For the most part. You might find the odd game or two that doesn't play nice with XP.
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For the most part. You might find the odd game or two that doesn't play nice with XP.
Works, but modern games are supporting xp less and less.
Storing games on a external hd would be a good idea instead.
Definitely incomplete list of games that will not work:
Just Cause 2
Saints Row IV
Hamilton's Great Adventure
(nothing else comes to mind, but surely there's a few more).
Does booting of the external drive generally work with steam games. never done it before. Guess it would be great considering the Air has USB 3 and Thunderbolt.
Don't really need modern games, got a backlog of a ton of games that are older. And the Air won't really run modern games that great. With older games its perfect though.
thank you .will buy the vanilla version for now.
will probably buy ROME 2 during the winter sales (and after it gets a patch hopefully.)
Just install Steam on the external hard drive and your good to go, I think I encountered one minor hiccup with the letter drive changing but that can be easily fixed in less than minute.
PS: Thunderbolt/Displayport or whatever it's called now can allow you hack a GFX card onto your MBA to play games.
EDIT: http://www.eoshd.com/content/10908/thunderbolt-external-nvidia-graphics-comes-to-macbook-air-sort-of
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You're welcome.
Cool will look into , thanks!
that setup for he graphics card mod is a bit unwieldy lol. It's pretty cool that it can be done though.
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I love the total lack of effort they put into releasing the Wizardry games on Steam.
For example, most of the screenshots for Wizardry 7 include the GOGCOM character used by the GOG team when testing their Wizardry conversions.
For example, most of the screenshots for Wizardry 7 include the GOGCOM character used by the GOG team when testing their Wizardry conversions.
Im_Special
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Total coincidence, Gogcom is a very common fantasy name.
woo and indeed hoo
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Holy Fucking Crap! Aliens vs. Predator Classic 2000 is scary as hell! *wibble*
I just fired it up and was freaked out just from the beeping motion detector, strobing lights and 'Alien' atmosphere before I even encountered my first Alien :/.
I'm not sure I'm up to this!
The actor who plays the marine on the monitor is hilariously bad though. Much as I dislike story oriented games at least the acting is usually pretty competent nowadays.
Fortunately I died pretty quickly so will forego any more play tonight as it's almost bedtime here and I would rather do without any Alien nightmares tonight thank you very much.
I just fired it up and was freaked out just from the beeping motion detector, strobing lights and 'Alien' atmosphere before I even encountered my first Alien :/.
I'm not sure I'm up to this!
The actor who plays the marine on the monitor is hilariously bad though. Much as I dislike story oriented games at least the acting is usually pretty competent nowadays.
Fortunately I died pretty quickly so will forego any more play tonight as it's almost bedtime here and I would rather do without any Alien nightmares tonight thank you very much.
I love the total lack of effort they put into releasing the Wizardry games on Steam.
For example, most of the screenshots for Wizardry 7 include the GOGCOM character used by the GOG team when testing their Wizardry conversions.
Jawmuncher
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I sure do love badges on steam. Love getting them for the games I like. Lets me show off the games I enjoy while not having to spend all times of crazy time going for all achievements or something. Plus it gives me a little something more than just recommending them.
It's a much better Alien game than A:CM, and a hell of a lot scarier.
Jawmuncher
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Still mad we haven't gotten AVP2 yet.
Not sure why i'm guessing because monolith made it.
Baron von Loathsome
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I have $17 on my Steam account. Incognita is not on Steam yet.
Lord Gaben, please have mercy!
Joe Molotov
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Doom
Monolith was involved with so many good games.
Cyberquake
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Free for all.
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Slightly off-topic (but also slightly on-topic) but I don't really know any good place to ask.
Anyway I have very old router in my house. It works fine but my family is complaining that they want wireless (for their smartphones). I have a very high speed connection:
It should peak at 150mb download and 15 upload I think. But I guess my router is stopping it from getting there. So anyway I wanna get a new one but I remember having a LOT of trouble getting Steam/Games to work on both mine and my sisters computer. If she would play left 4 dead she would always get disconnected and could never play. It took me a week to fix or something so ever since I've been kinda iffy about that stuff but I really need a new one for wireless and getting the max out of the wired connection.
I was looking at this one: http://www.icidu.com/en/networking/wireless/wireless-gigabit-router-300n.html
So I was wondering if it's any good for me, and will be easy to configure for stuff like the Steam thing. Any advice?
Anyway I have very old router in my house. It works fine but my family is complaining that they want wireless (for their smartphones). I have a very high speed connection:
It should peak at 150mb download and 15 upload I think. But I guess my router is stopping it from getting there. So anyway I wanna get a new one but I remember having a LOT of trouble getting Steam/Games to work on both mine and my sisters computer. If she would play left 4 dead she would always get disconnected and could never play. It took me a week to fix or something so ever since I've been kinda iffy about that stuff but I really need a new one for wireless and getting the max out of the wired connection.
I was looking at this one: http://www.icidu.com/en/networking/wireless/wireless-gigabit-router-300n.html
So I was wondering if it's any good for me, and will be easy to configure for stuff like the Steam thing. Any advice?
Jawmuncher
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They sure were. It seems like a lot of their classics though are in legal limbo which is a damn shame.
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Slightly off-topic (but also slightly on-topic) but I don't really know any good place to ask.
Anyway I have very old router in my house. It works fine but my family is complaining that they want wireless (for their smartphones). I have a very high speed connection:
It should peak at 150mb download and 15 upload I think. But I guess my router is stopping it from getting there. So anyway I wanna get a new one but I remember having a LOT of trouble getting Steam/Games to work on both mine and my sisters computer. If she would play left 4 dead she would always get disconnected and could never play. It took me a week to fix or something so ever since I've been kinda iffy about that stuff but I really need a new one for wireless and getting the max out of the wired connection.
I was looking at this one: http://www.icidu.com/en/networking/wireless/wireless-gigabit-router-300n.html
So I was wondering if it's any good for me, and will be easy to configure for stuff like the Steam thing. Any advice?
While I personally can't help I just want to say how jealous I am.
Seriously i'm happy when I get to an area with 3MBs. Which I could experience internet at that speed.
Dungeons of Dredmor and Sword of the Stars: The Pit are great with the mouse limited to inventory management. DoomRL's a good choice too
I think I played Nimbus and VVVVVV' with the keyboard exclusively as well. Maybe rhythm games like Sequence and Retro/Grade, too?dark_inferno
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Played trough the new Amnesia.
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Looking forward to playing it in an hour or two when it gets dark. I see a patch downloaded so hopefully the smurf filter was taken care of.
super-famicom
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FTL. You can pause the game and set up your attacks/move crew around/etc.
dark_inferno
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You can turn off the fog in the save files.
Chance Hale
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That's supposed to be fog? Weird, the first time I played it wasn't there and from then on the chat windows and steam overlay were off-colored so I figured it was a glitch.
Hopefully the game gets similar dlc to Justine which was great, although Chinese Room seem to have a lot on their plate. They talked about an editor at all?
Game for you, guys!
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Oh you mean this stuff. I dont know if that was fixxed sorry.
And i dont believe that they will make any DLC at all after the shitstorm from the Steam Community Hub.
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Nothing Special but someone else might want them
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This didn't work. Oh well, it's not like anyone's gonna miss me, lol
Hey, what kind of person do you think I am?
My country doesn't even have a proper army :/
I apologize if these keys don't work :/. They should though.
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Get dark faster damn it!
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Thanks!
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