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I could not get the original version of The Dig to play on my win 98 or win xp. I'm playing the remade version on my XP.

Surpriseingly The Dig really doesn't show it's age all that much

hatshepsut

Wow, I am quite surprised. It was so many years ago that I played The Dig. Another real good game back then that sticks out in my mind is Rama.

Loved Rama too. Taught myself to do all those base 2, 3, etc. math puzzles by hand as I couldn't figure out the scientific calculator on the computer. Don't know if I could do it again!

I'm playing The Book of Unwritten Tales and although I don't normally like games with lots of talking... and this one has a lot... I am enjoying this game... it's cute... the script writing is good.. graphics good... so with computer on my lap... connected to the outlet beside the house on the deck... looking out at the lake... I am having a good time :-)

I loved this game! Glad you're having fun with it...

One of the few games I have kept on the pc for replay!!

I have both the Dig and Rama, I'm pretty sure they're both DOS-based games.



Hat, I realize that you're playing the Dig Remake on XP, so maybe if you'd someday like to have a go with your original version (I believe this is the version I have somewhere in my office) you might want to try playing it in DOSbox?



Wow, Winfrey! You're getting kind of like me - wanting to "game on the go" sort of, even if its just out on your deck. As for me, I like to game on the go at the local coffee shops with my laptops.



That's pretty cool, Diat - Could you please teach me how to count using base 2, 3, etc, so I can play my copy of Rama someday?

I'd sure like to learn this kind of math. Perhaps this may help me understand these base 16 numbers (hexadecimal of assembly language) that one of my computer teachers at the community college was trying to explain to me back in '05.

I am playing... nothing. I am too miserable - stoopid root canal which turned into a failed extraction. My first ever stitches...

Root canals are the pits, skeeter............ poor you

That's terrible, skeeter.
A failed extraction sounds so bad I'm afraid to ask.

Poor Skeeter, root canal is bad enough without a failed extraction. It will get better, just keep putting compresses on, hot if there's infection and cold for pain. Been there and got the t-shirt.
AlienBZ, try this link - it's for kids and explains it all very clearly. I'd have to go back and learn all over again, it was years ago and I've forgotten everything I knew - blame the age. http://www.mathsisfun.com/base-conversion-method.html

I'm sorry you're feeling miserable, Skeeter! I hope you heal up soon!

Eek, Diat! I have Rama but haven't played it yet. Math isn't my strong suit, and although I remember doing different bases in school, it would take me some slogging to figure them out again.

I'm currently replaying the wonderfully frustrating (or is that frustratingly wonderful?) The Space Bar by Steve Merestzky. Adventure Gamers is having a group playthrough, so I thought I'd join in. It's one of the funniest and also one of the hardest games I've ever played. I'm Alias Node, a human company cop on the planet Armpit VII, and my partner and I have to find a thief at the seedy spaceport bar called The Thirsty Tentacle. There are all kinds of non-humans at the bar, and I have the ability to enter their memories and explore their worlds as if I were them. I finished the misadventures of Thud, a dumb but endearing lizard, and his partner Fleebix, the smart one of the pair who is confined to a container of water, and last night I started Seedrot, a tree-like alien on the verge of puberty.

Oh, my, that sounds wonderfully hysterically funny!

It sure does!

Hope you heal soon Skeeter! :(