I recently purchased the ID Super pack
from steam and had a few problems getting dosbox to stop crashing upon
startup and was attempting to edit the config files to no
avail. But I now have them working perfectly. Make sure that
if you have DEP (data execution prevention) enabled to add an exception
for every dosbox.exe file for each game. It worked for me and now I can play doom, and commander keen without any problems.
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I just finished a game of CSS and
a news window popped up stating that the entire ID software catalog had
been made available for purchase on steam! Sweet! To bad I already
purchased Doom3 and the resurrection expansion pack. But then I was
thinking maybe I'll get lucky and they will allow people who have
already purchased the game to prove that they have purchased it and
have a way of making it available on my steam account.
Then I sent off a email to my brother letting him in on the news and dug a post on Digg.com
that also made the news available. So with the thought of the id
catalog being made available on steam in my mind I went and took a
shower thinking nothing else of it.
About thirty minutes later I
went back on my computer to watch a movie. Sat down, got comfortable
with a plate of watermelon, put my earphones on and saw that I had not
closed the steam store window showing Doom 3 for sale. Now sometime
from that point on until just before I made this post, it's a little
fuzzy, but I can remember opening up widows calculator and adding up
the total price of all the ID
games to verify if the total price of each game if purchased separately
would be correct. Then I remember something having to do with that line
from Jerry Maguire "You had me at hello."
Hello
indeed. All the ID games for just $62.95, a $150 dollar savings. Maybe
it was the nostalgia of commander keen and doom 1/2 that threw
me, but you are now looking at the new owner of all these fine games,
• Commander Keen, Episodes 1 through 5
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Spear of Destiny
• Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• Ultimate DOOM
• DOOM II
• Final DOOM
• DOOM3
• DOOM3: Resurrection of Evil
• QUAKE
• QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon
• QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity
• QUAKE II
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning
• QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero
• QUAKE III Arena
• QUAKE III: Team Arena
• Heretic
• Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
• HeXen
• HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel
• HeXen II
Well
I guess I can look on the bright side, at least I don't have to put the
dam doom 3 disk in the cd tray just to play the game anymore. I have
always wanted to play Return to castle wolfinsien and now I can! BTW
the older games like wolf3d and doom 1 use the DosBox emulator to play. I played a little bit of wolf3d and spear of destiny just now and had no troubles playing under windows vista.
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Besides
slacking off these last few weeks I have started a new asp.net 2.0 web
project. Basically it will be a content resource site where users
upload there content like textures models code etc but unlike the other
sites out there I will be sharing the ad revenue I receive from the
banner ads. This should entice users to post there xna related content
and have the benefit of earning some coin from it.
I have a
working prototype of the site, but it only supports texture uploads at
the moment. Once I am satisfied with code or that part of the site it
will just be a matter of cut and paste to add additional sections for
models, tutorials, code etc.
But there is one big problem. I will be heading back up to mushroom camp
around mid august 2007, so I may or not be able to publish the first
release on the web for people to play around with and start using. So
it will be a wait and see game.
One of the reasons I started
this project is because I have recently uploaded a ton of images to
another computer art/graphics site that also shared there ad revenue
with it's users, but the problem with the site is that to many people
use it and your content quickly becomes lost in the thousands of
uploaded submissions. But with xna, the user base is a little more
confined and I am hoping because of that, that both the users and my
self can earn a little bit of extra revenue on the side. I am also
thinking about taking a different approach in how the ad revenue will
be paid out to users rather then the traditional methods.
A side
benefit of creating this site is that I will be able to make available
all of the images I have been taking with my camera. Which is about
1000+ 4.0 megapixel images.
Anyway I just thought since I have not posted on this blog in a while I would let the internets know what I have been up to...
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