Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-08 Thread Jerry Barnes
HP Envy 17 3D Here's what I found: http://www.gog.com/en/support/fallout/ibread_firstb_common_troubleshooting_stepsi On the subject of games, particularly older games, my favorite of all time is X-Com. Outstanding game. There is a remake of sorts in the making right now:

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-07 Thread LRS Scout
Could not play Fallout, many big pixels and weird controls. On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:08 AM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw a commercial for Risen, looks like it might be good. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:57 PM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm anti-mac on principal.

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-07 Thread Jerry Barnes
Could not play Fallout, many big pixels and weird controls. That sucks. GOG games are usually usually compatible with about any newer windows based system. What kind of system? J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-07 Thread LRS Scout
HP Envy 17 3D On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Could not play Fallout, many big pixels and weird controls. That sucks. GOG games are usually usually compatible with about any newer windows based system. What kind of system? J - Ninety

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Medic
Pool or Radiance (notice no S for C64) was ground breaking for me. Especially the god-mode gambling that got me enough money to buy anything I wanted. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:10 PM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, fun times. You play thew SSI DD games, Pools of Radiance and

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Scott Stroz
My 2 fav C64 games of all time were Lode Runner and Seven Cities of Gold On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Pool or Radiance (notice no S for C64) was ground breaking for me. Especially the god-mode gambling that got me enough money to buy anything I wanted.

RE: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Eric Roberts
Leather Goddesses of Phobos and Zork -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 9:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Old School PC RPG Alert My 2 fav C64 games of all time were Lode Runner and Seven Cities of Gold On Fri, Apr 6

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 9:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Old School PC RPG Alert My 2 fav C64 games of all time were Lode Runner and Seven Cities of Gold On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Pool or Radiance (notice no S for C64) was ground breaking

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread LRS Scout
...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Leather Goddesses of Phobos and Zork -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 9:14 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Old School PC RPG Alert My 2 fav C64 games of all time were Lode Runner and Seven Cities

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Larry C. Lyons
: Old School PC RPG Alert My 2 fav C64 games of all time were Lode Runner and Seven Cities of Gold On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Pool or Radiance (notice no S for C64) was ground breaking for me. Especially the god-mode gambling that got me enough

RE: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Eric Roberts
They just released a new Leisure Suit Larry in the xbox... -Original Message- From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 1:34 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Old School PC RPG Alert Remember Leisure Suit Larry? Kings Quest? On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:08

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
Remember Leisure Suit Larry? Kings Quest? I played Leisure Suit Larry and Kings Quest VI. Both were good games. Also, Skyrim is amazing. still playing it now. And you probably will be for a while. It can go on and on and on. Still a great game. Loved Baldur's Gate, Never Winter Night.

Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread Jerry Barnes
Here's another one for you: Infinity Blade for iOS devices is on Sale for .99. It is normally 5.99. Stellar reviews. Sent from my iPad On Apr 6, 2012, at 11:03 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Leisure Suit Larry? Kings Quest? I played Leisure Suit Larry and Kings Quest

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread LRS Scout
Sweet grabbing fallout now. Never did play that series. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:03 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Remember Leisure Suit Larry? Kings Quest? I played Leisure Suit Larry and Kings Quest VI. Both were good games. Also, Skyrim is amazing. still playing it

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread LRS Scout
I'm anti-mac on principal. I am however buying my kid an iPod touch so I'll probably check it out in a few days :) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Here's another one for you: Infinity Blade for iOS devices is on Sale for .99. It is normally 5.99.

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-06 Thread LRS Scout
Just saw a commercial for Risen, looks like it might be good. On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:57 PM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: I'm anti-mac on principal. I am however buying my kid an iPod touch so I'll probably check it out in a few days :) On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Jerry

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-05 Thread Jerry Barnes
You play thew SSI DD games, Pools of Radiance and Azure Bond I think? Yes. And Eye of the Beholder and Ravensloft. One of my favorites from the era was Megatraveller 1: The Zhodani Conspiracy. Games improved quickly over a short time period. I can remember thinking how cool Baldur's Gate

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-05 Thread LRS Scout
Loved Baldur's Gate, Never Winter Night. Also, Skyrim is amazing. still playing it now. On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: You play thew SSI DD games, Pools of Radiance and Azure Bond I think? Yes. And Eye of the Beholder and Ravensloft. One of my

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread Medic
I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. I absolutely loved these two games. On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Actually they were commodore 64 games I forgot. Bard's Tale came out for the Apple as well. They

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread GMoney
I continue to wait patiently for Nintendo to release certain classic games on their Wii Virtual Console.Baseball Stars...Rush'n AttackSuper Tecmo Bowl.Kung Fu..but my patience is growing thin. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: A game

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Barnes
I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. Yep. No auto-mapping in these two. And of course, you could stack your characters if you performed the disc swap maneuver. If you knew how to read a hex file, you could even fiddle with the attributes with

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread LRS Scout
Yeah, fun times. You play thew SSI DD games, Pools of Radiance and Azure Bond I think? On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. Yep. No auto-mapping in these two. And of

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-01 Thread Jerry Barnes
Actually they were commodore 64 games I forgot. Bard's Tale came out for the Apple as well. They ported it to the NES, but it was awful. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the

RE: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-01 Thread Eric Roberts
I think it originally came out on the Apple II not sure if it was c, g, or e...then c64... -Original Message- From: Jerry Barnes [mailto:critic...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:49 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Old School PC RPG Alert Actually they were commodore 64

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-03-31 Thread Michael Grant
Actually they were commodore 64 games On 2012-03-30, at 6:02 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: A game named Bard's Tale was released for various gaming systems in 2004. It was ported to iOS devices recently. Right now, the game is on sale in the app store (

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-03-31 Thread Jerry Barnes
Actually they were commodore 64 games Yes. And PC. I owned both for my powerhouse 8088 with dual floppies (the 5.25 kind). Sent from my iPad On Mar 31, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Michael Grant mgr...@modus.bz wrote: Actually they were commodore 64 games On 2012-03-30, at 6:02 PM, Jerry Barnes

Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-03-30 Thread Jerry Barnes
A game named Bard's Tale was released for various gaming systems in 2004. It was ported to iOS devices recently. Right now, the game is on sale in the app store ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-bards-tale/id480375355?mt=8 ) for 1.99. This game itself is not that old. However, it comes

RE: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Roberts
: Friday, March 30, 2012 5:03 PM To: cf-community Subject: Old School PC RPG Alert A game named Bard's Tale was released for various gaming systems in 2004. It was ported to iOS devices recently. Right now, the game is on sale in the app store ( http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-bards-tale