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The list now has a separate section for free content replacement projects that use either the original engine of the respective game, or a game engine remake that is capable of handling original game data.
Also, added the following: Half-LifeQuake
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You're welcome
They run quite well in DOSBox to the best of my knowledge, and what's more, MBF has built-in support of the beta as well.
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Yep, they run nicely in DOSBox, though the default control scheme is a bit cumbersome imo, and I don't think they can be changed. I don't think MBF can use the actual beta IWAD, it uses beta resource PWAD's with the Doom 1 IWAD, though please correct me if I'm wrong. (Win)MBF and ZDoom has partial support for the beta, not enough to run the IWAD without modification though. You can use SLADE to convert the alpha/beta graphics to the Doom format that source ports can read and Yadex to convert the alpha levels.
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Kosta made a separate place. Some people decided it back then to be a better place than Abandonia to be.
Now, I would be also happy to see Frodo and Nick being active here again. Problem is, there's not that much activity here on the forum these days in the first place. That is, games identifications and regular troubleshooting aside. |
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17-07-2013, 05:53 AM | #6 | ||
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AB and ABR are not in the same kind of business. That's what really made the final argument I guess.
I did try to go to ABR and blend in just like I did with AB... But I had to face up the fact that freeware simply, 98% of the time, is bad quality and poor games. Yeah, sure... Those games are free. But that's not the kind of games I wanted to play and have people be reminded of when you think of "the good old days". There is some few gems in ABR but overall at least 9 out of 10 games are not even worth looking at. Clones of originals, games which are plain bad, etc. Some people like it, other don't. I never questioned the reason why AB and ABR splitted: it always been very obvious to me. |
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17-07-2013, 05:20 PM | #7 | ||
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They still could be a great site dedicated to collecting links to all the worthwhile freewares on Steam, GoG, and other sites. So far they only excelled in writing fanfiction roleplay stories. (I also took the liberty to correct the grammar in your post, if you don't mind. Yeah, I'm a sworn grammarionalspellcheckialist. Sorry.)
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Unfortunately the "feature a game only when some user writes a review" policy didn't work out quite well for Reloaded, and the community wasn't very active either.
Anyway, considering liberated games (i.e. formerly commercial), there are several neat sources like Remain in Play, Liberated Games and that Spanish blog I mentioned a while ago in another thread. Quote:
In short, a game doesn't have to be commercial to be good, and vice versa, it doesn't have to be free to be bad. It's just that many commercial titles can wrap up a mediocre product in shiny graphics, and run a promo campaign to advertise it so that it surely sells.
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18-07-2013, 09:44 PM | #9 | ||
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Hello AB. And hello Tracker, what a pleasure to see that you are still making snide comments. Good to know some things (or people) never change.
I actually like the idea of collecting links to Steam, and other services with freeware. But at this point, there isn't much "inspiration" to actually do it. Unlike the staff at Abandonia, we do not have server access. So making any big changes to the site always requires help from people who don't really want to bother. On top of that, the forum has been going down lately with server issues. I've done my best to improve the site. If it wasn't for me, the site would still be called Abandonia Reloaded (as if we still needed Abandonia attached to the name), and the forum would have never been fixed up or improved. I also tried to help the site branch out, by adding freeware software reviews. Meanwhile, if it wasn't for Frodo, the site would have been dead before I got there. She's the only staff member who gave a damn, and tried to keep the site running all this time. She single-handedly updated the site, added reviews, and kept it running. She's also tried to hold contests, and other events, to draw traffic to Reloaded. But it falls on deaf ears. Oh, and let's not forget when management changed all the news links on our homepage to advertisement links! That was an epic moment, showing how much they care about Reloaded. I also tried to do something nice for both sites, by making a video advertising Reloaded & Abandonia. I got trashed by negative comments here.. so now I don't even bother. As for the roleplaying, you can knock us all you want Tracker. But at least it adds some life to the forum. I also recall you being apart of it, until you attempted to destroy it. So don't knock something, when you were a willingly participant just a couple of years ago. -Nick
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See? I don't know what was wrong with being called "Abandonia Reloaded", but that must have been the beginning of the parting. It reads as if you don't believe you need the Abandonia name and Abandonia itself either (except for when you want to advertise your retro social networks). About the host, they care about us just the same. Video advertisements... well... I couldn't find the thread (it was probably deleted), but I think that an advertisement represents what is being advertised, and why would we want to be represented by something we don't honestly enjoy. Some of us didn't like it, some of us did. I don't think you couldn't have made compromises to your "artistic vision" to satisfy a larger userbase. Last, but not least, your roleplay adds only to your personal life, and not the site's. While the two have common parts they are not the same. You tend not to recall that. That's all I've got to say on the topic, frankly. Good luck with Reloaded.org.
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