Recent content by DrMcCoy

EDIT: Sorry if I'm coming across too aggressive here; you kinda hit a nerve. Words can't describe how off the mark you are there. The game logic has been implemented using script languages since the days of freaking Maniac Mansion. You know what SCUMM is? Exactly this. Lua, NWScript, they...

No. This is not about raw speed, but about latency. Like the delay between you playing your guitar and the input arriving in your audio recording, which can be really damn annoyingly high if your audio stack has high latency. Or take an MMO as an example. Your internet connection might be...

Is there an actual source for this, or is this another case of people jumping the gun like the recent hoax of the cancellation of Orange is the New Black?

Who the fuck is Kevin Smith? o_O

Caveat emptor: It's not a proper native port. It's just the Windows binary wrapped in some emulation/virtualisation thing.

This is exactly how JJ Abram's Star Trek movies felt to me.

Damn, I'm going to miss Commodore Hustle. :(

Hm, a lot of visible tearing in the video this time. :/

As an European, let me say this to you: You have no freaking clue what "liberal" is. Neither do you know what half the "'prospective' audience" of this site would look like. Your US-centric viewpoint is nearly too precious.

The society is not some kind of magic entity. It's made up of people. And this is a huge group of people, a subset of the society, saying they're ready for a change.

Stop using that bullshit term. Your sexism is showing.

For the LucasArts adventures, this part is actually the easy one: ScummVM. And ResidualVM for Grim Fandango. GOG already uses ScummVM for some games, although they don't advertise this much. Which always bugged me, but YMMV.

Why does it say 2012 in the LRR animation?

Wait, did you just call a city in the USA "really old"? I think the rest of the world just had a collective laughing fit...

Eh, I prefer this sandman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_%28short_story%29