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True, some games had rotten parsers. But I always thought the Infocom games (esp. later games, such as Trinity) did a really good job at understanding you. The limitation, of course, was that you couldn't perform every possible action, and so there was some 'guesstimation' as to what an appropriate action might be for a given situation.popo wrote:I think it may be just nostalgia talking. I used to play these sort of games on the C64. A lot of the time it wouldn't understand what I was telling it to do and would come back with 'I don't know how to ....whatever I'd told it to do'. I would alter the way I had asked it and try again, only to be told the same thing. After so long I would tell it to %@*#! off, and it would tell me 'I don't know how to %@*#! off'!
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Yep - my brother and I used to load The Hobbit (tape version, not disk), go downstairs and make pancakes for breakfast, and hope that when we were done the game would be ready to play!Robbie wrote:C64 Pauline. I remember spending half the night playing those games... the other half waiting for the games to load up![]()
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Robbie
Well, the Ultima games remained very much his artistic vision until Part 7. Then financial issues led to a take-over by Electronic Arts. Origin Systems grew and tried to put out many projects at once - many failed, and EA tightened the reigns, and pushed for quicker releases. Both Ultima 8 and 9 were disappointing results from that shift in mentality from "artistic vision" to "profitability". In the end, Origin systems died, Garriot left to work for NC-Soft (who published e.g. City of Heroes).Robbie wrote: What sort of stuff does he work on now?
Both emulators and abandonware are a tricky issue - and you'll get very fierce opinions on both sides of the argument.Robbie wrote:I pretty sure this has been raised previously (albeit quite a while ago) - I know the original Ultimas are available via emulators/rom sites but what technically speaking is the legality of emulators/roms? Is it a matter of being OK providing you have the original games?
You won't know by tomorrow, either, unless you play through the whole game in one marathon session (which I doubt is possible).ILoveWonderland wrote:Ms, can you tell me what all those buttons did on the screenshot Buttons, Buttons, Glorius Buttons. I can't wait till tommorow to know the answer.