Recent content by Freyr

I'm not entirely sure how you got to "grafetti in a dead language 2000 years ago" from "antique books" and "from 200 years ago"? My point was largely that 1984 was a satire, a parody. Personally, I think the author was making a subtle dig at the decline of standards in English in 1948, and...

To be clear for people who somehow might not be aware, 1984 is a social commentary looking forwards from 1948 basically as a satire of the direction society was going. If you were from 200 years ago and reading this thread, I think you'd have about the same opinion on the modern english as we...

It depends on what your using as hardware, but if your given plugs for a real monitor & HDMI then it should be possible. Plug in a monitor and you'll get two monitors shown on the screen resolution page, along with the option to either extend to the second monitor or duplicate what is shown...

The only emulator I have really used is DosBox, but that's only really of use if you've got a really old collection of games on floppy/CD/DVD that you want to play again for nostalgias sake. ;) The link is fine, and discussing emulators is also ok, but remember that there are rules pertaining...

If you haven't already read them, i'd recommend Christopher Anvil's books, starting with the Interstellar Patrol. http://www.baen.com/interstellar-patrol.html "Ready Player One" is also a very good read, if you haven't already read it.

I did pull a bunch of stuff off of a 5.25" drive on an XP box years ago. It was disturbingly simple, Windows still had the 5.25" drivers so it was simply a matter of connecting the cables and turning the box on. I suspect that given how minutely tiny the drivers are for 5.25" & 3.5" floppies...

According to an old blog post:- http://grumpygamer.com/if_i_made_another_monkeyisland I'd say the chances of licensing agreement are pretty low.

I don't think anybody is going to say that SoC wasn't a great game, because it got most people hooked on the series. On the other hand Call of Pripyat did improve on pretty much all of the gameplay mechanics and while this is really subjective I had the most fun with it of the entire series...

It's difficult to give an accurate hypothetical moderation response to a hypothetical post as moderation is largely subjective activity. If it wasn't so subjective then we'd probably have bots doing moderation, but obviously that would be pretty disasterious as they can't make value judgements...

I wouldn't say they are really "broken", just that they all have their limitations. My favoured Gauss gannon loadout only deals 27 x3 damage for instance, so if you get a planet with both a planetry Flux Shield and a Barrier shield which blocks 30 points of damage then you simply can't...

Nope, doesn't mean they will do sucessfully at all. On the other hand it's inevitable that it is going to be directly compared given that MOO2 is as you say pretty much the benchmark everybody else aspires to, and this is not only a 4X game but one sharing the Master of Orion name. They...

Master of Orion II has for a long time been THE point of comparison for it's genre because it got pretty much everything perfectly right, and even after all these years (she's actually 20, not just ten) it's still more fun to play than many if not most games that have came since. To quote...

Descent, and Freespace 2 shouldn't be missed if your a fan of semi arcade style flight flight sims. The genre sort of just died around 2000 though, so most people haven't played them today.

I have been a fan of Master of Orion 2 since I bought an original boxed copy, ahem. Some years ago. I also bought the new one on Steam, just because. It's not finished yet so it's difficult to say what it's going to be like when completely finished, however I wouldn't say that it's...

It's more a violation of the principles of the "content and communication" part of the CoC than a specific rule. If everybody posted single word replies to a thread then it would make discussion somewhat difficult, to say the least.