Adam Zwakk

I’m a bit of a gadget/gaming freak. I’ve owned all the consoles from the last 3 generations, I’ve owned tablets, smartphones, gaming handhelds, everything you could think of (though I’ve never dived into cameras at all). That said, I got a Vita just because I wanted to mess around with it. When I had a PSP (one of the 1st gen ones), I ran homebrew on it and ran emulators and custom apps. Didn’t really get into playing backups on it at all, but it was fun to mess around and toy with a system that wasn’t meant to be toyed with.

The Vita hasn’t been hacked to run homebrew yet (well it sort of has, but not enough to try it out), I already feel like it was worth the $250 price tag I payed for it. I also got Little Deviants just to mess with all the AR/touch features (from what I see, that’s basically the only reason to get that game), and a 4gb memory card.

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I made a full size poster for the re-release of T7G on Good Old Games. I did a lot of stuff from scratch such as extending the path down and showing more of the cliff around the house. It’s definitely not perfect, but I’m sure someone out there will like it.

It’s at 300 DPI at 27″x40″.

You can download it here (About 75mb)

The 7th Guest got released on DotEmu today with modern hardware support. T7G was one of the first games I played as a kid (or at least the most memorable). It scared the shit out of me with it’s creepy atmosphere/ghosts. It still holds up today as a great puzzle/exploration game, even though some of the puzzles are downright impossible without a guide, I’m looking at you bishop puzzle! (Microscope puzzle also worth mentioning, though it’s not nearly as mind bending, just really difficult). They also have 11th hour (sequel to T7G) too, definitely not as memorable, but still worth checking out if you love The 7th Guest.

I’ve got a big box copy (with a “making of” VHS tape) of T7G and 11th hour already that works great with SCUMMVM, but if you haven’t tried exploring old man Stauf’s house yet, give this a try. I really want to see more FMV games from back in the day get rereleased. You can also get the game for iDevices.

The 7th Guest

Edit: It is now available on GOG.com!

I’ve talked about Boxer before, an awesome DOS front end for Mac with a great GUI for “plug n playing” DOS games. I’ve just recently found a great Windows (also for Mac and Linux) front end called DBGL (DOSBox Game Launcher). For people who don’t quite know how to setup DOSBox properly or just want to play a DOS game without messing around in the Command Prompt, this is perfect for you.

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If you don’t already know, I have a Usenet/Sickbeard setup that works like a dream. I can set up Sickbeard to watch for new shows for pretty much any series old and new, and it will find and auto-download (and auto-rename and put in a user specified folder tree). Great stuff, I’ve pretty much abandoned torrents for any video content for how well this works. So then I got to thinking, why don’t “actual” companies start delivering content this way. Usenet has been around well before Torrents existed, and transfers aren’t based on a P2P concept. I understand that companies don’t want to use torrents or P2P methods, but why don’t companies release a commercial version of Sickbeard and deliver their content through their own Usenet server? Here are 5 reasons why I think this could work.

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