<!--QuoteBegin-Cronos+Aug 30 2004, 08:55 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Cronos @ Aug 30 2004, 08:55 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Attention interloper - heed this recorded message! This drone-vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan. You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space. This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason. Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated. In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions and is therefore deemed to be independent. This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated. This drone now leaves to inform the Ur-Quan of your transgressions. You are commanded to remain here and await the arrival of the Ur-Quan. Disobedience will be punished.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Ack! Had a hard time trying to understand that, oddly.
Very nice find though. Has nifties like source code XD
Oh right... sorry I just assumed they'd given you the models, textures and audio with it =o the actual stats for the units and whatnot are still there though, you'd just need to borrow the content files from a friend ^^;
<!--QuoteBegin-Nemesis Zero+Aug 30 2004, 12:40 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Aug 30 2004, 12:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm surprised nobody noted it yet, so I will: Go, get yourselves Freespace 2. It truly blows Wing Commander squarely out of the water. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> It's source only, can that be turned into the full version or something ?
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<!--QuoteBegin-Nemesis Zero+Aug 30 2004, 12:52 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nemesis Zero @ Aug 30 2004, 12:52 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Yeah, just noticed that myself -_-
I don't know how 'complete' the source is, so I guess it's up there with Homeworld in terms of 'cool, yet useless'. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I will vouch for the game's awesomeness, though. Coming from a person who literally grew up on the original TIE Fighter, (note current avatar), it should be seen as an extreme compliment that I consider Freespace 2 to be better than X-Wing: Alliance.
<!--QuoteBegin-Wheeee+Aug 30 2004, 03:33 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wheeee @ Aug 30 2004, 03:33 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> is there any way not to die to the planetary weather spam in star control 2? I can't even land on venus without dying instantly. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yea, I've been looking for a manual for the game.
I've found arrow keys move your selection (and move your ship kinda like asteroids), but then there's some stuff I just can't know about the game.
Enter - selects keypad 0 - cancel/back Escape - return to ship from landing Shift - Fire in combat/during planetory exploration
There has to be other controls and information. I just don't know where it is. It's kind of weird. And I'd also like to know how I can know if a planet will be safe to land on. Venus (would obviously) destroys stuff quick, so does the Lanthanide world or something in the Sirius orbit...I'd like to know if it's temperature based (I saw the Lenthanide World was 1000 degrees C + ) or something else.
Basically: any manual or gameplay controls, description or premise would be nice. [from what I've managed to drag out of it so far is pretty fun]
there's a little lightning bolt icon, the higher that is the more frequent and thick lightning is on that world, and the icon under it is for the circular earthquake-thingies.
<!--QuoteBegin-Rellix+Aug 30 2004, 04:55 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Aug 30 2004, 04:55 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Oh and Beneath A Steel Sky on SCUMM is teh win. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> That is the truth. I've neen playing BASS for like 4 hours straight now. It's plain awesome, for a point and click adventure thats free.
man. i wanna play Descent soooo bad. But for shame, XP doesn't seem to want to emulate dos properly or something. I can't use the arrow keys in the menu. weird.. heh. and it would be nice if the framerates weren't completely dependant on the CPU speed. sooo fast, yet the arrow key sensitivity is frighteningly low. it makes me cry.
now, i may be wrong, but i believe DOS was not relicensed, making DOS emulators legal. if not, well... edit this out of my post. but i downloaded a third party dos emulator. it works fine, untill, of course, you find that they can't emulate it with any speed. i get an aproximate cpu speed of a 386 10. something like that anyway. really really slow. makes me cry..
might anyone know of a better way to run Descent? We could have some fun playing online. ^_^
It was my first loyal game. Half-Life was my second and everyone who know me knows how much of a HL addict I am. ><
God I loved that game and I owned like crazy. I would love to fly though NS maps sometime in one of those ships and go on a blasting spree. Eat my guided missile fade! As a matter of fact I'd be able to kill every skulk running arround as long as my omega cannon kept some charge in it. And forget the dinky little NS mines, I'm going with smart mines! woot woot!
Doom was the original FPS but until descent it never occured that people might actually want to look in 3D instead of 2D. (if you played the original doom you know what I'm talking about, you can't look up if you life depended on it)
I bet I can still pwn any of you in that game, I just wish some low level programmer could make it run for Win2000 and XP. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
some one play legacy doom with me! <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
I got a modernized version of doom95. Is there multiplayer on that? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Check out this website if you are interested in how the Descent and Descent II source works: (like me)
chrono, i'll play with you, only have doom 1 share, running through legacy of course, if thats all cool. your gonna have to walk me through it though, last time i did doom multi was at a lan on the 95 shareware.
o and by the way, i'm using a 56k modem, but i doubt that'll be a problem, it is doom.
Skulltag is by far better. The netcode is great, graphics seem a bit smoother, and best of all NO FPS CAP <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Aug 30 2004, 04:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Aug 30 2004, 04:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I just want to know how to <b>run</b> Star Control 2. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Well, it'd help if you were a little more descriptive of the problem you're having.
<!--QuoteBegin-SkulkBait+Aug 30 2004, 10:47 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (SkulkBait @ Aug 30 2004, 10:47 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-TychoCelchuuu+Aug 30 2004, 04:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Aug 30 2004, 04:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I just want to know how to <b>run</b> Star Control 2. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Well, it'd help if you were a little more descriptive of the problem you're having. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Okay, let's say you want to start, uh, Doom 3. You double click on Doom3.exe, right? Now let's say I want to run Star Control 2. I uh, can't figure out how <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Someone said there's a .com file that'll do it but I don't see it. There are, however, a good amount of folders in the directory I un-RARed it to.
im having the same problem i cant find how to run the game! <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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This drone-vessel speaks with the voice and authority of the Ur-Quan.
You are trespassing within Ur-Quan space.
This world, Earth, may not be approached for any reason.
Nor will hostilities against our orbital platform be tolerated.
In addition, your ship does not respond to standard Hierarchy identification transmissions
and is therefore deemed to be independent.
This is not permissible -- only subservience shall be tolerated.
This drone now leaves to inform the Ur-Quan of your transgressions.
You are commanded to remain here and await the arrival of the Ur-Quan.
Disobedience will be punished.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Ack! Had a hard time trying to understand that, oddly.
Very nice find though. Has nifties like source code XD
the actual stats for the units and whatnot are still there though, you'd just need to borrow the content files from a friend ^^;
It's source only, can that be turned into the full version or something ?
I don't know how 'complete' the source is, so I guess it's up there with Homeworld in terms of 'cool, yet useless'.
I don't know how 'complete' the source is, so I guess it's up there with Homeworld in terms of 'cool, yet useless'. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I will vouch for the game's awesomeness, though. Coming from a person who literally grew up on the original TIE Fighter, (note current avatar), it should be seen as an extreme compliment that I consider Freespace 2 to be better than X-Wing: Alliance.
Yea, I've been looking for a manual for the game.
I've found arrow keys move your selection (and move your ship kinda like asteroids), but then there's some stuff I just can't know about the game.
Enter - selects
keypad 0 - cancel/back
Escape - return to ship from landing
Shift - Fire in combat/during planetory exploration
There has to be other controls and information. I just don't know where it is. It's kind of weird. And I'd also like to know how I can know if a planet will be safe to land on. Venus (would obviously) destroys stuff quick, so does the Lanthanide world or something in the Sirius orbit...I'd like to know if it's temperature based (I saw the Lenthanide World was 1000 degrees C + ) or something else.
Basically: any manual or gameplay controls, description or premise would be nice.
[from what I've managed to drag out of it so far is pretty fun]
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Oh and Beneath A Steel Sky on SCUMM is teh win.
That is the truth. I've neen playing BASS for like 4 hours straight now. It's plain awesome, for a point and click adventure thats free.
That's how Xzianthia got started.
<img src='http://www.vidgames.com/ps/screens/descent6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
now, i may be wrong, but i believe DOS was not relicensed, making DOS emulators legal. if not, well... edit this out of my post. but i downloaded a third party dos emulator. it works fine, untill, of course, you find that they can't emulate it with any speed. i get an aproximate cpu speed of a 386 10. something like that anyway. really really slow. makes me cry..
might anyone know of a better way to run Descent? We could have some fun playing online. ^_^
God I loved that game and I owned like crazy. I would love to fly though NS maps sometime in one of those ships and go on a blasting spree. Eat my guided missile fade! As a matter of fact I'd be able to kill every skulk running arround as long as my omega cannon kept some charge in it. And forget the dinky little NS mines, I'm going with smart mines! woot woot!
Doom was the original FPS but until descent it never occured that people might actually want to look in 3D instead of 2D. (if you played the original doom you know what I'm talking about, you can't look up if you life depended on it)
I bet I can still pwn any of you in that game, I just wish some low level programmer could make it run for Win2000 and XP. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You guys want some more of my screenshots?
Check out this website if you are interested in how the Descent and Descent II source works: (like me)
<a href='http://www.descent2.com/ddn/' target='_blank'>http://www.descent2.com/ddn/</a>
<img src='http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/shared/front/large/descent2.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.descent.it/legacy_d2__pyro_1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<img src='http://www.rickveldman.com/games/Screen04.GIF' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
God this bugger was annoying:
<img src='http://www.macgamer.com/Reviews-old/descent2/bandit.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The damn thief bot would suddenly come out of nowhere and attack you. And he had like crazy ammounts of shielding.
o and by the way, i'm using a 56k modem, but i doubt that'll be a problem, it is doom.
Skulltag is by far better. The netcode is great, graphics seem a bit smoother, and best of all NO FPS CAP <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
drfuzzy what is this you speak of?!!
Well, it'd help if you were a little more descriptive of the problem you're having.
Well, it'd help if you were a little more descriptive of the problem you're having. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Okay, let's say you want to start, uh, Doom 3. You double click on Doom3.exe, right? Now let's say I want to run Star Control 2. I uh, can't figure out how <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Someone said there's a .com file that'll do it but I don't see it. There are, however, a good amount of folders in the directory I un-RARed it to.