[Kopachris]

Damn you and your nostalgia. I don't even have FS1. 

If you don't care about nostalgia, you can get the FS1 port with the hi-res textures and models and other SCP features.

I have FSPort. I've played it through numerous times. I'm just sad that I've never experienced the original FS1.

We got FS1 (the original) so long ago, I don't know when or where.  Then we got the FS2 demo with a force-feedback joystick.  Then I found FS2_open for my mac, and did some looking around and found the SCP.  Then we installed it on one computer and made a DVD so we wouldn't have to do the same for the others.  I haven't tried the FS1 port yet.

same, got it with that joystick... wierd though, isn't it? if you could even get that joystick to get set up with the game (which, i found out, you can't do with SCP. Keyboard or nothing ) once you get in the middle of the mission (at least with the demo) it crashes the game. I tested it , the joystick is definitly the culprit.

After that, i found hard-light after a month of looking for new campaigns. all i got till then was warzone, TBP, and blackwater ops. i nearly wet myself with excitement when i realized this game wasn't dead. 

Hmm.  The FS2 Demo worked fine for me.  The force-feedback even worked.  I found other campaigns after I found Hard-Light

[haloboy100]

Whatch you don't make this end up like the milk thread....

[Ryan]

Whatch you don't make this end up like the milk thread....

Milk thread?

[Aardwolf]

Whatch you don't make this end up like the milk thread....

Milk thread?

Yes, the milk thread.

[Ryan]

Whatch you don't make this end up like the milk thread....

Milk thread?

Yes, the milk thread.

Whats a milk thread? That as my question before, mabye i said it wrong.

[Kopachris]

Whatch you don't make this end up like the milk thread....

Milk thread?

Yes, the milk thread.

Whats a milk thread? That as my question before, mabye i said it wrong.

I'm not sure, but I think what your doing with the quotes is a milk thread.

[Wobble73]

I use SCP now, I first got into FreeSpace2 due to getting Collosus with Righteous Orchid Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator card. Liked it for a while, but couldn't get into it properly due to a lack of controller, (didn't like playing with keyboard and mouse!).

Then two years back I got bored of playing FPS (easier to play with keyboard and mouse) and I had a gamepad. I looked around for my Collosus disc and could not find it, found a demo disc with FreeSpace2 demo on it, then searched the web and found this wonderful place. Not looked back since. 

[Clawandfang]

SCP all the way! This laptop is new, and I really don't want to install retail FS1 (which I have stashed away somewhere) just for nostalgic value. I don't actually own a copy of FS2 reatail, and don't plan on getting it for the same reason (that and the money involved).

[Polpolion]

(that and the money involved).

Oh come on! It only costs 160 dollars on ebay!

[Clawandfang]

Yes, and imagine the postage costs over here to England!

[Jeff Vader]

But d00d! You'd have an actual FS2 after that! Oh wait, this is eBay... well, you still might get an actual FS2 manual or a poster or something.

[Kopachris]

(that and the money involved).

Oh come on! It only costs 160 dollars on ebay!

Holy ****!  Anyone have an ebay account?  I don't and don't want one (yet, I have no money).  Leave him feedback saying that the FREE open version is a thousand times better, and that nostalgia isn't worth $160.

[Colonol Dekker]

I've got two copies an original 99 first edition, and a budget 1+2 white label set and an original FS1 + silent threat.
 
I had no idea it would lead to all this when i bought the Damn things though

[Desert Tyrant]

I prefer to use the retail version.  I've never gotten SCP to ever work on Vista, due to an OpenAL problem, and I don't espcially mind just using the original Fs2.

[haloboy100]

I've got two copies an original 99 first edition, and a budget 1+2 white label set and an original FS1 + silent threat.
 
I had no idea it would lead to all this when i bought the Damn things though

I got 'em all. The original, the GOTY edition, and another special one i forgot about.

and also the FS1 bundle w/ silent threat

[admiral_wolf]

It is odd that my favorite ever PC game was one that came free with the machine my parents bought which was the DVD release of Freespace, so does that count as retail?

sadly however, neither the DVD or CD version work on my machine, (strangly however, FS2 does), so now I rely on the SCP for both my needs.  Can I say what a fantastic job they have done, even after a break of 8ish years, I could immediatly tell the difference when first guarding the Orff.

[Woolie Wool]

I use SCP. Glowmaps, Autopilot and game engine cutscenes rule. The extended mod hotswap selection saves me from 200 different kinds of hell compared to retail and don't get me started on tbm files i'm having trouble getting the nvidia plugins to work with psp7 though and i'm considering giving up ever texturing a ship again.

Use TGA then.

[Kopachris]

SCP Rocks.  My all-time favorite (PC) game is completely free.

[Colonol Dekker]

I found hooky dlls so now i'm DDS compliant good times roll as they say.

[Kie99]

I've got two copies an original 99 first edition, and a budget 1+2 white label set and an original FS1 + silent threat.
 
I had no idea it would lead to all this when i bought the Damn things though

SELL! SELL! SELL!