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.
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