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ARGH! You could WEAR the necklace?!? Well, that's information I could have used about 17 years ago... :)

I think you're right that it was Castle Adventure, after finding it on this abandonware site. Unfortunately, I'd need a 4.77 MHz computer to play it again. Or maybe even slower -- IIRC, it was a little fast even at that speed.

That was a fun game, though.

Hey, Scorched Earth was awesome ;)

You can get MOO on abandonware sites, such as this link. MOO2 is harder to find free, but is actually still being sold so that's okay.

I prefer MOO because it has a unique galaxy management interface. MOO2 is a boring copy of the Civilization/Master of Magic games where you have to micromanage city productions (s/city/planet/ and you get MOO2). This has apparently been addressed in MOO3.

It turns out that the original MOO developers lost the MOO source code, so there won't be any prettified releases of it with updated drivers etc. It also most likely won't be open-sourced, which would rock ;) A shame.

I tried playing The Sims a couple of times, but I just couldn't get into it. It's really just BORING, in all honesty. I don't really enjoy doing mundane tasks and chores in real life, where at least I get some real benefit from them (clean house, fewer "pet" flies, more money, etc.). The idea of spending hours on end ordering some game character to do the same things in some virtual world is mind-numbing.

I think The Sims would be far more interesting if there was an option to let the Sims operate independently, while you just arrange their lives as you see fit. (Yes, I know you can give them "free will", but in my version of the game, at least, this means they invite their friends over and then get so interested in the picture hanging on the wall that they don't answer the door, never bother to go to work or pay the bills, and sometimes piss their pants because they forget to go to the bathroom... Then they start a fire in the kitchen while trying to cook and stand there screaming about it until the flames engulf them and burn them to a crisp... ) Creating situations to watch how your Sims react would be far more entertaining that ordering them to go pee, then shower, then go to sleep, then wake up, then go here, then do this, and on and on and on...

On a somewhat off-topic note, a game that is much more entertaining and realistic than The Sims is Alter Ego. It lets you create and develop a person from birth to old age, and is quite addictive. Plus, it runs on a 286 and fits on a floppy disk! ;D There's also an online version for you non-DOS folks, though I don't know how complete it is myself. Definatly an entertaining game! :)

DennyK

Who says he found them? Maybe he actually purchased them, way back when, and kept the floppies, reverently, until such time as he might use them again.

"Squadron leader, we have pigs at 11 o'clock high" :-)

Incidentally, you can get yourself some OS/2 bits here They used to have Windows 1.01, and 2.0, but I suppose the Beast got to them. I mean, MS have got to try their best to protect their large sales volume of these products, as we enter the 21st century.

And if you're feeling really trippy, you can see some old Windows screenshots here.

This site, plus www.abandonkeep.com brings a tear to my eye. i remember the commodore system we had in first grade (i actually went to a public school with money for a computer(!)).... We did graphic plotting on it. So proud when i made my first american flag bye plotting red white & blue.......

Populous 1, for PC

//rdj

That article might have been a little better had it not been prepended by a 4-page Warez Primer for Retards. At least I know what an ISO is now...

Also, I didn't see a link to The Keep, which is chock full of abandonware.

underdogs
Abandonware Oasis (has a search engine) The Abandonkeep Gaming Depot
DOS Graveyard Adult Games - Plenty of jerkables here

Kinda netscape related. I was searching around www.abandonkeep.com and found netscape version 0.9.. It doesn't load very many pages, but it was weird remembering what graphical webbing used to be like.

Kinda netscape related. I was searching around www.abandonkeep.com and found netscape version 0.9.. It doesn't load very many pages, but it was weird remembering what graphical webbing used to be like.

What about the copyright restrictions?

On a related note, though, I used to have an old AT with something called GEM installed on it. Anyone remember that?

(hint all - do not /. - bookmark and come back l8r)

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