#130648 - 12/12/2002 11:24
scorched earth game
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old hand
Registered: 28/04/2002
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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i came across this when i was remanicing about the "good ol' days". i used to play this every damn day with my cousins. i can just imagine if someone ported this on the empeg..... easy traffic accident for me right there.
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#130649 - 12/12/2002 11:58
Re: scorched earth game
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pooh-bah
Registered: 15/01/2002
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Loc: Austin
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yeah, i also can confess to many lost hours to that game. what a blast.
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#130650 - 12/12/2002 13:02
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Question. Which was around first, Scorched Earth or Gorillas?
It's great, I was just looking for an update to gorillas, but this will suit me fine.
I knew a guy once who wrote a Pascal version of Gorillas that was great. great graphics and some good humor. Too bad his disk crashed.
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#130651 - 12/12/2002 14:01
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Registered: 13/06/2000
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Loc: Berlin, DE
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I wrote a single player vs. computer version in TI basic on my TI-85 in high school.. it was very playable, and fit in 2k of memory. Then someone copied it, changed my intro screen to remove my name and put his in, and add a copyright.. if only i had known about GPL back then
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#130652 - 12/12/2002 14:24
Re: scorched earth game
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old hand
Registered: 28/04/2002
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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gorillas first... then scorched earth... then worms.
i found a free palm game. there goes my free waiting time now. and also a java version.
Edited by iMaGe (12/12/2002 14:26)
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#130653 - 12/12/2002 15:12
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Oh no. Please don't mention Worms around me. I got a 1.6 GPA my second semester here, partly due to that infernal game. I got my entire hall (half of them were drunken frat guys) into that game. At any given time there were 20 guys bombing their fellow worms. It was beautiful I mean, no, it ruined my life!!
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#130654 - 12/12/2002 21:00
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Damn! It's happening again! I downloaded the game and I've been playing it way to much. I have my last final exam tomorrow and I NEED to study! Damn you!! AHH!
BTW, how to I make a command prompt shortcut to launch the command prompt and launch the program in one step? If I just click on the exe I get an error, and I can only get my command prompt shortcut to open into the game's directory. This is in Win2K.
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#130655 - 12/12/2002 23:35
Re: scorched earth game
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old hand
Registered: 28/04/2002
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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make a batch file to cd to the dir, then run the game.
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#130656 - 13/12/2002 00:04
Re: scorched earth game
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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Or better yet, make a cmd file, not a batch.
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#130657 - 13/12/2002 06:26
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Sorry, I don't know how to do either of those things...
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#130658 - 13/12/2002 06:28
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Loc: Sterling, VA
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Another question: how do I make it change resolution? it's stuck at 320x480, which as you might imagine makes estimating angles a bit difficult.
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#130659 - 13/12/2002 08:48
Re: scorched earth game
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
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Run Notepad, type cd\scorch (or whatever your path is)
Next Line: Scorch
Save as scorch.cmd (wherever you want)
Make a shortcut.
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#130660 - 13/12/2002 08:51
Re: scorched earth game
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pooh-bah
Registered: 20/01/2002
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Loc: New Orleans, LA
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Click on hardware, click on graphics until you get the resolution you want, then hit escape. Hit Save Changes.
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#130661 - 13/12/2002 12:51
Re: scorched earth game
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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Loc: Sterling, VA
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Thanks, that's good to know.
I finally read the file that came with the game. Unfortunately, it appears that the only resolution I can run the thing in is like 360x480. It looks pretty crappy. Any idea how I can get the game to work better with my video card?
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#130662 - 13/12/2002 16:07
Re: scorched earth game
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old hand
Registered: 28/04/2002
Posts: 770
Loc: Los Angeles, CA
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i forget... but doesn't dos need a vesa driver before it can do higher resolutions?
just use the java version. EXACT REPLICA imo. just not full screen or with sound.
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#130663 - 13/12/2002 20:10
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
Posts: 2494
Loc: East Coast, USA
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Man, Worms is the best. I almost bombed one semester my Sophmore year (1999?) because of that game. ALWAYS a random map. Man, I want to play it now.
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#130664 - 13/12/2002 23:32
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/03/2000
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On the one hand, I'm glad I can't play it because my Win2K won't run it. On the other, my last final is over (that sounds redundant, doesn't it?) and I really wish I could waste my time skunking some worms.
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