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Master of Magic: I was finally able to play a game at the impossible level to completion. I finally won yesterday, April 29, 2018. I found a download of the most patched version (1.3.1) and installed it with the latest version of DosBox. It took 32GB of RAM and an i7 running at 2.8GHz to (with saving after every other turn or so) run with only 8 or so crashes to finish the game. I'm pretty sure all the crashes were the result of memory overflows due to the enormous bonuses given to the computer players. I think taking 24 years to complete a game must be a record (it was released in 1994).
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“It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”
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They don't make 'em like they used to.
I sometimes get the urge to replay the Space Quest games (I-III), which I beat but probably didn't get maximum points in. I've still got the 3.5" floppies lying around, but no quick way to pull data from them.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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That is a long time. Back in 2010 or so I finally complete SSI's gold box AD&D games. I had finished the first two of the four titles back in the late 80's to early 90's and had played the last two but never from start to end. 20 years late is better than never.
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24 yrs is epic.
I remember when I was a kid my first contact with computers was when my older brother brought a C-64 (later upgraded to a luxury C-128
). He played one of those R-Type shoot-em-up games religiously, I think it was "Katakis" (small player-controlled spaceship pulverizes lotsa enemies). Oh what a moment of joy when he finally, after many failed attempts, defeated the final alien boss thing (which looked somewhat like the alien queen from "Aliens").
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This was my first contact with a computer was a tandy 1000 playing hangman and scorched earth
I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
Difference is irrelevant when dosage is higher than recommended!Comment
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I blame Bebro. Clearly the shark seagul is to blame.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I am not delusional! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm gonna go dance with the purple wombat who's playing show-tunes in my coffee cup!
Rules are like Egg's. They're fun when thrown out the window!
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A mouse is helpful, keyboards tooComment
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This remind me of SSI’s Pool of Radiance which took a decade or so from the 1988 release date to complete.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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For strange reasons I still have memorized the passwords for the skeleton infested keep in the harbor of Phlan ... Lux, Shestni and SamosudOriginally posted by Dinner View Post
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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While I can't remember what I had for breakfast. *sigh*It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron OComment
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I thought I had finished pool of radiance but I had only beaten the false tyranthraxus dragon*
I liked the Opening post
*I found out years later with the internetComment
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If you killed the real Tyranthraxus then you got a bunch of +5 magic everything which kind of ruined the game on replay.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I had sensed something was wrong when I killed the false one and the game kept on going like nothing happened...Comment
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Games like this and songs are the main reason I learned english btwComment
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