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ivo-ivic said:
Lots of games with "Mixed" reviews in the Vault. I'll try to grab that one copy of Yakuza, but Humanitz or Pie in the Sky are more likely,
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The only reviews I listen to come from here :LOL: but now I understand why your so bent on our games ratings...your one of THOSE people 🤮 :ROFLMAO: for all my reading and research--its never into user opinion lol.
 
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contdejocuri-ded said:
I think it’s pretty good since it includes Yakuza, HumanitZ, Riftbreaker, and Pie in the Sky. (Fallout 3, Dishonored, and Quake are probably already owned by a lot of people)
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I would go first with Yakuza but I can't reach 6k+ for next vault, I think I will save arp for April's vault or at least I could get Quake Live, I played like crazy back in time but I don't have on steam.

btw lol I was looking for Quake games on steam and I stumbled into this Quake-like free game
Space Quest 2099
store.steampowered.com

Space Quest: 2099 on Steam

BLAST YOUR WAY through the UK's forgotten favourite space adventure: Space Quest 2099!Enjoy combat and movement based on the designs of the Quake 3 engine. Go alone or team up and shoot baddies in cooperative episodes with FULL MOTION VIDEO with SPECIAL EFFECTS!
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

lol the acting:
 
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burningpixel82 said:
I would go first with Yakuza but I can't reach 6k+ for next vault, I think I will save arp for April's vault or at least I could get Quake Live, I played like crazy back in time but I don't have on steam.

btw lol I was looking for Quake games on steam and I stumbled into this Quake-like free game
Space Quest 2099
store.steampowered.com

Space Quest: 2099 on Steam

BLAST YOUR WAY through the UK's forgotten favourite space adventure: Space Quest 2099!Enjoy combat and movement based on the designs of the Quake 3 engine. Go alone or team up and shoot baddies in cooperative episodes with FULL MOTION VIDEO with SPECIAL EFFECTS!
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

lol the acting:
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And no gameplay :LOL:
 
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burningpixel82 said:
I would go first with Yakuza but I can't reach 6k+ for next vault, I think I will save arp for April's vault or at least I could get Quake Live, I played like crazy back in time but I don't have on steam.

btw lol I was looking for Quake games on steam and I stumbled into this Quake-like free game
Space Quest 2099
store.steampowered.com

Space Quest: 2099 on Steam

BLAST YOUR WAY through the UK's forgotten favourite space adventure: Space Quest 2099!Enjoy combat and movement based on the designs of the Quake 3 engine. Go alone or team up and shoot baddies in cooperative episodes with FULL MOTION VIDEO with SPECIAL EFFECTS!
store.steampowered.com store.steampowered.com

lol the acting:
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Speaking of Quake-like,,, have you seen this one? :LOL:
This pic is 374KB

The full game is only 64KB 🤣

daivuk.itch.io

QUOD by Daivuk

64 KB retro shooter
daivuk.itch.io daivuk.itch.io


panto-esp said:
Do you know .Kkrieger? The 96 KB game (demo), XD
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96 KB? Now it seems enormous to me. 🤣
 
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panto-esp said:
Speaking of Quake-like,,, have you seen this one? :LOL:
This pic is 374KB

The full game is only 64KB 🤣

daivuk.itch.io

QUOD by Daivuk

64 KB retro shooter
daivuk.itch.io daivuk.itch.io



96 KB? Now it seems enormous to me. 🤣
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When I mentioned this the other day 0x7fff in hexidecimal, it was 32 kilobytes. I thought this was going to be part of his reasoning.

The logic is sound...but insane. Way too much effort.
whatnitrus said:
Public Const WM_USER_POS = (MAX_BUFFER + 2768)

If you know you know :LOL:
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It was the maximum length of a fixed length string in visual basic 6, which was generally faster when reading large data like files...before they went from MB to GB. I've actually rewritten a few VB programs to read larger files in particular because the rest still functioned perfectly but the old limits obviously didnt work like they did 20 years ago :LOL:
 
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whatnitrus said:
When I mentioned this the other day 0x7fff in hexidecimal, it was 32 kilobytes. I thought this was going to be part of his reasoning.

The logic is sound...but insane. Way too much effort.

It was the maximum length of a fixed length string in visual basic 6, which was generally faster when reading large data like files...before they went from MB to GB. I've actually rewritten a few VB programs to read larger files in particular because the rest still functioned perfectly but the old limits obviously didnt work like they did 20 years ago :LOL:
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Well, I didn't understand anything, XD

I know that 7fff = 2^15 = 32768
I understand that Ivo's 35535 is 32768+2767, or what is a “string,” but I don't understand anything else. I don't know what you mean

The truth is that I've watched this video briefly and I don't even know what language it was programmed in, XD
The insanity is obvious 🤣
 
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panto-esp said:
32768
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32767 (one number is for the address of the string)

When notepad opens your text document, the text inside the box is considered a "string" of characters, basically you could store 32, 767 characters or letters in one "string" or text field at a time (c = one character, h = another, etc)...which worked with windows vista and small files back then...but is pretty much useless with GB of data now.

The reality is each character is a number...computers don't understand text at the lowest level--the character map in windows shows you the value for them and thats actually how a computer knows what to put on the screen at extremely basic levels.

Everything we see and use everyday on the internet or in video games is literally binary at the very base...although we've simplified using it and made it microscopic on chips, its still ALL numbers.

The word ALL is stored as 0×65 (A) 0×76 (L) 0×76 (L)

Go hold the ALT key in DOS and type 065 then release, then 076 release then 076 release again and you type the word ALL. Thats how the computer does it at the very core in a sense.

Fucking mind blowing really.

On that note you'll notice notepad can't open larger files, it has a 32KB or 64KB limit, I forget which...thats why. Programming language limitations at the time
 
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Yes, I know ASCII code and some basic assembler for the 8051, which we compiled it at school (asm --> obj --> exe) to test it. That was a long time ago, I don't remember anything now. I don't know anything about C+ and other languages, just a little bit of Pascal.

I didn't know about the Notepad limit in DOS.

By the way...


Q1K3 - Quake 13KB :love::LOL:🤣
 
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panto-esp said:
(asm --> obj --> exe) to test it.
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Still works that way :LOL: 🤦‍♂️ goes to show not many people are insane enough to use it for them to modernize it.
panto-esp said:
Notepad limit in DOS.
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Two separate things. Notepad.exe just has the basic string limit since its intended to be just that, a notepad. Wordpad and other software have none since they were for larger documents.

i've been using the alt keycodes SINCE school in DOS using special characters to lock directories before Windows finally made it normal text in Windows 7 (IIRC), once they did that it lost its appeal...my blackberry actually allowed you to assign them to an on-screen keyboard so I added alot of my old DOS ones to it :LOL: fucking miss that phone.
 
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vic-viper said:
please explain.
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Yeah, those are the main ones on my wishlist. I probably won’t have enough ARP for Yakuza, so I might not even bother trying, but I’d say it could be okay, but not as good as the removed Yakuza games, though it might still be worth trading or reselling.

Of course, there aren’t as many expensive games as there used to be, but it’s still pretty good in my opinion since Riftbreaker and HumanitZ have been on my wishlist for quite a while, and this is a great opportunity to try them.
 
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whatnitrus said:
If he's like me right now, he'll be staring at DAZ frozen and miss the vault anyways :ROFLMAO: I been waiting to download the finals for the community event before it ended...but its been stuck so long I decided to go to jist go to bed lol
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When it’s about to open, I set an alarm so I don’t miss it, and I even named the alarm AWA Vault so I know exactly what it’s for.
 
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