Tyranicus

Blades of Avernum takes (or eats) the cake.

There are far more scenarios for Blades of Exile.

While in-game, click on the floppy disk button at the bottom of the scene, click Game Settings, and then cycle through the options for Game Area Size until Whole Window is selected.

I'm as always amazed that you can come up with even a rough approximation of the number of hours it takes to complete a game, let alone knowing a value that isn't even rounded off to the nearest multiple of 5.

If the game is played through Steam, it tells you exactly how long you've played it.

In that case, I have it on good authority that one of the episodes' working titles is "Cupcakes". (:trollface:)

Another one is Shed.mov

http://news.national...izard-hair.html

 

"But the origins of hair date back to an unknown reptile ancestor that lived more than 300 million years ago, in the Paleozoic era, the new study says."

 

From the same article:

Günter Wagner, a professor of evolutionary biology at Yale University, said the new study shows that that hair growth wasn't just a matter of having keratin genes.

 

Only in mammals, however, did keratin evolve into strands.

 

The reptiles with these genes do not grow hair. Hair would serve no biological purpose for a cold-blooded animal.

Is it shaving under its chain? I didn't realize Sliths grew hair there ...

I didn't realize reptiles grew hair anywhere.

These games use Wineskin, so they have self-contained Wine installations. Any Wine settings on your computer would not affect it in the slightest.

I really couldn't say why they aren't working. I just downloaded and tested them on a machine running 10.8.4, and they all ran fine.

Windows has a Compatibility Mode for cases like this.

 

Windows hasn't changed processor architecture types. Supporting that is a bit different from simply appearing to be an older version of Windows.

Almost all copies on CD will have both the Windows and Mac versions, except for those copies sold during the months between the release of the Mac version and the release of the Windows version. It is possible to emulate a PPC Mac running OS 9 and play the original Mac version using a program called Sheepshaver.

No, but if anyone here does, can they ask him:

 

"When are you going to raise prices so beta testers get paid more?"

 

Beta testers get a free game so every time he cuts his prices are pay goes down.

You would get the games as a mod anyway, so really, you work for free.

David Eddings also wrote the book in which he explained the formula he wrote with. At least he was up-front about it. And I'm actually still somewhat surprised by how two stories built on similar frameworks come across to me, at least, so differently. Maybe it's in part because the Garion books have stones that function entirely as MacGuffins while the Sparhawk books give the Bhelliom particular powers that make it important. It can't be replaced except by a different object with the same properties.

I agree that, although the two series are very similar, they also feel very different. I enjoyed the Belgariad immensely when I first read it in middle school, and it got me hooked on the fantasy genre, an interest I have kept for more than a decade, but the Elenium, while quite similar, is in my opinion, a better series. In a lot of ways, you could call it a "gritty reboot" of the Belgariad. There is more violence, and the characters are more unphased towards said violence. The characters also aren't quite is overpowered, although still definitely more powerful than the average person. Plus, the series has interesting political machinations with the church leadership and such.

 

Now that I've typed that out, I have a strong urge to dig out The Diamond Throne tonight.

I am running Windows 7 with the display set to 2560x1600 with 32-bit color depth.

 

When I ran Geneforge, I got a dialog telling me that the resolution needed to be at least 800x600, and required 16-bit color depth.

 

It gave me the option to change resolution, not change, always change, or never change. Silly me, I picked "never change resolution" and now I can't get that dialog back. Now when I run Geneforge, it tells me about the resolution requirement, then tellse me how to change resolution manually.

 

I have uninstalled and reinstalled several times, once rebooting after the uninstall and before reinstalling.

 

For some reason, my video driver (ATI/AMD Catalyst) won't remain in a new resolution or color depth. So I really need to get that dialog back in order to play the game. How do I undo the "never change resolution" selection? Is there a registry setting I can delete? Is it a DirectX configuration setting that I can edit?

You can set it to ask at startup again from the Preferences menu. You have to be in-game to access this menu though. Click on the button with a picture of a floppy disk on it, then click Preferences.

Eddings freely admitted that the Belgariad+Malloreon are so formulaic as to be a template for fantasy series, including the choice of McGuffin.

Then he went on to write the Elenium and the Tamuli, which was basically the same story all over again.

If Exiles were included then Manostra would need to start from there.

They still can. The Exile trilogy is freeware now.

So if I already have half the games on Steam, can I gift the ones I already have to a friend or something? That's what I'm left wondering, as I already own the Geneforge Saga and second Avernum trilogy.

The different series have different Steam keys, so yes, you can.

The Raspberry Pi has an ARM CPU. An x86 program like Exile 3 will not run on that architecture.

This issue probably deserves a sticky, I had difficulty finding the post and I knew what I was looking for.

Done.

I'm so sorry, Jerakeen.

Transferring the BoA reviews was an incredibly tedious task that I don't relish attempting again. If someone else wants to transfer the BoE reviews, they are more than welcome to do so.

It's not a separate program. You can launch it from the A2 menu screen by clicking "Character Editor."

ahh, okay....now I understand that you were suggesting running MS Windows in a virtual machine. Ty for clarifying that.

If I get seriously desperate I may try it . I'd like to try to fix my problem without going quite so far....but if I must I will try that to.

You said:

"As for the budgetary constraints, I understand. Been there, done that, got the shirt. "

Lol

 

( I cant afford the T-shirt, but maybe some day )

most of my basic software is installed and working but, some 32bit apps still arent working properly and my distro just recently released a new build. I may just wipe everything and re-install Again before trying to run exile. The new release looks promising and I really want to try it.

Rather than running a VM and paying for a Windows license, why not just use Wine?

But that's just my point. God could literally change pharaoh's mind; he does not, free will, etc.

Actually,

But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart and he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said to Moses.

Yeah, it's mainly the scenario editor I'm after. Am I correct in assuming that scenarios created in a Wineskinned version of the old editor would be compatible with the current BoE build?

 

Here you go.

and more recently by the Malazan books.

I've heard good things about that series but have yet to read it. Did you enjoy it?