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AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Edge1
Originally posted by: AdamK47
Screenshot of all game shortcuts.
Slightly older photo of where I keep all the CDs and DVDs.
Recent photo of the rig I play them on.

I should hit 400 soon! I'm running out of room for all the game boxes, cases, and manuals.

I love you man.:beer:

Hey, a question: Any special steps to get Grim Fandango up & running?

I had to install it in Windows XP and then copy the files and registry settings over to Vista x64. The installer is 16-bit and won't run in a Windows 64-bit environment. I can export my registry settings if you want them (makes it easier).
 

Muadib

Lifer
May 30, 2000
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You have a lot of good memories there. I was a fool for trashing my treasures.:(
 

Xylitol

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Originally posted by: AdamK47
Originally posted by: Cutthroat
Impressive! Do you even have time to play any of them, or do you spend all your time installing and patching games?

Oh heck yeah! Right now I'm going through Grim Fandango and Sins of a Solar Empire. After Grim Fandango I'm going to try Day of the Tentacle. The pixels are rather large on a 32" TV/Monitor.

Day of the Tentacle rocked. My favorite guy was Hogie (if that's how you spell it)
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: piotrgurin
What directory do you install your games into?

c:\games

It's close to 700GB at the moment. I may need another 1TB Samsung F1 drive and run them in RAID-0.
 

MR STROKE

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Originally posted by: AdamK47
The Witcher, Medieval II, Medieval II Kingdoms, and Flashback have been installed.


Where did you find Flashback??
I had heard there was an HD version of both Out of this World and Flashback around??


 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
15,778
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Originally posted by: MR STROKE
Originally posted by: AdamK47
The Witcher, Medieval II, Medieval II Kingdoms, and Flashback have been installed.


Where did you find Flashback??
I had heard there was an HD version of both Out of this World and Flashback around??

I ordered it off of eBay UK. It took two weeks to get to me. It's the CD version and has all of the cutscenes in full motion CG. This version was a bit odd. This version had the INSTALL.EXE file renamed to INSTALL.GRP. Probably because Win 3.1 at the time used GRP files. I copied the INSTALL.GRP file over to the hard drive and renamed it to INSTALL.EXE. After that the game played fine.
 

Chaotic42

Lifer
Jun 15, 2001
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I know you've answered a lot of these questions, but I have to know. Where did you get Day of the Tentacle?
 

AdamK47

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I know you've answered a lot of these questions, but I have to know. Where did you get Day of the Tentacle?

Amazon
 

tigersty1e

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You should stack all the boxes and line them up like in a bookcase and take a picture.
 

Zenoth

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Jan 29, 2005
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AdamK47, I highly recommend the expansion pack to Star Wars: Empire at War, namely Forces of Corruption, that'd bring your collection to 407 ;)
 

Piuc2020

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You need some Heroes of Might & Magic action in your library.

The only games I have installed that you don't are Audiosurf, the HOMM games and Mythos. I can't believe you have Devil May Cry 3, it's not a very popular game on the PC though it's pretty awesome (the PS2 version at least, I also have the PC one but it's such a bad port).