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Posted February 24, 2009
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hansschmucker: Sorry, but I just can't help it: ScummVM is NOT an emulator.
P.S. I had a similar experience with Wine thrown into the mix (Firefox/win32 running under Wine/lin, used remotely on a win32 client with xming): Worked surprisingly well.
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Aliasalpha: It's an engine emulator rather than hardware emulator isn't it?

You could put it that way... but then every Java/.NET runtime that's not from Sun/Microsoft, suddenly becomes a Java/.NET emulator. ScummVM is really a collection of ports (Revolution games and a few others) and reimplementations of existing engines.
Posted February 24, 2009
The strangest game machine I've played on was probably a CD-i. The machine itself wasn't too weird other than it used CDs when almost every other TV game system was using cartridges (and we didn't have computer, so CDs were supposed to be music).
The weirdest part of it was the controllers. We had two radically different ones. One was basically a DVD player remote with an analogue stick and the other was this beast of a controller that had two buttons on either side and this huge blue ball in the middle (for analogue control). It was designed for kids.
Pictures of the controllers:
[url]http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg[/url]
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[url]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen3.jpg[/url]
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[url]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen1.jpg[/url]
Also, a few years I got hold of a Apple II GS computer that my school was getting rid of. They were also getting rid of a lot of the games. At the risk of showing my fairly young age, it was weird to use a computer that had no built in operating system. And it was the first time I'd seen and used a REAL floppy disc (not the stiff plastic ones, I'm talking about the floppy discs that are actually bendable and floppy).
I got Frogger to work pretty well!
The Apple II setup is still sitting in a corner of my room, unlike my CD-i which got thrown away :(
*edit*
The links should be working now. The problem was I'd past a url into the post, then highlight the url, then click on the "link" button. It would put {url=}link{/url}. I took out the equal sign and now the links seem to work.
Post edited February 25, 2009 by TAG123
Posted February 24, 2009
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TAG123: The strangest game machine I've played on was probably a CD-i. The machine itself wasn't too weird other than it used CDs when almost every other TV game system was using cartridges (and we didn't have computer, so CDs were supposed to be music).
The weirdest part of it was the controllers. We had two radically different ones. One was basically a DVD player remote with an analogue stick and the other was this beast of a controller that had two buttons on either side and this huge blue ball in the middle (for analogue control). It was designed for kids.
Pictures of the controllers:
[url=]http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg[/url]
[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen3.jpg[/url]
[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen1.jpg[/url]
Also, a few years I got hold of a Apple II GS computer that my school was getting rid of. They were also getting rid of a lot of the games. At the risk of showing my fairly young age, it was weird to use a computer that had no built in operating system. And it was the first time I'd seen and used a REAL floppy disc (not the stiff plastic ones, I'm talking about the floppy discs that are actually bendable and floppy).
I got Frogger to work pretty well!
The Apple II setup is still sitting in a corner of my room, unlike my CD-i which got thrown away :(

Ooh, I remember playing RoadRage on the CDi at the local mall. The graphics were really, really impressing at that time. The controller on the other hand, was not.
Posted February 24, 2009
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TAG123: The strangest game machine I've played on was probably a CD-i. The machine itself wasn't too weird other than it used CDs when almost every other TV game system was using cartridges (and we didn't have computer, so CDs were supposed to be music).
The weirdest part of it was the controllers. We had two radically different ones. One was basically a DVD player remote with an analogue stick and the other was this beast of a controller that had two buttons on either side and this huge blue ball in the middle (for analogue control). It was designed for kids.
Pictures of the controllers:
[url=]http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg[/url]
[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen3.jpg[/url]
[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen1.jpg[/url]
Also, a few years I got hold of a Apple II GS computer that my school was getting rid of. They were also getting rid of a lot of the games. At the risk of showing my fairly young age, it was weird to use a computer that had no built in operating system. And it was the first time I'd seen and used a REAL floppy disc (not the stiff plastic ones, I'm talking about the floppy discs that are actually bendable and floppy).
I got Frogger to work pretty well!
The Apple II setup is still sitting in a corner of my room, unlike my CD-i which got thrown away :(

Perhaps your url tags need adjusting. I still have difficulty with those tags.
Posted February 24, 2009
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solar_dome: Perhaps your url tags need adjusting. I still have difficulty with those tags.

Strange. The last two links are typed correctly in my post, but they open up the first link (which works fine for me). I really don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?
At any rate, you should be able to copy and paste the links into the address bar. I just tried that and it worked for me.
Posted February 25, 2009
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solar_dome: Perhaps your url tags need adjusting. I still have difficulty with those tags.
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TAG123: Strange. The last two links are typed correctly in my post, but they open up the first link (which works fine for me). I really don't know how to fix it. Any ideas?
At any rate, you should be able to copy and paste the links into the address bar. I just tried that and it worked for me.

You've forgotten to add the closing bracket to the opening tag and the title.
Posted February 25, 2009
Perhaps I need an example to fully understand how the url tabs function.
(without spaces)
[ u r l = h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . c o m ] T i t l e [ / u r l ]
[ u r l = h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . n e t ] T i t l e [ / u r l ]
Post edited February 25, 2009 by solar_dome
Posted February 25, 2009
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solar_dome: Perhaps I need an example to fully understand how the url tabs function.
(without spaces)
[ u r l = h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . c o m ] T i t l e [ / u r l ]
[ u r l = h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . n e t ] T i t l e [ / u r l ]

Correct, but yours spell
[ u r l = ] h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . c o m[ / u r l ]
Post edited February 25, 2009 by hansschmucker
Posted February 25, 2009
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TAG123: Pictures of the controllers:
[url=]http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg[/url]
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[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen3.jpg[/url]
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[url=]http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen1.jpg[/url]

When editing my reply, his tags appear like so (without spaces):
[ u r l = ] http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/philips_cdi_ir-controller_1.jpg [ / u r l ]
[ u r l = ] http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen3.jpg [ / u r l ]
[ u r l = ] http://www.blogfiles.blackmoonproject.co.uk/image/cdi_rollercontroller_screen1.jpg [ / u r l ]
Post edited February 25, 2009 by solar_dome
Posted February 25, 2009
It would be valid (for vbulletin, GoG has it's own BBCode implementation) if you lost the "="
Posted February 25, 2009
So,
(without spaces)
[ u r l = h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . c o m ] T i t l e [ / u r l ]
would look like Title
and
[ u r l ] h t t p : / / e x a m p l e . c o m [ / u r l ]
would look like [url]http://example.com[/url]
Post edited February 25, 2009 by solar_dome
Posted February 25, 2009
So far, I've played games on C-64, Amiga, Playstation, Playstation 2, GameCube and Mac.
But now, I'm playing on a really weird computer, or at least, a really strange system. You see, it's very unstable, it has a weird behavior, a lot of security holes and a very special logic.
Oh, and it's named "Windows". Don't know if you've ever heard of it.
Posted February 25, 2009
I think the strangest computer I've ever played games on was a BBC Micro.
It was a weird machine, although the weirdest thing about it was the printer. It looked exactly like the computer itself (at a casual glance) and was actually a typewriter, which could be "remote controlled" from the computer via a connecting cable. It used those round comb-like plastic discs to print letters onto the paper through an ink ribbon (or whatever they were called), so to change the font, you had to change the plastic disc.
I don't actually remember any of the games I played on it though.
Other than that, I've played Doom on my phone (HTC S710) and various games from a lot of platforms (C64, Amiga, GBA, Scumm) on my GP2X.
Posted February 25, 2009
About the strangest computer I've played on-to me, anyway-was an Apple II in my later elementary school years. The game in question? The Oregon Trail.
Why is this so strange, you ask? Well, I had played The Oregon Trail before...on Macs. (Note that this was the mid-1990s, when you'd be hard-pressed to find a school without Macs as their primary computers. I was born in 1990, and thus used to computers with DOS, Windows, or Mac OS.) Needless to say, the Apple II version was VERY different, and gave me a bit of whiplash graphics-and-game-mechanics-wise.
I haven't used other vintage computers that weren't PCs, Macs, or Apple IIs (unfortunately, that means no Amigas, no Acorn Archimedes, and especially no Sharp X68000s or Fujitsu FM-TOWNS systems), so I can't really mention those.
However, the thought of playing Doom or Quake on a Palm Tungsten E or C may be very strange to most of you, probably moreso than The Oregon Trail on an Apple II (which was admittedly the norm in a time where I didn't exist yet). I mean, most people wouldn't think about playing FPSs on what amounts to a touchscreen tablet with a D-Pad and buttons on the bottom...
Post edited February 25, 2009 by NamelessFragger
Posted February 25, 2009
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NamelessFragger: However, the thought of playing Doom or Quake on a Palm Tungsten E or C may be very strange to most of you, probably moreso than The Oregon Trail on an Apple II (which was admittedly the norm in a time where I didn't exist yet). I mean, most people wouldn't think about playing FPSs on what amounts to a touchscreen tablet with a D-Pad and buttons on the bottom...

Hehe, not as strange as you might think. Henk has done a hell of a job on the framework and I'm still playing them on my Centro ... and my Zodiac ... and my Cliés ...
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