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Post by cowboy40 on May 6, 2020 10:05:20 GMT -7
I have been using this down time to get back into some of my old favorite games...most are old here but still fun....  Jane's\SCS Fleet Command  Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2  Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004  Microsoft Flight Simulator X  Microsoft/Open Rails Train Simulator  Sierra/Papyrus NASCAR Racing 2003 season  Age of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty  Command Modern Air/Naval Operations  And of course our favorite Star Trek game |
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Post by trynda1701 on May 6, 2020 14:55:54 GMT -7
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Post by cowboy40 on May 6, 2020 16:24:59 GMT -7
That's a lot of games!  Are they running on an older system, or have you got older games to run on a Win7 or Win10 setup? Took some doing but I've got them all running on my Windows 10 machines |
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Post by cowboy40 on May 7, 2020 15:16:11 GMT -7
 Another favorite I am playing....Silent Hunter IV: Wolves of the Pacific with u boat missions and mods installed |
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Post by cowboy40 on May 10, 2020 16:09:49 GMT -7
Anyone else here play this one....  World of Warcraft patched up to the latest expansion... |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2020 13:02:22 GMT -7
Nope. But I have been playing quite a bit of Flight Simulator 2004. In 2004 I had a computer that cost me over $1,000 and it would barely run FS on moderate settings. Today I have a $100 refurbed Lenovo and it runs FS9 maxed out (it's not "Life Like" but its maxed out). I wonder what FS2020 will need? My go-to plane. A Taylor E2 Cub in D-Day paint. A great "low n' slow" plane.
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Post by cowboy40 on May 19, 2020 16:25:26 GMT -7
my main hard drive died today, without a warning...lost a lot of my old games...really sucks...but that is life
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2020 8:12:16 GMT -7
Dude!
That is HARSH!!!! If it's mechanical you may be able to save some of the games.
The HD crashed on my last computer and I have not been able to play ST:STCS since.
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Post by cowboy40 on May 20, 2020 9:47:36 GMT -7
Dude! That is HARSH!!!! If it's mechanical you may be able to save some of the games. The HD crashed on my last computer and I have not been able to play ST:STCS since. Nope the drive won't even spin up |
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Post by JAFisher44 on May 20, 2020 16:44:54 GMT -7
It's possible to take the drive apart and remove the platter and recover info from it. If you have thousands of dollars worth of equipment...
Maybe someone offers those kind of recovery services somewhere.
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Post by JAFisher44 on May 20, 2020 16:57:53 GMT -7
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Post by starcruiser on May 21, 2020 7:42:54 GMT -7
HA! He's describing the ol' "Stiction" issue we dealt with back in the 1980's and 90's...
Cowboy - if you don't hear the drive spinning up like normal (should have a modest whine, followed by a few clicks when the heads start moving), try what he's suggesting in that video. Solid - but NOT hard - wack on a solid surface. Make sure you do this with the edge of the drive NOT the flat surface of the drive. The heads might bounce and scratch the platters if you do it wrong.
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Post by cowboy40 on May 21, 2020 15:27:36 GMT -7
Nope the drive is dead, nothing works to get it going again. So I am going to save it until I can afford to have platters recovered. Installed a new drive this afternoon, now comes the fun of rebuilding my gaming empire!!!
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Post by cowboy40 on May 24, 2020 11:05:43 GMT -7
Well i had some old backups of a lot of my old stuff. So not totally starting from scratch, but now i am having to rebuild all my flight sims to the standard i had them but you know what it gives me something to do...lol
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Post by trynda1701 on May 24, 2020 18:01:15 GMT -7
Glad to see your PC is on the way to its former old School gaming glory! 😎😎😎😎 Anyone else here play this one.... World of Warcraft patched up to the latest expansion... I played WoW for about a year around the time the third expansion came out, but was playing with the first two expansions of my Mac. Enjoyed it up till about when my main character got up to 50th level, when I stopped renewing the subscription. The grind was just boring, and the novelty of having player and Guild chat wasn't enough to keep me playing. Plus, it was just DAMN ANNOYING everytime a new patch came out for my Orc Shaman, and you had to go back in and reassign points to your skill trees, because Blizzard had changed them, AGAIN!  |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 3:38:53 GMT -7
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