The 'Oh, If I can play that game again...' Thread

**Geoffrey S** · 03-17-2007, 21:38

I'd love to be able to play Tie Fighter again. Although Mac OSX manages with most games, this one it doesn't seem to like even in retro mode.

**Somebody Else** · 03-17-2007, 22:42

Another vote for Elite being a fantastic memory. And Fate of Atlantis. And also Centurion, Defender of Rome. Probably a few others too...

**The Foolish Horseman** · 03-17-2007, 23:03

i always play the old lucasarts games ( the ones of the scumm engine) by using ScummVM, a pc emulator which plays esacpe from monkey island etc.

Good legal fun

**Quintus Of Pompeii** · 03-18-2007, 23:52

This is an old game, never the less, the original die hard on Sega Saturn, that was a truely great game. It was highly addicitive IMO, though it was basic.

-Q

**Whacker** · 03-19-2007, 00:23

Originally Posted by Geoffrey S

I'd love to be able to play Tie Fighter again. Although Mac OSX manages with most games, this one it doesn't seem to like even in retro mode.

I was about to swoop to your rescue, but I then I re-read your post and saw the dread "Mac OSX" bit, which made me feel dirty to type.

If you can get access to a 2000/XP machine, you've got two options.

1. Dosbox. It's ok, runs ok, not a bad solution.

2. VDMSound+DOS32A. This worked great for me. You'll need to install VMDSound 2.1.0beta first, I think that's the most recent version. Whatever, just get the most recent version of it. Next you'll need to get this: http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html and "install" it. When I say "install", all you have to do is overwrite the dos4gw.exe in your /TIE or /TIECD dir with the dos32a.exe (rename it to dos4gw.exe). Run with VDMsound and it should work like a charm for you. Also, depending on the system, you may need to run the nolfb.com (Google for it) first, through a batch file so you'll have VESA compatability.

Alpha One, mission critical craft, under attack!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, shields down!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, hull condition critical!

Alpha One, mission critical craft, destroyed!

Abort mission, mission a failure!

**Gregoshi** · 03-19-2007, 01:20

I remember Elite on the Commodore 64 fondly. The other game I really liked from back in the golden age was EA's The Seven Cities of Gold. Exploring the ever changing New World was more fun than its blocky pixels belie.

**ShadeHonestus** · 03-19-2007, 18:01

Originally Posted by Gregoshi

I remember Elite on the Commodore 64 fondly. The other game I really liked from back in the golden age was EA's The Seven Cities of Gold. Exploring the ever changing New World was more fun than its blocky pixels belie.

Have to agree with both of those. I would also love to play the original Madden for the Apple II E. They still haven't caught back up with it in terms of designing plays. I remember a group of us crunching performance numbers to outfit rosters, drafting players, etc etc all of our own invention to augment the game which left such things open ended in the code.

**UltraWar** · 03-19-2007, 22:28

I have a list of them which are games I wish I could play again but most of them I have reacquired for instance Monkey Island 1/2, Doom/2/Final and Sim City 2000. But the game I wish I could play again was LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon). It was such a great game and I used to play on the web remake of it: http://www.lotgd.net but nevertheless...

**Blodrast** · 03-20-2007, 00:28

Doom/Doom 2 run on windoze just fine, even without Dosbox or any additional tweaking. I still play Doom - it's still on my hdd...

Somebody Else: I loved Centurion, too. And it also works on windows, but I think I needed to fiddle around with it for a bit. Last time I played it was about 5 years ago, and it worked, eventually, although I think I wasn't able to turn off the sound or something...

I really liked Dune 1... I kinda sucked at it, and I don't think I ever finished it - I think I always got stuck in the somewhere during the quest....

- I know, pathetic, but, hey, remember, I was a kid, and, besides, I had no experience with that kind of games - it was one of my first ones...

Oh, and I think I played Supaplex on my Spectrum Z80 - cool stuff!

Oh, and doc bean: I've also spent many, many hours playing Worms with my friends - for years, all throughout college, and even afterwards, to some extent. Not for a decade, unfortunately, but you're right, that's one of the best multiplayer games of that kind...
If I may be allowed a bit of shameless nostalgia, sometimes after staying to 1 or 2 hours of a really boring and painful lecture, damn early in the morning, we'd go to one of our friends' place, and we'd play till the evening

Sometimes, we'd also gather to his place, everybody claiming it was for "working on that project", but, somehow, the project-related issues were discussed and agreed upon within half an hour, and the rest of 3-4 hours were spent... making each other's worms "sleep with the fishies"