Age of Empires

[Banshee]

Going to sound like massive nerdy geek now but I was looking back through some old pictures in one of the photo albums at home, I'm currently scanning them all so I have digital copies

I came across a picture of my first ever PC that my dad brought me when I was younger It was a Pentium 3 Fujistu Siemens tower complete with 256mb of RAM and a 20GB HDD which at the time was the equivalent of a few thousand pounds worth of gaming PC today.

It came with Windows 98 and 2 complimentary Microsoft Games one being a car game called Midtown Madness and another called Age of Empires 2 - The Age of Kings

So the past few days I've decided to rekindle some of the lost hours of my childhood and downloaded a copy from a torrent site and got it installed. There were some teething issues with it at first with graphics however a quick google and all was good

The other day I decided to play a deathmatch against 2 computer controlled teams and 6 hours later I'd created an empire with a massive army and fought my way to victory demolishing buildings and killing armies and villagers as I went and won the game

Great fun but not the same as playing a human, so I suppose my question is does anyone play it or want to play it online If I can figure it out?

I'll provide the game and fixes on a disc to your address if you'd agree to be my gaming buddy lol

[AlexD333]

Hehe my AOE days are long gone, I'm still a geek at heart just have limited time, recently built a 1200 quid gaming pc... Now it just runs 1997 dungeon keeper it sure is quick tho 16gb of corsair vengeance ram

[R1cho]

not played that game for about 10 years, might have to download and reacquaint myself with it

[rustic]

Well my first computer was a Dragon 64.
64 meant 64k of memory. Most other people only ever had the Dragon 32

Yes.... I have still got it.
Not used for a number of years lol...
Data uploaded via cassette tape, took ages to load, and even then it didn't always work.

A friend of mine had the same, and we experimented transmitting data over half a mile from each other, a sort of internet in it's day. A bit crude but sort of worked...

We modulated CB radio... hmmmm... but it worked.
No computer viruses in those days lol

[Bedhead1157]

First PC I owned was an IBM Aptiva running windows 95, I think it was 133Mhz, can't remember the size of the memory but 256mb springs to mind, it had the first CD rom drive I had ever seen, it had a floppy drive and it didn't even have a modem! IIRC it was something like £1100 back in 1997!

I bought "Janes 688i Hunter Killer" as I was really into subsims, started playing at 3pm, was still playing at 11pm when my ma went to bed, and was literally half conscious playing when she woke up at 7am.

Work was "interesting" that day.

[AlexD333]

Haha awesome. In regards to AOE type numbers in upto 25 i think. You will say useless stuff you never need.

Cheese steak Jimmy's?

[R1cho]

Originally Posted by rustic

Well my first computer was a Dragon 64.
64 meant 64k of memory. Most other people only ever had the Dragon 32

Yes.... I have still got it.
Not used for a number of years lol...
Data uploaded via cassette tape, took ages to load, and even then it didn't always work.

A friend of mine had the same, and we experimented transmitting data over half a mile from each other, a sort of internet in it's day. A bit crude but sort of worked...

We modulated CB radio... hmmmm... but it worked.
No computer viruses in those days lol

i had a 32 and a 64, used to play a lot of them adventure games where you type in what you want the character to do, cant remember what any of them are called now though lol

[AlexD333]

Anyone remember this?

[kitchenman]

I started with an Atari 8 bit, 16K ram membrane keyboard cost around £600 I think
Still got it and the 16 bit that followed it. That had a real keyboard, never played games, never saw the point.

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by R1cho

not played that game for about 10 years, might have to download and reacquaint myself with it

Well done for keeping on topic lol

If you do fancy a game give me a shout

[terrano bob]

any one remember macarno

[solarman216]

My first computer was a Vic20 with 3k ram if I recall correctly, I say no more, Rick

[R1cho]

Originally Posted by Banshee

Well done for keeping on topic lol

If you do fancy a game give me a shout

if i can get the bloody crack to work, keeps asking for the cd

[Banshee]

Originally Posted by R1cho

if i can get the bloody crack to work, keeps asking for the cd

The one I downloaded from the Internet was CD Free are you running windows 7? If you are you'll have graphics issues when in the game whereby all scenery will have a red haze, you'll have to create a .bat file in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II called aoe.bat and paste in the following;

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
EMPIRES2.EXE
Start explorer.exe

once you've done that modify the shortcut on your desktop and in the section that says "Target" remove everything that's in there and point it to thye bat file like this;

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\aoe2.bat"

All that bat file does is kills the explorer.exe process before the game starts and then re-opens it when the game closes to fix the graphics issue

[elty001]

Originally Posted by AlexD333

Anyone remember this?

I think I have driven that in the terrano