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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Pera on August 05, 2003, 12:37:08 pm

Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Pera on August 05, 2003, 12:37:08 pm
Anyone know Beneath a Steel Sky? It's an old sci-fi adventure by Revolution software, and they have just released it as freeware! If you like old point&click adventures you definitely should try this one.

You can get it from sourceforge (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scummvm/BASS-CD.zip?download), and you'll also need the scummVM (http://www.scummvm.org/) emulator to get it working on windows.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: karajorma on August 05, 2003, 12:44:11 pm
Excellent. I managed to pick up the CD32 version for a quid years ago but I could never get it to run on my A1200. Now I can finally play it :)
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Nico on August 05, 2003, 12:52:34 pm
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Originally posted by karajorma
Excellent. I managed to pick up the CD32 version for a quid years ago but I could never get it to run on my A1200. Now I can finally play it :)


CD32 games never worked on amiga computers, just like xbox games don't work with windows :p
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: karajorma on August 05, 2003, 01:50:31 pm
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Originally posted by Venom
CD32 games never worked on amiga computers, just like xbox games don't work with windows :p


Actually their were emulators that worked as long as the game didn't use the special chip the CD32 had (very few games did). I just could never find the correct set up to get the emulator to work.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: CP5670 on August 05, 2003, 01:51:39 pm
I played through this a few months ago. Excellent game, but I think it's been up for download for some time now on abandonware sites. Its only fault is that the end seemed somewhat abrupt, but otherwise it was all the good classic adventure stuff.

There is a bug near the beginning of the game on that recycle plant catwalk that was preventing me from progressing for a while, but there is a simple workaround.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: mikhael on August 05, 2003, 02:59:49 pm
This is sitting on my hard drive right now. I just have to wait for the new scummVM to be ported to FreeBSD.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Stryke 9 on August 05, 2003, 05:11:34 pm
Yeah, it's a good game. It's only a pity I suck at adventure games. Hell, I've had my trusty walkthrough hotkeyed the entire second half of The Longest Journey. :D

CP: You have to hold down the Scroll Lock key to pass between screens.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: mikhael on August 05, 2003, 05:17:21 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Yeah, it's a good game. It's only a pity I suck at adventure games. Hell, I've had my trusty walkthrough hotkeyed the entire second half of The Longest Journey. :D

CP: You have to hold down the Scroll Lock key to pass between screens.


TLJ... man, that's the best Adventure game EVER. Syberia comes pretty close. The last half of TLJ was kinda rushed htough. I'm looking forward to the sequel to both.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Stryke 9 on August 05, 2003, 05:21:22 pm
There's gonna be a sequel to TLJ?

Hmm... I don't know how you follow that. Better to start with a new plotline, I suspect, but hey...

Anyway, yeah. Very cool. The only utterly linear game (even with all that "you can choose your own path" affirming junk, hah) that I've actually liked. Well, if liked is the word- I usually sleep in between gaming runs, or eat or something.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Sandwich on August 05, 2003, 05:37:08 pm
My brother and I played through TLJ together over the course of a few months... that game rules. :)
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Turnsky on August 05, 2003, 07:27:30 pm
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Originally posted by Sandwich
My brother and I played through TLJ together over the course of a few months... that game rules. :)


My version doesn't seem to want to work with my current PC:(
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Stryke 9 on August 06, 2003, 07:57:09 am
On what OS?

I'm running it XP (gack, it's as bad as I always imagined and so much worse, but the hyperthreading makes the new computer twice as fast as my "old" one, so I'm stuck with it...), so compatibility's not as much of a problem as in 2000...
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Admiral LSD on August 07, 2003, 01:07:46 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky


My version doesn't seem to want to work with my current PC:(


http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/

v0.5.0 to be precise, supposed to have full BASS compatibility except from some odd timing issues which may lead to unusable save games.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: kode on August 07, 2003, 04:54:41 am
I need to find my sam&max CD.
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Turnsky on August 07, 2003, 04:59:20 am
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Originally posted by Admiral LSD


http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/

v0.5.0 to be precise, supposed to have full BASS compatibility except from some odd timing issues which may lead to unusable save games.


thanks anyway, but i was talking about my version of TLJ.... :)
Title: Beneath a Steel Sky
Post by: Stryke 9 on August 07, 2003, 09:55:44 pm
You didn't answer the question. Anyway, it was built to run on basically any operating system, so it's a hardware deal. Hardly even that, since every graphics card worth having supports D3D. Hmm... some older programs don't recognize one of the fancier types of RAM, ya know, can't remember the acronym but I ran up against that a bit back with an application...