When I played Elite on my C64 I thought it was ok, but rather one dimensional and hardly much of an RPG, unless being a rocket jock catches your fancy...
Or are you refering to some other game called Elite?
It sure does beat the living (and undead) heck out of any Ultimas I've played.
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Hopefully, this edition will have the Amulet of Yendor in it.
Ah yes, how many years did I play it before actually finding the amulet for the first time..:)
There used to be some really great threads on what to add to the game on rec.games.hack It seems as much as players hacked to win the game, authors hacked to put more into the game to figure out.
Mostly I played it on the Amiga, a few versions put out by the Software Distillery, who were kind enough to created little 8x8 pixel drawings of things.
Then there was that Amiga version of Moria with Large Lavender Leprechauns, brrr..
@-/&=
d[=!
*!^.
Marvin picks up a glowing potion-more-
You fall through a pit trap-more-
You leave the store without paying Manlobbi-more-
An alarm sounds throughout the dungeon-more
(as for errors, yeah, I haven't played in a while, but that will no change:)
The big deal about Nethack?
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It's a totally engrossing single player RPG which has been character art on a 80/24 display from way back before all 3D accelerators, highspeed processors, great tracts of memory, etc. I got caught up in it on an Amiga and the allure always was trying to just stay alive, figure out all the really neat things built in (which AFAIK beat the hell out of most other computerbased RPG games by shear volume) In short, the pursuit of the game is to get the amulet of Yendor and escape, but the more you 'hack' at the game (i.e. try to figure it all out) the easier it gets, but it's never been easy in all the times I've played it.
Math, Physics and occasional fragments of pascal-like code, appear in the Foxtrot newspaper strip. It's rather fun to follow through Amend's work to see if he's goofed.:)
And, yeah, when you mention stuff like this to people they call you a nerd or geek, so it fits Slashdot...
Well, there's been a project like that in the Thames River near London, if it's still there, for a couple decades. I don't know what it's called, but this is hardly a new idea. Here's one site on the subject.
don't think Carly Fiorina is better than Lew Platt, the former CEO. It has been a long time since H-P has had a real
leader.
Well, with a $3M bonus for Carly riding on this merger, you certainly don't have to question her motives...
Maybe they could spin off a software company, but hold a significant amount of its stock, get bought up by that company when it's worth more than the parent, uh, sold back to the executives as private buyers, um, and er,,, where's that Nash guy when you need him...
Anyway, here's what HP has on their own site. Looks like most bridges have been burned in this one and if it doesn't actually go through HP's going to look like a pretty sorry mess. Too bad the combatants in this one didn't keep the vitriol out of the press, i.e. one page ads in the SJ Merc, or the 'dillitante' remarks.
IBM must be aware that even if it does go through, it's a house divided, which will take some time to come together, if ever.
So far I've not had too much trouble with phones or pagers going off in theaters. Usually a dirty look suffices. People with very small children are usually more trouble. Like all those PhD's who took tykes to see Jurassic Park without seeing it first themselves, the kids screaming at nightmares probably reinforced that lesson.
As to Internet Spies... What? No Simpson's Comic Store Guy typing, "Worst movie ever!"
Movies are for being engrossed in a different world. If people have so little free time that they must read their email during a movie, what is
the point of going to the movie at all?
Maybe it's a dull flick. You'll know for sure if you hear someone in the audience say, 'First post! wh00t!'
-Watching an alternate streaming movie if the one on the big screen doesn't make it for you.
Ok, just remember to pour melted candlewax around your headphones to block out the sound of the film you are watching...
Might as well just leave.
Exercising a lot of those other ideas, unless you're addressing them before the movie starts, would indicate you really wasted your money, because the movie you're 'watching' isn't more engrossing than just puttering around on the web. Why not just park behind the theater and listen in?
Now I can take my laptop and x10 pr0n-cam to the theater, record the film and then zap it onto the internet! I'm sure the MPAA is behind this advance 100%
Now if only that guy and two robots who always sit infront of me, yakking through the movie, would just find another theater...
Scary nothing, I bought a pickup truck to catch one of these babies so I can sell chunks of it on eBay. The least it could do is break off a few bits and send them my way. I mean, heck, how'm I supposed to pay off this truck without some help? Don't get me started on the odds with the lottery.
You're right, it was W-3D, I've just played so many Wolfenstein games in 20 years I can't keep track of them. Still, it was pretty pretty fast and furious graphics and I've wondered if the T-L 4000 was a graphics acceleration chipset. It was widely used by graphics cards makers.
Is there really much visual difference between 700 fps and 135 fps? I'm not really sure if the human eye can make the distinction. They're
sure pretty-looking numbers, but do the results show for it?
All you need is your refresh rate, 75fps most monitors, and sync (i.e. not refreshing in in the middle of a raster scan)
The extra ponies are good for improved detail, maybe even use some of it to blur movement between frames. Choppy graphics give me headaches.
No mention of Tseng Labs. Maybe the 4000 chipset wasn't considered a Graphics Accelerator, but having one of those in a new 386DX25 was pretty cool and what I first played Return to Castle Wolfenstein and a few ID games on.
Yeah, "lalala", you'll be griping like Kasparov when it beats you at games on your Playstation 2 and then regales you with a victory dance, "In YO face, In YO face! Recognize me!";)
What he really needs is a lawyer to calmly take him aside, explain the seriousness of the charges, the court procedure, the difficult position he places himself in, what's likely to happen to him if he goes to prison, and then deck him when he says, "But I still want to subpoena The United States of America"
Honestly, the boy is way overdue for some reality.
The proposed average 36 MPG rating for cars was soundly defeated, 62-38, in the Senate
Expect W. to announce a carefully thoughtout plan, endorsed by nameless private industry advisors to VP Cheney, to offset this environmental calamity by drilling for more oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, "We've got to offset the threat to penguins with an equal threat to artic wildlife." While dismissing accusations the company pressured Dell not to offer Linux on systems, Microsoft will underscore why penguins are a threat and this is a good thing.
So this is kind of like Terminator, except the other way round ?
They split up Microsoft- but it reformed!
No, it's right, just like the T1000. On the topic of splitting up monopolies and them reforming, this is quite like what the baby-bells are doing right now.
More stuff:
MICROSOFT WARNS
The states are proposing that Microsoft sell a ``modular'' version of Windows that would allow computer makers to strip out add-on features like the Internet
Explorer browser or Windows media player.
The states also would force Microsoft to disclose more about its software and license its browser to other companies royalty-free.
Microsoft warned that the sanctions sought by the dissenting states would cause havoc in the computer industry and force the company to withdraw its
Windows operating system from the market.
``It will have a devastating impact on Microsoft. It will have a devastating impact on the PC ecosystem and particularly consumers,'' Webb said.
Well... That's pretty creepy, like Microsoft saying "We've got a deathgrip on the organism because of our monopoly, any attempt to separate the two will cause death for both!"
I think appropriate film here is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. So do you go along with them and let them steal your world, or do you have the courage to fight them and take a few necessary lumps in the process?
I'm certain John Ashcroft, if given the chance, would have Dick Cheney grab all the court records and squirrel them away under Executive Privilege and spare Microsoft, because it's good for America.
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Or are you refering to some other game called Elite?
It sure does beat the living (and undead) heck out of any Ultimas I've played.
Ah yes, how many years did I play it before actually finding the amulet for the first time.. :)
There used to be some really great threads on what to add to the game on rec.games.hack It seems as much as players hacked to win the game, authors hacked to put more into the game to figure out.
Mostly I played it on the Amiga, a few versions put out by the Software Distillery, who were kind enough to created little 8x8 pixel drawings of things.
Then there was that Amiga version of Moria with Large Lavender Leprechauns, brrr..
@-/&=
d[=!
*!^.
Marvin picks up a glowing potion-more-
You fall through a pit trap-more-
You leave the store without paying Manlobbi-more-
An alarm sounds throughout the dungeon-more
(as for errors, yeah, I haven't played in a while, but that will no change :)
Other fun character based games:
Omega
Moria
Larn (particularly 12.0b(?) on the Amiga)
And, yeah, when you mention stuff like this to people they call you a nerd or geek, so it fits Slashdot...
What? 'Math' is a perfectly cromulent word!
Well, there's been a project like that in the Thames River near London, if it's still there, for a couple decades. I don't know what it's called, but this is hardly a new idea. Here's one site on the subject.
Well, with a $3M bonus for Carly riding on this merger, you certainly don't have to question her motives...
Maybe they could spin off a software company, but hold a significant amount of its stock, get bought up by that company when it's worth more than the parent, uh, sold back to the executives as private buyers, um, and er,,, where's that Nash guy when you need him...
How long before they're all suing M$ for evil monopolistic armtwisting?
Merger opponent Walter Hewlett, who led an epic fight against the deal, said the race was too close to call.
Anyway, here's what HP has on their own site. Looks like most bridges have been burned in this one and if it doesn't actually go through HP's going to look like a pretty sorry mess. Too bad the combatants in this one didn't keep the vitriol out of the press, i.e. one page ads in the SJ Merc, or the 'dillitante' remarks.
IBM must be aware that even if it does go through, it's a house divided, which will take some time to come together, if ever.
As to Internet Spies... What? No Simpson's Comic Store Guy typing, "Worst movie ever!"
Maybe it's a dull flick. You'll know for sure if you hear someone in the audience say, 'First post! wh00t!'
Ok, just remember to pour melted candlewax around your headphones to block out the sound of the film you are watching...
Might as well just leave.
Exercising a lot of those other ideas, unless you're addressing them before the movie starts, would indicate you really wasted your money, because the movie you're 'watching' isn't more engrossing than just puttering around on the web. Why not just park behind the theater and listen in?
Now if only that guy and two robots who always sit infront of me, yakking through the movie, would just find another theater...
Scary nothing, I bought a pickup truck to catch one of these babies so I can sell chunks of it on eBay. The least it could do is break off a few bits and send them my way. I mean, heck, how'm I supposed to pay off this truck without some help? Don't get me started on the odds with the lottery.
You're right, it was W-3D, I've just played so many Wolfenstein games in 20 years I can't keep track of them. Still, it was pretty pretty fast and furious graphics and I've wondered if the T-L 4000 was a graphics acceleration chipset. It was widely used by graphics cards makers.
All you need is your refresh rate, 75fps most monitors, and sync (i.e. not refreshing in in the middle of a raster scan)
The extra ponies are good for improved detail, maybe even use some of it to blur movement between frames. Choppy graphics give me headaches.
No mention of Tseng Labs. Maybe the 4000 chipset wasn't considered a Graphics Accelerator, but having one of those in a new 386DX25 was pretty cool and what I first played Return to Castle Wolfenstein and a few ID games on.
At the going rate, the board with CPU and chipset will be a daughterboard of the graphics motherboard. :]
If that's the case, then adjust the clock speed to your skill level. :)
Now there's and intriguing thought: Overclocking and underclocking your robot pal.
Yeah, "lalala", you'll be griping like Kasparov when it beats you at games on your Playstation 2 and then regales you with a victory dance, "In YO face, In YO face! Recognize me!" ;)
These are not the droids I'm looking for.
Honestly, the boy is way overdue for some reality.
Expect W. to announce a carefully thoughtout plan, endorsed by nameless private industry advisors to VP Cheney, to offset this environmental calamity by drilling for more oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, "We've got to offset the threat to penguins with an equal threat to artic wildlife." While dismissing accusations the company pressured Dell not to offer Linux on systems, Microsoft will underscore why penguins are a threat and this is a good thing.
They split up Microsoft- but it reformed!
No, it's right, just like the T1000. On the topic of splitting up monopolies and them reforming, this is quite like what the baby-bells are doing right now.
More stuff:
MICROSOFT WARNS
The states are proposing that Microsoft sell a ``modular'' version of Windows that would allow computer makers to strip out add-on features like the Internet Explorer browser or Windows media player.
The states also would force Microsoft to disclose more about its software and license its browser to other companies royalty-free.
Microsoft warned that the sanctions sought by the dissenting states would cause havoc in the computer industry and force the company to withdraw its Windows operating system from the market.
``It will have a devastating impact on Microsoft. It will have a devastating impact on the PC ecosystem and particularly consumers,'' Webb said.
Well... That's pretty creepy, like Microsoft saying "We've got a deathgrip on the organism because of our monopoly, any attempt to separate the two will cause death for both!"
I think appropriate film here is Invasion of the Body Snatchers. So do you go along with them and let them steal your world, or do you have the courage to fight them and take a few necessary lumps in the process?
I'm certain John Ashcroft, if given the chance, would have Dick Cheney grab all the court records and squirrel them away under Executive Privilege and spare Microsoft, because it's good for America.