Topic: The TRUTH about TALDREN and SFC3 (Read 24822 times)

Dogmatix! · « **Reply #120 on:** August 22, 2003, 03:47:30 pm »

Damn..I remember my big arsed floppy drive on my Atari 800....and that infernal tape drive. Let's see...the command to load a proggie from tape was...

"CLOAD" ...and after 10-15 minutes, you'ld be rewarded with something like "program load failed."

...and there was nothing like "dubbing" tapes to swap programs. That seems kinda funny in retrospect. Needless to say, I didn't use my tape drive much.

Everyone remember buying disks and using a hole punch to cut out a notch on the other side of the floppy so you could flip it over and double its capacity? heheh...

Pestalence · « **Reply #121 on:** August 22, 2003, 04:44:25 pm »

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Be sure and compile a 51/2" floppy for me too Frey!

I need it for my C64.

Best,
Jerry

Would you be using a 1541 or a 1571 Disk Drive?

Look, man, I've got 3 1541's and a 1571 daisy chained.

But of course, I still use my TAPE DRIVE for loading programs.

It's STILL...FRIGGIN.....COMPILING....

As toasty mentioned above, It's almost scary that we can remember those things.

Hehe My first was an atari 2600, and then my next was the c64, Eventually I got the C128, then an Amiga, etc.

Still have my Odyssey 2, used only once in It's original box.

I still have my old Adam 8086 with a whopping 32K memory (counting the 24K expansion card), no floppies at all, just a cassette deck and a cartridge trey with a switch button..... now that was a machine !!!!! (NOT)

Green · « **Reply #123 on:** August 22, 2003, 06:19:50 pm »

43,362,810 more of these puppies and I'll be rockin'. There is no screen, but I can kind of get a print out of what is happening.

Green · « **Reply #126 on:** August 22, 2003, 11:03:09 pm »

Ah, crud ... I forgot about 3.0+. Make that 73,362,810 more of these damn cards to go through ... but don't expect the models to be in there. We'd have to cut down the entire Northwest to get enough cards.

As for Bonk's SFB mod w/ models ... no.

Yyrkoon · « **Reply #127 on:** August 23, 2003, 01:20:08 am »

The original post was right on! As I type this, (on my other cumputer) The game crashed to desktop, and now the Dynacrap will not recognize my account so I can relogin, and if I try to open a new one it will not connect to that server either.

If you really think this game is not a nightmare and really belive it is a a good solid game for the money, then your just plain ignorant!!!

Oh yea and before you all think I called you all stupid look up the word ignorant.

Ps if you needed to look up the word ignorant your stupid.

Yyrkoon · « **Reply #130 on:** August 23, 2003, 05:37:11 pm »

"Ignorant is not knowing the difference between "your" and the contraction "you're" for your are. "

Ah when we are miffed and can not think up better ways to attack, then we resort to personal attacks on grammer and spelling.... Your superior intelligence and wit, have once again won the day for you.

Now I have seen the way of my folley and will be nice so Talderns game work better. Why didn't you just say so from the start. Taldren should put this in the manuals.

It should be in the technical help section:

1. If you have any problem with our game just be nice, and it will soon run smoothly without error! Thanks your for your money!

The New Guy · « **Reply #132 on:** August 30, 2003, 10:13:05 am »

honestly, I didn't read through all the posts (though I took a long look to read the blue screen of death

) and on the original topic, my version is un patched,,, no patch at all, and i've had no problems to speak of, except for two crashes, one caused by MY editing of the shiplist, and the other during the klingon mission wit hthe rakellian freighters,,, but I've got around both. I'd have to say SFC3 is a pretty good friggen game, and the only thing I didn't like, was the loss of Missles, and some of the races. and ya know, I still believe, if you tried hard enough you could put missles back in,,,, i've seen alot of stufff in the strings and stufff,,, just a thought.

can't remember much of my first computer,,,, except it had a 6 meg hard drive,,, and I played Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom on it,,, and a little game called Syndicate,,, anyone else heard of that?

T' Kang · « **Reply #134 on:** March 02, 2005, 09:42:29 am »

The game has had bugs. So does every program. I have run the game on D3 (v435 wDX9) with a 500Mhz Celeron and Dial-up and it ran great. Now the connections between players, auto-forfiet while in battle, etc... that was an issue at times.

With Activision and Paramount holding the license rights (read as "purse strings") the future is questionable at best.

Taldren and the Beta-Team have been putting out patches without Activision posting or supporting them. Who is supporting SFC3? The developer and the players.

Now that Taldren is "no-longer" it will be the players that will keep SFC alive, or not.

toasty0 · « **Reply #135 on:** March 03, 2005, 11:45:34 pm »

Quote from: T' Kang on March 02, 2005, 09:42:29 am

The game has had bugs. So does every program. I have run the game on D3 (v435 wDX9) with a 500Mhz Celeron and Dial-up and it ran great. Now the connections between players, auto-forfiet while in battle, etc... that was an issue at times.

With Activision and Paramount holding the license rights (read as "purse strings") the future is questionable at best.

Taldren and the Beta-Team have been putting out patches without Activision posting or supporting them. Who is supporting SFC3? The developer and the players.

Now that Taldren is "no-longer" it will be the players that will keep SFC alive, or not.

It has always been that players...always.

Greenvalv · « **Reply #136 on:** March 04, 2005, 03:06:53 pm »

My reply to this whole thread is this......

I heard that Activision rushed Taldren to try to get the game out on the shelves before Nemisis came out. Taldren told them it wasn't finished but rushed anyway.

Volume two is a tenth as buggy as volume three, and is capable of JPEG textures and not just BMP. It's also capatible with all sorts of video card drivers, volume three is not. I'm one of those "lucky few" that have volume three running without trouble and enjoy the game and fix it whenever it does crash. My dream is that sometime in the near future someone (me?) purchases Taldren and puts them back to work on a low bug, high graphic, 3d game of excellence (Volume four

)

EmeraldEdge · « **Reply #137 on:** March 04, 2005, 04:12:36 pm »

I believe that ATVI did in fact give Taldren at least one extension (I believe it was more though) over what was stated at the inception of the project though. I don't see how you could say that SFCII is one tenth as buggy as III, unless you are comparing SFCII after years of patching to SFCIII upon release. SFCII upon release was a disaster. The dynaverse wasn't even included in the package, it came much, much later (like when the expansion was being promoted at E3, and even then it wasn't ready for prime time). The bugs with other aspects of the game were almost too numerous to mention (OP had so many extra bugs as well, due to the added elements), so really, where's the blame on those? How does it differ? SFCIII upon release was actually light years ahead of where SFCII was upon it's release, imo.

I have to agree with toasy, though. It has, and always will be the fans that keep the game alive. They can make the game but it's up to the consumers to embrace the game (no matter how much the dev's and publisher claim "Our product is fun!" it's always up to the fans) and keep it going. The difference now is we have nobody to give us a newer version and that part will be up to the fans, unless Paramount decides our wallets are worth tapping again, which we'll have to just wait and see if that comes about.

Captain Spadaro · « **Reply #138 on:** March 06, 2005, 08:11:36 pm »

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One more thing, don't go on about the state of SFC3 being activision's fault.

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As one who has been on the inside testing SFC3 for Activision, Taldren had little to do with the state SFC3 was in when it was released. Why? Because... because... ack! Damn NDA!

What in the name of James T. Kirk is the NDA?

Lieutenant_Q · « **Reply #139 on:** March 06, 2005, 08:40:32 pm »

That would be a Non-Disclosure Agreement...which means...he knows...but if he says anything he can be...taken to the proverbial Cleaners.

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