drdrslashvohaul

No, it's an excellent point. My rule as a forum mod is very simple. You can discuss what you like, as long as you're not telling people to go out and pirate. Open discussion is excellent, and I'm a big advocate of debate. As with all things though, the right to free speech has to be tempered with certain rules on an internet forum to protect everyone. Unfortunately, too many people can't be trusted to discuss things properly without resorting to mud flinging, calls to arms and links to illegal material. "The law is an ass", as a great man once wrote. What is legal is not necessarily moral; and vice-versa.

I'm not going to dispute that because I am no lawyer, but I thought that was copyrighting rather than trade marking. But this could be different on different sides of the pond/channel/North Sea/Kiel canal. Heh. I agree. However as I've said elsewhere, I do like the idea of a new universe to explore. Though it would be sweet if, as hinted at in the podcast, they did managed to sort out the rights to make SQ in the future and the two universes married up in some way.

Noticed in SQ6 today in Sharpei's quarters that there's a hole about 5ft (1.5m?) off the ground. Cue Owens: "it's too high on the wall for what you're thinking". Genius.

I went to a meeting this week about disability politics. They had a woman there typing as people spoke and put the words up on a giant projector for the hard of hearing. It would be awesome if that technology became available for low/no cost in the near future.

+8! :o

I'm slowly working my way through Eastbound and Down, but I suppose my regular TV fix is, now that pcj mentions it, WWE. You are also right that the History Channel does indeed suck. It's a shame you can't get BBC4 and BBC Radio 4. Both have a lot of stuff that's a bit too specialised, but some of their documentaries and comedies are pitched at just the right level. Well, at the right level for a middle-class Englishman, anyway.

1) I realised that in the end. But I perhaps jumped the gun a little. 2) I didn't alreadt know that. I reloaded from the point before I got the PocketPal. Which, in my infinite wisdom, was just before blowing up the slug.

Freaking ages. And then I realised I'd bought the wrong freaking adapter for the PocketPal, and I had to do it again. I used your video to work out the timings on DOSBox. It's a fine art. Too slow, and it takes too long for the computer to respond and you get shot. Too quick and the timer is buggered so you get shot. Goldilocks was just below 3000 for me.

Motion carried.

It'd be pretty expensive to pay for a decade of work. :) But thanks. Obviously I'm not going to pay you for ALL of your time. But that's your own damn fault for taking so long. :P

I'd actually like to see the new game move slightly away from the whole SQ universe, although hopefully it will retain the charm of the old Sierra games. A new universe to explore would be neat. But anyway, I suppose it will be effectively SQ7, unofficially. Even if the ego isn't a janitor, he's sure to be an accidental hero overwhelmed by the adventure that has been thrust upon him. To get back to the point, I think the community has proved that there is demand for these games and, if necessary, they can produce them for free. The question is, does the business case really need to be put to Activision? Personally, based on VSB and Incinerations, if those teams were to produce another adventure game that didn't infringe on the copyrights of Sierra/Activition/A.N. Other, I'd shell out for it.

Indeed. One would have thought that a good adventure game would sell very, very well on the iPad and tablet-type devises with the smaller processing power and lack of keyboard in comparison to laptops/desktops. The "app" may well reinvigorate the genre. Or, and this is also a possibility, it might not.

I don't know how much I've spent on it, actually. The first CD-ROM version I got was a gift from my dad in, I suppose, around about 1998. The second was the SQ Collection on two CDs, again, probably around the turn of the millennium. And recently, having lost my CDs ages ago, I bought the games again via Steam for a tenner (c. $14.00?). Technology and a lack of patience have always stopped me from getting any further than getting into the fortress (right at the end of your first stint in SQXII). It's weird to think that having played the bolts off the other 5 games I never actually got round to completing this one. I'll have to complete TLC and Replicated now...

... I've finally completed Space Quest IV.

I forget that the move to using CDs in computers was a mind fuck back in the day. Having more than 1.44MB in removable data? Wow!

Sounds intriguing. Sound also like the kind of thing I might like to do other than, you know, do actual useful work...

I'm sure, somewhere, there's a time-dimension vortex in which Dr Slash Vohaul was actually MI5's pseudonym for Mohandas Gandhi.

So, essentially, she hates us and is wilfully not hanging around these parts?

Splendiferous. I shall send that off to you post haste.

By the way, Danish Bacon olzen. Just checked back at the forum - I never received another PM. I think you're either lying, incompetent or both. Drslashvohaul. Playing up to the stereotype since 1985. (Oh, and it's touching people remember me. I think. Not creepy in the slightest...)

You suck, as does the e-mail notification of replies to PMs. I'm still here. Lurking like a ninja. 8)