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in reply to: Two new DOS games #10698

This is really great! Glad to have shared a podcast with you, @reidrac. I’ve been looking at your site now and just downloaded Gold Mine Run. I’m going to be trying it. It looks like you’re doing an amazing job.

I wanted to program games for DOS back in the 90s and then in the end I concentrated on other things, but if I can ever contribute in any way, it’ll be great

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in reply to: Magic Pockets (1992, Bitmap Brothers) #10673

I have an old copy of this game and I love it. I definitely is a gem. For some reason, in later levels, I think my copy must be buggy or something because I just can’t progress to the next level at some point… or it may be I’m just really bad 😛 I’d love to see this game here!

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in reply to: Magazine Reviews #10663

There is the plug in called the “antagoniser”, that you can use to make the AI a little harder, but it really doesn’t change it much. I think it just makes it more likely that aliens want to attack you.

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in reply to: OMG! #10662

This is a fantastic game. Indeed, it only gets challenging when you’re new and discovering how it works. Then, you quickly find the technique and it’s more about wanting to play through it and “live” it until you finally succeed. It’s still worth it.

The best part is, of course, the beginning until you get developed and you find who else is in the galaxy, make enemies and alliances. Later on, the war gets very slow. The problem is that, in order to remain competitive, your best choice is to never skip a frame if you can exploit it. So when you have hundreds of worlds, it takes a long time to advance a single day.

I have dreamed of a real-time version of this game, ideally, also multiplayer, many times. One game that’s real-time and has some resemblance in Endless Sky (that I sometimes play in my PC on GNU/Linux), but it’s also single player.

I discovered Ascendancy when the game was already some 15 years old. I wish I had known it when it just came up!

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in reply to: Can you “restock” ships? #10661

Hi! Oh, you’re doing Ascendancy! It’s one of my favourite 😀

Indeed, you can restock. As @reidrac says, you need to have researched so that you can build Orbital Docks. Depending on the case, it’s a good idea to do this, but I only do it sparingly.

The main disadvantages of refitting your ship, from my perspective are that, if your planet is advanced, it’ll be busy refitting while you might be building a new ship and often, you can build a bigger ship by the time you need to refit the old one. And also, you often find yourself too far from any developed planet that can refit your ship. Taking your ship back home to do it takes time, unless you have a Recaller. Also, you can only refit one ship at a time per planet, but if you’re organised, it can be a good idea.

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in reply to: The Settlers #7658

Hey! I would really love to see this one discussed in the podcast! I just posted a suggestion for it and didn’t realise it was already here!

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in reply to: The Settlers / Serf City #7657

Oops! Sorry… I searched the list of episodes, but didn’t read the list of suggestions and I see the game is there already!

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in reply to: Cyberdogs / C-Dogs #7656

This is definitely a great game! It has a great indie look and it’s lots of fun. Split-screen multiplayer is a great thing. I’ve had lots of fun with this one playing with a friend

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in reply to: DGC leaderboard #7585

Hey, guys! I’ve just updated the wiki page that describes the Club. Of course, we think there’s a very important link between your community and ours! In fact, I’m registered here, so I’m part of both! 🙂

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in reply to: New Track: 4:00am #7554

The Permanent Competition (Tracks menu) in Race For Kicks admits replays being posted as GAR. If you post your replay that way, it will be verified as such. To be certified GAR, the replay has to follow your original guidelines!

https://www.raceforkicks.com/index.php?page=list&pcom=1&from=2020&to=2023

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in reply to: New Track: 4:00am #7552

Great, guys! I’ve been watching your replays 🙂 Yes, it’s a high-risk track and it’s long, so doing the whole thing in one go may require a few (long) attempts. This is why, when I posted it here, I wanted to also post a replay and didn’t have much time, so I chose to race “safe”. It’s practically an OWOOT replay, what I uploaded. Older replays I had on this track would not be OK to post, since they had been done with RH.

To be fair, when this track was featured in ZakStunts, a GAR scoreboard was active too, so it was indeed raced with NoRH, but GAR was not just NoRH: it was also stricter than OWOOT, so the rules were still very different from the ones in this leaderboard.

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in reply to: G’day from Australia #7516

Hey, mate! Your avatar reminds me of Fury of the Furries, but I’m pretty sure it’s not from there. Nice to have you racing at the Stunts community! And I do have a few old computers, including a 486 and a Pentium (200MHz MMX). Unfortunately, I no longer have my first PC, a 386. I used to know all the details of each microprocessor, what was improved from the XT to the 286, to the 386, 486 and Pentium… but after that, it wasn’t the same and nowadays, I just buy whatever works… as long as it can run DOSBox 😛

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in reply to: Modern Stunts communities #7515

That’s perfect! No problem. I just drove without reading the details, then realised it was two runs so I uploaded the other replay.

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in reply to: DGC leaderboard #7495

Great work, guys! It’s nice to see more folks enjoying Stunts 🙂

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in reply to: Modern Stunts communities #7494

Hey, I posted a lap time in BRKLANDS and realised it was wrong. I was able to delete the replay, but can’t delete the lap. I’ve posted another in DEFAULT which is good. I’ll keep on posting laps 🙂

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in reply to: ZakStunts #7493

Hey, Tijn! It’ll be great to be in the podcast. When is it going to be?

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in reply to: Beginner programming advice for DOS? #7454

I’ve been using FreeBasic for a long time already. I usually program on the GNU/Linux platform, but then my programs are transparently compiled to Windows and DOS, including graphics. So I can recommend that too.

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in reply to: Classic Racer #7450

Cheers, guys! I’m new here 🙂

So, Stunts is one of the first games I obtained when I had my first 386. I agree that it already played very smoothly on it. A friend of mine had it on his 286 and it was playable, but kind of uncomfortable there.

It’s always been a favourite to me, mostly because you could make your own tracks and crash in fantastic ways and then record it and replay it and show that to your friends. For racing, at a time when having more than one computer in the same room was a luxury, having scoreboards for each track was inviting to hot seating and endless afternoons trying to get to the top.

No sooner had the internet become an omnipresent thing than someone came up with the idea of taking it to the next level and exploiting the replay saving capabilities to actually compete online with people around the world. You won’t find many DOS games, especially from so early, that are still so alive today!

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in reply to: ZakStunts #7449

Hi, Jeffrey! I’m a member of the online Stunts community. We’re excited that you’re going to be discussing Stunts this month and well, I thought I should definitely register here.

We currently have four running tournaments and we’ve had many more in the past. ZakStunts is by far the best known and has been on since 2001. I’m actually running another called Race For Kicks at https://www.raceforkicks.com. I’m not a great racer myself. I’m more into building software tools for Stunts. But we have great racers and car makers too.

We do have a forum as well at https://forum.stunts.hu