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Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by koide »

inDigiNeous wrote: post #102
hibikir wrote: post #89

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King's quest was easier the alternatives. The worst for foreigners was Police quest. One command was seared into my brain: 'administer sobriety test' Good luck figuring that out with a small learner's dictionary.

Police Quest was pretty picky. I remember the scene where you have to get the suspect from the car laying down on the ground. Shouting "Lay Down" would only give you nitpicking about the sexual meaning of "laying", which I never got until later.

Heh, this morning I was thinking about this in the shower, don't know why.

The worst for me was the part in the sewer, where you had to write "look at shit". I only knew the word's pronunciation. Spent days on the combinations: shed, ched, poop, and so on.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by zephyrfalcon »

vetinari wrote: post #45
dirktheman wrote: post #40

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While I maxed out on the RAM (a whopping 512MB), as it's one of the first clamshells it's limited by a 300Mhz processor. So no OSX for me. I don't mind, it's on 9.2 right now, which is about the most stable as they come. And with my homemade ssd (CF card with IDE adapter) it's blazing fast!

I remember running 10.1 and 10.2 on the 466 Mhz/320 MB RAM clamshell. Not very fast, but enough for ScummVM. I didn't know that OSX does not run on the original iBook.

I think the highest OS X version you can install on a clamshell is 10.4. I have it on one of mine (with memory maxed out to 576 Mb). As you say, it's not real fast, but ScummVM works, and so do C64 and GBA emulators.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by anthk »

dirktheman wrote: post #23

Ah... Monkey Island. I have such fond memories of not just MI, but also other Lucasarts/Sierra adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Sam&Max, Full Throttle, Willy Beamish, King's Quest, Space Quest, etc. I owe a large part (if not most!) of my English skills to these games. Recently, I bought my daughter an old '99 ibook Clamshell on a yard sale. I upgraded the RAM and substituted the hard drive for a CompactFlas…

CHeck Macintosh Garden.

And Lubuntu PPC with Scummvm.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by limeyy »

jsingleton wrote: post #34
dirktheman wrote: post #23

Ah... Monkey Island. I have such fond memories of not just MI, but also other Lucasarts/Sierra adventure games like Day of the Tentacle, Sam&Max, Full Throttle, Willy Beamish, King's Quest, Space Quest, etc. I owe a large part (if not most!) of my English skills to these games. Recently, I bought my daughter an old '99 ibook Clamshell on a yard sale. I upgraded the RAM and substituted the hard drive for a CompactFlas…

Don't forget the Indiana Jones games. Fate of Atlantis was a great game. There is also Beneath a Steel Sky which is fantastic and now free. http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Beneath_a_Steel_Sky

Yeah great game. Wonder how much nostalgia is part of my mindfak.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by anthk »

dirktheman wrote: post #40
vetinari wrote: post #38

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Scummvm - http://scummvm.org Clamshell iBooks are capable of running OSX. Not spectacularly well (they are 366 or 466 MHz machines with limeted RAM), but still.

While I maxed out on the RAM (a whopping 512MB), as it's one of the first clamshells it's limited by a 300Mhz processor. So no OSX for me. I don't mind, it's on 9.2 right now, which is about the most stable as they come. And with my homemade ssd (CF card with IDE adapter) it's blazing fast!

Scummvm under Linux Mint PPC should run faster than OSX.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by ajnin »

hibikir wrote: post #89
soneca wrote: post #49

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Me too. I learned english "by force" by playing basically Monkey Island and Indiana Jones series. Funny thing is that I played them a lot in pair. I would go to a friend's house and we would play together, even if is essentially a one player game. One that infuriated me was King's Quest, the one that you could type anything you want the character to do. Such a powerful potential, but I took days just to discover the…

King's quest was easier the alternatives. The worst for foreigners was Police quest. One command was seared into my brain: 'administer sobriety test' Good luck figuring that out with a small learner's dictionary.

The worst for me was the "monkey wrench" puzzle in Monkey Island 2 ... Being French, playing with the French version, I had no way to put this together. I ended up trying every item combination in the whole game world until I found the correct one by accident. Took me days.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by inDigiNeous »

koide wrote: post #111
inDigiNeous wrote: post #102

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Police Quest was pretty picky. I remember the scene where you have to get the suspect from the car laying down on the ground. Shouting "Lay Down" would only give you nitpicking about the sexual meaning of "laying", which I never got until later.

Heh, this morning I was thinking about this in the shower, don't know why. The worst for me was the part in the sewer, where you had to write "look at shit". I only knew the word's pronunciation. Spent days on the combinations: shed, ched, poop, and so on.

Hehe yeah I remember also going through a dictionary with my friend to look how to pronounce these things, and our mother helped too. Brought together the whole family for a while.

Re: Happy Birthday Monkey Island

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Post by vvpan »

atesti wrote: post #105
viewer5 wrote: post #85

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Yep. Don't know about elsewhere, but you get it and a handful of others when you sign up for Good Old Games

You can download it on the ScummVm webpage if I recall correctly.

Or as an apt package on debian-based linux.
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