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Offline Shrike

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New games on elderly PCs!
Must........find.......... copy of transport tycoon.  Mine is gone!
WE ARE HARD LIGHT PRODUCTIONS. YOU WILL LOWER YOUR FIREWALLS AND SURRENDER YOUR KEYBOARDS. WE WILL ADD YOUR INTELLECTUAL AND VERNACULAR DISTINCTIVENESS TO OUR OWN. YOUR FORUMS WILL ADAPT TO SERVICE US. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE.

 

Offline wEvil

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New games on elderly PCs!
Bah, I tried to play System Shock (1&2) on my machine but SSHOCK 1 wouldn't see my soundcard and wouldn't run, and SSHOCK 2 just wouldn't install even when i hacked the setup binary to bits.

Bloody EA and their lack of future proofing.

win2k with an sblive.  bleurgh.

 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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New games on elderly PCs!
I use the mouse, but it gets a bit annoying when you have to keep moving it halfway across your desk just to trun an Ursa through 90 degrees!

The way it was done in Privateer 2 was better, the mouse worked just like a joystick! Annoying when you lost the centre position, though.

 

Offline Petrarch of the VBB

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SS2, you say? Hmm. you know I can't play that game for above twenty minutes at a time.

A) Because it scares the hell out of me

and B) Because I'm crap at it.

You can hear them, but you don't know where they are!
"your flesh betrayyyys you!"
"The horror, the horrorrrrrr"

And those bloody pyro-monkeys, aahhgg.

 

Offline Liberator

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Originally posted by Petrarch of th VBB
I use the mouse, but it gets a bit annoying when you have to keep moving it halfway across your desk just to trun an Ursa through 90 degrees!
:confused:

This is strange.  With the sensitivity turned all the way up I have no problem driving an Ursa(still the best Terran bomber:snipe: ).  As far as having to move half-way across the desk, just pick it up:doh:.  I've pickoff Dragon's using my KB & MS.:cool:

Oh and as far as "Steering"(keeping yourself upright with the rest of the game, just bind a key to the "Bank when pressed" function.:nod:
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

 

Offline FSW

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New games on elderly PCs!
Hehe.  My computer SUCKS.
Oh, and Liberator: A gun can change the nature of a man. :)

 

Offline Liberator

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Originally posted by FSW
Oh, and Liberator: A gun can change the nature of a man. :)

True.  However I was feeling a little metaphysical when I wrote that, so a more appropriate answer would be...love, sadness, hate, ect.
So as through a glass, and darkly
The age long strife I see
Where I fought in many guises,
Many names, but always me.

There are only 10 types of people in the world , those that understand binary and those that don't.

  

Offline Grey Wolf

New games on elderly PCs!
I just can't seem to pilot on cheap joysticks or keyboards. Only semi-cheap joysticks....
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -George Bernard Shaw