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The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything. Also, the original d

The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything. Also, the original didn't <s>try to data collect</s> ask to enter a name. For some odd reason, it took a while to get past this annoying dialog box on this web game. On the original, the player would keep running whereas this new game is laborious in that you need to hold down keys to keep moving. The original keyboard layout is: UIO = dig up dig JKL = left down right

flymasterv 3y ago
"Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything." Someone never played an Electronic Arts game on C64.
- ddingus 3y ago
  Right! The Apple ][ game loads are very fast. Those are the ones I remember.
thwarted 3y ago
> The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64. That's why there were "fast load" extensions. Most games would load once at the beginning, but sometimes you'd "need to insert disk 2" or "flip the disk over" to finish loading. What was truly impressive is that games like Times of Lore could entirely fit in 64k and only hit the disk when initially loading. > On the original, the player would keep running whereas this new game is laborious in that you need to hold down keys to keep moving. The original worked with a joystick, where you'd hold it in the direction to keep running. I'm not sure I ever played the original with the keyboard. You need to be able to stop in loadrunner in order to direct and avoid the movements of the enemies and dig holes in the right spots.
- nsxwolf 3y ago
  > The original worked with a joystick, where you'd hold it in the direction to keep running. I'm not sure I ever played the original with the keyboard. You need to be able to stop in loadrunner in order to direct and avoid the movements of the enemies and dig holes in the right spots. I believe you would run endlessly on the Apple II version, because it had a non-centering joystick and it was more nimble of a game that way. You could stop the character with the space bar. The MS-DOS version had a nice control scheme with the numeric keypad. You character would run endlessly left or right, but the "5" key on the keypad (right in the center of the arrows) would make him stop.
- thaumasiotes 3y ago
  > Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64. Taking a long time to load doesn't mean having a minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screen. Civilization needed a lot of time, on a contemporary computer, to create the map. While doing so, it plays a slideshow with captions: In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void. But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed. This goes on for quite a while, accompanied by appropriately epic music. How do I even know that this is actually a loading screen? Simple - the animation is not skippable on a low-powered computer. You can try, but the actual skip will only occur later, when the computer is ready for it. On a Windows-95-era computer, you can skip the whole thing; the game will be ready before the slideshow starts. But just because the game required a loading screen didn't mean the designers thought it would make any sense to punish the player by making them spend minutes staring at a message saying "I bet you feel pretty stupid for buying this game now, huh?". The Civ I intro is famous and well loved. You can watch a youtube video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtK388b9drE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtK388b9drE . You can read the entire text on TvTropes, where a fan has posted it as a memorable quote: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Civilization https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Civilization . It is the first thing listed on that page.
justsomehnguy 3y ago
There is a repeat action toggle.

flymasterv 3y ago

"Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything." Someone never played an Electronic Arts game on C64.

ddingus 3y ago
Right! The Apple ][ game loads are very fast. Those are the ones I remember.

thwarted 3y ago

> The original loaded pretty much instantly. Software of that era didn't have minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screens for everything Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64. That's why there were "fast load" extensions. Most games would load once at the beginning, but sometimes you'd "need to insert disk 2" or "flip the disk over" to finish loading. What was truly impressive is that games like Times of Lore could entirely fit in 64k and only hit the disk when initially loading. > On the original, the player would keep running whereas this new game is laborious in that you need to hold down keys to keep moving. The original worked with a joystick, where you'd hold it in the direction to keep running. I'm not sure I ever played the original with the keyboard. You need to be able to stop in loadrunner in order to direct and avoid the movements of the enemies and dig holes in the right spots.

nsxwolf 3y ago
> The original worked with a joystick, where you'd hold it in the direction to keep running. I'm not sure I ever played the original with the keyboard. You need to be able to stop in loadrunner in order to direct and avoid the movements of the enemies and dig holes in the right spots. I believe you would run endlessly on the Apple II version, because it had a non-centering joystick and it was more nimble of a game that way. You could stop the character with the space bar. The MS-DOS version had a nice control scheme with the numeric keypad. You character would run endlessly left or right, but the "5" key on the keypad (right in the center of the arrows) would make him stop.
thaumasiotes 3y ago
> Huh? Just about everything that didn't come on a cartridge took forever to load, especially on a C64. Taking a long time to load doesn't mean having a minutes long "Loading ... Please Wait" screen. Civilization needed a lot of time, on a contemporary computer, to create the map. While doing so, it plays a slideshow with captions: In the beginning, the Earth was without form, and void. But the Sun shone upon the sleeping Earth and deep inside the brittle crust massive forces waited to be unleashed. This goes on for quite a while, accompanied by appropriately epic music. How do I even know that this is actually a loading screen? Simple - the animation is not skippable on a low-powered computer. You can try, but the actual skip will only occur later, when the computer is ready for it. On a Windows-95-era computer, you can skip the whole thing; the game will be ready before the slideshow starts. But just because the game required a loading screen didn't mean the designers thought it would make any sense to punish the player by making them spend minutes staring at a message saying "I bet you feel pretty stupid for buying this game now, huh?". The Civ I intro is famous and well loved. You can watch a youtube video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtK388b9drE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtK388b9drE . You can read the entire text on TvTropes, where a fan has posted it as a memorable quote: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Civilization https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Quotes/Civilization . It is the first thing listed on that page.

justsomehnguy 3y ago

There is a repeat action toggle.