Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20170901233307/@comment-1496755-20171109215620

The nasty thing about this forgetfulness is that most people don't take it well when I forget who they are... and this makes me unnecessarily anxious about meeting them.

I reemmber one of my college roomates playing some racing game, which had lots of famous songs in its soundtrack. Gave me a few ideas for stuff to listen to.

Heh, most of my "brightness anxiety" comes from comparing different monitors. I used to think my laptop's screen was pretty good, but recently I realized how dark and faded it really was, once I could compare it directly to my new one. I must have been really used to it, to think it was even remotely good. The monitor I have at work seems to have slightly better colors (this was mostly visible in TES: Arena :P ), but it's pretty dark, even on 100 brightness. This evokes unpleasant memories of an old monotir we had at home in the early 2000's, which was not only dark, but produced some pretty bad color tints when I tried to make it brighter. But, as a whole, my default brightness setting (50) is a bit too much for DOS games, which is why I usually use something in the 40-43 range (tested with Doom, Arena and a few others).

Agree about Wine of Aluqah - probably my most favorite song of theirs.

Whoever came up with save states deserves a medal. I still remember the frustration of playing on an actual console and having to start stuff from scratch because of one bad move. Ugh.

Yeah, it's mostly about which version to choose - floppy or CD. I can tell you a bit about their differences, if you wish so. The only installation problem I am aware of is related to installing the mission packs with the floppy version, though I have found a reliable workaround for it. Performing a few tests on my old laptop proved my suspicions that it was DOSBox's fault - it's a problem related to overwriting certain files, which messes up the game and produces some pretty crazy graphical glitches.

Who knows, maybe this will be your breakthrough. I was very bad at this too, at first, but I became quite adept over time. Practice makes perfect ;)