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"Why are computers so STUPID?"

Me and young nashboy have just spent one and a half ballsing hours attempting to play Operation Flashpoint online against each other.

All we wanted was to have a nice little co-op game with just us, no one else, nothing too complicated. It should be like phoning someone up and talking to them.

Was it hell.

First, we have different editions of the same game. Why are there different editions of the sme exact game you ask me? Who bloody knows is my answer. We just wanted to play the original Op Flash but NOOOO the stupid GOTY edition wouldn't let us. It kept crashing.

So I installed all the add ons and everything, but could we play? Take a wild guess. We needed to patch up to the same version.

But could we do that? Did the patches work?

No

Is there any way to solve this problem?

No

Are we extremely ballsed off?

Yes

why can't things be simple?

This is why I hate online gaming with all my cold, cold heart.

And don't tell me that Live is easier because I know that it isn't.


Why does everything have to be so damn hard nowadays?

Before you could customise AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to allow you different settings, I wrote an EXE using FoxPro (a DOS based database program) to do it for me - I could select from a list of commands, write them to the appropriate file and then reboot to play the game I wanted.

*reminisces*

tigamilla wrote:
> ... Magic carpet ...
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I used to play that in "magic eye" mode - gave me a headache after about 10 minutes!

Timmargh wrote:
> Before you could customise AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to allow you
> different settings, I wrote an EXE using FoxPro (a DOS based database
> program) to do it for me - I could select from a list of commands,
> write them to the appropriate file and then reboot to play the game I
> wanted.
>
> *reminisces*

Oh my gosh!! *disgusted

You mean there was a time when no EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT command existed?

You both sound so proud. That's all I picked up from either of those paragraphs, though.
In english, please?

tigamilla wrote:
> Oh my gosh!! *disgusted
>
> You mean there was a time when no EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT command existed?

Holy jamoly!

Ok a quick topic change::::

HELP!!

Is there any way that a 166mb .exe file could be the full version of Half life??

Im glad i got into computers when they were more accessible.

tigamilla wrote:
> You mean there was a time when no EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT command existed?
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I mean before you could set up the two files with different sections so you were presented with a boot menu before DOS loaded.

I wrote the EXE for a mate who was scared of editing his files manually because he was convinced he'd mess up his PC and I ended up using it myself because I was lazy.

tigamilla wrote:
> Is there any way that a 166mb .exe file could be the full version of Half life??
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No idea, but I doubt it could be.

Azul wrote:
> In english, please?
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Did you ever use a PC before Windows 95 came out?