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Is the video game "Pong" (1972) Analog or Digital?
Martin Howe replied to Verna's topic in Everything Else
Same for a lot of games of that era, including the (in)famous Binatone TV Master that I had as a kid; analogue dials or sliders, but the game itself is hard coded logic circuits; no microprocessors involved. Same for the Sportel I posted about elsewhere on the forum. -
If there was one thing you would change about classic DOOM, what would it be?
Martin Howe replied to Anonymus's topic in WAD Discussion
No cybernetic monsters except for the Cyberdemon himself as boss of E3 - so no revenants, no spidey, no arach, no mancs; traditional hellish monsters only except for the big reveal at the end. -
I switched to Linux when MICROS~1 obsoleted Windows 7, which for me was the best Windows ever. With prior UNIX experience I'd tried Linux already but Paint.NET and UDB were the obstacles to going full Linux. With Pinta and UDB usable (with external tooling issues though) on Linux, I could finally throw Windows into the dustbin of History where it belongs :) Lucky enough to be only playing older games, which thus have source port releases, and with enough experience with bash to script all the build and install processes, I self-build everything, except for SLADE whose build instructions have never worked. Linux gives me control over my computer, yes my computer, MICROS~1, not yours. No ads, no candy crush, a less awful UI, and no idiotic nags about please can I not switch browsers. (I have a 10yo laptop with the same OS, but also a Windows 10 dual boot, just in case; but my main computer is Windows-free, not even a VM).
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Kicking off here in the UK big time - sadly I'm in London this weekend, no way to see it past the light pollution :(
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Was wondering if you'd seen it :) Sadly I haven't.
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"Why? Because I can." And rightly so :)
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If you were to make Hell Knights and Barons differentiate from each other, how would you go about it?
Martin Howe replied to LukeGaming's topic in Doom General Discussion
Barons are fine as they are. Knights are a cheap knock-off, so I'd replace them completely; the Repository Satyr is a good choice; he's another traditionally demonic-looking enemy with similar properties to a knight and a similar sound; it's not that hard to modify him to throw something, rocks in the attempt I made; so similar to a knight in gameplay, but very different looking. -
Coyotes aren't normally a problem, but if you see one wielding a BFG9000, call 911 immediately :)
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Totally agree.I will not play IoS maps; just cheat to kill the boss and that's it. It's absolutely the dumbest thing ID Software ever did, for me. The voice by JR is kinda cool, but it can't save the ridiculous contrived level design and the boring slaughter styled RNG gameplay. Yawn. So to answer the OP question: Anything with an IoS styled ending.
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Helion - C# (0.9.5.1 11/24 - Goodbye BSP tree rendering)
Martin Howe replied to hobomaster22's topic in Source Ports
I always wished to be able to mod in C#; maybe continue the .NET theme in choice of scripting engine? -
E4M2 remake (second map release)
Martin Howe replied to avee88's topic in Map Releases & Development
Looking good so far. Perfect Hatred is for me one of the classic defining maps of TFC and I'm rather protective of it, but this looks reasonably respectful. -
Of course there's really only one choice, nowadays :)
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Don't forget the yellow key :P :P
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Classic Doom - New Update on Steam
Martin Howe replied to AtimZarr1's topic in Doom General Discussion
Another reason to wait until user-maintained source ports support the features of the remaster engine. (And on that point, if it requires Steam or Proton, it's *not* multi-platform. It's multi-platform if it runs *natively* on Linux or macOS, as well as Windows). -
What was the 1st website you ever visited?
Martin Howe replied to Sonikkumania's topic in Everything Else
Yeah, training course at work in 1993 for me; we learned webcrawler, one of the very first search engines, which actually still exists! This was all on Netscape. No chance of remembering which real page (i.e., not a search engine) I ever saw, after nearly thirty years. Been using the internet before that in the form of newsgroups since 1988, though. Addendum: For those who don't know them, newsgroups were kinda like Discord in that they had channels (which were called 'groups') and servers (but the same group could be hosted on many servers but not all); however, due to the limited tech of the time, it was a text and command interface only; you could share binary media (apps, pictures, sounds, etc) but in a clunky way that wasn't easy to use.