They have been vocal about wanting to put out shorter games, Games in episodes, and military shooters.
Obviously shorter games cost less to make, they can charge for each episode, thus paying for development, and they want to keep putting out those military shooters.
Maybe they should think about putting out games gamers like.
Most game makers have gone to keyboard controls even on PC's to draw in those console fans.
I personally hate the poorer graphics on consoles compared to PC games.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Unreal resources
http://www.oldunreal.com/oldunrealpatches.html
Follow the above link and download the patch 227F for Unreal. Unreal still installs well on all Windows OS's. Install Unreal and download and install the 227F patch.
Go to this link and download the high end textures. Install the textures. Then you can run Unreal with improved opengl or directx graphics.
There are improved opengl and directx drivers at: http://www.celticwarriors.net/Website/S3TC/Old/OpenGLInstallation/OpenGL.htm or http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/ Sorry this last link is for UT and Rune.
Follow the above link and download the patch 227F for Unreal. Unreal still installs well on all Windows OS's. Install Unreal and download and install the 227F patch.
Go to this link and download the high end textures. Install the textures. Then you can run Unreal with improved opengl or directx graphics.
There are improved opengl and directx drivers at: http://www.celticwarriors.net/Website/S3TC/Old/OpenGLInstallation/OpenGL.htm or http://www.cwdohnal.com/utglr/ Sorry this last link is for UT and Rune.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Wayfinder: Episode One
http://www.belugerinstudios.com/index.php?act=playgame&val=FL10051893
Above is a link to a decent Flash game. Listen to the Intro and Credits, pretty good songs.
Good simple game, above average quality.
Above is a link to a decent Flash game. Listen to the Intro and Credits, pretty good songs.
Good simple game, above average quality.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Some great free on-line games to play
Here's a link to a great point and click adventure games site
http://www.freewebarcade.com/point-and-click-games.php
Here are my suggestions:
A Demons day out
A Dralien Day
Abuba the Alien (Abuba say thank you)
Anika's Odyssey
Bowja the Ninja Series
Escape the THK58
Exmortis Series
Ghostscape Series
Hetherdale
Icescape Series
Journeys of Reemus Series
Little Wheel
Morningstar
Nightmares of Leia Ray
Reincarnation Series
http://www.freewebarcade.com/point-and-click-games.php
Here are my suggestions:
A Demons day out
A Dralien Day
Abuba the Alien (Abuba say thank you)
Anika's Odyssey
Bowja the Ninja Series
Escape the THK58
Exmortis Series
Ghostscape Series
Hetherdale
Icescape Series
Journeys of Reemus Series
Little Wheel
Morningstar
Nightmares of Leia Ray
Reincarnation Series
Friday, September 24, 2010
Running Hexen 2 in opengl with UQE Hexen 2
Install Hexen 2 normally and then patch it with the 1.11 patch. http://www.gamershell.com/download_4562.shtml
You have to clean out the Hexen 2 files. Here is the link to the readme for that: http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
Here is the actual text:
Patching Hexen II
This section applies if you do not have the mission pack.
Firstly, you need to make sure you have your copy of Hexen II is patched to the latest official version.
If your version of Hexen II is not version 1.11 you need to run the patch file "ph2v111.exe".
If you do not have this file, you can download it from the UQE website. (http://www.quake-engine.com/)
Once you have patched your copy of Hexen II to version 1.11, we can go to the next step.
Secondly, you need to "clean" your Hexen II game, by removing all old files.
We are intrested in the root folder, "/hexen2/", aswell as the game data folder "/data1/".
In the root folder, "/hexen2/", delete all files including the game EXE files, leaving only the following original file intact: "uninst.isu".
In the game data folder, "/data1/", delete all files including any CFG files, leaving only the following original files intact: "pak0.pak", "pak1.pak".
If there is a "/portals/" game data folder, delete it completely.
Theres one more cosmetic thing we need to do:
If you have already run GL Hexen II, there will be a directory named "/glhexen/" under your "/data1/" directory.
If the directory exists.. delete the "/glhexen/" directory.
Once this is done, you may continue and unzip to effectively install and upgrade your copy of Hexen II to UQE Hexen II to your game's
root "/hexen2/" directory.
When this has been completed successfully you can go ahead and enjoy UQE Hexen II !!
Do the above than download UQE Hexen 2 1.13 http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
Just install the game engine into the prepared root hexen directory C:\hexen2 or whatever you named it.
You have to clean out the Hexen 2 files. Here is the link to the readme for that: http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
Here is the actual text:
Patching Hexen II
This section applies if you do not have the mission pack.
Firstly, you need to make sure you have your copy of Hexen II is patched to the latest official version.
If your version of Hexen II is not version 1.11 you need to run the patch file "ph2v111.exe".
If you do not have this file, you can download it from the UQE website. (http://www.quake-engine.com/)
Once you have patched your copy of Hexen II to version 1.11, we can go to the next step.
Secondly, you need to "clean" your Hexen II game, by removing all old files.
We are intrested in the root folder, "/hexen2/", aswell as the game data folder "/data1/".
In the root folder, "/hexen2/", delete all files including the game EXE files, leaving only the following original file intact: "uninst.isu".
In the game data folder, "/data1/", delete all files including any CFG files, leaving only the following original files intact: "pak0.pak", "pak1.pak".
If there is a "/portals/" game data folder, delete it completely.
Theres one more cosmetic thing we need to do:
If you have already run GL Hexen II, there will be a directory named "/glhexen/" under your "/data1/" directory.
If the directory exists.. delete the "/glhexen/" directory.
Once this is done, you may continue and unzip to effectively install and upgrade your copy of Hexen II to UQE Hexen II to your game's
root "/hexen2/" directory.
When this has been completed successfully you can go ahead and enjoy UQE Hexen II !!
Do the above than download UQE Hexen 2 1.13 http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
Just install the game engine into the prepared root hexen directory C:\hexen2 or whatever you named it.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Installing Quake and using DarkPlaces to play it
http://mhquake.blogspot.com/p/installing-quake-using-dos-box.html
The above link is directions for installing Quake using dosbox.
Quake will not install on Windows 7 64-bit. You need to use dosbox.
Get a frontend for Dosbox and get the 64-bit version of dosbox.
Once you get it installed just unzip you're favorite Quake source port into the directory.
Dark places or directq are nice ports.
http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
Above is a link to the DarkPlaces Quake 1 engine.
It is the best port at this time.
When at the above site make sure to download Romi's rtlights file for Quake, and the darkforces models.
Create a darkforces directory
Unzip the darkforces port into that directory
Create an Id1 subdirectory
Copy pako.pak and pak1.pak from quake into the Id1 subdirectory
Follow the directions that come with Romis rtlights and the darkplaces models to install them.
All files can be downloaded from links at the darkforces website.
The lights are really good looking. Romis took time to hand process every single light source in Quake. The care shows.
Enjoy Retro gaming
The above link is directions for installing Quake using dosbox.
Quake will not install on Windows 7 64-bit. You need to use dosbox.
Get a frontend for Dosbox and get the 64-bit version of dosbox.
Once you get it installed just unzip you're favorite Quake source port into the directory.
Dark places or directq are nice ports.
http://icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
Above is a link to the DarkPlaces Quake 1 engine.
It is the best port at this time.
When at the above site make sure to download Romi's rtlights file for Quake, and the darkforces models.
Create a darkforces directory
Unzip the darkforces port into that directory
Create an Id1 subdirectory
Copy pako.pak and pak1.pak from quake into the Id1 subdirectory
Follow the directions that come with Romis rtlights and the darkplaces models to install them.
All files can be downloaded from links at the darkforces website.
The lights are really good looking. Romis took time to hand process every single light source in Quake. The care shows.
Enjoy Retro gaming
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Program to play Wolfenstein 3D
Here is a link to Newwolf a program to run Wolfenstein 3D in modern opengl. Id Software released the source code. You need Wolf3d and the downloads from the newwolf site. here is the link:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60692
Don't forget to download the Models and textures. They are put in the basewgl subdirectory.
Here is a great map collection for wolf3d. It is called Remake.zip and has 6 full episodes of maps to play, like the original. It is not a remake of the originals, but a new set of maps by Ken O'Brien.
http://www.belowe.com/Remake.zip
Put the original Wolf3d into it's directory. Put Newwolf into that directory. Put the texture and model packs into the basewgl subdirectory. Download remake.zip and unzip it into that same directory as all the rest have gone. Probably Wolf3d. Let all files be overwritten when it asks.
Enjoy!
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=60692
Don't forget to download the Models and textures. They are put in the basewgl subdirectory.
Here is a great map collection for wolf3d. It is called Remake.zip and has 6 full episodes of maps to play, like the original. It is not a remake of the originals, but a new set of maps by Ken O'Brien.
http://www.belowe.com/Remake.zip
Put the original Wolf3d into it's directory. Put Newwolf into that directory. Put the texture and model packs into the basewgl subdirectory. Download remake.zip and unzip it into that same directory as all the rest have gone. Probably Wolf3d. Let all files be overwritten when it asks.
Enjoy!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Game makers don't like adventure games
Ever since Sierra was sold in the late 90's, Adventure games have become fairly rare. There are a few good video games that came out. Such as, The Longest Journey (the best adventure game since the Space Quest Series,) Syberia 1&2, The Whispered World.
Other than the above, game publishers have pretty much not made adventure games. I have read that they consider them to expensive to make, and also too long to make.
In my opnion Lucas Arts decided to change the game interface to keyboard movement making them much more harder to play and tiring. Have you tried using the arrow keys for moving, it is tiring and imprecise.
It is much easier to use the mouse and buttons for movement.
First person shooters are good, but I have tired of the military shooters that are endlessly coming out. I think it is time for adventure games to start coming out again.
If you haven't played the following list of adventure games try them out. Check the bargain bins and borrow them from your friends.
Monkey Island Series
Space Quest Series
Sam and Max
Indiana Jones Series
King's Quest Series
Phantasmagoria
Leisure Suit Larry Series
Loom
The Dig
This is a good start. Check out my Retro Gaming Links for helpful files to help run these games.
Other than the above, game publishers have pretty much not made adventure games. I have read that they consider them to expensive to make, and also too long to make.
In my opnion Lucas Arts decided to change the game interface to keyboard movement making them much more harder to play and tiring. Have you tried using the arrow keys for moving, it is tiring and imprecise.
It is much easier to use the mouse and buttons for movement.
First person shooters are good, but I have tired of the military shooters that are endlessly coming out. I think it is time for adventure games to start coming out again.
If you haven't played the following list of adventure games try them out. Check the bargain bins and borrow them from your friends.
Monkey Island Series
Space Quest Series
Sam and Max
Indiana Jones Series
King's Quest Series
Phantasmagoria
Leisure Suit Larry Series
Loom
The Dig
This is a good start. Check out my Retro Gaming Links for helpful files to help run these games.
Running The Seventh Guest on newer operating systems
Here is a DX player for the 7th Guest,
The 7th Guest
I found DirectX player that plays the game without the annoying pauses while moving.
Here is the link to the player. You can also get it through my Retro-gaming
links. http://www.computerhope.com/download/games.htm#10
Install the game in windows XP. Use the command prompt and you get there by going to start button-programs-accessories-command prompt.
Start up the command prompt. Put your 7th Guest disk into the CD drive.
Then type install.bat
The command prompt will run the install progam without flashing off fast.
The install disk is Disc #2. You can play the game with disk one.
Once the game is installed put the Beta player you downloaded into the game directory which by default is "ID".
Put disk #1 into the CD drive than run V32tng.exe.
Use Alt-enter tomake the game full screen.
Here is the readme from thr DX Player:
Beta player for The 7th Guest for Windows 95/98/NT
The files included are:
N_CRED01.VDX
N_CRED02.VDX
N_CRED03.VDX
N_CRED04.VDX
TRILOGO.VDX (optional)
Vielogo.vdx (optional)
mss32.dll
v32tng.exe
To install:
* Extract the files to your 7th Guest directory
* Run v32tng.exe
Note:
To toggle between windowed/full screen modes
press both the ALT key and ENTER key at the same time
and release (ALT-ENTER).
The 7th Guest
I found DirectX player that plays the game without the annoying pauses while moving.
Here is the link to the player. You can also get it through my Retro-gaming
links. http://www.computerhope.com/download/games.htm#10
Install the game in windows XP. Use the command prompt and you get there by going to start button-programs-accessories-command prompt.
Start up the command prompt. Put your 7th Guest disk into the CD drive.
Then type install.bat
The command prompt will run the install progam without flashing off fast.
The install disk is Disc #2. You can play the game with disk one.
Once the game is installed put the Beta player you downloaded into the game directory which by default is "ID".
Put disk #1 into the CD drive than run V32tng.exe.
Use Alt-enter tomake the game full screen.
Here is the readme from thr DX Player:
Beta player for The 7th Guest for Windows 95/98/NT
The files included are:
N_CRED01.VDX
N_CRED02.VDX
N_CRED03.VDX
N_CRED04.VDX
TRILOGO.VDX (optional)
Vielogo.vdx (optional)
mss32.dll
v32tng.exe
To install:
* Extract the files to your 7th Guest directory
* Run v32tng.exe
Note:
To toggle between windowed/full screen modes
press both the ALT key and ENTER key at the same time
and release (ALT-ENTER).
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Retro Gaming Links
Here it is. I will be working to update dead links
Id software stuff: http://ftp2.de.freebsd.org/pub/misc/ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/
Opengl download: I installed this and it repaired stalling I had in opengl games. Unreal looked alot better also. I use an ATI card. This is the API download and not a driver for your video card: http://www.berkelium.com/OpenGL/sgi-download.html
Gabriel Knight 2 installer: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/ This installer will install the game with the options to put the whole game on harddisk and to remove the annoying interlacing of the video. It works well. Cool website!
Lucas Arts FTP site, updates galore: ftp://ftp.lucasarts.com/
World of Monkey Island website. Lots of info and patches: http://www.worldofmi.com/
Outlaws Files. patches, sound bits, crosshairs, model guns and much more http://theoutlawdad.com/Files.html
The Outlaw Dad The main site where the outlaws files comes from http://theoutlawdad.com/main.html
Jedi Knight 2 Dark forces enhanced. This patch updates the games graphes with better models and textures. It fixes the graphics problems running it on newer OS. http://www.jkhub.net/project/show.php?projid=242
Raven Games Essential Files:
http://www.raven-games.com/essential.php#hw
Sierra Games: http://ftp.vugames.com/sierra/
Spacequest.net is a good site for info and updates of Space Quest http://www.spacequest.net/main.shtml
Ken Silverman Build Page http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm He is helping people to run the old build games. The link has some useful utilities and links.
The Underdogs: This site has old games available for download. Alot you can download for free, because they are abandonware.
Some games have links for purchase. You will be surprised what is available for download! http://www.the-underdogs.info/
Dosgames.com http://www.dosgames.com/
Free Oldies: http://www.freeoldies.com/
Free Games: http://www.alex-soft.net/
Arcade Town: http://www.arcadetown.com/
Abandonia: http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php
Dosbox is a utility to help run old games: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
DosEmu: this utility helps Linux users run dos games in Linux. http://www.dosemu.org/
ScummVM: For running older Lucas Arts titles on newer OS, use this utility. http://www.scummvm.org/
VDMS Sound and VDMS Launcher http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound
Alot of times old games fail on a newer computer because of old incompatible sound utilities in the game. These 2 utilities
help NT and XP to run the old games.
VDMSLauncher: http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/files/
Microsoft Virtual PC: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/
Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI): This site has utilities to run Sierra's old games which use AGI.
http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
Quest Studios which has utilities to help Sierra games which are having sound problems and will not run:
http://www.queststudios.com/quest/Utilities.html
The OLDSCHOOL PC: a site dedicated to running old games http://www.oldskool.org/
Cpukiller: slows down your cpu for problem games that run too fast. http://www.cpukiller.com/
Glidos: helps run some 3dfx opengl games such as tomb raider http://www.glidos.net/index.html?lang=en
dgVoodoo: http://dege.fw.hu/ A GLide wrapper for voodoo dos games
Check out Doomsday/Jdoom. This is an Opengl port for playing Doom, Doom 2, Hexen and Heretic. It is by far the best Opengl port. You will need a wad file from the games to play them. This port has alot of new skins, textures, models and much else to download to make the game graphics look newer and better. You can get the basic models and textures at the main DoomsdayHQsite also.
For Doomsday/Jdoom go to DoomsdayHQ: http://newdoom.com/hosted/ddaylinks/
For the DoomsdayHQ forums go to http://forums.newdoom.com/forumdisp...p?s=&forumid=57
This is the link for the new textures, skins and models made by third party individuals. http://newdoom.com/hosted/ddaylinks/
This is the link for the jDoom modelyard. http://modelyard.newdoom.com/
For Jdoom J-paks: http://slide.newdoom.com/
More Doom engine links:
Vavoom http://vavoom-engine.com/index.php?Lang=Eng Vavoom can now run Strife also.
Doom Legacy: http://legacy.newdoom.com/
glBoom: http://prboom.sourceforge.net/
ZDoomGL: http://www.doomworld.com/doomgl/
Risen 3D: http://risen3d.newdoom.com/ This is based on an older version of Doomsday. It adds Boom and 3dlines support.
Edge Engine: http://edge.sourceforge.net/
NetDoom: http://netdoom.sourceforge.net/
Freedoom: This is really just a wegawad for Doom http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/
Here is a site for finding out how to set-up Build games (Duke, shadow warrior, Blood). http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/
For the Dukester in Duke Nukem 3D there is a good non-opengl port for Windows. It really works well and you will need the game wad for this game to play it. It is called Duke3d_w3d: http://www.rancidmeat.com/project.php3?id=1
For Linux port: http://www.icculus.org/duke3d
Eduke: http://www.saettler.com/eduke/
This is a great port that even has a new textures add-in. It uses the Polymost engine and is as good or better than the Jonof's port. Here is the texture update link: http://hrp.duke4.net/
Duke Nukem 3D files: http://members.aol.com/knusair/duke3d/
Jonof's Duke Nukem 3D Port: this port is working in Opengl. It uses the build engine modified with Ken Silverman's Polymost engine. http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/buildport/duke3d/
JFShadowwarrior Port: http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index....downloads&cat=2
Here's a link for JFduke3d port. Use it with Nightfright texture and model pack http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
Frightnight Duke3d texture and model pack: http://hrp.duke4.net/
Experimental Cduke3D: http://www.users.on.net/triforce/cduke3d/
GLDuke: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glduke3d
Openduke: http://openduke.sourceforge.net/
Zduke: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zduke
Lemo Duke: http://dukenukem3d.net/
Evil Pandy 3D: http://evilpandy3d.sourceforge.net/ overhaul of Duke Nukem 3D.
BeOS Duke Nukem 3D: http://www.bebits.com/app/3396
For BLOOD, one of my all-time favorites.
PlanetBlood: http://www.planetblood.com/ Blood resources.
Glidos: has support for the 3dfx version of blood. http://www.glidos.net/blood.html?lang=en
Blood download: http://takegame.com/action/htm/blood.htm
For QUAKE there is quite a few ports.
Telejano: http://telejano.berlios.de/data.htm My favorite.
Tenebrae http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
DXQuake: http://dxquake.sourceforge.net/
More Quake Links:
Proquake: http://quakeone.com/proquake/
GLQuake: http://mfcn.ilo.de/glxquake/
Tomaz Quake: http://tomaz.quakesrc.org/q/
Quake2Max: http://www.planetquake.com/quake2max/ Q2max is an opengl engine that adds alot of the new video card features into Q2. Such as shaders, vertex shaders etc. it also adds more blood. There is supposed to be new textures available, but I couldn't find them. Of course you can replace the models if you can find better ones.
Quake 2 Re-texture Portal: http://egl.quakedev.com/ New textures for Quake 2, for use with Quake2Max &
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jimw/q2/
Zquake: http://zquake.frag.ru/eng/news/index.shtml
Fuhquake: http://www.freshports.org/games/fuhquake
QuakeForge: http://www.quakeforge.net/files.php
GLQuake for the MAC: http://macglquake.sourceforge.net/
Dark Places: http://www.icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
Tenebrae 2: http://www.tenebrae2.com/
Industri: http://industri.sourceforge.net/
[b]Unofficial Quake Engine for Hexen 2. This is an engine for running Hexen 2 in opengl. It also solves the mouselook and brightness problens of GLHexen 2: http://www.quake-engine.com/ Here is the link to the read me for setting up Hexen 2 and the Unofficial Quake engine: http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
New Hexen 2: http://newhexen.raven-games.com/ You need Hexen 2 and the add-on pack to play it. Which kind of stops most
people from using the program. I mentioned this to the author and he doesn't see the point. Dumb is as dumb does,
wheretic: http://www.raven-games.com/hosted/wheretic/
HHexen & HHeretic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hhexen/
UHexen: http://uhexen.sourceforge.net/
LinuxHeretic: http://heretic.linuxgames.com/np/heretic2.shtml
DXHexen: http://www.hagie.net/dxhexen/
Quake Texture sites:
Opiate's Texture Warehouse: http://www.planetquake.com/warehouse/custom.html
Here are some links to wads that you can download to play on your selected Doom ports. Doomsday/Jdoom can play wads of all 4 games it supports.
Sunet Level Archives http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/
Doom Depot http://doomdepot.doom2.net/
Id Archives has many doom wads and more. http://www.doomwadstation.com/idgam...hp?dir=Quake%2F
This is an excellent megawad for doom ports. Vilecore II is coming also.
Vilecore Megawad http://megawad.newdoom.com/ I consider Doom Dude a good friend. I am looking forward to Vilecore 2.
Rise of the Triad
Here is an interesting link for an opengl version of Rise of the Triad.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/glrott
Rise of the Triad for Linux: http://www.icculus.org/rott/
Linux IRIX version: http://daria.bio.warwick.ac.uk/~bshu/rott/
Here is a link for the download of Rott: http://abandonwarez.org/rott.zip
Interesting site for some Rott downloads. http://home14.inet.tele.dk/Bna-Info/index.htm
SDL files needed: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/d...shtml?sdl_mixer Make sure you download these SDL files.
Rise of the Triad Win32 Executables: http://www.3drealms.com/rott/index.html
The 7th Guest: found a Direct X Player for the 7th Guest. It runs the game without the annoying slow cd access.
http://www.computerhope.com/download/games.htm#10
I found it works better not to use the patch for the game. Just use the player. But whatever will work on your machine.
Inferno's Adventures has how to set-up alot of older games: http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldan...GameListA_E.htm
Wolfenstein 3D:
NewWolf: Wolfenstein 3D in openGL. <a href='http://wolfgl.narod.ru/' target='_blank'>http://wolfgl.narod.ru/</a> I think this has pretty much been abandoned. It does work. Word is Darkwolf is going to do Wolf3D in the Quake Engine! For a faster download: http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=60692
WinWolf3D: http://winwolf3d.dugtrio17.com/
WolfGL: http://wolfgl.sourceforge.net/
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein project: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW
Halflife Mods:
Escapemods is a site that has listings of all modification games for Half-Life.
http://www.planethalflife.com/espacemod/us_index.html
Game Hippo: is a freeware site. You would be suprised about the quality of games you can find. http://www.gamehippo.com/
STRIFE
SVStrife: This is a port of the game Strife. It has a long way to go yet and is not completely fully functional yet. This one is worth keeping an eye on. The link died and I have to find a place for download.
Vavoom: can also run Strife, but it has along way to go also. See the link above in the Doom section. You can also get the full game at Underdogs: http://www.the-underdogs.info/
Sound FX 2000: a utility that allows full dos emulation in 16 bit and 32 bit programs in windows. I did not test it. It is not shareware and only allows a 3 minute try out, talk about dumb http://www.softsystem.co.uk/page4.htm
Space Cadet Pinball:
http://www.gamesload.it/pinball2.htm# The wonderful pinball game that was part of Windows 95. Enjoy!
GDS: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/winsite/winxp/games/?fisel=aA They have a bunch of games and gaming files for download. They do not have descriptions of the files. Who knows you might find something interesting.
Liberated games: http://liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php Thanks Matt for the link.
Star Control 2 Port
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
1-up.com http://cgw.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3137482 They have 102 free games.
Nude Rynn Patch: http://bloodraynemassacre.info/portal/portal.php This download is at Game Vixen Zone. Go to downloads and choose old games and you will see the download. You have to join the site to download. Also here:
http://dragonlairme.tripod.com/id17.html
Scorched Earth: Yes, the old classic tank game, enjoy. http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/144
Unreal 1 final update. It uses code from Unreal Tournament so looks and works really well. Just install Unreal, uses D3D and install this patch http://unreal.epicgames.com/versions.htm
Old unreal newest patch: http://www.oldunreal.com/oldunrealpatches.html and UnrealPatch227eWin.zip
Unreal Textures: New Hi res textures for the original Ureal. http://www.unrealtexture.com/Unreal/Unreal.htm
At the link below you will find an install program that will install Amber for XP. It is an early quicktime game that will not install right without this special install program.
Load the game cd and tell the install program where to find the cd.
http://www.squirtthecat.com/games/amber/index.html
Opengl download: I installed this and it repaired stalling I had in opengl games. Unreal looked alot better also. I use an ATI card. This is the API download and not a driver for your video card: http://www.berkelium.com/OpenGL/sgi-download.html
Gabriel Knight 2 installer: http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/ This installer will install the game with the options to put the whole game on harddisk and to remove the annoying interlacing of the video. It works well. Cool website!
Lucas Arts FTP site, updates galore: ftp://ftp.lucasarts.com/
World of Monkey Island website. Lots of info and patches: http://www.worldofmi.com/
Outlaws Files. patches, sound bits, crosshairs, model guns and much more http://theoutlawdad.com/Files.html
The Outlaw Dad The main site where the outlaws files comes from http://theoutlawdad.com/main.html
Jedi Knight 2 Dark forces enhanced. This patch updates the games graphes with better models and textures. It fixes the graphics problems running it on newer OS. http://www.jkhub.net/project/show.php?projid=242
Raven Games Essential Files:
http://www.raven-games.com/essential.php#hw
Sierra Games: http://ftp.vugames.com/sierra/
Spacequest.net is a good site for info and updates of Space Quest http://www.spacequest.net/main.shtml
Ken Silverman Build Page http://advsys.net/ken/build.htm He is helping people to run the old build games. The link has some useful utilities and links.
The Underdogs: This site has old games available for download. Alot you can download for free, because they are abandonware.
Some games have links for purchase. You will be surprised what is available for download! http://www.the-underdogs.info/
Dosgames.com http://www.dosgames.com/
Free Oldies: http://www.freeoldies.com/
Free Games: http://www.alex-soft.net/
Arcade Town: http://www.arcadetown.com/
Abandonia: http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php
Dosbox is a utility to help run old games: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1
DosEmu: this utility helps Linux users run dos games in Linux. http://www.dosemu.org/
ScummVM: For running older Lucas Arts titles on newer OS, use this utility. http://www.scummvm.org/
VDMS Sound and VDMS Launcher http://sourceforge.net/projects/vdmsound
Alot of times old games fail on a newer computer because of old incompatible sound utilities in the game. These 2 utilities
help NT and XP to run the old games.
VDMSLauncher: http://vdmsound.sourceforge.net/files/
Microsoft Virtual PC: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/virtualpc/
Sierra Adventure Game Interpreter (AGI): This site has utilities to run Sierra's old games which use AGI.
http://sarien.sourceforge.net/
Quest Studios which has utilities to help Sierra games which are having sound problems and will not run:
http://www.queststudios.com/quest/Utilities.html
The OLDSCHOOL PC: a site dedicated to running old games http://www.oldskool.org/
Cpukiller: slows down your cpu for problem games that run too fast. http://www.cpukiller.com/
Glidos: helps run some 3dfx opengl games such as tomb raider http://www.glidos.net/index.html?lang=en
dgVoodoo: http://dege.fw.hu/ A GLide wrapper for voodoo dos games
Check out Doomsday/Jdoom. This is an Opengl port for playing Doom, Doom 2, Hexen and Heretic. It is by far the best Opengl port. You will need a wad file from the games to play them. This port has alot of new skins, textures, models and much else to download to make the game graphics look newer and better. You can get the basic models and textures at the main DoomsdayHQsite also.
For Doomsday/Jdoom go to DoomsdayHQ: http://newdoom.com/hosted/ddaylinks/
For the DoomsdayHQ forums go to http://forums.newdoom.com/forumdisp...p?s=&forumid=57
This is the link for the new textures, skins and models made by third party individuals. http://newdoom.com/hosted/ddaylinks/
This is the link for the jDoom modelyard. http://modelyard.newdoom.com/
For Jdoom J-paks: http://slide.newdoom.com/
More Doom engine links:
Vavoom http://vavoom-engine.com/index.php?Lang=Eng Vavoom can now run Strife also.
Doom Legacy: http://legacy.newdoom.com/
glBoom: http://prboom.sourceforge.net/
ZDoomGL: http://www.doomworld.com/doomgl/
Risen 3D: http://risen3d.newdoom.com/ This is based on an older version of Doomsday. It adds Boom and 3dlines support.
Edge Engine: http://edge.sourceforge.net/
NetDoom: http://netdoom.sourceforge.net/
Freedoom: This is really just a wegawad for Doom http://freedoom.sourceforge.net/
Here is a site for finding out how to set-up Build games (Duke, shadow warrior, Blood). http://www.deathmask.net/buildxp/
For the Dukester in Duke Nukem 3D there is a good non-opengl port for Windows. It really works well and you will need the game wad for this game to play it. It is called Duke3d_w3d: http://www.rancidmeat.com/project.php3?id=1
For Linux port: http://www.icculus.org/duke3d
Eduke: http://www.saettler.com/eduke/
This is a great port that even has a new textures add-in. It uses the Polymost engine and is as good or better than the Jonof's port. Here is the texture update link: http://hrp.duke4.net/
Duke Nukem 3D files: http://members.aol.com/knusair/duke3d/
Jonof's Duke Nukem 3D Port: this port is working in Opengl. It uses the build engine modified with Ken Silverman's Polymost engine. http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/buildport/duke3d/
JFShadowwarrior Port: http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index....downloads&cat=2
Here's a link for JFduke3d port. Use it with Nightfright texture and model pack http://jonof.edgenetwork.org/index.php?p=jfduke3d
Frightnight Duke3d texture and model pack: http://hrp.duke4.net/
Experimental Cduke3D: http://www.users.on.net/triforce/cduke3d/
GLDuke: http://sourceforge.net/projects/glduke3d
Openduke: http://openduke.sourceforge.net/
Zduke: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zduke
Lemo Duke: http://dukenukem3d.net/
Evil Pandy 3D: http://evilpandy3d.sourceforge.net/ overhaul of Duke Nukem 3D.
BeOS Duke Nukem 3D: http://www.bebits.com/app/3396
For BLOOD, one of my all-time favorites.
PlanetBlood: http://www.planetblood.com/ Blood resources.
Glidos: has support for the 3dfx version of blood. http://www.glidos.net/blood.html?lang=en
Blood download: http://takegame.com/action/htm/blood.htm
For QUAKE there is quite a few ports.
Telejano: http://telejano.berlios.de/data.htm My favorite.
Tenebrae http://tenebrae.sourceforge.net/
DXQuake: http://dxquake.sourceforge.net/
More Quake Links:
Proquake: http://quakeone.com/proquake/
GLQuake: http://mfcn.ilo.de/glxquake/
Tomaz Quake: http://tomaz.quakesrc.org/q/
Quake2Max: http://www.planetquake.com/quake2max/ Q2max is an opengl engine that adds alot of the new video card features into Q2. Such as shaders, vertex shaders etc. it also adds more blood. There is supposed to be new textures available, but I couldn't find them. Of course you can replace the models if you can find better ones.
Quake 2 Re-texture Portal: http://egl.quakedev.com/ New textures for Quake 2, for use with Quake2Max &
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jimw/q2/
Zquake: http://zquake.frag.ru/eng/news/index.shtml
Fuhquake: http://www.freshports.org/games/fuhquake
QuakeForge: http://www.quakeforge.net/files.php
GLQuake for the MAC: http://macglquake.sourceforge.net/
Dark Places: http://www.icculus.org/twilight/darkplaces/
Tenebrae 2: http://www.tenebrae2.com/
Industri: http://industri.sourceforge.net/
[b]Unofficial Quake Engine for Hexen 2. This is an engine for running Hexen 2 in opengl. It also solves the mouselook and brightness problens of GLHexen 2: http://www.quake-engine.com/ Here is the link to the read me for setting up Hexen 2 and the Unofficial Quake engine: http://www.quake-engine.com/download.aspx?game=hx2
New Hexen 2: http://newhexen.raven-games.com/ You need Hexen 2 and the add-on pack to play it. Which kind of stops most
people from using the program. I mentioned this to the author and he doesn't see the point. Dumb is as dumb does,
wheretic: http://www.raven-games.com/hosted/wheretic/
HHexen & HHeretic: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hhexen/
UHexen: http://uhexen.sourceforge.net/
LinuxHeretic: http://heretic.linuxgames.com/np/heretic2.shtml
DXHexen: http://www.hagie.net/dxhexen/
Quake Texture sites:
Opiate's Texture Warehouse: http://www.planetquake.com/warehouse/custom.html
Here are some links to wads that you can download to play on your selected Doom ports. Doomsday/Jdoom can play wads of all 4 games it supports.
Sunet Level Archives http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/
Doom Depot http://doomdepot.doom2.net/
Id Archives has many doom wads and more. http://www.doomwadstation.com/idgam...hp?dir=Quake%2F
This is an excellent megawad for doom ports. Vilecore II is coming also.
Vilecore Megawad http://megawad.newdoom.com/ I consider Doom Dude a good friend. I am looking forward to Vilecore 2.
Rise of the Triad
Here is an interesting link for an opengl version of Rise of the Triad.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/glrott
Rise of the Triad for Linux: http://www.icculus.org/rott/
Linux IRIX version: http://daria.bio.warwick.ac.uk/~bshu/rott/
Here is a link for the download of Rott: http://abandonwarez.org/rott.zip
Interesting site for some Rott downloads. http://home14.inet.tele.dk/Bna-Info/index.htm
SDL files needed: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/d...shtml?sdl_mixer Make sure you download these SDL files.
Rise of the Triad Win32 Executables: http://www.3drealms.com/rott/index.html
The 7th Guest: found a Direct X Player for the 7th Guest. It runs the game without the annoying slow cd access.
http://www.computerhope.com/download/games.htm#10
I found it works better not to use the patch for the game. Just use the player. But whatever will work on your machine.
Inferno's Adventures has how to set-up alot of older games: http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldan...GameListA_E.htm
Wolfenstein 3D:
NewWolf: Wolfenstein 3D in openGL. <a href='http://wolfgl.narod.ru/' target='_blank'>http://wolfgl.narod.ru/</a> I think this has pretty much been abandoned. It does work. Word is Darkwolf is going to do Wolf3D in the Quake Engine! For a faster download: http://sourceforge.net/project/show...?group_id=60692
WinWolf3D: http://winwolf3d.dugtrio17.com/
WolfGL: http://wolfgl.sourceforge.net/
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein project: http://www.oldskool.org/pc/BCW
Halflife Mods:
Escapemods is a site that has listings of all modification games for Half-Life.
http://www.planethalflife.com/espacemod/us_index.html
Game Hippo: is a freeware site. You would be suprised about the quality of games you can find. http://www.gamehippo.com/
STRIFE
SVStrife: This is a port of the game Strife. It has a long way to go yet and is not completely fully functional yet. This one is worth keeping an eye on. The link died and I have to find a place for download.
Vavoom: can also run Strife, but it has along way to go also. See the link above in the Doom section. You can also get the full game at Underdogs: http://www.the-underdogs.info/
Sound FX 2000: a utility that allows full dos emulation in 16 bit and 32 bit programs in windows. I did not test it. It is not shareware and only allows a 3 minute try out, talk about dumb http://www.softsystem.co.uk/page4.htm
Space Cadet Pinball:
http://www.gamesload.it/pinball2.htm# The wonderful pinball game that was part of Windows 95. Enjoy!
GDS: http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pc/winsite/winxp/games/?fisel=aA They have a bunch of games and gaming files for download. They do not have descriptions of the files. Who knows you might find something interesting.
Liberated games: http://liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php Thanks Matt for the link.
Star Control 2 Port
http://sc2.sourceforge.net/
1-up.com http://cgw.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3137482 They have 102 free games.
Nude Rynn Patch: http://bloodraynemassacre.info/portal/portal.php This download is at Game Vixen Zone. Go to downloads and choose old games and you will see the download. You have to join the site to download. Also here:
http://dragonlairme.tripod.com/id17.html
Scorched Earth: Yes, the old classic tank game, enjoy. http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/144
Unreal 1 final update. It uses code from Unreal Tournament so looks and works really well. Just install Unreal, uses D3D and install this patch http://unreal.epicgames.com/versions.htm
Old unreal newest patch: http://www.oldunreal.com/oldunrealpatches.html and UnrealPatch227eWin.zip
Unreal Textures: New Hi res textures for the original Ureal. http://www.unrealtexture.com/Unreal/Unreal.htm
At the link below you will find an install program that will install Amber for XP. It is an early quicktime game that will not install right without this special install program.
Load the game cd and tell the install program where to find the cd.
http://www.squirtthecat.com/games/amber/index.html
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Purpose of this Blog on PC Retro-Gaming on a budget
9/19/2010
I am not rich. I am not able to update my computer very often, so I started to find ways to game on my PC not spending alot of money on games. Fortunately, there are older games that are available to download or play on-line for free. I am anti-pirating games, but there are games that have been abandoned by the publisher. Rather than let the game disappear both physically and mentally, I believe in saving the physical games files and encouraging people to play retro-games. Of course, if you owe the games I will be talking about, super great. Even better if you can buy a retro-game from the bargain bin. What true gamer doesn't have a copy of Doom or Quake in a box in the back of their closet or in the basement.
The games I will talk about include patches for the games, mods and help to run them on modern computers. I will talk about first person shooters mostly (my favorite), indie games, adventure games and more. I will also talk about pet peives such as major publishers who have ignored adventure games for alot of years now. I do not like console games, so sorry you console fans. The nature of consoles do not lend themselves to game mods, so it would be a waste of time to talk about them. I have a PC and have never used a Mac, or unix, or any other type of computer OS.
Any publisher who gets pissed off about some game I talked about, feel free to let me know about the problem. I am a very reasonable person.
I am a 54 year male who has gamed since the early days of computing. They didn't have PC's when I was in high school. I started on a Tandy color computer. Then moving to early 80286, 386, 386sx and 486 computers. Now I am writing this on my Wife's Dell notebook with Windows 7 64-bit on it. Unfortunately it has Intel graphics on it, but it can run Opengl and has some ability to run newer games. But it could be better....
I am the creator of the Retro Gaming Links which http://www.jonja.net/ allows me to put in their Gaming Forums. Thank you Scorp! I plan on posting it on this blog sometime this week. The RGL contains links to Retro-games, mods and patches for older games. All games that appear there are either abandoned games, or games I own personally, or patches or mods which are free. All Id Software games are not abandoned, but there are alot of patches and mods for their games to help you run the older games. If you want to be a Retro-gamer check your local computer shops for good deals in older games. I picked up PREY from a mail order company for 5 dollars. You can't beat that.
The RGL has some dead links. The nature of the web leads to constantly changing links. I plan to try to find some new links for the dead links. It is harder than you might think to maintain links to game files that are slowly disappearing.
If there is someone who might want to donate backup space for Retro Gaming files of older games that would be great. It takes alot of hard disk space to save the files. Some games files and programs are starting to disappear.
I have a number of posts at jonja.net that I will post here about particular games and how to get them to run on your computer.
I hope this will be useful to you gamers on a budget or just have trouble running older games.
I am not rich. I am not able to update my computer very often, so I started to find ways to game on my PC not spending alot of money on games. Fortunately, there are older games that are available to download or play on-line for free. I am anti-pirating games, but there are games that have been abandoned by the publisher. Rather than let the game disappear both physically and mentally, I believe in saving the physical games files and encouraging people to play retro-games. Of course, if you owe the games I will be talking about, super great. Even better if you can buy a retro-game from the bargain bin. What true gamer doesn't have a copy of Doom or Quake in a box in the back of their closet or in the basement.
The games I will talk about include patches for the games, mods and help to run them on modern computers. I will talk about first person shooters mostly (my favorite), indie games, adventure games and more. I will also talk about pet peives such as major publishers who have ignored adventure games for alot of years now. I do not like console games, so sorry you console fans. The nature of consoles do not lend themselves to game mods, so it would be a waste of time to talk about them. I have a PC and have never used a Mac, or unix, or any other type of computer OS.
Any publisher who gets pissed off about some game I talked about, feel free to let me know about the problem. I am a very reasonable person.
I am a 54 year male who has gamed since the early days of computing. They didn't have PC's when I was in high school. I started on a Tandy color computer. Then moving to early 80286, 386, 386sx and 486 computers. Now I am writing this on my Wife's Dell notebook with Windows 7 64-bit on it. Unfortunately it has Intel graphics on it, but it can run Opengl and has some ability to run newer games. But it could be better....
I am the creator of the Retro Gaming Links which http://www.jonja.net/ allows me to put in their Gaming Forums. Thank you Scorp! I plan on posting it on this blog sometime this week. The RGL contains links to Retro-games, mods and patches for older games. All games that appear there are either abandoned games, or games I own personally, or patches or mods which are free. All Id Software games are not abandoned, but there are alot of patches and mods for their games to help you run the older games. If you want to be a Retro-gamer check your local computer shops for good deals in older games. I picked up PREY from a mail order company for 5 dollars. You can't beat that.
The RGL has some dead links. The nature of the web leads to constantly changing links. I plan to try to find some new links for the dead links. It is harder than you might think to maintain links to game files that are slowly disappearing.
If there is someone who might want to donate backup space for Retro Gaming files of older games that would be great. It takes alot of hard disk space to save the files. Some games files and programs are starting to disappear.
I have a number of posts at jonja.net that I will post here about particular games and how to get them to run on your computer.
I hope this will be useful to you gamers on a budget or just have trouble running older games.
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