Empire Earth Is Free On Gog For The Next 48 Hours!

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:52 am

Not sure if it's free to download or just free to play, but if you're into RTS's might be worth a look.

Certainly worth chucking on the laptop for those quiet periods at work...

<a href="http://steamunpowered.eu/empire-earth-i ... t-48-hours" target="_blank">http://steamunpowered.eu/empire-earth-i ... 8-hours</a>

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:57 am

Once I'd created my GOG account, I see that they're also offering "Beneath a Steel Sky" and " Ultima IV" as well..

Post by **Trig** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:12 am

Oof BASS, I remember that from my old Amiga days...

Post by **Claw** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:29 pm

Empire was 500MB+ but the others are 25MB - 70M... Demo's?

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:42 pm

Looking at the gfx on BASS (1994) even compared to Empire (2001), you can see why.
Also Empire has the expansion pack as well.

HL2 a few years back was a 3 GB download. I reckon BF3 was around 10GB?

The others are full games. Surely you remember a game coming on a couple of floppies at one time?

Post by **Trig** » Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:57 pm

BASS was on something like 7 stiffy's iirc..

Post by **Dangerous Bob** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:29 am

And Elite on the Beeb came on about 10 minutes of tape....

/nostalgic sigh...

Post by **Trig** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:55 am

God, tapes, I remember them, I used to scratch little marks in the windows so I knew where level starts were so if you died you didnt have to spin the tape back all the way to load in the last bit you did

Post by **Claw** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:14 pm

I've still got my ZX81, Speccy, and Beeb. Don't have my Atari 800XL, or 520ST. Sold the XL to buy an ST. Sold my Atari 520 ST to a musician for some serious big bucks back in the day as he wanted it for its Track Studio and MIDI capabilities.

Never wanted an Amiga... it was a known fact that only girls had Amiga's... real men wanting real computers went the Atari route...

Post by **Trig** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 9:47 am

I've still got 2 modded A1200's sat somewhere..

Post by **Claw** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 10:18 am

Trig wrote: I've still got 2 modded A1200's sat somewhere..

My brother had one... I took the Atari route and he took the Commodore route. He would go to a Commodore users bash, and I to a an Atari users bash, each once a month. (that's what we had to do before Usenet and eventually forums) At the Commodore bash would be mostly games and software "sharing". At the Atari bash there would be the same "sharing", but also loads of different types of hardware that had been adapted to the XL or 520ST.

The Amiga did have some advantages over the 520ST when it came to graphics capability. But my first love was programming, which was something of a necessity for some of the 'puters in those days, as you'll remember. The ST had a wider range of programming languages, each with their strengths and weaknesses depending on what you were putting together. I loved robotics, and that's how I got into writing/modifying software to assist the disabled.

The Amiga had a vaster range of colours than the Atari range, which meant more eye-candy. Even when Atari got around to introducing Blitter capability, I don't it wasn't a big enough step, and certainly a step too late. Commodore had grabbed the market by then.