I'm intrigued by the premise of Fallout but I've heard bad things about broken elements in the game... Any patches for this stuff yet?
jollyreaper, hi,
By 'the old one', I'm assuming you mean the original one produced in 1997? If so, yes there was a version 1.1 patch brought out very early on which fixed most of the serious bugs, and also removed a 500 day time limit for finishing the game. You can find it in quite a few places on the web (just google for 'fallout 1.1 patch').)
On my latest gaming rig, I couldn't get the Windows version of Fallout to work correctly, but the DOS version ran fine using DOSBox.
Admittedly, if a game will run in both ScummVM and DOSBox, the sound is usually a lot better in ScummVM.
But since 0.70, DOSBox automatically figures out the optimal cycles= setting to run a particular game at, so no need to fiddle with this parameter manually like you used to.
As a Yankee ex-pat, living in Ireland for the past 23 years, words can't even *begin* to express how much I look forward to life under our new FaceBook overlords...
It is if you are the unfortunate bastard who has to figure out how to read in a Mickeysoft Word doc and convert it to another format! What do you do when a section is tagged as "Format like Word 95"?!
With all due respect, and I hate DRM as much as the next person, I think you (and most of the other people posting in this topic) are missing the point of why this guy wound up in court. FTA summary:
"Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed.mp3 format and they are in his shared folder..." (my emphasis added)
So while it's indeed fair use to rip tracks off your own CDs and copy them to your iPod or whatever, I *don't* agree that it's fair use to *share them with other people on the web*, do you?! In fact, if the person wasn't sharing his MP3s with the rest of the on-line universe, the RIAA wouldn't be taking him to court in the first place, would they? They wouldn't even know he existed!
That letter from the supposed 'stepmother' is just too perfect. There's not a single grammatical or spelling error in the whole thing, and far too many uses of the F word for someone who is trying to gain a sympathetic ear. I might even go so far to hazard a guess that the writer is male instead of female.
Also, what are the chances that the stepmother of this miscreant is an avid gamer and Penny Arcade reader? Rather slim, I would think. My guess is it's someone in the gaming industry with an agenda to turn the 'violence in video games' thing right back at the media. As it stands right now, the likes of Jack Thompson could get a lot of mileage out of that kid's quote unless it is somehow undermined/refuted.
I suppose it will have to wait until that letter itself makes its way into the mainstream media, as it inevitably will. Only then would it become visible to someone who might know the family circumstances for sure and be able to debunk it.
By the way, the thing that initially raised my suspicions was an apparent mixing up of the facts: from reading the original CNN article, it was clear that the video games reference was made by the 17-year old Ihrcke, NOT the 15-year old Moore. Yet from the stepmother's letter, it appears that 'the kid' (i.e. her 'stepson') she is referring to all the time is the 15-year old, Moore. A slip-up? Time will tell:-)
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I'm intrigued by the premise of Fallout but I've heard bad things about broken elements in the game... Any patches for this stuff yet?
jollyreaper, hi,
By 'the old one', I'm assuming you mean the original one produced in 1997? If so, yes there was a version 1.1 patch brought out very early on which fixed most of the serious bugs, and also removed a 500 day time limit for finishing the game. You can find it in quite a few places on the web (just google for 'fallout 1.1 patch').)
On my latest gaming rig, I couldn't get the Windows version of Fallout to work correctly, but the DOS version ran fine using DOSBox.
Regards,
MetzO'Magic
Cthulhu 2012
There, fixed that for you.
Admittedly, if a game will run in both ScummVM and DOSBox, the sound is usually a lot better in ScummVM.
But since 0.70, DOSBox automatically figures out the optimal cycles= setting to run a particular game at, so no need to fiddle with this parameter manually like you used to.
Regards,
MetzO'Magic
While it's nice to have this one working on ScummVM, it's been running fine on DOSBox for years now (since DOSBox v0.60 or so).
MetzO'Magic
As a Yankee ex-pat, living in Ireland for the past 23 years, words can't even *begin* to express how much I look forward to life under our new FaceBook overlords...
deal with it, it isnt the end of the world.
It is if you are the unfortunate bastard who has to figure out how to read in a Mickeysoft Word doc and convert it to another format! What do you do when a section is tagged as "Format like Word 95"?!
metzomagic
With all due respect, and I hate DRM as much as the next person, I think you (and most of the other people posting in this topic) are missing the point of why this guy wound up in court. FTA summary:
"Once Defendant converted Plaintiffs' recordings into the compressed .mp3 format and they are in his shared folder..." (my emphasis added)
So while it's indeed fair use to rip tracks off your own CDs and copy them to your iPod or whatever, I *don't* agree that it's fair use to *share them with other people on the web*, do you?! In fact, if the person wasn't sharing his MP3s with the rest of the on-line universe, the RIAA wouldn't be taking him to court in the first place, would they? They wouldn't even know he existed!
Regards,
MetzO'Magic
That letter from the supposed 'stepmother' is just too perfect. There's not a single grammatical or spelling error in the whole thing, and far too many uses of the F word for someone who is trying to gain a sympathetic ear. I might even go so far to hazard a guess that the writer is male instead of female.
Also, what are the chances that the stepmother of this miscreant is an avid gamer and Penny Arcade reader? Rather slim, I would think. My guess is it's someone in the gaming industry with an agenda to turn the 'violence in video games' thing right back at the media. As it stands right now, the likes of Jack Thompson could get a lot of mileage out of that kid's quote unless it is somehow undermined/refuted.
I suppose it will have to wait until that letter itself makes its way into the mainstream media, as it inevitably will. Only then would it become visible to someone who might know the family circumstances for sure and be able to debunk it.
By the way, the thing that initially raised my suspicions was an apparent mixing up of the facts: from reading the original CNN article, it was clear that the video games reference was made by the 17-year old Ihrcke, NOT the 15-year old Moore. Yet from the stepmother's letter, it appears that 'the kid' (i.e. her 'stepson') she is referring to all the time is the 15-year old, Moore. A slip-up? Time will tell :-)
Regards,
MetzO'Magic