Cyberdevil 2021-02-20 19:04:40

Was that milestone 420 by any chance? :P Congrats if so!

Posting to say I do enjoy thorough review responses too, thank you. And 'bad design choice' aesthetic' is definitely a thing. XD Rainbows might've been more predictable IMO... if you didn't do them in some unexpected way of course. Way off course. But maybe nice either way.

Anyway if you do want to keep me up-to-date feel free to send a note whenever, otherwise I shall probably maybe check in eventually. ;) You're really working on a lot of stuff here!

Cyberdevil 2021-02-21 07:45:35

Ahh you're rising fast then! XD Congrats on the 400 too!

Hell yeah. :) Do you play a lot of abandonware stuff too? Emulate games? Used to be heavy into that when I had some more time, so many lost gems out there you'll never hear about if you don't go digging. As for that computer collection man holy shiiiit that's a lot of 'em! :O You must have a pretty big place? Old ones especially take so much room too... I'm a bit of a collector myself but have ended up mostly going with handheld devices since there's just no room for the real deal. I do have twelve computers though, if I'm counting right. :) New and old. All the way back to the old Mac Performa 720 I took over after my sister back in the day, and a PowerMAC with beyond maxed out specs for it's time - initially used in a production studio for a few years. All the rest are newer, but some mementos; some with particular perks, like a laptop with double batteries. Been upgrading RAM and similar with the ones I actually use but not much more than that.

Nice. :) That'd be great; good luck with the time-consuming one too!

Cyberdevil 2021-02-21 07:56:33

How long have you been collecting computers btw? How do you usually acquire them?

Cyberdevil 2021-02-21 12:44:11

Ah I hadn't heard of either of those, bookmarking now (hey if it's there I can find it ;). Challenging though hmm, wonder if it's that kind of game I'd enjoy. :) Feels like I was into more difficult ones earlier, got stuck on particular ones, an abandonware racer game where you're racing straight forward, through tunnels, jumping over blocks etc in a set of spacey levels (might've been an early inspiration for F-Zero) comes to mind, but just can't recall the name though... most of the ones I really got into were action-based though, like for example this rare gem that started crashing my computer when I tried to start it after Win XP: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/u-r-b-a-n-the-cyborg-project-c7w

Also available online now apparantely hmm, finna try this one later: https://playold.games/play-game/u-r-b-a-n-the-cyborg-project/

Oh hey just reminded me of this too, no links working right now unfortunately (I'm a fix that soon) but these are the kind of games I played the most when I was in that phase: https://cyberd.org/g/

Will get back to you if I ever recall the name of the racing game though, was really ahead of its time... and this isn't abandonware, but seems relevant to the minigolf recommend earlier: https://neverball.org/screenshots.php

Neverputt's maybe the one I've played most, great for same-computer multiplayer sessions if you do those. Really miss that feature with most games these days.

Bar code scanners too whaaast! :D And just finding handheld houses around the house occasionall?! XD Man you must live in an interesting area... that all sounds awesome though. Hope you get that turned into a full on party room sometime. Or museum. Whatever you're going for. Have been dreaming of something like that but it's gotta be for the future, actually had to sell a couple ones recently to make space. My first ever Performa thoguh: still running perfectly. :) They had the best games back then too, have some old sharware/freeware CDs with maybe a hundred games a piece, not to mention programs, icon packs and everything. So crazy how much content you could fit on the format back then!!! I suppose you collect mainly PC though? If not then this site's a real haven: https://macintoshgarden.org/

Some of my favorite games from that era. Mortal Pongbat, Taskmaker, Spectre Supreme, Exile, Space Gypsy, The Zone, Haunted House, alotofonesIforgetthenameof...

This turning into a real trip o nostalgia hmm... good times.

beenibroh 2021-02-22 10:49:42

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Cyberdevil 2021-02-23 09:23:55

I'll definitely give 'em a try later on. :) Found the one I was thinking of! Sky Roads was the name, here you go: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/skyroads-20c

Apparantely it's pretty popular, seems there's an HTML5 version made of it too now.

Nice. :) It does yeah, though the NeverPutt is the one I've personally played the most of, like a hybrid between that and Minigolf games.

Man that's awesome. Wonder if it'd be possible to burn that old Windows 98 version down to an .iso file and emulate it too? If you can't find it online somewhere already... ah maybe it is then. Interesting. Do you know what specs the scanner has? How much ROM? Any processor?

Sounds awesome. :) I guess Mac turned into more of a collectors item somehow, though old ones still sell pretty cheap over here, or at least did when i bought that other one, feels like the reaaally old ones are collectors items already, and new ones are hella expensive, but there's some middle ground there where they're still undervalued. But apart from the two I mentioned I'm all PC now too. Back in the day it just wasn't as common, in 1992 I think Mac was just the only option, you had to have it for school, but maybe it was around 98 when Windows 98 came out that things really started changing... everything flipped pretty quick around the millennium. Suddenly the price barrier changed too.

Nice. :D I have a laptop with Windows ME too, played a lot of Monkey Island on it back in the day... that was basically it. Don't remember it being all that different from NT and 2000 but maybe I'm forgetting things.

Oooh Happy Birthday man! :D No worries at all! Hope you have a good time today, some kind of party in spite of pandemic and all.

Cyberdevil 2021-03-07 10:50:15

Hey it's all relative. :) Think I have some conversations bookmarked that I'm a few years late responding to at this point, and the more time goes... anyway! Onto the message:

Woooah 99980 KB. XD Sounds like a lot when they write it like that! Though it really is on par with any older computer, impressive for such a small device after all. And an XScale processor hmm, discovered a whole new product line here. :) That's cool. Regarding ROM I thought that was readable only though? Not always the case if you can use part of it for storage?

Emulator for the game or for the scanner/OS? Hope you had a good weekend too btw, seems I'm the late one now. :) Been stalling on a certain task all week and finally got it done!!!

Random note but: if you ever want any voice/vocal effects/stuff for some submissions I'd be happy to contribute. Trying to get more involved with stuff like that. Single lines, entire scripts, just sounds, happy to try anything.

Cyberdevil 2021-03-10 14:17:11

Definitely neat to have all these neat devices. :)

Nice. :) Yeah for me it doesn't even need to be a big thing, certain tasks I just stall with all too long even though I could get to them right away, simple things I'm excited about, really trying to shake the habit but hmm... one task at a time though! It's not like I lazy down and do nothing, just bad at prioritizing when there's certain expectation involved.

Ah for a minute I thought you were actually using Win 2000 to make the game. XD That level selection is an in-game transition right? Hell yeah. :) That might just be something I could do... request sent. I personally try to avoid Discord as much as I can but it's definitely handy for sending sound files and similar, good for stuff like this. if you could just give me some character line to try and/or any particular expectations you have on the voice I'll give it a shot.