It really does fulfill your your mindless mouse-saving needs with the added bonus of crazy music and demented graphics. Great party game, too.

Might pick up the newer ones when I'm done (Curse of- and Escape from- Monkey Island), does anyone know if they are any good?

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amongst a load of other old classics they have Chaos. A lot of the rest of the games run too quickly as PC's can't run slowly enough to cope with a 48K game

But with Chaos the increased speed doesn't matter as it's turn based (and as a result you really can make that Ogre dance!)

Si

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I`ve downloaded Electronic Arts` Pinball series from abandonware, but can`t get them to work on the PC. (I`ve got the first two or three on the Amiga, but not all of the tables function.)

A friend of mine had Bloodwych, and it always looked awful. Dungeon Master, from about the same time, still looks great. Really a classic! The same friend also had Stunt Car Racer, which could be multiplayed via a direct-link cable. He had an Amiga and a mutual friend had a STE, and the multiplayer between those machines ran flawlessly. I thoroughly enjoyed it last time I had the Amiga up and running (which is, admittedly, some years ago, but already way after I switched over to IBM compatible).

Another game that friend had that I never found again but would like to try even now it`s totally obsolete, is Operation Dragonforce or Dragonfly (never remembered which it was). It was very much like Jagged Alliance 2, albeit much simpler, but was basically a realtime game. Where JA2 turns to a TBS the moment the shit hits the fan, ODF basically continued in realtime, but gave you the choice between planning ahead (pausing the game and giving each commando five commands he would then try to execute) or running under 'standing orders' (evasive, cautious, aggressive and a waypoint) that could be given to each commando individually.

To any others out there that enjoyed JA2, one of my two favourite games, try to find The Bear`s Pit on Google (I don`t have the link readily available : it`s on my other computer and I only have one monitor), which is one of the last strongholds of JA-fans, where members are not only contributing JA2 Mods, but where for the sake of modders, the JA2 engine is being completely externalized, so that even the most computer illiterate gamer can build his own Mod. This hyped-up modable version is available for download and has added features like weather (and weather-effects), 'toolsets', CTH indicator, tons and tons of new weapons and equipment, extra screen resolutions, extra 'main' characters and much, much more.

But the one game I would really like to replay is Master Of Magic, from the same makers as Master of Orion (some of the 'heroes' have crossed over, like the apparently immortal Mystic X) but in a fantasy setting. It is more durable than the SciFi version because MOO has the single tech-tree where MOM let`s you choose between a number of magic schools. It`s a DOS game, though, and last time I got my mits on it and tried to run it on a Windows machine, it ran painfully slow.

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IRL: Edwin Hofstra

- mostly crewing at the moment