[niceguyrichy]

This might take some explaining.

My first PC'ing experience was with my brother's 33mhz 386.
The first game I fell in love with (and still am to this day) was Xwing!
Not long after, he bought Magic Carpet. I was hooked!
I love it. I have always loved it. I will always love it.
One day browsing through ebay, I stumble across original Magic Carpet in mint condition, so I buy it.
I'm all excited until I install it and try to run it, when it becomes apparant that my pc is way too powerfull for it. Game looks like a bad acid trip.
Anywho, I played around with CPU Killer and the like, but it was always a bit of an effort.
Then, last week, I'm looking round a charity shop for a computer desk when this guy drops off a computer. Assistant looks at it, plugs it in, then whacks a £20 sticker on it.
17 inch crt in perfect condition and me short a monitor, I take it.
So, that overly long story was to tell you how I now have Magic Carpet running perfectly on my 'brand new' celeron 667 etower.
And I'm very happy about this. Which is why I felt the need to write about it!

[dj_stick]

ahh gotta love oldschool machines

but to play old games, googl abandonloader - that should help

[niceguyrichy]

Originally Posted by dj_stick

ahh gotta love oldschool machines

but to play old games, googl abandonloader - that should help

It did.

Thanks for the tip.

[the_penguin]

[color=black]does any one remember the Secret of Monkey Island? I would love to get a hold of that game again. I bought it a few years ago and my cd got cracked by accident. I love paying the old sierra games. King's quest. ther are others i just can't remember.. another good site is [/color][color=black]http://www.the-underdogs.org/[/color]

[niceguyrichy]

Ha ha.

After I read your post I turned to my fiancee and said- "do you remember the secret of monkey island??"

To which she replied- "no............................................... .................................................. ...................I never got to the end."

Well I thought it was funny.

Oh yeah. There's a couple copies on ebay UK.

[SexPistoL]

Try Mame32, great fun it's all the old arcade games and a lot of it is freeware........Which is nice

[YAYitsAndrew]

I just ordered a copy of day of the tentacle and sam and max from ebay uk

[the_penguin]

i guess i didn't phrase that correctly... i really don't think there was a secret.. or maybe there was... I looked on ebay but i don't know the exchange rate for dollars to pounds. I guess i can just cross my fingers and wait for LucasArts to re-release it in like a 20th anniversary thing for Monkey Island

[niceguyrichy]

COOL!!!

Charity shopping again and picked up a pristine copy of
The Secret Of Monkey Island
on cd-rom for £1.00 (less than $2 US)



Chuffed.

Maybe the gf will finally descover the Secret!

[Dark Lord]

ive been waiting to find a dell 2001fp dropped off at the local salvation army...

[pr0digal jenius]

the goodwill here doesn't ever have any LCDs


They do have suits for $45 and leather jackets for $30