jecowa

Oh, Nethergate is a PowerPC app. It is not able to run in BasiliskII. Sheepshaver should be able to run it somehow, though.

When I order Avernum bundle pack, I got a CD in the mail with all three games on it.

It is the main processing chip.

PowerPC = "new world"

68k = "old world"

On Snow Leopard with Basilisk II, I can get Exiles I & II to run, but Exile III won't run. On XP with Basilisk II, I can get Exiles I, II, and III to run. Nethergate, I couldn't get to run at all. Maybe Sheepshaver would do this better?

To be more forthright,

Is there a beta forum?

'Cause that would be tight!

Oh, right. Yeah, sorry for making you repeat yourself. Maybe Wednesday then.

I just downloaded and installed Exile II this morning. The editor says it is unregistered. It won't let me use registered-copy-only features. I don't quite understand it though; on the registration screen Exile II character editor tells me the "registration code", but it says I need to enter a "key". The "registration code" that it gives does not work if I type it in as the "key". When I play the game on different computers, it gives me different registration codes, even though it is from the same hard drive image running in an emulator. Weird.

http://i.imgur.com/9HQjY.jpg

Longing for beta.

Today or two to three weeks?

Wait! *checks mail again*

Have to constantly check emails. Beta invites could be sent out at any time. Wouldn't want to waste any time that could be spent with Avadon.

I'm pretty sure that the editor is supposed to be included with the purchase of the game. The only thing I know to do is email Jeff, if you haven't already.

The registration key should have been emailed to you when you purchased the games. Are you sure that the Exile II registration key doesn't work on the Exile II Editor?

You understand how to register the editor, right? You open the editor, click on the "Registration" menu, which is next to the "File" menu, then click "Register this copy."

http://i.imgur.com/ZHupI.jpg

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to register them. On Exile III there is a button to register it after you launch the game. If you have a registration number, you should be able to register it.

Trying to find proof.

Little pieces all around.

Something is aloof.

Hiding with your threads,

You mock me with covert jeers,

But I see your dread.

I am on the trail.

I taste the nearing luster.

Soon you will be mine.

You guys are crazy. This is the second page.

I know they exist. Where are and what are they for? One day I will find.

I think Apple is making iOS for Mac. Maybe they will do it for PC too. If it works okay, maybe He can code for only iOS and not have to beta test more than one platform.

This took 5 hours to make. I'm not sure if it works on Windows 7, but I got it working on my XP box.

After you download and extract the files, run the "gtk+-2.10.13-setup.exe". It doesn't seem to matter where you install it.

Next launch "BasiliskIIGUI.exe". You should start out in the volumes tab. You will probably see a directory already listed called "E:\spiderweb emulation\BasiliskII_Spiders\basilisk-II.vol". Click on this volume and then click "Remove". Now click "Add". Select "basilisk-II.vol" and click "OK".

Now click over to the "Graphics/Sound" tab and make sure it is set to at least "Width: 640" and "Height: 480". Exile III will not run with less resolution than this.

Now click over to the "Memory/Misc" tab and make sure it has 32 MB of ram. I installed lots of extensions, and so it needs lots of ram to run.

You can click "Start" now. You will probably get a CD error or something. Click "OK". Mac OS 7.5.3 will hopefully launch successfully now.

After the desktop is loaded, click the colorful looking TV screen near the bottom-left side of the screen. Make sure it is set to "256 colors". Exile III will not run on more than 256 colors. If your graphics card doesn't support 256 colors, the game will not run. Thousands of colors will not work. Millions of colors will not work.

Double click on the "Games" folder on the Desktop. Play whichever game you like. They would all launch for me except for Nethergate. Oh, well. All the Exiles including Blades of Exile will launch for me, I haven't tried playing them, though. Let me know how it works out, please.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUBI0410

Edit: Oh, by the way, this just has the demo versions of all the old software. I'm guessing there is a code or something you can put in, though.

Edit2: Also this isn't stealing Mac OS, because Apple is giving this away for free. In fact I downloaded this copy of Mac OS 7.5.3 from Apple's website. (From http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Sup..._Version_7.5.3/ You don't need to download this; I'm just linking to show that it's there.)

If every enemy seems to have too much health, is it possible that the user's characters are lower-level for that area of the game than that which was intended?

Oh, that's good.

It's a lot more fun to be able to have the characters work together strategically. The game would suck rather hard, in my opinion, if two-thirds of my party acted on the whims of the AI, and the game would likely be either too easy or too hard. It would be hard to design the game like that to be not too hard or too easy unless you give the computer-controlled characters both lots of HP and little attack power, so that the user doesn't have to worry about them dying so much, but they also can't win every battle while the user just presses space bar over and over.

tl;dr - That's great.

Jeff said he was going to use a whole new game engine for Avadon. Because ARM and Intel chips are different, is there no way that a brand new engine could have been re-written in a language that can be compiled for Win 7, Mac OS X, and iOS, even though all 3 platforms can use "C" programming language?

Source: "I Write a Bad Game - Next year, I'm going to make a whole new series, with a new game engine and IP." - http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/search?q=netbook

Well, he could still do a remake of Blades of Exile and then maybe a remake of Nethergate.

-jecowa, who was trying to jest at the contrast between people struggling to get old Exile games running and people dreaming of the eventual remakes of the Avernum series.

Edit: Or maybe I was actually making fun of people for trying to get Exile to run after Jeff went through the trouble to remake those games, but that would be rude of me.

The scarabs serve as your battling pets; they are sort of like Pokémon.

Jeff really needs to remake the Exile games so that they will run on modern systems. Maybe after Avadon...