SUBSIM Radio Room Forums

SUBSIM Radio Room Forums (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/index.php)

- Silent Hunter III (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=182)

- - Why is This? (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=183479)

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1664158)

WAAAAAAAANT!!!! :wah:

Are these interviews that aren't available anywhere else? If so, can you still buy this thing? Can you access the videos without setting up a DOS emulator? I've got DOSBox and had it working on the old rig to run my Discworld game, but I don't know that I want to fool with it again. Although that would give a me a reason to reinstall Discworld. :hmmm:

YT FTW! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYlk0YUaxPU
There is more in the related list.

Quote:

Originally Posted by sublynx (Post 1664457)

Dosbox alone is a bit slow and somewhat awkward to use, all that typing and remembering what command does what.

Awkward? Come on, the command line was half the fun! ;)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water (Post 1664701)

Awkward? Come on, the command line was half the fun! ;)

Oh, and fooling with Norton Commander, which I don't know if that's required for all games but it was for Discworld.

I had to copy the entire CD to my hard drive and then set things up to mount the directory the CD copy was in as a separate drive like it was reading the files from the CD drive... man it was complicated. Plus the game itself had to be patched and tweaked just to run on a post-DOS operating system.

I still remember how proud I was when finally figured it all out and made that config file that I could click on and it loaded everything and then BOOM the game was up and running perfectly according to my specifications. And then I assigned an icon to it from the DW game files - The Luggage! - and put it right on my desktop, it was so awesome.

Of course I never actually played the game for more than 10 minutes, but still... :haha:

Quote:

Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1664707)

Of course I never actually played the game for more than 10 minutes, but still... :haha:

You mean you're actually supposed to play the game? :D

For me it was mainly the sense of accomplishment in getting it configured no matter what. DOS was highly flexible in that regard as you could reallocate memory and load devices high to free up base RAM by writing your own boot files.

It was more nuts and bolts computing... Good times! :yep:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water (Post 1664713)

I guess everything (little) I know about computers comes from trying to make some game work in a system it wasn't designed for. :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 1663015)

He has changed, now his game is to be the only person on this forum that berates SH3, SH4, and SH5. :o
:O:

Yup!
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=182479

Quote:

Originally Posted by irish1958 (Post 1663061)

@ Ducimus
The reason I asked this question was not to stir the pot, or vituperate SH4 and SH5 but to learn why so many people still prefer SH3 to them.
Clearly, both SH4 and SH5 have better graphics and, in some ways, better game play (in the use of radar, for example).
I admire your work and use it when I play SH4 as it has made an unplayable game playable.
If I offended you, I apologize.

Ummm. I'm not offended. If i was earlier when i posted, i don't remember. I'm past the point of giving a crap about any title, and if i do give a crap, it won't be for very long. Yeah i've worked my ass off for SH4, and I obviously have my preference of theater/subs, but im just at a point where i just dont care about all the BS anymore. For me the games over. I only post on subsim now, because I have no other forum community I care to hang my hat in. Ordinarly, i only post on a board that caters to an active interest. When my interest in that game dies off, i usually just quit posting, and move on to something else. These days i spend more time in general games and general topics then any SH subforum.