Hi Tom.
with the eamon games remember you are talking about a system that existed on
the apple Ii in 1982, it's practically speaking as old as zcode but unlike
zcode never had a set interpreter (indeed even back in the 80's as I
understand it attempts to port eamon to dos were a little half ar
Hi tom.
I plan to use xp till I can't.
the fact is even if xp stops being updated security updates of the
critical kind for components at least may continue for some time.
there was one for 2000 last month just not that many.
Also I'd imagine updates which updated components for everything will
Hi Tom.
i'm sorry if my message was a little short, I just get slightly sick of
various people and the media talking about how great windows 7 is when I can
see no bennifit, indeed if anything quite the opposite since I'd have
to work my way around a less user friendly interface than xp,
Hi Tom.
yep, I remember that old road system, particularly since there were some
quite unique encounters, like the weerd green fellow with four arms who
you could spar with. Again, this is something I love in good if, having a
map that is interesting to explore and things that can happen
Well tom you look at this from a programmer who actually cares about the os,
I myself don't.
A computer is to me just a tool to do what I want with, and if windows 7
won't do what I want, it is a bad tool end of story.
This is exactly why I'm still on xp, since I've still! not had a good reas
I agree, in the early days, indeed up until about 2006-07 Sryth was amazing,
and a similar game to that would be awsome! if I learnt programming that
would be what I would want to do myself.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 9:19 PM
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Hi all. on the topic of text addvenchers I remember when I was little
playing eamin on the old apple 2 e pc and also i
since I would like to play that again. from Mich.
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Hi Tom.
with sryth I just got irritated that
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 4:37 PM
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Hi Dark,
Well, let's chuck that one up to personal experience. I found I could
manag
>From a developer standpoint, it can sometimes be really hard to know
when you've crossed the line into money grubbing, or if you've added
something bad. One of the reasons I've been so slow to add new things
to AA is that I'm constantly concerned that it'll cross the line, or
permanently damage t
I disagree there tom, I found many adventures in Sryth, from runeskin to the
proving grounds that did! require far more donation gear than I had, which
is precisely why i quit myself.
BBeware the Grue!
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Hi Charls.
that is true, and was really my point about sryth. where as puppet
nightmares, core exiles, Alteraeon and lots of other donation games are
quite possible to progress far in without making a single donation, the same
is not true of sryth, which was precisely why I quit, indeed if the
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Hi charles.
In many games "donating" is just that. In alteraeon for instance, while
you can! earn various bennifits like extra practices and storage space
with don
writing implements cause grammatical and spelling
errors!
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Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 7:48 AM
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Hi Charles,
Good question. I suppo
Hi charles.
In many games "donating" is just that. In alteraeon for instance, while you
can! earn various bennifits like extra practices and storage space with
donations, none are bennifits you can't get elsehwhere in the game with
enough playing. take puppet nightmares. There is a shop which
Why is it called "donating" when it is actually purchasing?
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Hi Tom.
with sryth I just got irritated that a character I'd been playing for six
years still! needed to donate hundreds of dollars for in game items, and
often all I got with the new adventures was some sort of short "you fight
this monster then this monster" type of affair. Allt he gm seemed
I would like that site, please. Write to me off list at
lindsay_cow...@btinternet.com.
Lindsay Cowell.
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From: Kimberly Qualls
Date: 30/01/2013 11:23 pm
Lindsay, There is a site called freerice.com...It isn't terribly fast
paced
that is true tom.
In the famous pirate game Secret of Monkey island (there is a great script
on gamefaqs, I recommend reading it since it's hilarious!).
There was a rather amusing puzzle where you needed to break a prisoner out
of jail. The way you did this was to collect a mug of grog (a ver
Hi tom.
Agreed, though even an illogical or complex puzzle isn't quite so bad if
there is a limited parza.
In the game Thror's ring, you find an area where you cannot progreess, yet a
couple of rooms have suspicious looking flaws. If you examine the floors you
find a small hole. Earlier on i
While I favour Tom in terms of if, I must confess I agree on Sryth.
I was there from the start back in 2004 before there even was! an
adventurers guild, and originally loved the system, but as time went on the
gm just seemed to get greedy, as he started inroducing more and more stuff
that was
nuary 29, 2013 8:26 PM
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Hi Ibrahim,
Well, I agree that I can get lost for hours in a good IF title, but I
personally have to be in the mood for that type of game. While I am a
huge fan of text adventures the problem I have with classic IF is I
find
ames you enjoy, I'll see which of
those I've played would interest you.
All the best, Ibrahim.
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From: Thomas Ward
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:26 PM
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Hi Ibrahim,
Well, I agree that
Hi Dark.
Ah, well it depends on what stimulates you. For my part, if I've had a
really shitty day or have an anxiety attack as sometimes happens after a
stressful situation, I lock myself away and play an Infocom or other other
IF title. I'm an avid reader, so games that not only have great
I must admit ibrahim, my own interest in standard, puzzle style if sort of
fell of when I found 5 out of every 6 games I played ended in either a guess
the verb situation when I'm trying to do something simple like put a book on
a table and being told "I don't know how to put" or a puzzle who's
January 29, 2013 9:55 AM
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Hi Lindsay.
If you go to www.audiogames.net and search in the arcade catagory, you will
find many blow up everything type of games. Virtualy everything space
invaders, pl
t requires a lot of calm, rational thinking without
any confrontational elements or things such as time limits.
That was what I found myself anyway.
Hth.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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Does anyone know of any fast paced games, where you slaughter everything
in sight. I suffer from depression, and I thought they might help.
Keyboard based, if possible.
Lindsay Cowell.
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Does anyone know of any fast paced games, where you slaughter everything in
sight. I suffer from depression, and I thought they might help. Keyboard
based, if possible.
Lindsay Cowell.
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Lindsay Cowell.
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