I'm moving house tomorrow and took the day off to package stuff up when I came across my old(ish) games. Monkey Island 1 and 2, Sam And Max and Day of the Tentacle. I'd forgotton how great these games were! Needless to say I'd done not very much today but play Monkey Island. I know, I'm a sad case but it brought back many memories of my days in school when people came over to play my 386

Yup. All the old Lucas Arts adventure games were great and it's really easy to play them now on new hardware using ScummVM. You tried turning on any of the graphics filters? Some people like the old school blocky look still tho

I've got a SE P900 phone and there is a port of ScummVM for it. Really eats the battery however.

Beneath A Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen were both released as freeware by the original developers and are supported by ScummVM as well.

Ah... The term old in your title is such a relative term. My mind went to MAME and to the golden age of Infocom.

Ah thanks for that link. I also had Flight of the Amazon Queen but didn't get very far the first time around.

MAME as in Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator? I can't seem to equate that to Infocom (Zork?) for some reason.

Does anyone remember the Sierra (?) Apple IIe game "The Black Cauldron"? I'd give my upper left wisdom tooth (as opposed to "my eye tooth") to play that game again.

And if anyone wants to play the old Infocom games...

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

There are also Infocom game emulators for basically every platform you can think of. Of course, that requires that you have the data files for all those old games, much like arcade ROMs. I'll leave you to deduce what's next on your own. (I actually own all of them except a few very late ones, Shogun, Arthur, and Journey.)

The boxes and bits were put together in a few CDROM collections. This helps anyone who needs those keys to play the games.

The z-machine engines are available for all platforms, including the empeg! It was my first experiment at cross-compiling, and I was able to get it running. Strange - I cannot find it searching on the board. I know I have it here... somewhere...

Edit: Found it.

This is pretty cool. In 20 years, people will be playing Battlefield and Doom 3 in their browsers. What will we be playing on the consoles????

Sundog was one of my favorites. Pretty cool to be able to play that in a browser.

Jim

I still have the boxes and random bits ("feelies" in Infocom-speak) for the twenty or so I bought when they came out. I don't have them for the handful that I bought as the gold/reprint editions as they came as folders without any feelies (I think there were pictures or something for the feelies that featured in the games). The rest came from the collections (I got the "Lost Treasures" collections, thus my lack of Arthur, Shogun, and Journey; LGoP I bought when it came out), which had poorly photocopied/scanned box contents as printed books and as PDFs, IIRC. (To demonstrate how bad they were, first, they were all black-and-white, and as an example, the Better Beezer loan application from Bureaucracy, which was in triplicate with different text on each duplicate only got the top duplicate copied.)

Bah, try going back to the Scott Adam's adventures. THEN you can join us in the old geezer club.

-- Gary F.

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Oh man Black Cauldron in glaring EGA graphics with all the slow loading times of the original. And even sound. But I'll have to make the grinding 5 1/4" floppy disk noises myself. Thanks for the link!