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internisus
shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: Things I want to share with you |
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Many of you have never played Homeworld; that's a shame, but I'm not here to make you feel guilty about it. The game comes with a set of lovely pdf documents. One is called "Historical and Technical Briefing" and you should absolutely take a minute to download it and skim it to see if you might be interested in reading it. The level of detail put into developing this science fiction is quite wonderful; the vast majority of the information here is in no way present within the game. That is not to say that the game does not represent a great sci-fi work itself.
Anyway, check this out. It's biblical stuff. The Historical and Technical Briefing is here and I've also uploaded the Gameplay Guide here; this is really just the instruction manual proper, but they are part of a set and there is some ship and technology information in the latter as well.
Something else I have uploaded is this old program called Tutor DOS. Unsurprisingly, it is a tutorial for DOS. Now, I know we've all moved on a bit since those days, but you should really check it out anyway because it's charming as hell and you'll probably get a nostalgia kick besides. You can grab it here; just unzip everything to the same folder and run the exe. |
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km
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 5:45 pm |
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If you bought the game those manuals came with it. I still have them.
They look even better printed.
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taidan
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 7:28 pm |
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Homeworld was the first game I got when my family got their first modern day PC. I read that whole manual after school in the library waiting for something.
I thought it might be the future of manuals or something, Instead it is one vast exception to the rules.
Friggin magical though.
We can't have any discussion of Homeworld without Simon Belmont. |
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internisus
shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 11:41 pm |
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| km wrote: |
If you bought the game those manuals came with it. I still have them.
They look even better printed. |
Wow. This is good info.
I imagine them slightly glossy, nice thick paper, not too large, maybe with rounded corners. And they smell delicious. |
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taidan
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:58 am |
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| internisus wrote: |
| km wrote: |
If you bought the game those manuals came with it. I still have them.
They look even better printed. |
Wow. This is good info.
I imagine them slightly glossy, nice thick paper, not too large, maybe with rounded corners. And they smell delicious. |
Not quite. The manual is bound in a thick cover, but the pages themselves are not that thick. I can't check I don't have it with me now, but I do know my copy had some of its pages fall out.
They are slightly glossy though, and its kind of a squat, square shape, not too long or wide. |
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sync-swim
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:11 am |
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taidan
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 6:07 am |
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| Okay what the fuck mental image did I drag up? I'm taking that out of the closet come Thanksgiving. |
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internisus
shafer sephiroth
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 11:45 am |
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I really wish they didn't find it necessary to put advertisements on the back.
Also I was envisioning the cover in that solid blue of the pdf's first page. |
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