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  2. Posted

    Could it be one of the games in the "The Legend of Kyrandia" trilogy by Westwood Studios? The three parts were: "Book one: Fables & Fiends", "Book two: The Hand of Fate" and "Book three: Malcolm's Revenge". The controls fit your descrition, and I think the second game had the locations that you describe.

     

     

    Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg

     

    I didnt know the game was in 3 Parts, but Hand of Fate definately rings a bell so it was that one !

     

    I didnt realise Ive been playing a sequel to Fables & Friends (havent seen that game yet) though :ponder:

  4. Posted

    There is this mouse driven adventure game that came out in the early 90s that I wish i knew the name off.

     

    What i can remember, its was like the Scumm adventures (Monkey Island. Simon the Sorceror, etc)

     

    More like Loom style game. but it had no verbs on the bottom of the screen as you click within the adventure screen instead. (walk-around adventure of course)

     

    As far as I can remember this adventure was released for the Amiga and PC You started out in or nearby in this huge treehouse in the wildness.

     

    I remember a bridge in this adventure too with someone working nearby it that you had to cross. :?

     

    Does anyone know what adventure game im talking about that was released for the Amiga/PC ?

  7. Posted

    I see what your getting at. What OS are you using.

     

    There are SOME DOS Games/Emulators that I want to run in Windows ME but the display is all messed up.

    I bet you MAME DOS wont display probably either, just like MESS DOS.

     

    Ive given up long ago how to try to fix this as changing resolutions dont work, all I can say are these 3 options.

     

    1. Continue and just get used to the messed up display in DOS (Some other resolutions arnt as messed up as others)

     

    2. Download the windows32 MESS version.

     

    4. Install a new OS that better for DOS Applications.

     

    :|

  8. Posted

    My guess is that no one could really say what was the first Hortizonally scrolling game as some early games used sprites moving from left to right to create the illusion of horizitonal scrolling when reallty you were stuck in the same spot only.

     

    i believe Vertical Scrolling games came before true hortizonal ones did, lets say River Raid as the first vertical scrolling game. :|

  11. Posted

    Hmm I used to think it was Donkey Kong that started Platform games?

     

    So it was Space Panic that inspired the making of Donkey Kong? :(

     

    Actually Ill like to know, what was the first Scrolling Platform game?

     

    Was it Super Mario Bros, or Pac-Land ? :ponder:

     

    Actually I far as I remember, Pac-Land was the first Scrolling platform game Ill had ever seen and I was impressed.

     

    But maybe it was Super Mario Bros, that later games like Fire and Ice, Cool Spot, Chuck Rock, was insprired upon.

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    MESS uses the same core code as MAME and so it uses the same version number as MAME does :)

     

    I know now, and I now know I aint funny afterall. :|

     

    I just was playing around with MESS last nite (Multiple Emulator Super System), and theres a lot of systems ive never heard of before.

     

    How much disk space does MESS take up if you wanna to add all the BIOS ROMs into the Bios directory, so all the system will work?

     

    The APEXC says it was a system designed in 1957. I had a look at that, it seems modern looking for 1957, althought all I saw was a white screen with confusing number codes or something to press.

    There couldnt possiblly be games for that system.

    :ponder:

  14. Posted

    Isn't MESS based on MAME? They update it quickly (well, sometimes) after new versions of MAME are released. They are probably intentionally using the same version number as MAME.  

     

    Ive only downloaded MESS once and as far as I know, and didnt like it much becauses its messy emulimations of systems, its like a frontend with all the popular systems in one.

     

    Expect you need to obtain the ROMs and Games, etc.

     

    But yes as far I know it is like MAME as far as the startup screens go.

     

    obviously xulchris would know more about this.

     

    Im gonna download MESS 0.70 now, and try it out again.

     

    Does anyone know what MESS stands for as MAME is Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, i think.

  17. Posted

    I was never disappointed in Pac-Man when I was a kid on the Atari 2600.

    It was a game you got bored off quickly but I got motivated to play it again and again now and then.

    Maybe because I could never afford to play the Arcade Pac-Man in the early days.

     

    And funny enough, ET was one of my favourite games. Sure it was a bit complicated in your first few games.

    But there was lots to explore in it. and kept me happy for hours.

     

     

    It not until recently I hear the Pac-Man and ET were the 2 worstest games for the Atari 2600. :?

  18. Posted

    And games like After Burner,  They will never be able to emulate the moving realistic Cockpits!     :D

     

    Right. And take even a supposedly "simple" game like the original Space Invaders.. you can never emulate the mirrored translucent playfield floating over the lit cardboard background, and the echoey bass reverberating through the wood cabinet. :D I know know it should be obvious, but especially for younger players who've never seen the real thing, it's important to note how Mame, awesome as it is, often times understandably can't match the real deal :P

     

     

     

     

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    Wow! Cool!.. No wonder y we use to play money to play these!

     

    Its beats my 2 MAME versions.

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    MAME is not as the old real ones though.

     

    Maybe playing them sitting down at your keyboard on an upright monitor was they werent designed to be played as.

     

    And games like After Burner, They will never be able to emulate the moving realistic Cockpits! :D

  22. Posted

    I love the good old PCs FPS!!

     

    My favorites would have to be Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Traids, Blood, and Blood 2. (not to mention Redneck Rampage)

     

    Once thing I dislike about Doom is that you cannot look Up or Down in this.

     

    And I couldnt get into the Quake series, as too many people raved on about it too much as (The best computer game ever!!!), and all the others games before Quake seemed to have been forgotten as put away and we all brought faster PCs just to play Quake as the maximum resolutions!

     

    Obviously the difference to Duke Nukem 3D and Quake was Duke Nukem used "sprites" as their actors while Quake went a step further using wire-framed textured graphics for their actors giving them a big plus in realism.

  24. Posted

    where do i go to get any of these emulators and how do i get soft ware for it im not to knologable on this stuff but give me a very detailed instruction and i can do it but where do i start to get all this stuff

     

    my computer is  

     

    dell (i know laugh if you want to for you who dont like them it was free)

    1.6ghz

    768 megs ram

    g-force ti 32meg vid card( i think)

    sb 16pci sound

    cdr/cdrw drives

    tipical usbx4 firewirex4

    joystick card and soforth

     

    running xp pro  

     

    please lead me to the right places for the downloads or if sombody has a cd of it that would be cool $$$ for it!!!

     

    thanks again

     

    chad

     

    First you gotta think, "What computer do I want to emulate".

     

    All the popular (best-selling) computers/consoles can be emulated.

     

    An emulator is simply a program that acts like the real thing.

     

    These are the emulators I use

     

    AMIGA - WinUAE, or Winfellow

    C64 - CCS64 or WinVICE

    C128 - WinVICE

    VIC20 - WinVICE or PC-VIC

    C16/PLUS4 - YAPE

    ATARI 800 - AtariWINpLUS

    MSX - NLMSX

    AMSTRAD - CAP32

    ATARI ST - STEEM

     

    Consoles

     

    ATARI 2600 - STELLA or Z26

    NINTENDO - JNES

     

    and there loads more.

     

    for your games/program must come as Disk Images or Tape Images, which act like the real disk for your emulator your using.

     

    Cartridge consoles are usually called ROMs

     

    I recommend to begin with, select an easy system you were fimular with in the past, Atari 800, C64, Amstrad, etc.

    and download your favorite game to test it for the first time (disk image or Tape image).

     

    After a while you will get fimular them.

    Then you will easily have no problems in emulating more advanced computers such as Amiga, Atari ST, and even systems you have never used before or heard become easy to emulate too.

    Then go for the Arcade Machines (MAME), and even 286-486 DOS games.

     

    ALways go for the latest versions of your emulators, as many of the systems are still in early stages of emulation.

     

    Hope this helps...

     

     

     

     

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