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  • Members: 1413
  • Category: Classic Games
  • Founded: Dec 18, 2001
  • Language: English
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1 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 18, 2001
9:42 pm
The game was a simple port from an old IBM PC game. I'll probably upload a copy of the original to our files section if there's some demand for it. I knew I...
2 xamfear1 Send Email Dec 18, 2001
10:05 pm
Yup, loved the game; Also loved (from the same period of time) The Novel/Game 'portal&#39; What a unique experience are both games. I have long wanted to bring...
3 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 18, 2001
10:09 pm
... Neat! Do you have a link for it? ... Heh. Just make sure to get a webserver that can handle it... :) ... My pleasure! -Dan -unless you love someone- ...
4 antichason Send Email Dec 18, 2001
10:27 pm
please upload the original to the files section, i'd love to play it when I'm not hooked up to the internet. :)...
5 xamfear1 Send Email Dec 18, 2001
10:33 pm
The URL for the c64 version of the game is here (works w/ emulators) http://www.gb64.com/oldsite/rare-a.htm The 'game' was almost the textual equiv of MYST...
6 xeriar Send Email Dec 18, 2001
10:44 pm
This was loads of fun. I think it would be neat to flesh it out more and emphasize the 'paths&#39; that could be taken. Oddly enough my sister and I have had some...
7 dr3ndite Dec 18, 2001
11:04 pm
... it when I'm not ... Yes, please do :)...
8 aaronw Send Email Dec 18, 2001
11:46 pm
this was extremely interesting. i hadn't seen this before, and it was quite interesting to see it. unfortunately, i only got halfway through, and i have some...
9 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 18, 2001
11:56 pm
... Yeah, there's a lot of things I've idly dreamed about adding in. Rather than giving you the smackdown when you try drugs, it'd be interesting to see the...
10 QuixoticDreamer Send Email Dec 18, 2001
11:56 pm
sorry I contributed to your server problems *hangs head* I was on my second try when the server went down. fun!...
11 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 18, 2001
11:57 pm
... I'm at work now, but I'll upload it when I get home. Additionally, a couple of people have offered to host mirrors for the game. You'd need the ability...
12 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
12:01 am
... I haven't the slightest clue why they're branching. :) That's the way it was in the game, and I copied it directly. I think the branches are there just...
13 Dan Fabulich
dfabulich Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
12:02 am
... Hey, don't worry about it! I'm just excited so many people got to play in the first place! -Dan -unless you love someone- -nothing else makes any sense- ...
14 QuixoticDreamer Send Email Dec 19, 2001
12:16 am
... it is awful fun, even though I did die an old maid, confidant, but unloved, dizzy on a sidewalk... hee...
15 xeriar Send Email Dec 19, 2001
12:24 am
... more ... Different drugs, too, and whether or not you get caught in the first place. ... vignettes ... Ayaiyai. Things like that have so many weird...
16 puggyguy Send Email Dec 19, 2001
12:58 am
Well, I for one am certainly *NOT* sorry -- this game is FUN FUN FUN!!! I look forward to it being back up!...
17 saytanschild Send Email Dec 19, 2001
1:14 am
I thoroughly enjoyed the game! To bad it was too busy. I wasted most of today playing it. Twice. I too was captured and tortured to death by the bad man in...
18 ward_christopher
ward_christo... Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
12:24 pm
... to ... to ... Yeah, he killed me to.. I got to college before the viscious 404 beast killed me! It doesnt fit me personaly as my father died when I was 8....
19 vbehyr Send Email Dec 19, 2001
3:33 pm
Would you be intrested in letting people like me load the CGI and images on my computer... I am hooked but the server went down. AHHHHHH Thanks -vbehyr...
20 Christopher Ward
ward_christo... Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
4:19 pm
I found the C64 roms here... anyone see a dos version anywhere? http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap13/alter_ego.html ... "To thine own self be true, And it must...
21 Christopher Ward
ward_christo... Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
4:40 pm
I found them here http://web.interware.hu/c64/pc/pc1.htm I dont know what language this is.. and they dont seem to run on win2000. Sigh.. guess I have to...
22 vbehyr Send Email Dec 19, 2001
4:53 pm
Chris, They run on my win2k box at work, when you download the file and unzip it there is a ALTEREGO.BAT ... that is the file you want to run. You may want to...
23 ward_christopher
ward_christo... Send Email
Dec 19, 2001
5:00 pm
I get some error that says "Cannot run as a child of BASIC" Uh, whatever that means, have to try it on XP at home ... in...
24 puggyguy Send Email Dec 19, 2001
5:07 pm
How does one get a copy of the DOS version? ... in...
25 dfabulich Send Email Dec 19, 2001
6:29 pm
I've uploaded both versions of Alter Ego, male and female, to our files section. Grab them here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alt-ego/files/ Will they work...
26 vbehyr Send Email Dec 19, 2001
6:51 pm
Is there any chance that you could zip together the files for the cgi based version and post them here. It seems to play better, and I could help a little with...
27 c_derrington Send Email Dec 19, 2001
7:33 pm
Any idea when the web version will be back up?...
28 molochdemon Dec 19, 2001
7:36 pm
Is there a program you can you to read the vignettes outside the game? Karra...
29 mrvarthlokkur Send Email Dec 19, 2001
8:34 pm
Thanks. I cant get it to run on NT4. I get a message that says "Cant execute as Child of BASIC" I will have to try it at home on 2000. Thanks again. it is a...
30 dr3ndite Dec 19, 2001
9:24 pm
... How do you navigate to the icons on the side, such as stats, risks, jobs, etc etc?...
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