I bought these... holy macaroni, 16 years ago. I played the first one for a little while but then stopped. I don't remember why, so most likely it was just that something else caught my attention.
It might be time to have another look.
Redkey
joined 2 years ago
There was a recent discussion about controllers that may help you, here: https://lemmy.world/post/35100527
To add to my recommendation in that thread of the Logitech F310, for your question specifically:
- The wires on both it and the F510 are built-in, not socketed. In my experience usually only wireless controllers have socketed cables.
- I've never had the buttons on it get swapped around on any OS.
- I've never had any of them develop drift, and they're all 8-12 years old at this point.
- They don't support the WiiU.
the boss can detect headphones going on your head and music starting from 50 feet away and instantly be behind you with a burning question that doesn't make any sense.
I'm sure you realize that the question doesn't make any sense because they had to think of it on the spot, just to prove that you can't wear headphones in the office due to all the important ambient office talk you need to be a part of.
One of my best, most competent bosses once said to the team "I don't understand how you guys can work while listening to music, but as long as your output stays high, I'm not going to interfere."
How about that worst of both worlds, the tutorial where the author starts out writing as if their audience only barely knows what a computer is, gets fed up partway through, and vomits out the rest in a more obtuse and less complete form than they would've otherwise?
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Turn on your computer. Make sure you turn on the "PC" (the big box part) as well as the "monitor" (TV-like part).
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Once your computer is ready and you can see the desktop, open your web browser. This might be called "Chrome", "Safari", "Edge", or something else. It's the same program you open to use "the Google".
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In the little bar near the top of the window where you can write things, type "https://www.someboguswebsite.corn/download/getbogus.html" and press the Enter key.
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Download the software and unarchive it to a new directory in your borklaving software with the appropriate naming convention.
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Edit the init file to match your frooping setup.
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If you're using Fnerp then you might need to switch off autoglomping. Other suites need other settings.
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Use the thing. You know, the thing that makes the stuff work right. Whatever.
Congratulations! You're ready to go!
I think that when RHoI wrote "3D", they meant "hardware accelerated 3D". Many early 3D DOS games either did their 3D entirely in software, or included hardware acceleration support as a kind of optional bonus. Software 3D shouldn't give DOSBox much more trouble than most 2D games. The original release of Quake didn't even have any accelerator support; it was patched in later.
A tiny number of original releases don't run properly or at all on some 2600 Juniors or 7800s, due to a reliance on quirks that were changed in later versions of the graphics chip. Probably not a major issue for classic collecting, but if you're interested in modern homebrew, it could be worth considering.
Yeah, Zero Tolerance is amazing from a technical standpoint, and a solid gaming experience as it goes, but I personally felt it dragged on for too long without enough variation. Then again I felt about the same regarding the original Doom and Doom 2, so it's probably more my tastes than the game itself.
So many great games. Some of my favourites (mostly action RPGs, exclusives marked *):
- Landstalker*
- The Story of Thor*
- Wonderboy in Monster World (* virtually an exclusive)
- Soleil*
- Flashback
- The Immortal
- Quackshot*
- Light Crusader*
- Arcus Odyssey
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2* (the other main games are good too, but this is my favourite)
- Desert Strike and Jungle Strike (I don't remember playing Urban Strike, but it got excellent reviews)
- The Lost Vikings
- Sword of Vermillion*
If you're not going to jailbreak a New 3DS (probably my choice if I was focusing on DS and 3DS games, because those real dual screens make a difference), then why not just get a controller to use with the smartphone you probably already have in your pocket? Even a mid-range smartphone will match or beat most inexpensive handhelds for retro game emulation.
Die Hard (for the NES)
Warning: You MUST read the manual!
At first glance it might look like a simple top-down scrolling shooter like Commando or The Chaos Engine, but it's so much more. It's very free and open, with seven floors to explore, and once the in-game timer ends you must go to the 30th floor for the final showdown. The thing is that there are a few ways both to pick off the terrorists singly or in pairs, and to extend the time limit. If you just hide in some corner of the building and wait for the timer to run out, you're going to get mown down by 30 armed terrorists in a fairly small space. But if you're good you can use that time to wipe out almost all of the terrorists, leaving only the leader Hans himself to face you, which is much more manageable.
Die Hard wasn't high on my list at all when I first played it in the 1990s, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's still one of my all-time favourites. But ever since AVGN did a video on it, it's become popular to dump on it.
Most "complaints" that I see about this game either show that the person hasn't actually played it for themselves at all, or are solved by reading the manual. Funnily enough, in that AVGN video he even says something like "Maybe this would make sense if I read the manual, but f*** that, who reads manuals?"
The only negative thing I have to say is that IMO the "foot power" meter, which affects movement speed, runs out a bit too quickly even when you walk everywhere instead of running. That being said, I've only noticed it on later replays, and I don't recall it being a problem the first time I played it all those years ago.