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For me it was David Braben's Frontier (Elite 2). I couldn't beleive that even at that time you could create a self-unpacking game design in what was it? about 76K? And now he is working on Elite 4.
On the contrary, playing somethign like Vice City and...
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This was back, interactive world definitely kicked me down the path of game developer, which is my full time career Steve Meretzsky at GDC a few years....
Bomberman ;)
The very first game that I attempted to emulate was Infocom's "Planetfall".
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What would you say is the least powerful computer setup you would recommend for current flash games?
Started by BenMaddox on
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If, however, you have to wait any amount of time for your operating system to respond to events, then your flash game will have the same issue, since.
Should be able to play a flash game just fine.
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Is the MVC design pattern used in commercial computer games?
Particularly with regard to high performance games I am curious if there have been any commercial users of MVC in the games industry?
Started by PeanutPower on
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The game world (model) is typically ....
In a game, those two worlds are much closer to each other.
This may give you a little are calculated or stored .
A paper (PDF) that mentions the MVC pattern being used in computer games.
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My first experience with a game that got me interested in computers (still programming):
Leisure Suit Larry
After "Ken sent me", I was hooked.
Leisure Suit Larry creator's site: Al Lowe
Started by Kb on
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Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(computer_game)
Lode Runner - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki (three of us simultaneously on one computer) played that game during our class break
Tomb Raider a computer game....
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I have just bought a new computer and I have everything migrated over except for my Steam games.
I looked in Program Files/Steam/ and I found a folder full of the games I have downloaded, but I do not know if it is safe to just copy these folders from...
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Don't worry Steam will create a new one when....
And you will need to delete the clientregistry.blob file that you copied over from your old computer.
Then just copy the directories over onto the new computer, use the same filepaths etc...
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(See end for summary of updated question.)
I want to convey to groups of people (kids or adults) how a computer program written in a high-level language works, and what the relationship is of that program to the computer as a consumer device as they know...
Started by talkaboutquality on
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Beyond that, I believe computer simulations and/or multimedia presentations are required.
At the physical game level, I believe this is about all you can teach.
Millions of times per second.
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I'm buying a new Macbook pro, and I've run across another hardware question - I play a lot of computer games (Guild Wars, eventually Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, etc...) and I'm wondering how well Mac/Windows can play these games using the Macbook Pro graphics...
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They're might find the game stuttering less between scene changes that force it to swap out a lot the settings slightly above medium on 1280x1024: Gears....
In terms of game play it means nothing at all.
Would give you even better framerates.
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I have a number of older windows games like Descent, Descent 2, and a few other games released around the same time. I've tried to get them to run on my slowest windows computer (1.8 mhz P4) and they end up running extremely fast. (It's like they depend...
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Quickest thing to do on Windows for old games is to install DosBox , I have never used it on OSX, but it looks like you can download it pre compiled for OSX, so it may be worth a try without you even needing to fire up anything from Vmware!
They....
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I'm finally sorting out some old software, mostly games, that I've kept for too long. Are there companies or groups that specialize in older software, or is my best bet to go item by item on eBay/Craigslist?
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If it's old or obscure enough, ....
EBay is your best bet, but if you have kept them this long, hang on to them! Your inner geek will hate you if you sell them!
Unless you have anything that is very rare, it is unlikely you will get much for them anyway .
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I understand why it does that but I don't really have any idea of how to prevent that. So the scenario is, every frame I move the car by a certain of predefined pixels. What happens is when I go on slow or faster computer... well I get less or more frames...
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You can solve.
If the computer is too slow, but makes the car speed independent of the CPU speed.
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