I think I know what happened, but I'll need to check some things. So anyway, yeah I didn't completely lose my mind, nor did I just decide to randomly quote my old posts to "construct" new opinion pieces.
(Also apparently someone can't leave for a few weeks without the hounds being called in...)
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God bless all the freaks on the Internet and Google image search for cataloging them!
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We should get Lazy to make up some messed up story to go with this picture ala "The Onion".
About how some magic moon dust in Sonics coffee took Tales on a wild ride. :)
Kids, don't leave home for 2 years. You never know what things will be like when you get back.
Hi all. I'm here because I should be reading for school and I want to stall instead. I guess that's why I haven't been to TC in 3 years (slight exageration), cause I've been out of school that long! If you wanna stay in touch, please look me up on facebook (yes I just said that). Derek and I are friends! And I'm in Pasadena now *gasp*. Does Lord Shockwave show up anymore?
I know, I've talked about this before. But after some renewed efforts yesterday to get a few things working, I have to say it again... I really, REALLY miss DOS support.
"But-but-but DOSBox..."
Unfortunately, DOSBox does not run all games, and even many of the ones it does run run substantially slower than they would on a real system. Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed? Why is it running so jerkily? Duke Nukem 3D is particularly bad: Why does it take so long to load in normal DOSBox 0.72? Why is the sound messed up sometimes (some sfx seem missing?)? Why do the graphics momentarially corrupt when you go in and out of the water? DOSBox can't handle changing color palettes well? Why does the speed seem somewhat inconsistent... TES Adventures: Redguard demo? Why does the Glide emulation in that alternate DOSBox 0.72 CVS build fail and crash the game at the loading screen? Why is its Vista fullscreen implementation broken? Why does that CVS build crash when I push a button on the gamepad... etc.
All of these are games, of course, that run perfectly on my old computer. The "Windows Vista does not support full-screen mode for this game" dialog box is evil... :(
I know that XP has serious problems with many DOS games too (getting Duke 3d to run well on XP is evidently quite hard), but Vista is even worse. At least XP supports a fullscreen mode, for the games that actually work in it or can be made to...
Oh yes, and while Tabworks technically runs in Vista, it doesn't like the new file system -- it cannot see your disc drives or display them on the sidebar and there is no click and drag support anymore -- in ME you only had to click on a file in a Windows Explorer folder and drag it into Tabworks and it'd auto-create a link to that file in Tabworks. Tabworks could also be set to auto-create tabs when things were added to the start menu. This time neither of those features work, so the only way to add new icons is to manually create them -- Tabworks CAN see the folder tree when you're going through the 'where is this icon pointing to' dialogs, at least.
In addition, Vista can't see the icons in some icon files, including all of Tabworks' icon libraries except for the default one and the icons in the exe files of some games, particularly older ones (Windows 3.1 program file icons are pretty much all "not there", as are even some icon files). Annoying.
There are a few games that I have that work better on my new computer than my old one -- Pod being the best example, given that before it didn't run at all but now it runs perfectly -- but that's a Windows 95 game, not DOS.
The Zelda crossbow game sounds interesting. Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles ... we'll see, perhaps. Ghost Squad ? That's the most traditional lightgun game of the three, being a straight arcade port, but sure... I actually played Ghost Squad in a the arcade once. It's okay... nothing really special, but a decent lightgun shooting game.
What I really want, though, is Terminator 2: The Arcade Game (SNES) in Wii VC with backwards compatibility support. And Duck Hunt. :D
