A word on Terminus

A long time ago i saw some people talking about EV-3D, and they were saying how much it would suck. people were also asking if there were games like EV out there that are 3-d, someone mentioned the game Terminus. I decided to look into this, it sounded like a cool game, so i downloaded the demo. and i have this to say: it kicks A$$! If you are looking for a 3-D ev-like game download the terminus demo, you wont be dissapointed.

You can download the demo at (url="http://"http://www.macgamefiles.com")www.macgamefiles.com(/url)

Also visit the developer's site: (url="http://"http://www.vvisions.com")www.vvisions.com(/url)

Or the Terminus homepage: (url="http://"http://www.vvisions.com/terminus/index2.html")http://www.vvisions....nus/index2.html(/url)

P.S. if you dont have a joystick ... well, good luck! 🙂

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Terminus is cool... but it's way too complex. When I want to play a game, I want to play a game, not do physics problems -- if they made simple physics, like from Wing Commander, or something, it would be so much better. But, if they simplified it, people would complain about it being unrealistic. It is a cool game, though -- from what I saw in the demo.

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(This message has been edited by skyblade (edited 10-01-2000).)

i can't get the game to work! i need OpenGLLibrary or something

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Originally posted by Vice Admiral Jon:
**A long time ago i saw some people talking about EV-3D, and they were saying how much it would suck. people were also asking if there were games like EV out there that are 3-d, someone mentioned the game Terminus. I decided to look into this, it sounded like a cool game, so i downloaded the demo. and i have this to say: it kicks A$$! If you are looking for a 3-D ev-like game download the terminus demo, you wont be dissapointed.

You can download the demo at www.macgamefiles.com

Also visit the developer's site: www.vvisions.com

Or the Terminus homepage: http://www.vvisions.com/terminus/index2.html

P.S. if you dont have a joystick ... well, good luck! <IMG SRC="http://www.AmbrosiaSW.com/webboard/smile.gif" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="15">

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Yea, anyone who thinks OS X has some stiff requirements, check out Terminus.
Atleast OS X will run on my 233 iMac. I wish I could play Terminus on it =(

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Originally posted by Space Pirate:
**i can't get the game to work! i need OpenGLLibrary or something

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If you have OS 9 you should be able to play it as all the OpenGL crap comes with it. What OS you runnin'?

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unfortunately i'm running 8.6
as soon as i get some time i'm going to install 9.0

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Originally posted by Space Pirate:
**unfortunately i'm running 8.6
as soon as i get some time i'm going to install 9.0
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You can download OpenGL from Apple's site. It works fine with my system (8.6).

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Originally posted by Soviet mikee:
**Yea, anyone who thinks OS X has some stiff requirements, check out Terminus.
Atleast OS X will run on my 233 iMac. I wish I could play Terminus on it =(
**

How'd you get a 233 iMac to run OS X, I though it need 4MB of VRAM as a minimum nad the 233 iMacs only had 2.

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heh, you think Terminus or OS X are bad for system requirements?
deus ex requires g3/266, 4MB vram, no opengl (apparantly...), quicktime 4 (why!?), and "64 MB ram, 128 recommented"... that's bull poop. it takes 155MB ram - any less & it will complain on startup...
on a side note, i have 192MB ram, no logical/virtual mem, and uhh i play deus ex with the system taking < 35MB physical ram. fear.

anyway, 155MB is a wee bit more excessive, don't you think?
oh, and i know someone who plays diablow 2 and terminus on a 604... with an ati pci card... basically it's the graphics card, not the processor. unless a game is incredibly lame and has an insane cpu requirement...

mmmm, spam... but it's related to something in this topic thread... scarry!

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i finally got terminus working but it ain't that great a game. of course i don't have a joystick yet....

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Originally posted by Space Pirate:
**i finally got terminus working but it ain't that great a game. of course i don't have a joystick yet....

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Yeah, the game is ALOT better if you have a joystick, and alot easier too. i bought a joystick just for the game

the game does have a few flaws though:

1. they could have put more effort into the weapon graphics
2. Story mode is waaaaay too short
3. Sometimes the physics are too realistic, but they still rule, you can pull some insaine manuvers with them

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Originally posted by CelticStarbase:
**How'd you get a 233 iMac to run OS X, I though it need 4MB of VRAM as a minimum nad the 233 iMacs only had 2.

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It is a Rev. B. It has 6 MB of RAM

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2 things:

1. Does anyone know where to get a windows version of Terminus? and

2. Has anyone here played "Tachyon: The Fringe"? It's the coolest game I ever saw! It is 100,000,000,000,000 times better the EVO is and probobly at least 100,000,000,000 times better then EV3 will be.

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I played the first little bit of Tachyon. Can you ever do
anything except missions? If not then it isn't quite as good
as EVO, but it is still very cool.

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One word: Multiplayer. It is the main thing that makes Tachyon better then EVO. I got half of my sides kills last time I played. And my side had over 60 kills. There is only one man who can beat me by himself. Some guy who calls himself "God of Death". He is very good. He always kills me unless I can hit him with my "Swarms". He makes the game fun.

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Originally posted by Lonevoinian:
**2 things:

1. Does anyone know where to get a windows version of Terminus? and

2. Has anyone here played "Tachyon: The Fringe"? It's the coolest game I ever saw! It is 100,000,000,000,000 times better the EVO is and probobly at least 100,000,000,000 times better then EV3 will be.

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1. Terminus is multiplatform, the windows, mac, and liunex versions are all on the 3 cd's

2. yes i have played Tachyon: the fringe, its peretty cool.

3. YOU FREAK! NOTHING CAN BEAT EV, EVO, OR EV3 EVER!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad:

P.S. is there a mac version of Tachyon?

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Originally posted by Vice Admiral Jon:
1. Terminus is multiplatform, the windows, mac, and liunex versions are all on the 3 cd's
I ment the demo.
**
2. yes i have played Tachyon: the fringe, its peretty cool.
**Then we agree.
**3. YOU FREAK! NOTHING CAN BEAT EV, EVO, OR EV3 EVER!!!!!!!!!!!:mad: :mad:
*Then you have never had your new UE crusier blownup in 10 seconds by the dreadnaught.
P.S. is there a mac version of Tachyon?
Not that I know of. That's the one thing that makes Windows better then Mac

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How'd you get a 233 iMac to run OS X, I though it need 4MB of VRAM as a minimum nad the 233 iMacs only had 2.

so, how am i writing this in OS X? 😉

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Originally posted by Space Pirate:
**i finally got terminus working but it ain't that great a game. of course i don't have a joystick yet....
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Get a stick it rocks.

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