded me of nothing so much as my beloved ol' AmigaOS. Ubuntu is WAY better, of course;)

[Xcursion666]

Did it ever; I was one of the first people in my county to have an Amiga and one of the last to quit. Coming to Ubuntu reminded me of nothing so much as my beloved ol' AmigaOS. Ubuntu is WAY better, of course;)
what do u mean last to quit i still use my Amiga i just got done playing alien breed 3d a few moments ago:guitar:

[niitsu]

Nice topic!
With Dosbox, I still play Pinball Fantasies! And in the Genesis emulator, I always play Kid Chameleon in classes.

Regards!

[rolleander]

I love the old school games! My favorite one as of late is a game I've been hooked on since age 7. Zak Mckracken and the Alien Minbenders (weirdest title of a game ever too) been playing the C64 version through ScummVM lately - It's neat cuz I don't have to wait for load times like on a real C64 - the C64 emulators you can put into warp mode - but sometimes that screws things up.

My favorite machine of all time was the C64 - other favorites on it were Choplifter, Neuromancer, Maniac Mansion, Sid Meier's Pirates! , The Pawn, and Thieves Guild just to name a few.

Funny - seems to be a real chore to get any Commodore emulation (VICE) to work in Ubuntu 10.04 - I remember getting it to work in 8.04, but now I go to start and nothing happens - working with winVice through wine for now...

[weasel fierce]

what do u mean last to quit i still use my Amiga i just got done playing alien breed 3d a few moments ago:guitar:

Played Alien Breed 2 and Warlords earlier tonight on my 1200 :)

[Spice Weasel]

At the moment I'm playing a scrolling FF-like RPG for DOS. It's called Mysterious Song. The graphics are fairly good, and it seems to play pretty well. I haven't really got in to it yet, but if you are in to RPGs and DOS gaming I suggest you check it out. ;)

[RabidWeezle]

Hrm, I have the entire atari 2600 rom set I play on stella from time to time when I'm feeling like some pacman or frogger or zaxxon. I play a few old dos games off my steam account (all the ID games). The doom games though I don't play like I did back then. I mean, now I have sound! And I use dengine with 3d models, high res packs, remixed audio tracks, etc. I have some fond memories of playing alot of these games, but I don't hit up the classic games as much as the new games by far. As much fun as Burger Time was back then, playing a game of left4dead coop on a hard difficulty seems more fun these days. But sometimes I do get that nostalgia and load up dosbox/emulator. So it's nice to have as an option.

[Xcursion666]

i know that the source code for alien breed 3d 1 and 2 have been released but has anybody done any linux ports yet that would be awesome the only Amiga fps game that ive seen a linux port of is cytadela which is an okay game but alien breed 3d was better:guitar:

[Xcursion666]

i just found my copy of the might and magic collection im going to use wine to install it:cool:
going to play some mm v tonight

[Xcursion666]

Played Alien Breed 2 and Warlords earlier tonight on my 1200 :)
warlords is good i also have every alien breed game for amiga are u using an emulator or the real thing because i prefer the real thing currrently i am running fully expanded amiga 1200 and 4000 systems i have also been able to get alien breed 3d 2 to run on them (man that game runs slow in with high details in fullscreen lol) i have both high quality and reduced quality versions of the game

:guitar:

[weasel fierce]

warlords is good i also have every alien breed game for amiga are u using an emulator or the real thing because i prefer the real thing currrently i am running fully expanded amiga 1200 and 4000 systems i have also been able to get alien breed 3d 2 to run on them (man that game runs slow in with high details in fullscreen lol) i have both high quality and reduced quality versions of the game

:guitar:

A1200 (Commodore rather than amiga technologies). Got a modest accelerator (030/25 with 8 megs of RAM) and a 4 gig CF card as a hard drive.

Pretty excited about the new accelerators that amigakit will have soon. 030/56 with 64 megs of RAM :)

[Xcursion666]

A1200 (Commodore rather than amiga technologies). Got a modest accelerator (030/25 with 8 megs of RAM) and a 4 gig CF card as a hard drive.

Pretty excited about the new accelerators that amigakit will have soon. 030/56 with 64 megs of RAM :)
awsome man have u seen the c64 laptop that ben heck built basicly i want to do the same the same thing with the amiga when i get extra money from my tax return not sure if its been done before i recently got a bunch of amiga games for 25 cents apiece a friend of mine his dad bought a store that sold computers and parts and games the original owner was retiring to make a long story short he had a shitload of c64 systems amiga systems (at least 20) plus hundreds of unsold games in the basement of the store and the amiga games were sold to me for 25 cents apiece

[weasel fierce]

awsome man have u seen the c64 laptop that ben heck built basicly i want to do the same the same thing with the amiga when i get extra money from my tax return not sure if its been done before i recently got a bunch of amiga games for 25 cents apiece a friend of mine his dad bought a store that sold computers and parts and games the original owner was retiring to make a long story short he had a shitload of c64 systems amiga systems (at least 20) plus hundreds of unsold games in the basement of the store and the amiga games were sold to me for 25 cents apiece

Very nice :)

My wishlist is fairly short these days.

If I find the room to stash it all in, I'd love a 500 (because its so damn classic), another 1200 (for serial link games) and a kitted out 4000T (RTG, etc) but good luck finding those for an affordable price.


Mostly though, booting up the amiga OS just makes me happy.

[Xcursion666]

Very nice :)

My wishlist is fairly short these days.

If I find the room to stash it all in, I'd love a 500 (because its so damn classic), another 1200 (for serial link games) and a kitted out 4000T (RTG, etc) but good luck finding those for an affordable price.


Mostly though, booting up the amiga OS just makes me happy.

Same here i only have a few games left on my wishlist mainly genetic species zombie massacre nemac iv directors cut and wipeout 2097 i also heard that there was an amiga version of quake2 not sure about this though as i have never seen a copy if there is one i would love to get my hands on a copy
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[Alexander_]

where i can find Fallout 2?

[weasel fierce]

Same here i only have a few games left on my wishlist mainly genetic species zombie massacre nemac iv directors cut and wipeout 2097 i also heard that there was an amiga version of quake2 not sure about this though as i have never seen a copy if there is one i would love to get my hands on a copy
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Genetic Species is a free download. Check aminet. Finding the CD version might be difficult these days

[simpleblue]

Long live point and click + text entry! :p

- Robin Hood
- Monkey Island 2
- Police Quest 1-3
- Kings Quest
- Hugo's house of horrors 1-3
- Last half of darkness

Shooters:

- Duke Nukem 1-3
- Commander keen
- Charlie the duck
- Blake Stone (IMO better then Wolfenstein)
- Blood

I recommend this site for anyone looking for free oldschool DOS games!

http://www.dosgames.com/

It has over 500 games and allows you to easily download all without signing up. Most are full versions of abandonware.

[handy]

Lucas Arts, through another company comprising of many of the dev's who created the series, have re-released Monkey Island (http://www.worldofmi.com/thegames/monkey1/index.php) I & II in special edition format, which includes both the original & the new high quality graphics & sound (great voice actors). You can switch between the old & new whilst playing, on the 2nd MI, you can keep the new sound & use the old game!

Also, this company have made a 5 episode pack (in 3D) to finish the series off (I think?).

All of these are very cheep to buy & are available for PS3, Mac, Win, & they can all be run on Linux via ScummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) though I'm not sure about the most recent game Tales of Monkey Island (http://www.worldofmi.com/)?

I bought the MI I & II, plus ToMI for the PS3. Because they are relatively small games data wise, you can only download them for the PS3 on the PS network.

[Xcursion666]

Genetic Species is a free download. Check aminet. Finding the CD version might be difficult these days

thats what m looking for the cd verson ive been keepng an eye on ebay for a copy at a good price i already have the free version i checked online and they do have an amiga version of quake 2 i ordered a copy from here http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=205 and it has AmigaOS 4.0 support if your interested it comes on cd format and will set u back about 40 bucks plus shipping


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[Xcursion666]

where i can find Fallout 2?
google it i think this game was released as freeware or abandonware not to sure about that though if not u could always look for a cheap coppy on ebay or amazon.com like i did i payed 2 bucks for my copy plus another 2 for the shipping the guy who sold it even threw in a copy of fallout 1 also


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[CharmyBee]

You can buy it from Good Old Games.

[Cope57]

Old school gaming... In 1976 I recall playing Jarts, chess, and horseshoes.

[handy]

I think that Larn was the first game I became addicted to on the Amiga. I didn't like Hack as much as Larn, though Hack was certainly a much larger game.

"The Faery Tale Adventure" was fun, it had a huge world too.

F-18 Interceptor was a blast & Grand Prix had me addicted to that series from the beginning on the Amiga up to GP4 on Windows.

[Xcursion666]

I think that Larn was the first game I became addicted to on the Amiga. I didn't like Hack as much as Larn, though Hack was certainly a much larger game.

"The Faery Tale Adventure" was fun, it had a huge world too.

F-18 Interceptor was a blast & Grand Prix had me addicted to that series from the beginning on the Amiga up to GP4 on Windows.
i agree larn was better than hack the faery tale adventure was good but i only had the dos version of that game other amiga rpgs that liked and i still play are the bards tale tales of the unknown ,times of lore ,hemidall2 , might and magic 2 and 3 ,ultima 3-6 ,Hero Quest: Return of the Witch Lord ,Phantasie and Realms of Arkania Blade of Destiny. the last one was a Europe only release i had to get it imported

[cprofitt]

Here are the games I want to try and get up and running in DOS Box.



Masters of Magic
Masters of Orion
Ravenloft

Stone Prophet
Strahd's Possession


Dark Sun: Wake of the Raveger
Menzoberranzan
Eye of the Beholder I, II and III
Steel Panthers
Steel Panthers II
Empire II -- Actually would love to program a game like this for Linux
Xcom
Flight Commander 2

I would also like to get Wizardry Gold running, but that is a Windows 95 game.

Old school gaming... In 1976 I recall playing Jarts, chess, and horseshoes.

Heck if we ant to go back that far... 1976 was D&D, Third Reich, Chainmail and several other board games from SPI or Avalon Hill.

[weasel fierce]

Here are the games I want to try and get up and running in DOS Box.



Masters of Magic
Masters of Orion
Ravenloft

Stone Prophet
Strahd's Possession

Dark Sun: Wake of the Raveger
Menzoberranzan
Eye of the Beholder I, II and III
Steel Panthers
Steel Panthers II
Empire II -- Actually would love to program a game like this for Linux
Xcom
Flight Commander 2

I would also like to get Wizardry Gold running, but that is a Windows 95 game.

Master of Magic runs great in dosbox, as does xcom
For Steel Panthers, I'd download the remake winspWW2 and winspmbt, and run them in wine

[R33D3M33R]

ATM I'm playing C&C Red Alert 1, not long ago I played C&C Gold. They are very fun to play. I don't know if UT 99' an Half-Life 1 count, because they're pretty new, but I also play them a lot.

[weasel fierce]

i agree larn was better than hack the faery tale adventure was good but i only had the dos version of that game other amiga rpgs that liked and i still play are the bards tale tales of the unknown ,times of lore ,hemidall2 , might and magic 2 and 3 ,ultima 3-6 ,Hero Quest: Return of the Witch Lord ,Phantasie and Realms of Arkania Blade of Destiny. the last one was a Europe only release i had to get it imported

No love for Ishar ?
Legacy of Sorasil (Heroquest 2) wasn't bad, but I much preferred the interface and layout of Space Crusade.

Been trying to get into Perihelion but it is pretty daunting.

[kucerarichard]

on dos, oxyd mag, oxyd orig. now known as ENIGMA.

[Rustybolts]

Chaos Battle of the Wizards me and my mate played this all the time on the spectrum have just got it for download on my android phone and i am playing it all over again.

[ELD]

Here are the games I want to try and get up and running in DOS Box.



Masters of Orion
Xcom



Master of Orion 1&2 you can get dirt cheap off gog.com (work perfectly as well in dosbox :D), as for Xcom you may like this -> http://openxcom.ninex.info/

[Xcursion666]

No love for Ishar ?
Legacy of Sorasil (Heroquest 2) wasn't bad, but I much preferred the interface and layout of Space Crusade.

Been trying to get into Perihelion but it is pretty daunting.

i have ishar but haven't got around to playing it i have alot of games for amiga that i haven't played yet its kinda hard to play every game u have when you have so many the amiga isnt the only computer that i play games on i also have a c64 plus atari 400 600 800 1200 computers and an atari st and falcon oh and msx 1 and 2 systems which means i have hundreds of games on floppy disks tapes cds and cartridges i have to go through and play

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[scorpiooooooh]

As I am trying to reacquaint myself with Unix through Linux, I just had to DL the text based game pack ( or repository as it is) so I could play Adventure. The first time I played this game was in 1979 at a neighbor's house. He worked for Bell Labs, where I eventually went to work ten years later. My neighbor had been stricken by polio in his childhood and had a hard time doing yard work, so I used to mow his lawn. In return, I got to play Adventure and some other games on his state-of-the-art portable HP terminal. The terminal featured an acoustic coupler for the telephone handset and a built in thermal printer. woo hooo, sexxxy!!! There was no monitor but having a printout, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long, made a good bread crumb trail. There was also a drag racing game where I always busted tie rods. wtf is a tie rod? that was the qotd when I was twelve. Anyway, Adventure was the first computer game I ever played and now that I'm playing again, the game that I've played the longest of all. Sorry Half Life.

[Xcursion666]

As I am trying to reacquaint myself with Unix through Linux, I just had to DL the text based game pack ( or repository as it is) so I could play Adventure. The first time I played this game was in 1979 at a neighbor's house. He worked for Bell Labs, where I eventually went to work ten years later. My neighbor had been stricken by polio in his childhood and had a hard time doing yard work, so I used to mow his lawn. In return, I got to play Adventure and some other games on his state-of-the-art portable HP terminal. The terminal featured an acoustic coupler for the telephone handset and a built in thermal printer. woo hooo, sexxxy!!! There was no monitor but having a printout, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long, made a good bread crumb trail. There was also a drag racing game where I always busted tie rods. wtf is a tie rod? that was the qotd when I was twelve. Anyway, Adventure was the first computer game I ever played and now that I'm playing again, the game that I've played the longest of all. Sorry Half Life.

my dad used to play adventure when he was in the army in the early 1980s he did alot of work with computers in the military i got my first computer from him when i was a kid back in 1992-93 i it was his old tandy color computer that he bought in the 80s i used to play rouge the adventure and Dungeons of Daggorath on it sadly i was forced to sell it when we moved i also remember buying a c64 computer with games at a yard sale for 10 bucks when i was 10. the first games i played on it when i got it home was might and magic and ultima2 oh and zork who could forget that game
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[scorpiooooooh]

It's all comming back to me. Ohhh noooo the flood of memories of old games. I had a VIC-20 and used to stay up till the wee hours of the morning programming games in BASIC. My favorite was a bomber type game. As I had no tape drive to store the game code, I'd just keep the old VIC powered on till I got bored of it. Then with a flick of the switch, POOF! all gone. lol then there was the Commodore SX 64, we played pitfall for hours on end with that one.

[Xcursion666]

It's all comming back to me. Ohhh noooo the flood of memories of old games. I had a VIC-20 and used to stay up till the wee hours of the morning programming games in BASIC. My favorite was a bomber type game. As I had no tape drive to store the game code, I'd just keep the old VIC powered on till I got bored of it. Then with a flick of the switch, POOF! all gone. lol then there was the Commodore SX 64, we played pitfall for hours on end with that one.

i didnt have a tape drive for my c64 either so i had my dad makeshift one using my portable cassete player the only trouble i have with the c64 nowadays is finding tapes and disks that still work or finding complete sets i have several multi disk games that i can no longer play because im either missing a disk or a certain disk in the set doesn't work(i cant play might and magic 2 anymore because the second disk isn't usable anymore im guessing someone stuck a magnet on it and wiped it clean or maybe the data became corrupted)

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[scorpiooooooh]

i didnt have a tape drive for my c64 either so i had my dad makeshift one using my portable cassete player the only trouble i have with the c64 nowadays is finding tapes and disks that still work or finding complete sets i have several multi disk games that i can no longer play because im either missing a disk or a certain disk in the set doesn't work(i cant play might and magic 2 anymore because the second disk isn't usable anymore im guessing someone stuck a magnet on it and wiped it clean or maybe the data became corrupted)

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All magnetic media will eventually loose it's ability to retain data just the same as old audio cassette tapes will lose the analogue "data" stored on it. Even if the media is stored in a safe environment, the laminate magnetic portion sloughs off the surface as oxidation takes it's toll.

Maybe, and this is a long shot maybe, it's possible to recover the disks using one of the many data recovery apps out there. Also, the old audio form factor cassettes back in the day were unreliable for data storage as the density of the magnetic substrate was too thin. I used to have a SCSI tape backup unit for the PC and tried using ordinary audio tapes. The results were less than reliable however, todays tapes may be on par with the best tapes back then so you may be able to disassemble and transfer new media to an old data cassette frame.

Another possibility is that the old floppy drive is just plain worn out. If you can get your hands on an old floppy drive from a PC and swap it out, it may read those old disks. I cannot say for sure but I'm guessing there is a better than 50% chance it will work providing the drive is the culprit. The R/W heads on those old drives can get fouled too, just as difficult to find as those games you mentioned, a floppy head cleaner may work but it may also destroy the last remaining ability to read/write too.

A) Try cleaning the heads of the drive(s) B) Try swapping the drive C) Try swapping media where possible. D) give data recovery a try. E) Pray if you are religious or hope really really hard if you are an atheist. lol.

Lastly, someone ALWAYS has a good copy of what you need, the problem is finding them.

[Xcursion666]

All magnetic media will eventually loose it's ability to retain data just the same as old audio cassette tapes will lose the analogue "data" stored on it. Even if the media is stored in a safe environment, the laminate magnetic portion sloughs off the surface as oxidation takes it's toll.

Maybe, and this is a long shot maybe, it's possible to recover the disks using one of the many data recovery apps out there. Also, the old audio form factor cassettes back in the day were unreliable for data storage as the density of the magnetic substrate was too thin. I used to have a SCSI tape backup unit for the PC and tried using ordinary audio tapes. The results were less than reliable however, todays tapes may be on par with the best tapes back then so you may be able to disassemble and transfer new media to an old data cassette frame.

Another possibility is that the old floppy drive is just plain worn out. If you can get your hands on an old floppy drive from a PC and swap it out, it may read those old disks. I cannot say for sure but I'm guessing there is a better than 50% chance it will work providing the drive is the culprit. The R/W heads on those old drives can get fouled too, just as difficult to find as those games you mentioned, a floppy head cleaner may work but it may also destroy the last remaining ability to read/write too.

A) Try cleaning the heads of the drive(s) B) Try swapping the drive C) Try swapping media where possible. D) give data recovery a try. E) Pray if you are religious or hope really really hard if you are an atheist. lol.

Lastly, someone ALWAYS has a good copy of what you need, the problem is finding them.
i know ive had alot of trouble finding good copies of games and also my drives are refurbished and i clean them about once a month and i already tried data recovery i think the disk is is just unusable i have stacks of c64 disks that i have to go through and test lol
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