A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • It’s an emulator for playing the entire back catalogue of Lucasarts games. It’s very well documented and ready to use. As I said, if you had some kind of general midi set up or Roland MT32 back in the day, you’d be laughing. The music is awesome.

    The program is called Dreamm.

    DREAMM is a backronym for:

    DOS
    Retro-
    Emulation
    Arena for
    Maniac
    Mansion (and other LucasArts Games). 
    

  • I played the first, maybe not all the way through, on my Atari ST. Later on, I got quite annoyed that the Amiga got the sequel but Lucasfilm Games days it wasn’t coming to the Atari.

    I remember getting the PC CD-ROM edition of the original game and the music was lovely.

    The next time I played was game three, Curse of Monkey Island. I loved the art style and completed that one.

    I plan on playing the latest installment at some point. I downloaded it onto my Xbox.

    There’s also a great program for playing old Lucasfilm faces on PC. You can load soundbanks into it because it can emulated different midi interfaces that I dreamed of owning back in the day. The tunes sound amazing.









  • I’m currently playing through Rage and really enjoying it.

    The races are fine and not that hard to win and I haven’t touched a card game yet. I get enough money from selling all the junk I find as I play.

    I’m regards to it’s sequel, I’m very methodical (blame my autism 😁) and I played the game by competing all missions and side quests in one area before starting the next.

    This side effect of this was that I upgraded the character so much, when I competed the final mission, it was so easy, I didn’t realise it was the final mission and it took me by surprise!



  • Back in the day, I bought the official Xbox360 steering wheel. It made me laugh because it was called wireless. It was only wireless between itself and the Xbox. It still needed a power brick to drive the motor and another wire to connect it to the pedals.

    When I sold it, I almost made my money back because it was in high demand. MS had replaced it with that awful U shaped steering wheel that you held in the air like a Wii controller. It used sensors to tell when it was tilted. I never used one but the reviews weren’t favourable as I remember.