The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn’t survive either :/
How long was it there? Some years, i think
Infocom Presents… The Crescent Hawks, Revenge
This game had some of the most immersive hardware controls and interfaces. It supported a Thrustmaster Mark 2flight stick for your right hand control to aim your weapons:
…a Thrustmaster Mark 2 throttle control for walking speed:
… Thrustmaster pedals for torso twist:
…and even i-glasses VR headset (with head motion tracking that would turn the Mech pilots head inside the cockpit!)
Seriously?? How is THIS the first I’m hearing about all this??
Woah, whhaaa?! That game came out in like 1995. I played it and thought it was great but had no idea it had all the hardware compatibility you’re pointing out!
At this point, maybe just leave it there?
That is some true lostech there, quiaff?
holy hell, i tried to play this game as a wee kiddo, but I could never figure it out.
Are there any good modern mech warrior style games?
You should just retire that ford pinto.
One of my first computer games. Always wished I had a joystick for it though.
Reactor online…
Sensors online…
Weapons online…
…
All systems nominal.
I need this to play when my computer starts up…does Linux have a way to do this??..questions for later.
Autopilot: Engaged.
Autopilot: dIsAbLeD.
Dang, that brings back memories!
This and Descent are the reasons I play with an inverted Y axis to this day.
Oh my. I remember playing Descent on my Compaq Pentium 486dx. Good times.
We played it on a Mac Performa with like 24mb ram and maybe a 75 MHz PPC processor.
That and a starter’s Jedi game were the first FPV 3D games we’d ever played at home. (Someone had installed doom on the auto as compys at highschool).
I had this on the 486dx2 66MHz. It ran smooth.
Stop bragging, not all of us can splash out the cash to upgrade from 386. :(
Hey, those were the first two games I got to emulate - but including Descent 2.
1ea Nova + 8ea synch fire medium lasers + all the heatsinks you can shoehorn in there = Can Opener.
E R P P C
Everybody must at least once try the loadout that racks your heat up to near-detonation but dumps enough PPC into an enemy to nuke them in one shot.
Mass jump jets and machine guns was my go to… fly into close range really fast and gun then brrrrrrr. You could win most battles using the smallest mech this way.
I remember tweaking the config and I think blowing my arm off by firing
Is that an Awesome? I think they have a tabletop loadout with 3 PPCs
There wasn’t an Awesome in the game, it’s set during the Wolf/Falcon refusal war so it’s all Clan mechs. Nothing’s stopping you from from loading like five of them on a Dire Wolf though.
Mad Cat / Timber Wolf
CRITICAL HIT
OVERHEATING
SHUTTING DOWN
DFA
Whoomf - one look at that and I’m transported to my Sony Vaio PC with Juno Mail and Geocities
Because of the way PC games were made back in the day you should be able to load that bad boy into a CD player and listen to the soundtrack. Works for me at least with my OG copy of that game.
I loved playing this soundtrack on big speakers. The drums were great.
CD’s busted beyond repair, i’m afraid
Mine came with a sidewinder joystick. Thank you Tiger Express. Had to spend $200+ for 4mb more of ram(8 total) just to run it.
I bought a “Force Feedback Pro” joystick that came with Interstate '76 and MDK
i76 was great. I remember playing MW2, MW Mercenaries, and i76 all around the same era.
I bought the sidewinder joystick because of it!
I should play games that use a joystick again. Or, you know, games in general.
Oh man, Tiger Express. That was my goto…
