replaying older games
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03/20/12 11:06 PM
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hamer
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I have been replaying a lot of older games as everyone else seems to have been doing....I am trying to remember a couple but ...first one starts with these type of robot slodiers breaking down the door...I remeber art etc around....and it is almost a timed puzzle to get out of the room......2nd game was a small town that was weird.....a murder etc..magic......not much to go on...but that is all i remember....if anyone can help
thanx
Last edited by hamer; 03/21/12 12:08 AM.
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Re: replaying older games
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03/21/12 04:56 AM
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The first one sounds like Nikopol. Not sure about the second one. Shady Brook?
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Re: replaying older games
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10/18/12 08:45 PM
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Re: replaying older games
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10/19/12 06:24 AM
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Not Harvester? You would remember that I suspect!!
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Re: replaying older games
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10/20/12 06:37 AM
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Re: replaying older games
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10/20/12 06:57 PM
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I've been tempted to do something like that, being one of the typists who puts two spaces after a period and has to fight programs that always want to "correct" me and leave only one. I never can figure that out. It might make some sense in print to save paper, but on the Internet? What am I saving here? Maybe I'll try a hyphen. -Like this. Gil.
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Re: replaying older games
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10/20/12 07:30 PM
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I too was rigorously trained to type two spaces after a period. But if you do that in a document that's meant to be posted on the net (like a GameBoomers' review, for instance) it plays havoc with the margins. You can find out more about ellipses here on Wikipedia. Apparently the traditional way to use them is to put a space before ... and after ... them. But I've read that it's becoming more common not to use the before/after space...because the spaces cause coding problems. I have no idea why. Maybe an expert can explain it. Are we off topic? Maybe I should notify a moderator... Maybe I should notify a moderator.... Which is correct? (This is a test.)
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Re: replaying older games
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10/20/12 08:10 PM
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Interesting. Why would an 'extra' space play havoc with margins? Unfortunately, I can't show you the difference between one space and two at the end of a sentence. -I belong to the crowd that says one space between words, two between sentences = more readable. -And phooey on typographers who think differently. -Do we have an emoticon (or whatever) for phooey? As for that older game, I thought for a brief moment that it might be one from the Cthulhu mythos. -That weird town, murder (ellipses here) but maybe not. Gil.
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Re: replaying older games
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10/21/12 05:38 AM
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Interesting. -I belong to the crowd that says one space between words, two between sentences = more readable. Gil. I've never even heard of this notion. Is it an American thing?
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Re: replaying older games
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10/21/12 06:02 AM
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Traveler -- from what I understand, the way the text wraps around, if a sentence happens to end at the right margin and there are two spaces, the next sentence begins with a space at the left margin, making the margin for that paragraph look uneven. Possible whatever for phooey: Mj2c -- two spaces after the period is the way (cough, cough) older Americans were taught to type.
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Re: replaying older games
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10/21/12 11:32 AM
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When I took typing class, it's how I was taught as well -- two spaces after periods and colons. They told us it made the text easier to read -- easier to spot new sentences. Here's an eBay auction for a typewriter like the one I learned on http://www.ebay.com/itm/140868967905They had a whole classroom full of them -- not anything close to new, but functional.
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Re: replaying older games
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10/21/12 02:25 PM
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Ha. Jenny is a mere egg. Here's one that's maybe a little older than the Underwood I learned to type on, but not much. Our typing teacher, who was about 5'3", could carry one in either hand. No feat, you may think, except that (for you other egglets) it was about like carrying two desktop computers at once. She never had a moment's trouble with us. Gil.
"Best not to think about it. I don't want to fall to bits 'cos of excess existential thought."
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Re: replaying older games
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10/21/12 03:15 PM
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Hi all, As per Hamer it was an Underwood. To make an exclamation mark it took three keystrokes, an apostrophe and then back space and then a period. One was a small "l". It been a few years, since 1948. Times has changed. Yes double space!
Charllotte
Last edited by ssgamer; 10/21/12 03:17 PM.
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