OT: Flowers for the grave of MoM.

Curath · #1 June 15th, 2004, 10:37 AM

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Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
Halfling Slingers of doom.

They owned nearly every standard unit in the game due to their luck. I love them :-)

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s it possible to get a Version of Master of Magic that works for windows xp? I'll check out that site Gandalf mentions.

If that is what you whish, here you go: Dosbox

Emulates a complete computer that is capable of running most of the older games... I'm using it for Mom, Dungeon MAster and Star Control, also the Last one got some graphical errors

Apologies for this very late offtopic reply.

Why run DM and SC (the second one I assume) in DosBox?
In case you didn't know:

Dungeon Master - Return to Chaos

PC remake of DM and CSB with minor enhancements. Currently at Version 0.28 but it's quite stable (only had a couple crashes playing through DM). Also coming up is a map editor so there may be new dungeons to explore in the future.

The Ur-Quan Masters

Remake of Star Control 2. Version 0.3 so far and it's somewhat buggy.

[ June 15, 2004, 15:34: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Graeme Dice · #2 June 15th, 2004, 02:21 PM

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Originally posted by Sheap:
They are totally obsolete.

Which is, of course, a totally false statement, but don't mind. Keep on spreading that FUD.

Gandalf Parker · #3 June 15th, 2004, 03:35 PM

Nothing is ever obsolete, nothing ever completely dies. I still get requests for cobol and pascal and dbase jobs. And for cross-compatibility I prefer BASIC. Everything has its pros and cons. The best bet is to look at those in making such a decision.

-- (sig quote)
"As a system administrator Id rather hire someone who knew 3 'dead' Languages than an expert in just one."

[ June 15, 2004, 14:36: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Pirateiam · #4 June 15th, 2004, 04:10 PM

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Originally posted by Graeme Dice:

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Originally posted by Sheap:
They are totally obsolete.

Which is, of course, a totally false statement, but don't mind. Keep on spreading that FUD.

Yeah C++ is far from obsolete. In fact I would say 90% of game developement is written in C/C++.

Gandalf Parker · #5 June 15th, 2004, 04:39 PM

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Originally posted by Pirateiam:
Yeah C++ is far from obsolete. In fact I would say 90% of game developement is written in C/C++.

I think I might say that for 90% of the shelfware stuff. But not game development in general. I WOULD have agreed with you before I got involved actually contacting game developers to see if they wanted a publisher. I would not have been surprised to find out that 90% were done in C++ but it hasnt seemed to be that way.

Of course thats hard to say also since so much of the game tends to include 3rd party apps and librarys, many of those are written in C++.

#6 June 15th, 2004, 04:46 PM

I'd say 90% of 'I'd says' are wrong. Including this one.

Pirateiam · #7 June 15th, 2004, 05:11 PM

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Originally posted by Zen:
I'd say 90% of 'I'd says' are wrong. Including this one.

Excuse me great Zen. Instead of an insulting remark why not just explain what it is written in. I was only guessing not stating it was written in C++. As Gandalf stated if you are not involved in game development the appearence seems that most are developed in C++ but now from his experience he sees it differntly. Thank you Gandalf for correcting me constructively. As for Zen: for being a moderator you seem to be quite rude sometimes. I can except being corrected but I do not need your unconstructive remarks.