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Larry Laffer
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 Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:08 pm
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Well, according to their disclaimer, they're selling the "Game Starter", the game packed with it are free!  |
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Dogbreath
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 3901
Location: In the back of a jacked-up Ford.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:15 pm
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The Game Starter has inspired me, actually. I think I might make some simple .txt files that contains the name, filename, recomended cycles and any special commands for each game on dosgames.com, then make a graphical DOSbox frontend that searches for any ".dbx" (or whatever) files in a game's directory, and then automatically applies that and launches the game. The frontend would be pretty easy to do, the tedious part would be collecting all that information for each game on dosgames.com.
It'd pretty much make the site n00b-proof though. |
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Ro@m
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Joined: 29 Jun 2003
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Location: Croatia
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:56 pm
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| greencosmos wrote: | | Ro@m wrote: | Good games on the disc.
One of them is Alone in the Dark,damn i shitted my pants while playing that one... |
I really wonder how some of you, (when you were younger) could have been afraid of violent games like Doom, as many of today's 10 years old kids don't fear it and many other, old 'scary' games at all. Like me, for example. (I'm pretty near a 10 years old.) |
I never said Doom was scary,anways,the graphic is scary in AITD and the monsters.
LOL,i could shit my pants now...
From the bad graphics and sound.  |
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wardrich
lawl catz r lawlz
Joined: 14 Sep 2002
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Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 9:51 pm
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| greencosmos wrote: | | Ro@m wrote: | Good games on the disc.
One of them is Alone in the Dark,damn i shitted my pants while playing that one... |
I really wonder how some of you, (when you were younger) could have been afraid of violent games like Doom, as many of today's 10 years old kids don't fear it and many other, old 'scary' games at all. Like me, for example. (I'm pretty near a 10 years old.) |
Simple, we have what's called an "imagination". Kids these days seem to lack it, which is why games suck. They waste all their time trying to make things look good, and forget about the storyline. |
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Ro@m
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:29 am
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I second wardrich.  |
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dosraider
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 5:05 am
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And don't forget to mention the kids now are used to see blood and gore the whole time on telly. Take for example a random news coverage of Iraq, can't be bloody enough it seems, the gory details must be showed.
When I was young the most violent that you could see on telly was zorro, and I'm talking about the black&white ones here, with Guy Williams, or Rin-tin-tin.
Djees, I liked that dog, no wonder all my dogs were German shepherds. The current one also.
Compare that to the modern telly, with all that violence, even the cartoons are violent and bloody.
The world is doomed I say, D*O*O*M*E*D*.
You all gonna burn. |
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Gamer_V
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Posts: 1113
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:19 am
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Yeah, the best you can do as an old, old man is die.
Pessimists. 
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dosraider
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Joined: 15 Mar 2005
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Location: ROTFLMAO in Belgium.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 5:14 pm
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| Dogbreath wrote: | The Game Starter has inspired me, actually. I think I might make some simple .txt files that contains the name, filename, recomended cycles and any special commands for each game on dosgames.com, then make a graphical DOSbox frontend that searches for any ".dbx" (or whatever) files in a game's directory, and then automatically applies that and launches the game. The frontend would be pretty easy to do, the tedious part would be collecting all that information for each game on dosgames.com.
It'd pretty much make the site n00b-proof though. |
I know an AW site (Dutch one) that has an own installer, and about all you said ....... the n00bs still screw up.
Another AW site preinstalls the dosgames for dosbox, you in fact only have to unzip them and run them in dosbox ....... the n00bs still screw up.
Please, do not underestimate the n00bs.
( I would dare to refer to a not so old thread in getgamestowork where a n00b even unrarred an ISO to imgmount it in dosbox. He named the directory c:\games\whatever.iso\ and imgmounted that one.)
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| Gamer_V wrote: | | Edit: I expect a topic-split comment very soon. |
I wouldn't dare. |
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