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Tribes 1 was the first FPS I played after about...Star Wars Dark Forces, I think. It's the first game that I had the opportunity to play on a LAN, and it's the

Tribes 1 was the first FPS I played after about...Star Wars Dark Forces, I think. It's the first game that I had the opportunity to play on a LAN, and it's the first game that I remember using mouselook in. We had a community center near home, with about 10 gaming PCs. Tribes was a huge favorite, especially with all the different mods that were available. We switched almost completely to AVP when that came out, though.

52-6F-62 9y ago
>We had a community center near home, with about 10 gaming PCs. Tribes was a huge favorite, especially with all the different mods that were available. You just reminded me. I had a real slack-off sort of teacher(s) in my 9th and 10th grade communications labs, and Tribes would run on the old Dell boxes they had in there for whatever work. We had a whole system worked out with a watcher and everybody playing over LAN in the lab whenever the teacher stepped out of the room. I'd forgotten all about it.
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ramses0 9y ago
I just downloaded AVP (the original), I think it was available on GoG / Steam? Works pretty well with Parallels on Mac, VM + Windows evaluation license!
- khedoros1 9y ago
  Yep, I see it on GoG and Steam. I had an interesting experience with that. I'd borrowed the game from a friend, and it didn't play nicely with the integrated SiS graphics chip on my computer (performance was fine, but a lot of elements of the game didn't render). I contacted Fox Interactive's support team. They asked for my address, and I got a "replacement" copy of the game a few months later. To be clear, I didn't ask for a replacement, and stated that I was borrowing the game from a friend. Still, a nice surprise. Also, the engine itself was open-sourced years ago, and a Linux port was made. It should be perfectly possible to clean up some bitrot and get it working on modern systems, including natively on the (x86) Mac. Makes me curious if it would run on the PPC Mac that I've got in my closet.

52-6F-62 9y ago

>We had a community center near home, with about 10 gaming PCs. Tribes was a huge favorite, especially with all the different mods that were available. You just reminded me. I had a real slack-off sort of teacher(s) in my 9th and 10th grade communications labs, and Tribes would run on the old Dell boxes they had in there for whatever work. We had a whole system worked out with a watcher and everybody playing over LAN in the lab whenever the teacher stepped out of the room. I'd forgotten all about it.

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ramses0 9y ago

I just downloaded AVP (the original), I think it was available on GoG / Steam? Works pretty well with Parallels on Mac, VM + Windows evaluation license!

khedoros1 9y ago
Yep, I see it on GoG and Steam. I had an interesting experience with that. I'd borrowed the game from a friend, and it didn't play nicely with the integrated SiS graphics chip on my computer (performance was fine, but a lot of elements of the game didn't render). I contacted Fox Interactive's support team. They asked for my address, and I got a "replacement" copy of the game a few months later. To be clear, I didn't ask for a replacement, and stated that I was borrowing the game from a friend. Still, a nice surprise. Also, the engine itself was open-sourced years ago, and a Linux port was made. It should be perfectly possible to clean up some bitrot and get it working on modern systems, including natively on the (x86) Mac. Makes me curious if it would run on the PPC Mac that I've got in my closet.