Quoting: tmtvl

Will you be buying one?

Well... on one hand it's ugly as sin, on the other hand it seems to have damn good specs for the price it commands... if it ships and people are happy with it I may consider it.

Dude, this thing is so very pretty... Atari Consoles [External Link]

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Quoting: slaapliedjeWhoa, what game is that?

Prehistorik 2.

Nice! I will have to try it on my Atari PC4 (it is a 286@12)

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Quoting: Eike30% off on Steam.

33% on GoG (and they also have a Deluxe version xD)

Ha, Also Known As; Game + Soundtrack.

The manual is in the extra edition, too (which I find strange, but I'll probably get the game with manual, but discounted).

That is weird. Speaking of weirdness and manuals, on the Atari Vault Vol.2 (I bought it for the VCS, I need to see if Steam has it too) it has Star Raiders for the 5200. But as it uses the keypad fairly extensively, it has a weird method of shirtcuts for the gamepad. Yet when you look at the manual, it is just a scan of the 5200 manual... I suppose I should just play it on the 5200 :p

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Quoting: ageresNice! I've just tried it with few games. It works great, has controller support, quick saves, etc. It allows to select an .exe in a .zip archive in case of there are several executables. Though there is an inconvenience that functional keys (e.g. F2 and F4 for saving/loading) may be used by games.

It's available in AUR as libretro-dosbox-pure-git.
!https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1w1fYE-iRb2iv-7St5gYLw00i6y3N3H36 [External Link]
Guess what game this is.

Whoa, what game is that? (and who wrote on a 12mhz 286 in 1992?)

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Quoting: beko

Quoting: Eike30% off on Steam.

33% on GoG (and they also have a Deluxe version xD)

Ha, Also Known As; Game + Soundtrack.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhile Plague Inc is certainly a fun game (and this DLC looks interesting), I now find its claims of being a "realistic simulation" especially ludicrous when nearly the entire population of China can be infected with my new disease before a single person in a single other country catches it. Sure, a lot of diseases aren't as infections as COVID-19, but if upwards of a billion people can catch it in the same country surely someone in a nearby border town's going to pick it up, right?

I bet they figured in that China is (or very much was) a very isolationist country. I mean when I play the game, I choose Madagascar and they are an island, and it still spreads everywhere before that whole island is infected.

I just picked China as the country with the largest population*, but it's my experience with every country in the game: unless you take specific mutations to increase air or water spread, you can easily infect 50—100% of the population of any country before a single person in another country contracts your disease. In the real world, though, SARS-CoV-2 spread from China while there were just a few thousand cases in the country at most. And not just to a single other country, but multiple countries had infected people traveling to them around December–January a year ago (which then spread to other countries, etc.). Once your disease is infectious enough to have infected a few tens of thousands of people (at most), it absolutely should start showing up around the world, because people move around a lot these days (or did, at least).

*But also, China is hardly isolationist—people come and go to, from, and through it all the time these days. I flew through Shanghai on my way back to Melbourne from visiting family in California back in January, a Chinese colleague of mine was visiting her family around the same time, and one of my PhD supervisors moved from China just last year. And that's not counting all the non-Chinese tourists and business people who visit China year-round, who would be prime targets for picking up a new disease and taking it back home.

Agreed. My only point was that China used to be isolationist. https://www.gavinmenzies.net/ [External Link] has some interesting books about why / when they became that way. But for sure, not now. Don't have any other explanation to why it works that way in the game. Bug?

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Quoting: eldakingOf course, starting with high lethality pneumonia right from the start would be a rookie mistake in the game, everyone would just act to eradicate the virus as fast as possible. Which means we are getting our asses kicked by a rookie virus.

It does some things right, like waiting some days before showing symptoms, no?

Yeah, the nasty thing about covid is that for some people it is completely asymptomatic, so they are just spreaders and don't know it. Others get terrible pneumonia, but I think they still have it and are spreading by up to a week?

The real pain in the ass, and something the game doesn't really take into account is different strains, strengths seem to hit different regions.

Like everyone I know who has gotten it (family members and friends) just felt like crap for a week or so and now are fine. These are people that have what most have thought to be death sentences! U was really worried about my friend's wife who had not too long ago had cancer treatments. She also works in an assisted living place, and they think she got it from there, yet none of the old people there have died from it.

Yet clearly there are people who have their last words be that they think it is a hoax!

But hey, at this point if the pfizer method works, could be an interesting future of just having our RNA tweaked whenever a disease pops up. Like we are pushing our own evolution. Of course there are the Anti-science people out there that will be pissed about it...

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Quoting: PatolaIt's on -35% sale on Fanatical [External Link]. It seems that it will be on sale on Steam after Dec. 22.

Its already on steam.

Yes it's on Steam, but not on sale as in "being sold for a reduced price". :smile:

I got it on Steam on sale at 35% like right before they released the Linux version.

I think I will fire it up while win98 installs on my retro PC.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhile Plague Inc is certainly a fun game (and this DLC looks interesting), I now find its claims of being a "realistic simulation" especially ludicrous when nearly the entire population of China can be infected with my new disease before a single person in a single other country catches it. Sure, a lot of diseases aren't as infections as COVID-19, but if upwards of a billion people can catch it in the same country surely someone in a nearby border town's going to pick it up, right?

I guess it also depends on methods of transmission - if you mutate the airborne transmission to transmit over planes, and respiratory symptoms, it is more likely to spread out of the country (but not a great strategy in the game); if you pick others you might instead intensify in the same region.

I'm just sad that real humanity apparently are below minimum difficulty. From what I remember easy mode was "doctors don't wash hands, sick people get hugs"; how do we call "authorities try to break quarantine and to undermine vaccination efforts"? Sandbox mode?

My usual strategy is get the virus to not be deadly and have it spread as fast as possible, then to crank up the deadliness once it gets clise to 100% infection. But then the game cheats and RNAs their way out of it by coming up with a cure and being able to ship it world wide MUCH faster than reality would allow.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusWhile Plague Inc is certainly a fun game (and this DLC looks interesting), I now find its claims of being a "realistic simulation" especially ludicrous when nearly the entire population of China can be infected with my new disease before a single person in a single other country catches it. Sure, a lot of diseases aren't as infections as COVID-19, but if upwards of a billion people can catch it in the same country surely someone in a nearby border town's going to pick it up, right?

I bet they figured in that China is (or very much was) a very isolationist country. I mean when I play the game, I choose Madagascar and they are an island, and it still spreads everywhere before that whole island is infected.

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