Hi Damien.
I'm afraid I disagree with your motive not to host the games because they
are buggy.
They are abandonware, and you are not the initial programmer therefore are
not responsable for the games whatever remakes you come up with later, and
by the fact that the games are abandonware people will know they will not be
perfect.
That being said though, the games are worth playing, I actualy have self
destruct perminantly on my machine as one of my stand in games, sinse while
it's got it's problems it's also very playable and has good atmosphere
despite yes having bugs.
Therefore I would think it a shame if people were denied playing these.
yes, remakes would be better, and I'll look forward to those, but that has
nothing to do with the original.
heck, Philip bennifall's old games are abandonware and while he's doing a
better job now and has even considdered remakes of tj and showdown he
doesn't have an issue of tom hosting the games whatever plans he has.
I really myself don't see the issue, I've played several very good
abandonware titles from pc prince of persia to fallthru and have no
complaints even when they do come up with odd bug.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Pendleton" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] re self destruct and other x site hosted games
Hi Dark,
I would rather they were not hosted. They are incredibly buggy and they
are being redone anyway. I am in the process of redoing Giftanum as an
open source project, I plan to redo and revamp Danger City (maybe call it
something else, add new sounds and fighting music and the like), etc.
It looks like someone else has taken it upon themselves to make a boxing
game, so not sure whether I should redo a similar Savage Gamut.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] re self destruct and other x site hosted games
Thanks for letting me know.
Perhaps the games can be hosted elsewhere?
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damien Pendleton" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] re self destruct and other x site hosted games
Hi Dark,
I am no longer hosting Danger City, Self Destruct, Savage Gamut or any
of the older games. I was planning to do a revamp of Danger City and the
Savage Gamut. However looks like someone is already working on another
boxing game, so looks like it may be just the Danger City revamp then.
Regards,
Damien.
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 7:30 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] re self destruct and other x site hosted games
Hi.
this is really to damien, but anyone else is free to chime in too.
As I've been cleaning up the database recently and removing old
entries, I've noticed that the older abandonware titles previously
hosted by x site (and presumably on Damien's todo list for eventual
reworking), are no longer available from there.
If Damien's not planning to rejigger those games, fair enough, but if
tom, damien or someone else is hosting them I'd appreciate knowing so
that I can give their pages current download links and make them
available to people.
I know some people have stuck them on dropbox, however I'm always
concerned at those sorts of options sinse it's not often clear how long
such things will be up and available and it's most irritating to have
someone say "it'll be on dropbox" only for the link to go dead a couple
of weeks later.
so some confirmation from Damien regarding self destruct, danger city,
last crusade and the savage gambit (I think that was all of them),
would be welcome indeed.
Actually with all the talk of boxing I wouldn't mind giving savage
gambit another go myself to have an idea what greymatters' improvements
will be like.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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