EMR, 5 months ago

@heliomass are you aware of the thriving Escape Velocity fan community? https://discord.gg/sDJBUcwFVH

heliomass, 5 months ago

@EMR I absolutely wasn’t! I thought I was the only one. Thanks!

orangelantern, 5 months ago

@heliomass Escape Velocity. 🧡 The memories.

I loved OS9. Didn’t know you could still run it … but ofc someone worked something out. I should have expected that.

heliomass, 5 months ago

@orangelantern You’ll meed to get hold of the macOS images, but otherwise SheepShaver should work on most platforms: https://sheepshaver.cebix.net/

orangelantern, 5 months ago

@heliomass Thx. Saved for reference. You'll never know.

While I have fond memories of classic macOS and the application programs I ran on it, current-gen OSes have so many features I would have killed for in the olden days. Yes, also a lot of dead weight, but there's always a price, I guess.
And there are a lot of games that are, well, much better than what we had, even if I wouldn't want to miss all my memories of Marathon 1-Infinity, Glider, EV and Geneforge for the world.

Speaking of, Marathon and Geneforge are still there, though. In improved overhauls no less.

Being able to run it on my Windows machine is an attractive thought, though. And be it just for the novelty of it ...

heliomass, 5 months ago

@orangelantern I’ve not heard of Geneforge, I’ll have to check it out!

I agree, the Marathon Trilogy is best played threse days using Aleph One, which being open source means it can be played on pretty much any platform, even the iPhone!