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Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

nelz — Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:47 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:47 pm

Incidentally, I received a mail from Cloanto earlier today, there's a new version of Amiga Forever coming out next week.

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

bhoggett — Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:17 pm

Author: bhoggett

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:17 pm

nelz wrote:

If you knew who had written the Amiga emulation part, you would not be at all surprised by that

Once I read it, I had my suspicions.

However, I was still surprised to see it there because it is more relevant through its Linux links than through its retro-gaming ones. A shame it died when it did, or else it might have warranted an LXF featurette at some point.

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

nelz — Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:06 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:06 pm

bhoggett wrote:

(and of course Amithlon got a completely gratuitous mention too )

If you knew who had written the Amiga emulation part, you would not be at all surprised by that

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

bhoggett — Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:41 am

Author: bhoggett

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:41 am

I found the article strangely compelling because even though there have been lots of retro-games articles and a myriad of magazines - and there's even a dedicated mag - they all look at it from the Windows perspective. Seeing it from a Linux perspective was refreshing.

(and of course Amithlon got a completely gratuitous mention too )

evilnick wrote:

On the C64, it was probably Lords of Midnight.

Going a bit off-topic here - or at least on a tangent - did you know Alan Cox once started writing a conversion of this to GTK+? Now there's a spooky link considering Alan was featured in the same issue...

BTW, for Lords of Midnight fans (like me) there's a multi-user on-line version called Midnight/MU. You can google for the link as I don't want to spam the forum. Beware, don't join if you value your job, relationships, social life etc. It's bad for your sanity.

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

M-Saunders — Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:23 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:23 pm

Hurrah for Elite! And a slightly louder Hurrah for Frontier, which ate up an alarming amount of my youth trading saved games with friends. Somewhere I still have scraps of paper containing outdoor worlds at bizarre coordinates like -4000,-1000 etc. My dream is to own a real-life Panther Clipper one day...

M

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

mazebane — Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:13 pm

Author: mazebane

Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 4:13 pm

I was very happy to see this article as i can now run my emulators under linux instead of windows and my 6 year old son loves playing sonic and gnome nibbles, now all i have to do is get elite and chuckie egg working and my speccy days can be reborn!

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

hairymunky — Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:41 pm

Author: hairymunky

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:41 pm

Been there, did that, spent every last penny I had playing galaxians while on holiday in Blackpool (some building in the pleasure beach I think ~ cant remember) ... quite scary to think it was around 20-25 years ago, makes me feel old
ended up saving all my pocket money to buy it for my Spectrum .... god those were the days

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

Flea — Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:25 am

Author: Flea

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:25 am

guy wrote:

I don't believe all you young Linux babes ranting on about your first games using real graphics on real TV sets!

My first computer was a Science of Cambridge Mk 14 - Clive Sinclair's first hobby computer. I had to solder it together from a kit of parts, it featured a revolutionary calculator-style numeric display and Hexadecimal keypad. Oh, the joy of playing Moon Landing after a mere hour or so of keying in machine code. I got so I could pilot that lunar module like Biggles' ghost...

And command shell users think they're hard. Bah! Snort! Waffle drone ... in my young day ... lucky to eat our gravel warm for breakfast ... babble ...

Heh heh, you're old *points and stares*, hey everyone check out the old guy [nelson]ha ha[/nelson]

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

guy — Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:28 am

Author: guy

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 12:28 am

I don't believe all you young Linux babes ranting on about your first games using real graphics on real TV sets!

My first computer was a Science of Cambridge Mk 14 - Clive Sinclair's first hobby computer. I had to solder it together from a kit of parts, it featured a revolutionary calculator-style numeric display and Hexadecimal keypad. Oh, the joy of playing Moon Landing after a mere hour or so of keying in machine code. I got so I could pilot that lunar module like Biggles' ghost...

And command shell users think they're hard. Bah! Snort! Waffle drone ... in my young day ... lucky to eat our gravel warm for breakfast ... babble ...

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

Rhakios — Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:33 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:33 pm

It's called holiday.

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

1slipperyfish — Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:17 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:17 pm

i'll leave it on tonight,thanks again
why are you not at work?
paul

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

Rhakios — Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:09 pm

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:09 pm

There is a deamon that updates the locate database, as it usually runs at night it might not have been updated if you always shut your computer down.

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

1slipperyfish — Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:55 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:55 am

ok it was crap why are you not at work? when i type in

Code:

which java
rpm -ql java | grep bin/
locate java | grep bin/

it says warning database more that 8 days old rather than locating it is this right?
paul

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

Rhakios — Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:44 am

Author: Rhakios

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:44 am

Well, it couldn't have been retro when I had one as it wasn't old enough, so it must have been crap

Re: Retro gaming article - space filler ?

1slipperyfish — Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:43 am

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 11:43 am

no rhakios not crap retro
paul