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Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 12th, 2013, 6:38 pm
by Flack
Got suggestions? Game requests? Feedback? Here's a blank canvas. Let 'er rip!

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 13th, 2013, 9:52 pm
by Paradroyd
How about Countdown to Shutdown (C64)? That's one of those cool-looking games that I've played sporadically off & on over the years, but never got very far in because I never knew exactly what I was supposed to do or how to go about it.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 14th, 2013, 12:10 am
by Flack
Doesn't sound familiar, I'll have to check it out! I know I have Gorf, HardBall!, and Paradroid in the hopper for next week.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 14th, 2013, 8:57 am
by obliterator918
Ultima IV.

Druid.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 14th, 2013, 9:29 am
by Flack
Ultima IV might be tough to do in the show's short format, but I may be able to zip through it a bit.

Druid and Druid II, awesome.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 14th, 2013, 12:19 pm
by obliterator918
Flack wrote:Ultima IV might be tough to do in the show's short format, but I may be able to zip through it a bit.


Agreed, but you will thrive on the challenge. :-) You could show the initial character creation and walking into town, but I suppose even that would run a little long.

Flack wrote:Druid and Druid II, awesome.


Always like Druid, great music.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 17th, 2013, 3:40 pm
by Flack
Maybe I can do a whole week of Ultima -- like Ultima I, II, III, etc. Hm. Let me think about that.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 19th, 2013, 11:30 am
by AArdvark
Beach Head II! I love the part where the tank rolls over one of the soldiers and he screams.


THE
AAAAAaaaaaAAAAAAaaaaaAAAAARDVARK!

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 19th, 2013, 11:51 am
by Flack
Ooh yes, Beach Head 1 and 2, classics. ADDED!

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 21st, 2013, 5:39 pm
by ubikuberalles
Flack wrote:Maybe I can do a whole week of Ultima -- like Ultima I, II, III, etc. Hm. Let me think about that.


Yes please! I bought the Ultima I-IV (or was it V?) pack many years ago for my PC and I need to rip the CD and install it on my desktop for old times sake (I may need to find the PC slow down code so Ultima I will actually work).

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 21st, 2013, 6:15 pm
by Flack
If they're old enough versions, you would do better with DosBox.

On a related note, we're losing an entire generation of games. Games designed for Windows 95 and 98 are a bitch to get running on modern computers. Too new for DosBox, too old for modern Windows.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 21st, 2013, 11:28 pm
by ubikuberalles
Yes, I figured DosBox may be required.

I still have Win95 and Win98 CD's and keys and I plan to install them on my VMWare Workstation. So if DosBox doesn't work, the Virtual machine should.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 22nd, 2013, 8:02 am
by obliterator918
GOG is great -- they sell old games and make sure they will run on modern systems, including all the Ultimas.

http://www.gog.com/game/ultima_4

In fact it looks like Ultima IV is one of the free games they give you when you make an account.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 22nd, 2013, 8:28 am
by Flack
ubikuberalles wrote:Yes, I figured DosBox may be required.

I still have Win95 and Win98 CD's and keys and I plan to install them on my VMWare Workstation. So if DosBox doesn't work, the Virtual machine should.

I would be curious to hear how that works, from a performance standpoint. I have a couple of old school machines left out in the garage (at least one 386 and one 486) but if virtualizing 95/98 works well enough to the point that the multimedia-type games run at a decent clip, I may get rid of the hardware.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 22nd, 2013, 10:24 am
by ubikuberalles
Let me dig up the disks and I'll let you know when I get results.

Unfortunately VMWare does not offer any kind of CPU throttling. So it will be the fastest Win 95 I've ever run. I'm thinking it will have 256M and 1 GB disk space. Beefy system for its day but now it's so tiny! It's like a toy computer now. ;)

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 22nd, 2013, 11:31 am
by Flack
Sorry if you all saw any weirdness in here this morning. I now have an automatic RSS reader cross-posting into this forum so I don't have to do that part manually anymore.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: October 22nd, 2013, 6:34 pm
by ubikuberalles
m00npie is a jerk! Well, OK, not really. You can't hate a guy with a missing face.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: November 5th, 2013, 7:53 pm
by AArdvark
hero of the Golden Talisman. I never got anywhere with that game!

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 8:20 pm
by AArdvark
Oh yeah, Wizball! That killer solo at 'Game Over' is awesome.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: March 30th, 2015, 11:12 pm
by Flack
I'll add it to the list!

Right now the current line up is Donkey Kong Junior, then Track and Field, then a text adventure, and then I'm not sure after that.

Here's the current request list:

Adventure (Will Howard / Twitter)
Archon (TommyROM)
Ballblazer (TommyROM)
Beach Head 1
Beach Head 2
Burgertime
Conan - Mark Schroeder
Countdown to Shutdown (Paradroyd)
Defender of the Crown (TommyROM)
Goonies - Mark Schroeder
Jumpman (TommyROM)
Labyrinth
Lode Runner (already did video)
M.U.L.E. (TommyROM)
Mail Order Monsters (Louis Wellington - Listener/E-Mail)
Paradroid (TommyROM)
Park Patrol (TommyROM)
Questron - Mark Schroeder
Road Warrior 2000
Sinbad (Louis Wellington - Listener/E-Mail)
Space Taxi (TommyROM)
Spy Hunter
Super Huey 2
Sword of Fargoal (Joseph Schirripa)
Test Drive / Test Drive 2
Turrican (TommyROM)
Ultima IV
Wizball (Aardvark)
Zorro - Mark Schroeder

Plus I plan on working back in all of the Youtube ones I did as well.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: March 31st, 2015, 7:38 am
by fergojisan
Club Caribe.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: March 31st, 2015, 9:33 pm
by Flack
I had to Google that to find out what it was. That looks awesome, I wish I had experienced it!

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: April 2nd, 2015, 4:26 pm
by AArdvark
Was that the online chatroom thing on Q-link?

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: April 3rd, 2015, 9:50 am
by Flack
It looks like it. I never got to use any of the pay BBS services on the Commodore 64, mostly because I was too young to have a job then. Plus there were so many free BBSes around here to call (and free games to download) that I didn't (at the time) see the advantage of the big services.

Re: [STICKY] Suggestions/Feedback/Requests

Posted: April 9th, 2015, 11:47 am
by obliterator918
Into the Eagle's Nest is a cool Nazi-themed Gauntlet-style game. You should do an ep on that one.