Diablo169
Arcane
That's a really good camera which makes me doubt its anything to do with Project Eternity.
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Obsidian's Pillars of Eternity [BETA RELEASED, GO TO THE NEW THREAD]
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PE is the only project he's involved in, afaik.
Diablo169
Arcane
Yeah just saw that. I wonder if they just signed something?
Obviously.
Rake
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Next week's update we will have a movie showcasing some of the progress we've made on prototype 1! Stay tuned!
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Comrade Goby
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Whoa, Darklands-esque text adventure segments will be in Eternity?
Rest of the update looks p. good. Eternity development seems to be going along well.
Speaking of Darklands is there any way to play that now?
I tried the GoG version but the interface and shit is just so dated I can't deal. Is there like a handheld version or something maybe then I could tolerate it?
Shame because it seems interesting.
BobtheTree
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Quit being a filthy casual. That's how you play it. 
It's not just the user interface, sadly. A lot of old games that ran okay-ish on DOSBox on my old gaming rig run like shit on my new(er) one, and I became quite practiced over the years in tuning every aspect of the DOSBox .ini file for each individual game. Epilepsy-inducing mouse cursor flicker, strange/disoriented cursor movement speed, ultra-fast animations within the game, uneven music/sound... pretty annoying. Sometimes, there's nothing you can do about it.
At some point, I'm going to retrieve a few old 90s PCs and from the storage cellar of my mother's law firm (provided any of them still work) and just use those. If I've got to keep extra computers around to play old games, I might as well use the actual computers that the games run on. Pretty sure there are some old sound cards and CRT monitors kicking around in the attic somewhere....
ScummVM usually runs games extremely well, as though you're actually playing them on a 90s PC. Guess that's because its emulation is much less broad than DOSBox's.
At some point, I'm going to retrieve a few old 90s PCs and from the storage cellar of my mother's law firm (provided any of them still work) and just use those. If I've got to keep extra computers around to play old games, I might as well use the actual computers that the games run on. Pretty sure there are some old sound cards and CRT monitors kicking around in the attic somewhere....
ScummVM usually runs games extremely well, as though you're actually playing them on a 90s PC. Guess that's because its emulation is much less broad than DOSBox's.
It's because it's not an emulator, but rather a virtual machine which can mimic the behavior of the game's original engine while being designed to run properly on modern machines.
Ah yes, that makes sense. It's emulating the software engine, not the hardware and drivers.
Thinking about it, my new computer runs Windows 7 64-bit. My old one was slower, shittier, and ran Windows XP 32-bit. That's probably why DOSBox worked better on it.
Thinking about it, my new computer runs Windows 7 64-bit. My old one was slower, shittier, and ran Windows XP 32-bit. That's probably why DOSBox worked better on it.
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Adam Brennecke @adam_brennecke
@dphanto sorry for keeping you up... yes I read the codex.
Surely this means he's seen my suggestion about how the easiest difficulty setting for Eternity should be called "Brennecke mode." Make it happen, Adam.
Surely this means he's seen my suggestion about how the easiest difficulty setting for Eternity should be called "Brennecke mode." Make it happen, Adam.
I doubt he reads posts from shitposters.
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