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OT: Offline computer games
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Sitting on the train yesterday with my laptop, I realised that I really only
had solitaire to play. I've bored of that and thought it'd be nice to have
some new games which are not dependant on a CD.
Just going hunting for Lemmings or something. Ideally something that doesn't
have any sound would be best. I'm thinking maybe Football Manager, but I'm
not really that into football.
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I once borrowed a top-end Dell laptop from work to take with me on the
flight to Canada so I could entertain myself with games on the way.
Unfortunately I hadn't realised how power-hungry the embedded graphics
card was (Radeon 9800) and the battery went flat in about 15 minutes
from full-charge.
Oh, game of choice was "Sid Meier's Pirates!"
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Any suggestions?
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Professor Fizzwizzle - puzzle game gets harder the further you get
BitTorrent has loads of Free Games to download (not cracked ones too)
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Hmm, that's quite a good game that. Ran out my free 60 minute trial last
night :(
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Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe. Search for OpenTTD. You need some of the
files from an original copy of the game, but I'm sure you'll find them
if you look around.
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^^
I know I wanted no sound, but that's plainly ridiculous!
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Just about any game with a mounted .iso image and the relevant crack.
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A book.
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I had a book as well, but was using my PC as a huge MP3 player, and thought
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Buy a smaller MP3 player then :-)
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it'd be good to have something interesting on it. I ended up doing loads of
reading from wikipedia. I've got an offline version from webaroo.
The book was read on the return journey as the laptop hadn't turned itself
off and drained itself.
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I've got some pretty basic ancient shareware type games like 'peg', memory
blocks, jezzball & boxworld.
You can play 'em and just leave 'em - start again later, nothing involved or
requiring tons of system resources.
Could up 'em for all to share if you dared me.
Brian Day
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Most modern games can be used without the CD if you search on the web for
the "nocd" hacks for them. I've done this with all my games to save the
hassle of digging out the CD's whenever I want to play a particular game.
Plus saves the disks getting damaged too.
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