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[Geraldine]

Decided to re-visit my old thread with another cautionary tale.

It concerns aging batteries. With Amiga 500+, A1500, A2000, A3000 and A4000 machines there is a barrel battery which is soldered directly onto the motherboard. After all this time they leak and the acid they contain can destroy the tracks on the board leaving your Miggy quite dead. So, what do you do?

Firstly open it up and carefully remove the battery as it only keeps the real time clock anyways and is not really needed. Even if it does not to appear to be leaking remove it anyways as eventually it will. If you have had your Miggy in storage for a good while, DO NOT SWITCH IT ON!!!, as this will encourage the acid to pour out even faster.

Once you have taken it out, you might think your safe, but no. You still have to neutralise the acid with a strong alkali like lemon juice or it will keep on eating the board. Once you have this done, then give it a good clean to wash off the lemon juice and leave it dry it off for a day or three. Finally, seal the area up with nail varnish. Job done and another Miggy is saved from certain death!

Here is a pic of a dead A500+ board that was left too long

[SOLID_EVEREST]

Still an old school gamer. Started with the NES/SNES and, later, the PC. Games like Alpha Centauri, Donkey Kong Country/2, Blade Runner, Planescape, Fallout (originals), and the Lawnmower Man I still play/have played in the last 5 years. I kind of mix it up with modern games, but there aren't many new titles that hold my attention. Only great modern game I've played was Fallout: New Vegas.

[Geraldine]

Blade Runner
What a great game that was!

[Geraldine]

Decided to re-visit this ageing thread again. Hey I'm the OP so I think its allowed
Did any of you try out Grimrock yet? I picked this up from GOG and have been enjoying it alot. It's Dungeon Master re-born! \\0/

Had plenty of late night gaming sessions with the original games and remember visibly shaking when fighting the Dragon on DM 1 :S What a battle that was.

Oh, that reminds me, there is a free open source package of the classic DM games that work on modern PeeCees here

http://ragingmole.com/RTC/

And a load of custom dungeons here http://dmweb.free.fr/

Also an Eye of the Beholder re-make has been created using the RTC editor a link to it here

http://www.dungeon-m...EoB-RTC-090.zip

[Geraldine]

Another visit to my old thread. This time to ask you about Space Sims.

Any Elite fans about?

These great old games combined space shooter action with RPG elements in that you could upgrade your ship as you went on your merry way as well as make all the way to a raking of Elite once you had enough ships fall under your guns! Great stuff and thanks to a busy community working away on their own with little or no support, they have managed to create 3 open source free re-makes of the original games. Here is some info for those who are interested.

First up is Oolite. This is a nice re-imagining of the original Elite game and is always being added to thanks to regular updates and community developed add on packs or OXPs as they are known. There are versions for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

Here is a link to the web site http://www.oolite.org/about
Oolite Forums http://aegidian.org/bb/index.php
SSC Oolite Section http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/forum/60-oolite/
OXP link http://wiki.alioth.net/index.php/OXP_List
You Tube vid

Next up is Pioneer. This is an Elite 2 re-make that is still in its alpha stage of development but quite playable even at this early stage and aims to go far further than the original Frontier Elite 2 did in features. The devs are always looking for people to contribute their work to the project. If you can help, get involved. There are versions for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows

Here is a link http://pioneerspacesim.net/
ModDB Site http://www.moddb.com/games/pioneer
SSC Pioneer Section http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/forum/23-pioneer/
You Tube vid

Finally there is FFE3D. This is still the original Elite 3 Frontier First Encounters game but with a major overhaul of the graphics and many bug fixes. Annoying it is almost finished but the Russian devs (who originally created it) have not produced anything new for the game for a while. Anyways it is still a fully playable game and you can grab the game from here along with older versions of FFE

Download http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/files/category/41-ffed3d/
SSC FFE3D Section http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/forum/39-ffed3d/
You Tube vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-HeEUlsg1Y

Anyways, have fun out there people!

EDIT: Updating SSC links due to changes on the SSC forum

Modifié par Geraldine, 04 juillet 2012 - 11:20 .

[Geraldine]

Right, a bit of handwavium here, charge up the old internets incantations......ARISE YE DEAD THREAD!!! LIVE AGAIN.....LIIIIVE I SAY!!!

Ahem,.....

Hi Folks
Brought this old thread of mine back once more from the deep dark place all old threads go. It looks a bit the worse for ware, but functional just the same. Apologies for resurrecting this old thread again, but I had some news for you that I didnt see anywhere else on the forum. If it has been mentioned, my apologies.

Anyways leading on from my last post on here about the Elite re-makes, it turns out that Elite IV is on kickstarter! This was a game that was promised almost all the way back to the millienum, so a good bit then. Will it ever see the light of day? Who knows, but if your an Elite fan from the old days, it is something you might want to take a look at. Here is a link to the kickstarter page. Um...its a bit barren at the moment (just a few screen shots and one teaser vid from David Braben himself), but it's a start!

Here is the link: http://www.kickstart...elite-dangerous

Modifié par Geraldine, 13 novembre 2012 - 03:03 .

[Endurium]

Pardon me for colluding with a necromancer...

Elite was loads of fun even though I never finished it. I had my ship fully equipped with military grade hardware and was the scourge of the Galactic Police. I became wealthy trading (illegally) slaves, narcotics and firearms. Good times. I still remember the glitch where if you were behind a space station instead of in front (where the dock was), your docking computer would try to fly you through the back of the station. Doh!

I started gaming with Coleco's Pong and Tank Wars eons ago, then got myself a Commodore VIC-20 in '83. Have been a gamer ever since. I don't keep old hardware around anymore though; got to be too cluttery. Now when I want to revisit an old favorite I use an emulator on my modern PC.

[termokanden]

I love to revisit the past myself. I don't really own any old hardware though. Too bad I sold my Commodore 128 (that's right, 128, not 64 ).

Emulators are great though! Still hold the university record in International Karate + as far as I know. Then again, only 3 people competed so... Yeah, it's probably not that great.

[Geraldine]

Hi Endurium
Yes emulators have come a long way over the years and at least you dont have those loooong loading times anymore. And you traded slaves, narcotics and firearms in Elite? Naughty naughty!

And termokanden, the C128 was a great machine, although I was hopeless at IK+

Modifié par Geraldine, 13 novembre 2012 - 07:16 .

[Arcadian Legend]

 I still have my old NES, SNES, Mega Drive and Game Boy. 

[Geraldine]

Arcadian Legend wrote...

 I still have my old NES, SNES, Mega Drive and Game Boy. 

Awesome, do you still fire them up? :happy:

[Laamaa]

I absolutely loved playing on my Amiga. Sadly, over the years, it has broken down. I still play the games however like e.g. Golden Axe, Giana Sisters, Ice Runner, Goldits, Rotland & quite alot of other stuff which I'm not going to name right now.

In my opinion, games were still more original back then, quite sad that period is over really.

Before my Amiga, I also had an Atari, but sadly, I hardly remember anything from that.

Modifié par Laamaa, 13 novembre 2012 - 07:33 .

[Geraldine]

Thats a shame about your Amiga Laamaa, but there is always WinUAE or Amiga Forever emulators and yes the games back then were great!

And Galvaniztion, same question I asked Arcadian Legend, do you still fire them up once and a while?

[Arcadian Legend]

Geraldine wrote...

Arcadian Legend wrote...

 I still have my old NES, SNES, Mega Drive and Game Boy. 

Awesome, do you still fire them up? :happy:

On occasion. The GB never sees use though because I can just play the games on the SNES's Super Game Boy add on. And also, well... All dem batteries.

[Geraldine]

Great! Nothing beats using the original hardware and a great selection of games there Galvanizaion

[Arcadian Legend]

I had quite a few games for them. Off the top of my head...

NES
SMario Bros 1 & Duck Hunt
S Mario Bros 3
The Goonies II

SNES
Zelda A Link to the Past
Mario World
Mario Paint
Starwing (StarFox everywhere outside Europe)
Donkey Kong Country
Secret of Mana
Secret of Evermore
Lemmings II
Illusion of Time/Gaia(US name)
Terranigma- The closest thing the EU had to Chrono Trigger or FFVI in terms of quality

GB
Zelda Link's Awakening
Tetris (really who with a GB didn't have that?)
Dr Mario
Mario Land 1
Mario Land 2
(I don't count Pokemon because it came out early the next generation)

Mega Drive
Sonic 1 (borrowed)
Sonic 2
Sonic 3 (borrowed)
Sonic & Knuckles
Story of Thor (I think it goes by another name in America but what I don't know)

[Geraldine]

Arcadian Legend wrote...

GB
Zelda Link's Awakening
Tetris (really who with a GB didn't have that?)

Everybody I saw in the early 90s with a Game Boy had either one or the other of those games, great days! :happy:

[brettc893]

Well, I play emulated GB and GBC games on my phone, would that count?

[vometia]

Geraldine wrote...

Another visit to my old thread. This time to ask you about Space Sims.

Any Elite fans about?

I enjoyed it back in the day, but I haven't played it in 27 years.  I remember first seeing it on a couple of friends' BBC Micros way back, but I couldn't afford a BBC Micro (they resolutely kept the price at £400, a lot of money back then, bundling in more and more stuff rather than dropping the price) but we could eventually afford an Acorn Electron back in 1984.  Loading it off cassette tape wasn't the highlight of the experience, but I had a lot of fun with the game itself.

Prior to that, I did a lot of gaming on my old Dragon 32, much the same thing as a Tandy CoCo, but with a proper keyboard.  I'm struggling to remember much of what I played now, though: a strategy game called Quest, a Donkey Kong knock-off, various text adventures and the rather crashy Lunar Rover Patrol featured significantly.  Edit: oh, and Phantom Slayer, my first fps, way back in 1982!

And prior to that, I remember my grandfather dragging my around the arcades at the sea-front amusements so I could watch him playing the latest and greatest games!

Modifié par vometia, 14 novembre 2012 - 07:57 .

[Wolfspawn]

I'm a fan of some older CRPGs, but for the most part, I play modern RPGs and a handful of shooters.

[Geraldine]

Yes vometia
Great machines you mentioned there. The choice back then was bewildering, so many machines all fighting for a share of the market. As for tape loaders, lots of patience was required. Can you imagine modern gamers sitting around today waiting for a game to slowly load? The noise and those jumping coloured bands was somehow hypnotic

Great days. And yes.....the arcades , I spent way to much time in them. I must have spent a fortune!

And brettc893, yes emulators certainly do count, for many wanting a bit of classic gaming, it's the only option as those orginal machines slowly die out and get ever more difficult to track down in working order.

[Geraldine]

Reading over the past posts in this thread got me thinking (usually a bad thing ) With X-com and Carrier Command both having a modern make overs, what other games you like to see again remade for the modern age. Certainly the open source comminity has been busy over the years resurrecting many past greats. Here is a few examples, some still a work in progress.

Sundog: http://www.sundogres...ionproject.com/
Star Control II: http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
Master Of Orion: http://www.freeorion...x.php/Main_Page
Another X-Com Remake: http://ufoai.org/wiki/News
Elite: http://www.jexea.co....axias/Home.html

Yes I love space games, but feel free to link any others of any genre you know about