The Ur-Quan Masters Discussion Forum

I can't tell you how many times in the last how many years I have reinstalled SC2!

But XP was my downfall, no SC2 in XP (not with sound anyway, and what good is that?).

SC2 is still one of the best games I have ever played, and one of the few I actually finished! several times!

You guys doing the conversion are Heroes as far as I am concerned.

Really , Thank you from the bottom of my heart, .....now if you will hand me the finished game, yes thank you,  and step over ...here .... to the left ... yes that's fine.
I have a little transaction to conclude.... with the Druuge.

I had been thinking how great a port of the 3DO game to modern computers would be for a long time.  And when I read the announcement of a re-release on PNF, I was in near disbelief.  Chris, Meep-Eep, Gwl, and all of the other developers are my new gods.

...can't...wait...until...re-release...can't...sleep...eat...function.

I hear ya.  The game's ending text ALONE would have made me play it through twice, and since it was fun to boot, I played it *lots*.

Trying to recall the EXACT co-ordinates of Alpha Perseid,
Azarule.

  It was my Gravis Ultrasound fandom (anyone remember that piece of premium sound hardware?) that brought me into contact with SC2.  I had collections of Euro "demos", mods etc... that showed off the "GUS".  While combing the Euro demo/mod newsgroups I saw the TFB call for mod musicians to help with the SC2 project.  Of course I had to get my hands on SC2 when it finally came out because of the novel sound system and GUS support, but I didn't expect to be locked away for a couple of weeks getting through it.  I can usually walk away from a game to eat, sleep etc...

 I introduced my brother to the game just this year when I set up an old PC (P133 /w GUS Max) for our mother.  Sure enough he was hooked, but he didn't take the game seriously early and his saves look like he's almost out of time.

 If/when you guys manage to come through (porting old code...  respect!) it will be fantastic.  Not only will my brother have an excellent excuse for a restart, but I'll finally be able to play SC2 on my ISAless PC, and I'll be running Debian GNU/Linux (RMS twisted my arm) to boot!  Still pinching myself...

I have tremendous problems with my comp with older, better games. And I'm no guru with machines, so I am not able to configure stuff to work. I prefer to wait for this Ur-Quan Masters come out and then, oh boym half of the problems are away.  :)

The other problem is Death Rally, but it's off-topic...
(No, VDMSound did not help me)

Now all we need is a Star Control 3 that seems to match that ending!  The real SC3 SUCKED!!!!

i'm glad someone mentioned the euro demoscene a few posts up.

the demo scene spread like wildfire to north america for quite some time (in fact, there were two demo parties held on the south shore of Montreal: one in 1995 and one in 1996, both of which are some of my favorite memories of life in general), and it was right at the dawn of the north american awakening of involvement into this scene (if i remember my history) that sc2 started drafting scene musicians for the cause.

the game was far ahead of its time.  not only did it support the new gravis ultrasound card (a card that sadly met its end too soon), but it could play the same four-channel music on the pc squeaker (a feat not tackled since the days of the amiga... and not really effectively tackled since that i recall).

the demo scene, in its near entirity, paid respects to star control two by effectively making it a mascot game (cult classic? the rocky horror of demo people?) and spreading the word.

there's a reason many of us have played it multiple times; myself six repeat performances from start to finish without using the planet lander cheat.  the content cannot and has not yet been rivaled.  the game is simply incredible.  ahead of its time then, probably still so today.

star control 3 was a decent game.  not necessarily the greatest follow-up to the greatness of 2 ... (more like a fan fic, if you ask me (: )

i know i'm looking forward to reliving the magic once again, as well as many friends of mine locally and world-wide who enjoyed the game immensely and are looking forward to doing so again.

(*cough* the music's gonna be good too *cough* (: )

(laughs)
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Yeah, about the 4-channel music coming out of my PC speaker, that really blew me away. I wasn't even aware that the flimsy thing was capable of such a feat. Not only that, I was treated to cool music.

It's great that there is a "Thank You" topic here, and I would also like to say "Thank You" to all those working on this  :D. I hope that this topic will be flooded with "thank you" posts.

The "demo scene"... I was like 10 or 12 or so, and I was exposed to the explosion of creativity with mods by my brother. I was really inept with computers let alone with anything "online" (internet? what's that!? I log onto BBS's!) at the time, and so had to rely on him. ... wonder whatever happened to it? (hint hint: any good URLs dishing out histories/etc. ?)

But yeah. Your post is really interesting, Azarule. Heh, the sub-culture of the Demo Scene.

One thing though. Is it just me, or is this project not getting enough attention??? I mean I'm just judging from the stats displayed on this Forum (the number of posts/views).

WE MUST SPREAD THE WORD Show the non-SC2 fans what they've been missing, and gather new support for Toys for Bob.

Um, I was referring to norg's post, not Azarule's
:o

Did anyone actually read the SC book?

Like every other right thinking star control fan, I'm spending every waking second waiting..I've even been harassing non-sc playing fans to try and get them into the fold. May Dogar and Kazon smile upon you for doing this. (Sacrifices a few hundred Hu-mans in your honor)

Actually, I was wondering if you could be more definite about when we can expect to see the Alpha? This month, yes, but can you narrow it down more than that? I know its difficult to say, because there's always one more thing you'd like to do, and then another, etc etc etc, but are we talking days or weeks?
Whenever it is, I suspect the download server is going to experience a huge choke in the first few moments after release  ;)

Hey, did the powers that be miss my above query? Or did I just ask a really stupid, pointless question which doesn't deserve an answer?  ;D
Just in case its the former rather than the latter, i'm bumping it up.

Speaking of the Dnyarri ...

Prepare for its heavy Texas voice !:)

It's really funny though.:)

to those who have put in all that time and effort to porting what is arguably the _greatest_ game in existence - thank you!

Played the original pc version at the tender age of 9, since then it has - at least until UQM - never left my pc. Ever.

In fact, it''s still here.

-M

I noticed up above, someone said they were waiting for UQM to come out. It
is, one might say, out. The game is completely playable on Windows,
Mac and Linux machines. Though it's just at the 0.5 release, it
appears to be completely functional.
I've played it though without any serious problems.

You did notice that the thread is four years old, didn't you? ;)

**walks into thread in full hazmat gear**

Stay Back Citizens! The Putrescence alone of this Zombie-Thread is enough to melt the flesh from your bones!

Just let our crack team of experts handle the situation!

**shotgun blast**

Thank you for your time!

Am I the only one who thinks it's a bit eerie to read these old threads? I remeber some of the peopel present in the beginning, it feels kind ofl ike walking through a haunted house. The past, preserved in mint condition.

Just another one of the joys of Necroposting. Why can't you fiends just let the dead rest?!

Heh, you should have been here back in the old days. Kohr-Ah Primats posting would have made a serious impression on you. When she arrived, she replied to every topic in the entire forum, starting at the bottom and working her way to the top. Still, it wasn't that bad as she usually added soemthign worthwile to every topic. There were some grumblings from other forum members though.

*grumble*

Now where did I put my Metamucil?

Er, do I want to know why you suddenly need a laxative (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamucil), or should it be self evident?

I miss Primat.  I think our belief in cooties finally got to her.   :'(

Because I'm old and grouchy >:(, and I agree with you, people need to let sleeping dogs lie.

I'm still confused as to wether there is some joke I should be getting regarding dead thread and laxatives, or if you really just wanted to post and tell us about your stomach problems. If the latter, I apologize for bringing it up again.

Well, seeing as the joke isn't funny any more anyway, I might as well comment that I think he's referencing the stereotype of a grouchy old man suffering from constipation caused by lack of ambulation.

Hehe, sounds like an interesting character. I wonder why none of these "lost" posters ever stop by to see what happened to the place after a while.



Yes, because you (luki) mentioned "grumbling" and because these posts dating back to '02 show how "old" everyone is (at least a whole 7-8 years old at the minimum.)

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner^ ;D :P ;) ::)

Here in America you can see commercials of old men needing to be "regular", so they take Metamucil to do so. And not being regular might be cause one to be "grouchy" (being old doesn't help either). So, it's kind of given joke around these parts (America). I forgot about our international brothers...how they might be out of the loop.

So in conclusion: Old tread gets resurrected, Luki mentions old friends and such, I comment on being old (with stupid American humor), Confusion ensues.

...PROFIT!

Or not, seeing as Novus got it. Perhaps it's just me that doesn't think of old people as constipated bastards ;)

Er. funny joke though....not really

I remember Primat.
I think everyone liked her because she openly stated she's a girl.

girls playing computer games is a rare phenomenon, despite what you may think!

I think you are projecting your feelings on the rest of us again. Please stop, as it makes my skin itch. And not the good kind of itch.

I'll admit, she got my attention because she stated she was a girl, but not as quickly as deep_jiffa did when he was using that animated avatar (you guys who've been here a while know the one I'm talking about).  Now, DJ didn't always keep my attention, but Primat did because she was more cogent.