Too hot to play anything that would tax my computers so I have just been playing Klondike and FreeCell through AisleRiot this weekend.

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Still holds the advantage when it comes to Icewind Dale II since Black Isle lost the original source code.

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Just as a little update, I have been too bogged down with lambing and calving to spend much time on the project, but I do intend to come back to it eventually. I still have a few levels of Scourge of Armagon to finish before I move on to anything else.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm not sure I quite get this. So you're in charge of an immortal vampire fallen on hard times and your main objective in returning her fortunes is . . . find a better job?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

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Quoting: CybolicThe Frogger soundtrack you say? Hmmm, not sure it has quite enough mummy vibes :P

The 1997 version of Frogger is a beautiful game with excellent graphics that lean into the technological limitations of the time to achieve something very stylish, and the music is amazing. With any other game though the result is hilarious. :tongue:

It is just a shame the difficulty leaves it next to unplayable. Broadening the levels beyond a single screen would work fine but you need to have checkpoints after each frog for it to work. I am going off on a tangent now though.

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Quoting: CybolicI do remember thinking that some of the tracks were odd choices for some of the expansion levels (at the time, I didn't know they had their own soundtracks).

Yeah, for Scourge of Armagon at least the Trent Reznor music does not really fit, but the Jeehun Hwang soundtrack can charitably be described as generic at best. I got well into Dominion of Darkness before I learned that it had its own music, but at least I was able to unlock the secret levels when replaying it.

I was using a Windows Quake CD for the music as the Linux box is best kept as a collectible, but now I am using burned discs from the ripped cue sheets included with the GOG.com release. I have also seen it play with the Quake II CD as well as the 1997 Hasbro version of Frogger. Ribbit. :wink:

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Quoting: damarrinHamish, I have a Voodoo card I can send your way if you promise to send it back sometime this century.

At this point I am hesitant to take responsibility for anyone's hardware but my own but I appreciate the offer. I would be too nervous about it getting damaged, no matter how careful I am.

For the past month I have been trying to get one article out every Monday, but that is probably going to become more sporadic from here as I will actually need time to play the games in order to write about them. As the temperature goes up so does my workload, but I will keep writing as I can.

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Quoting: GuestJust out of curiosity, does red hat from then come with tux racer? Not sure if that was mentioned in a previous post, so forgive me if it was.

Yep, it is installed along with the regular GNOME games.

I would not put too much stock in the FPS numbers reported by Quake but it does serve as a rough comparison. You almost never get exactly the same result twice from a timedemo just a ballpark.

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Anybody wanting to try my shell script can download the following:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake-glx-launch.sh [External Link]

Those needing the libglide2x.so library can use this link:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/libglide2x.so [External Link]

And my raw Quake timedemo data can be found here:
http://icculus.org/~hamish/dianoga/quake-timedemos.txt [External Link]

If you are using Sawfish as your window manager with GNOME I found that choosing either the "simple" or "mono" themes from the Appearance settings and changing the colour of active frames to be black worked well for faking full screen.

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Finally trying my hand at some of the Mission Packs for Quake, and Scourge of Armagon has been impressing me so far. Honestly finding it to be a pleasant break after I slogged through the original four id Software episodes in preparation for my next article. Levelord does not disappoint.

EDIT: A little disappointed to learn that Scourge of Armagon has a new soundtrack which was not included with the retail Quake: The Offering package. I might be able to burn my own disc from the GOG.com version to use though.

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