A couple paragraphs? One line, said by the main villain, in a way that it is clear that he is completely mad:
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He gestured absently and the inn door slammed shut.
There was a sudden ripple of dull clunks behind me, and I realized the room doors were locking themselves. We were sealed in! All of us.
"I don't believe I've had such a good time since I made love to my week-dead sister."
Isstvan's voice was still jovial, but it struck an icy note of fear within me. I realized that not only was he a powerful magician, he was quite insane. -- That's it. Total. I still think a young reader would be up for it. Though I seem to remember that the books that really got me into reading would have been "R is for Rocket" and "S is for Space", by Ray Bradbury.
I don't know that I'd call Angband a ripoff of Moria. It actually is based off of the Moria source code, though it's gone through radical code rewrites on major sections of it since then. As such, I believe it would be considered more of a fork then anything else. Of course, being roguelike games, you could consider Moria, Angband, Nethack, and Diablo all ripoffs of Rogue.
I don't know that I'd really consider Angband slot-machinish, either. Both do require strategy. NetHack & Angband just have rather different styles & gameplay, and often poeple who like one dislike the other.
But then, there have been more then enough flame wars on the subject in the past...
First off, I seriously doubt Apple would release a x86 version of Mac OS X. Apple makes too much of it's money off of hardware sales for that.
As far as an emulator goes, as I understand, it is much more difficult to emulate a PPC processor on x86 then a 68k processor, or even to emulate x86 on a PPC processor. There are a lot more registers on the PPC then x86 processors, which means you take a big speed hit due to not being able to map the registers from one to the other.
Here is an old Slashdot post with more information on the subject:.
Slashdot Mirror
Not to mention, Med Ship is available for free.
A couple paragraphs? One line, said by the main villain, in a way that it is clear that he is completely mad:
--
He gestured absently and the inn door slammed shut.
There was a sudden ripple of dull clunks behind me, and I realized the room doors were locking themselves. We were sealed in! All of us.
"I don't believe I've had such a good time since I made love to my week-dead sister."
Isstvan's voice was still jovial, but it struck an icy note of fear within me. I realized that not only was he a powerful magician, he was quite insane.
--
That's it. Total. I still think a young reader would be up for it. Though I seem to remember that the books that really got me into reading would have been "R is for Rocket" and "S is for Space", by Ray Bradbury.
I don't know that I'd call Angband a ripoff of Moria. It actually is based off of the Moria source code, though it's gone through radical code rewrites on major sections of it since then. As such, I believe it would be considered more of a fork then anything else. Of course, being roguelike games, you could consider Moria, Angband, Nethack, and Diablo all ripoffs of Rogue. I don't know that I'd really consider Angband slot-machinish, either. Both do require strategy. NetHack & Angband just have rather different styles & gameplay, and often poeple who like one dislike the other. But then, there have been more then enough flame wars on the subject in the past...
Marvin humming Pink Floyd, for example...
First off, I seriously doubt Apple would release a x86 version of Mac OS X. Apple makes too much of it's money off of hardware sales for that. As far as an emulator goes, as I understand, it is much more difficult to emulate a PPC processor on x86 then a 68k processor, or even to emulate x86 on a PPC processor. There are a lot more registers on the PPC then x86 processors, which means you take a big speed hit due to not being able to map the registers from one to the other. Here is an old Slashdot post with more information on the subject:.
And for anyone that wants to check for themselves, go here . It's the fourth one down... --Arcum