alley cat <3
Oh, I loved that game as a child. I'm still amazed at how much is accomplished with so little
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#52Spent hours playing Apache comanche game back in the days (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxgYEBAXA). It ran on a 4MB RAM machine just fine.
I wonder if we ever get back to this kind of efficient use of computers?
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#53Stunts was so good. Ran it on my 1MB 386. You could record games and play them back from different angles.
You could design your own tracks and I remember finding a glitch if you raced the indycar at top speed towards the biggest ramp where it would fly into the air and be bound only by the top of the coordinate system. Great times (and I don't even like car games...)
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#54Wonderful. Doesn't look like the mute button is working in Firefox though. I currently have the eggceptional midi sounds through my speakers and I can't turn it down or off. (Magicland Dizzy)
Try right clicking the tab and pressing Mute there.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed! Love Colonization. Wish there was a remake. First game I thought of when seeing this list. Privateer was amazing too.
There is a Civ IV-based remake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_IV:_Colonization
was not a fan of the gameplay modification they made in the remake, but with the addition of the fan made mod "The Authentic Colonization" it's much close to the original.
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#56Wonderful. Doesn't look like the mute button is working in Firefox though. I currently have the eggceptional midi sounds through my speakers and I can't turn it down or off. (Magicland Dizzy)
Yeah, mute button not working in Chrome either.
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#57Spent hours playing Apache comanche game back in the days ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcxgYEBAXA ). It ran on a 4MB RAM machine just fine. I wonder if we ever get back to this kind of efficient use of computers?
Not for games and other user facing software. Development effort is finite and the extra complexity that users (reasonably) now expect is worth more than another 10% performance.
The places where it has made economic sense for me to optimise has been high volume consumer electronics. In those cases, taking up a bit less code space means you can drop to a smaller sized flash part and save 30 cents on a $20 bill of materials (for example).
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#58I strongly recommend Bandit Kings of Ancient China. It is a great game.
Everyone has their set of formative games. Mine would probably include: - Civilization (the original). I can literally remember waking up at noon and just starting to play the game and then looking up and it was dark outside; - Zork - Prince of Persia (the original); and - ... Bandit Kings of Ancient China I literally had 20+ hour playing sessions of BKoAC. Like I even played this multiplayer (hot chair). I can remem…
I'm just curious since many people mentioned BKoAC, are any of Koei's new(er) strategy games popular in Western countries? Like games from the Nobunaga's Ambition series or Romance of the Three Kingdoms series. (Admittedly I don't know if they're translated into Western languages or not.)
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#59Stunts was so good. Ran it on my 1MB 386. You could record games and play them back from different angles. You could design your own tracks and I remember finding a glitch if you raced the indycar at top speed towards the biggest ramp where it would fly into the air and be bound only by the top of the coordinate system. Great times (and I don't even like car games...)
What REALLY blew my mind is when I found that there were third-party editors that allowed you to build regular roads on water... but they would break as soon as you tried to open them in the built-in editor. Some custom-made tracks also made the game glitch by only showing some obstacles once you were basically one grid coordinate away (e.g. slalom obstacle would be invisible just until the moment you are about to hit it...). Fun times!
Edit: Also took me YEARS to figure out that you could edit your own terrain with Shift+F1!
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#60Playing Jazz Jackrabbit in the browser just made my day.