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Anyone play the Bloodbowl PC game?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:14 am
by Wanderer
I saw it on a old gaming site and was wondering if it would be worth the 13meg download.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:17 am
by TiMuN
It is fun at the first instances, but get's boring easily because AI is quite predictable. Download it for some laughs, thou.
Apart from that, there was a forum thread about it long ago, and they even made an application to change the teams for the game.
Doesn't work for XP, btw.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:31 am
by Redfang
If you don't pay per minute, and have a good connection; download it!
It got me playing quite often for a while, until all of a sudden I lost interest and stopped. A bit too easy to win IMO.
Still, nice if you want to play a bit of BB and have no-one to play it with.
R
darned XP!!
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 10:33 am
by Wanderer
Every game i have now doesnt work anymore and with only a usb i cant downgrade to get some of my oldies but goodies to work again.
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:02 am
by BigD
Its called an operating system that prevents directly addressing the hardware hence the new operating systems are soooooo stable now LOL No sarcism there eh? This is the MS$ line anyway.
Personally I keep an old P2-400 or similar running Windows 95 just for this. You wouldn't want to run most of the old games on new PCs anyway as the speed will just kill you completely. And 95 does directly address the hardware which is why things with SoundBlaster drivers can be heard correctly. But remember you also need OLD Hardware and all the drivers to do this. And these days this can be a right pain!
Oh, DON'T go beyond directx 5 either if you're doing to do this. Major issues that will pretty much destroy everything you're trying to achieve.
BigD
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 11:55 am
by Grumbledook
xp is nice and stable and looks really nice, i have no problems with it, think its great
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:01 pm
by BigD
As both an NT and Unix Engineer I've gotta say XP has improved. But wouldn't call it stable for a working environment which is what its really developed for. As for stable? Well that really depends on your hardware. If you're running state of the art applications and hardware like myself then you need to be very careful. Especially with drivers as a lot still haven't been signed off for XP so cause a lot of problems.
Also if you've installed Windows XP Service Pack then have a read of the EULA. This is basically where it says MS$ have the right to do anything to your PC including monitoring, requesting information about the system, websites etc that you have visited. Effectively you've waved your rights as a end user, hence there is a court case in the EU at present to reverse this with MS$.
No smart business at the moment should install this without a disclaimer from MS$ hence it isn't going anywhere near our systems! As a home user you don't have any rights anyway! MS$ doesn't care about the end user. In the overall scheme of things they count for squat! Afterall, who is the competition eh? Linux? Or the home user? Not yet.
Dammit!
BigD
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:03 pm
by skwpp
Anyone got an URL for the download?
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:15 pm
by Redfang
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:16 pm
by Redfang
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=132
R
Please ignore this duplicate; stupid computer...
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:52 pm
by Grumbledook
yer i've not installed service pack 1 but for other reasons
what classes software as state of the art, i could do with a job so i can upgrade to a new canterwood board as well, this rig is feeling its age