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In celebration of Tribes' 20th anniversary, every Starsiege and Earthsiege game has been released for free! Do know there are some oddities, such as Earthsiege 2 lacking its soundtrack and the Starsiege: Tribes download actually being for Starsiege Universe.

This is so incredibly gorgeous I didn't want to tuck it away in the private board: the Gabriel Knight 3 theme by orchestra. T75OxJb4XM0 Definitely awesome! That said, it sounds like they took a few cues from the Broken Sword series, as I had to keep reminding myself that no, this is from a Sierra g...

Collector wrote:Aroenai or NicoDE probably could better answer that than I could, but they have not been very active here lately.

Would you know where they tend to be active these days?

I'm currently testing the latest version of dgVoodoo2, an upgraded version of dgVoodoo which now features robust DirectX1-7 and DDraw emulation, with King's Quest 8 (aka King's Quest: Mask of Eternity), and while DirectDraw mode works fine, and has worked fine with prior WIP versions and the latest ...

How were these BRIEF macros discovered? Were they previously-unreadable files which were exposed by the low-level reads?

Looks like a phoenix company is trying to act as a video game preservationist. It's first target? Mega Man.

Apparently the publishers have taken notice of archive.org's hosting of abandonwarez with online game play and do not like it. [snip] When certain people working for the Internet Archive dedicate an entire blog post just to tell a somewhat-popular YouTuber "You're not in our target audience, s...

Phoenix Online Studios recently published a postmortem on their remake of Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers on Gamasutra. I found it to be quite an enlightening read.

Ken Williams has spoken of it at length on Sierra Gamers, but the database for the old forums was hosed at one point, so posters' names, attachments, etc. were disassociated from the posts and the search function is broken. It's not the same content as the posts Ken made on Sierra Gamers, but here'...

Remember when someone claimed the Sierra takeover by CUC (Cendant) Corporation was a conspiratorial one? As it turns out, there was a conspiracy to buy out Sierra On-Line (more like well-timed fraud than anything else, though), and Al Lowe has proof . Who done it? Read the first part of the article,...

Do you know if anyone's tried backing up one of these copy-protected AGI games using something like the Kryoflux Floppy Disk Controller? Such devices are supposed to be purpose-built such that so long as a compatible floppy drive can read the disk, it can copy said disk to a variety of formats, incl...

Collector wrote: Anyway, I consider the browser play a bit of a moot point as the Javascript port of DOSBox is near useless. jDOSBox (Java) is much better.

Good luck convincing the maintainer of that.

Here's a few: Instant Replay! - Some actions are so stupid, people can't help but watch them again. (SQ1VGA, stick your hand in acid or walk through a laser gate) Unlock Your Mind - As the key to the heart is through the stomach, the key to the mind is through the nose. (QFG1, successfully pick your...

There is some discussion on their boards that mixed in with all of the legal stuff like demos and shareware that someone has been creating fake accounts to upload the stuff that they do not have the rights to distribute. I have a hard time believing that Activision and Codemasters are OK with it as...

There is some discussion on their boards that mixed in with all of the legal stuff like demos and shareware that someone has been creating fake accounts to upload the stuff that they do not have the rights to distribute. I have a hard time believing that Activision and Codemasters are OK with it as...