Other Games?
Oddysey:
I've got a friend who sort of collects games like that. He has two eggo boxes (?) filled with game CDs. He's beaten about 95% of them, as far as I can tell. This is also the friend who tells me I should "play more computer games."
Hook:
My tastes run mostly to simulators and wargames, but I wore out my Diablo 1 disc. Simulators can include almost anything, from business sims (Capitalism series) to flight sims (at one time I had every flight sim on the market) to tank sims (got my name in Steel Beasts credits, twice!) to others like Microsoft Train Sim. I've got almost all the Maxis Sim games, excluding Sim Isle and maybe a couple of others. I've played a few good first person shooters and a couple of RTS games, like Seven Kingdoms.
Mods: I don't mod games exactly, but I have written some support programs (not working for a company). I did a map and scenario editor for M1 Tank Platoon 2 which got used in Gunship! later as the files were similar. I decoded the map files for Sid Meier's Gettysburg that allowed another programmer to write a map editor. I wrote a random battle generator for Austerlitz: Napoleon's Greatest Victory and a program to modify the EXE file to fix broken artillery strengths. The random battle generator was interesting because at one point I told the community that if I got one more DEMAND to add or change a feature, I was gonna delete the source code. Cleared that problem right up. Hint: if you want something changed or added, ask nicely.
Currently I'm playing Silent Hunter 2 (WW2 submarine sim, my computer won't run SH3) and working out methods to use a slide rule to calculate torpedo firing solutions. I think it's more accurate than using the sub's Angle Solver computer, which requires *way* too many estimated settings on small dials. :)
Hook
Darkstormyeve:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 July 18, 04:51:54
I'm not a big fan of Backgammon online. I prefer the real deal, because I'm much better at it in person. As in, I ruthlessly and unmercifully pummel you every single game thanks to my fine physical control. :)
What is good about playing online is that you don't have to set up the game yourself everytime. Abit like playing Solitare on the computer. I can never keep those friggin cards in an orderly line when I play non-computer.
Oh dear, again a violent comment *shakes head and walks away*
witch:
Bugger, I typed a long list of games with commentary & accidentally clicked the little red cross at the top right hand side of the page when aiming for top of scroll bar. Page gone. Text gone. Not doing it again. :(
However I will still post this link to an educational sim I enjoyed. I see it's updated, might have another look. I find this sim relevant because I work in a tertiary institution. Virtual-u. I always thought I could do better than the CEO :P
J. M. Pescado:
You don't get your page and text back if you simply mash the back button on your browser?
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