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CaptainSarcastic posted:I was playing it in like 1989 so my memory is pretty vague, but I think you could run with a decent amount of ammo. Enough to shoot down a squadron of B-52s, at least. I think the one I played was mid 90s on the Mac. So probably a different game.
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You could turn off the ammo limit pretty easily and barrel roll into eternity while spraying infinite flares. It came packaged on the same CD release I had of Red Baron.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I checked, and it's not Microprose, but this game holds a special place in my heart: Mine was this:  because I only had access to the finest in gaming platforms and this one had a pretty good flight model that let you do stuff like tail slides if you were a budding aviation dork. Also good to see other people being willing to admit they’re from not-Portland; I escaped Roseburg’s orbit, myself… nobody will ever make a video game city based on there, though. e: this post sees you, Flash Gordon Ramsay
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X-wing/TIE fighter with invulnerability and inf ammo enabled in the settings menu crew
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Bargearse posted:In Australia they added wifi access points to all the phone booths and made the phones free to use. Here's a map of them, it also lists their phone number so you can call them. https://ppol.pbspectrum.com.au/connect/analyst/mobile/#/main?mapcfg=%2FAnalyst%2FNamedProjects%2FCitizen%20clone%20plus%20GNAF
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Casimir Radon posted:It came packaged on the same CD release I had of Red Baron. Red Baron is the flight sim that needs a new entry more than any other. Give me the random mission generator, huge scale, online with my Steam friends.
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May 26, 2022 03:49
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Dear MicroProse, M1 Tank Platoon, please Your friend in Christ, Gonz
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Billy Ray Blowjob posted:Here's a map of them, it also lists their phone number so you can call them. It's fucken amazing the 180 turn. Getting payphone numbers back in the day wasn't an easy thing, and X2 didn't even have a ringer so no random oval office would know you were trying to call the phone unless they saw the screen. What the hell is there for phreaks to do nowadays anyway?
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Microprose is back and they're making old-timey flight sims again. What an age we live in.
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Meanwhile Are there rights issues with military planes or something
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Two Owls posted:Meanwhile I believe that you require a licence from the manufacturer to use actual planes in your game The Ace Combat series always list out the different manufacturers on a splash screen
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May 26, 2022 10:56
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I was just a bit surprised because Zeppelin didn't usually care too much about copyright
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Billy Ray Blowjob posted:Here's a map of them, it also lists their phone number so you can call them. Good to see the payphone out the front of my old high school is still there.
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Bargearse posted:Microprose is back and they're making old-timey flight sims again. What an age we live in. They mainly publish a lot of random, but pretty unique small games. Highfleet is one I've played and it's pretty fun. Although I would wait for a sale. https://www.microprose.com/games/highfleet/ As a flight sim nerd, I'm looking forward to their Flying Fortress, but progress is really vague with that one so we'll see when or if that ever comes out.
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lobsterminator posted:They mainly publish a lot of random, but pretty unique small games. Highfleet is one I've played and it's pretty fun. Although I would wait for a sale. Tiny Combat Arena is the one that won me over, https://www.microprose.com/games/tiny-combat-arena/ Also I might have a tech relic to show off here in a few days. I just recently bought a PowerBook 150, widely recognised as Apple's shittest laptop. I found out it belonged to a Melbourne University professor, and her then-partner, an Australian TV presenter. I'm waiting until I can give them both back their personal data and then just wipe the whole thing clean, then I'll take some photos and share it here.
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Bargearse posted:Tiny Combat Arena is the one that won me over, https://www.microprose.com/games/tiny-combat-arena/ I know that I just said that I want a new Red Baron but this looks incredibly close to what I want.
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Two Owls posted:I was just a bit surprised because Zeppelin didn't usually care too much about copyright I don't see a problem, that's clearly Arnie van Lundgren on the cover.
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Two Owls posted:I was just a bit surprised because Zeppelin didn't usually care too much about copyright he's holding down the trigger and feeding that gun bullets like a cucumber into a food processer
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Two Owls posted:I was just a bit surprised because Zeppelin didn't usually care too much about copyright What, aside from possibly the gun, on that cover could be a copyrights issue? E: actually definitely not the gun. If you couldn't paint an exact picture of a gun, the same would go with, say, telephones or lamps or automobiles.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I checked, and it's not Microprose, but this game holds a special place in my heart: Doodle-y-dooooo-do-doot doot (doot doot) Doodle-y-dooooo-do-doot doot (doot doot)
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The EGA version of Red Baron was free to download at some point so I played that and Corncob 3D.
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Red Baron was cool cause you could shoot zeppelins and they're big and slow which is great if you suck at Red Baron. Edit: Since we're naming old flights sims: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat and Hellcats over the Pacific. Played both of those a ton. And the FA18 game. Hornet 3.0? Flash Gordon Ramsay has a new favorite as of 15:05 on May 26, 2022 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:And the FA18 game. Hornet 3.0? Hornet 3.0 was great, and so was the sequel F/A-18 Korea, which gave you tactical nukes 
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Bargearse posted:Hornet 3.0 was great, and so was the sequel F/A-18 Korea, which gave you tactical nukes Was Korea the one that literally had a giant Easter egg you could find in the middle of nowhere?
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What was the bomber game that was also free at some point - B17? B117? Bsomething? E: B-17 Flying Fortress. It seemed good but I don't wanna bomb so never put much time into it.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Was Korea the one that literally had a giant Easter egg you could find in the middle of nowhere? I honestly don't remember. I spent all my time finding creative ways to nuke my base. A-10 Cuba had a similar art style, also originated on the Mac and had tons of Easter eggs including a road tunnels and caves you could fly through if you were super careful. I wouldn't be surprised if they put a giant literal Easter egg in there too.
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One of my earliest flight sim memories is a game that seems to have Mandela Effected its way off the internet. F/A-18 Fighter or something like that, it wasn't just the F/A-18, you had the F-117 too, and that carried some sort of nukelike bomb you could use exactly once in a mission. There was also this game. I swear to God that there was a thing where if you parachuted out and landed safely, you then walked around as a low-poly pilot flight model with a pistol that just shot and shot, no reloads and unlimited ammo. I cannot seem to find this anywhere though  I have always adored flight simulators and it's why an Air Force trainer pilot let a 12/13-year-old me (2 years in a row) fly a T-34.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:What was the bomber game that was also free at some point - B17? B117? Bsomething? Not only was it free, it got an updated native Windows version that had a bit of a modding community. The late 90s was a golden age for getting not very old games for free with the blessings of the rights holders. By which I mean the only age.
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Just giving a sulltry sidelong come-hither smile as I spray lead into the sky
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FINALLY. I have a vintage Mac that can boot OS9 natively as well as OS X, has FireWire, has USB, can burn CD’s and can read DVD’s This should be the thing that can get all my other macs going (fingers crossed). 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:FINALLY. I have a vintage Mac that can boot OS9 natively as well as OS X, has FireWire, has USB, can burn CD’s and can read DVD’s I have one of these too. They're good computers... goddamn that screen looks good in OS 9. I do need a replacement battery, god knows where I'll find a usable one.
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Yeah I think this is the first time I have ever seen anything pre-OS X in high resolution and you are right, OS9 looks great in high res. Currently setting it up to dual boot with OS X 10.4 so I can have the best of all worlds. My plan is to hook it to my imac G4 over firewire and target disk mode an install disk to it, since the imac doesnt really want to read any disks it seems
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I've had success going in the other direction too, boot the imac in target disk mode and boot from the installation dvd on the laptop with the other imacs harddrive as the installation target OSX installations seem to be pretty generic so it should boot just fine even if the installation was done on the wrong hardware.
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Oh, I didnt know you could do that, I have never messed with target disk mode. Yeah, I believe after OS 9, apple made their installers fairly generic, at least not as bad as the previous OS's
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Always found it rather hilarious how their warring factions of industrial designers resulted in the 1997-esque translucent keycaps on a computer that was desperately trying to usher in the 2002 brushed-metal look, and boasting the ability to run a brand-new OS that seemed designed to mimic the five-year-old iMacs with its candy colors and pinstripes (and would get its own brushed-metal overhaul years later)
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Do NOT skip this, it's fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckiZf9X8GrY
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drat! My family's VCR when I was a kid was one of these: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m65...LxoCGK8QAvD_BwE That front faceplate is a removable remote! I've never seen another VCR like that, and it always seemed crazy to me because I confidently expected them all to adopt that design. My dad liked to keep the remote attached to the unit, and insisted on getting up to go press buttons on it instead of having it in his hand. So when 10-year-old me would wander into the living room when my parents were watching a Robin Williams or Eddie Murphy special with a lot of bad words he would leap up from the couch and hurtle across the room flailing for the pause button lol
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I love VCRs like that but can never commit to one. New Look Mum No Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PwwRR8deHk
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Introduced a new member to the family I've wanted a IIci since they first came out and now I have one. My vintage Mac collection was an SE for the compact macs, an LC for the 68k color macs, and an eMac to cover the entire PPC era. The LC was a bit lacking with the 10MB RAM limit and 68020 that was a bit on the slow side. This IIci currently has 20MB but I have a full 128MB (for a computer from 1989!) on order as well as a network card. Planning on messing around with A/UX too since this is the first machine capable of running it I've ever had. The eMac is quite capable and is mostly used as a bridge machine for burning discs and making floppies (with a USB external) but I can definitely see the appeal of the tiBook since it's quite a bit smaller and MUCH lighter. The eMac is 25kg. Also tech relic related, I started a new job about a month ago, mostly front end web development with modern JavaScript stuff, but occasional backend work in a database called Unidata. You don't use SQL to query this database though, you use BASIC. I grew up on commodore computers so I definitely knew BASIC back in the day but it's been a while. Since I needed to get back into the swing of things and relearn BASIC I got FutureBASIC for the 68k macs and started messing around with it. Me and my kid are making a game. He's doing the art, I'm doing the code, and it should be able to run on any Mac running any os starting at 6 and ending at 10.4. FutureBASIC is even still around for modern OS X so maybe a separate binary release for that too, who knows.
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