But isn't it what we've come to expect? Lorenda and Kria are a little out of the ordinary, even for DMFA characters. One wonders if Jyrras had anything to do with this development. On the other hand, maybe Lorenda might ask him to help things, uhm, enlarge a bit (assuming she wants that, and you get the feeling that she does).
(Edited to add the strip number, as per convention. Convention enforced by the mods who have nothing better to do with their time, but convention nonetheless. :-] -- llearch )
If you expect the unexpected, then isn't it expected? (Or something like that.)
If Mr. Williams is trying to play "Loom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOM)", what system was it for/is he using?
Amber, tell your husband to look for a program called Dosbox. Run a Google search, it should show up. Every old DOS game I've tried in it has been able to run perfectly. And I seem to recall a friend of mine specifically stating that she used it to play Loom, back when we found Loom available on an abandonware website...
Well, it's probably because Lorenda is not full demon. Personally I think they look okay at that size, and since they're apparently functionally useless, it might be easier not having huge wings to drag around.
4-9 hours per comic? Wow, no comment on that.
Yup... DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1).
Quote from: Rafe on April 05, 2007, 10:23:51 PM
On the other hand, maybe Lorenda might ask him to help things, uhm, enlarge a bit (assuming she wants that, and you get the feeling that she does).
Oh great... will "Best Patch! Wing Size Enlargement!" become Furrae's version of Cialis spam? :mowtongue
Quote from: Wanderer on April 05, 2007, 10:29:38 PMAmber, tell your husband to look for a program called Dosbox. Run a Google search, it should show up. Every old DOS game I've tried in it has been able to run perfectly.
There are a couple different versions of Dosbox. Not like GNUMACS vs GOSMACS, but like Dosbox 0.28 vs Dosbox 0.29. Some will work on one but not the other. Don't get discouraged! Usually, you'll only need one version, but you can probably install two side-by-side.
Actually, if it's LOOM, you might want to look at SCUMMVM (http://www.scummvm.org/). Says Loom is 95% compatible.
*goes back to playing Darkseed*
WAIT... obDMFA: Did she get those wings from Abby Normal?
*Now goes back to playing Darkseed (well, not really)*
QuoteThere are a couple different versions of Dosbox. Not like GNUMACS vs GOSMACS, but like Dosbox 0.28 vs Dosbox 0.29. Some will work on one but not the other. Don't get discouraged! Usually, you'll only need one version, but you can probably install two side-by-side.
I have Dosbox 0.65, and I haven't had trouble yet. Of course, I haven't used it a lot yet either... I've been spending all my time playing newer games in recent months.
QuoteActually, if it's LOOM, you might want to look at SCUMMVM. Says Loom is 95% compatible.
Yes, I heard it recommended too. Dosbox is just the thing I tend to suggest straight off.
Abnormalness is what makes us all special insides :3
Quote from: Tezkat on April 05, 2007, 10:33:33 PM
Yup... DOSBox (http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1).
Quote from: Rafe on April 05, 2007, 10:23:51 PM
On the other hand, maybe Lorenda might ask him to help things, uhm, enlarge a bit (assuming she wants that, and you get the feeling that she does).
Oh great... will "Best Patch! Wing Size Enlargement!" become Furrae's version of Cialis spam? :mowtongue
Small hard to detect wings are an advantage, they can be hidden. So when in 300 years someone tries to do you in as if you were a normal being they get a big surprise and you get in the last shot. :doh
Quote from: Zorro on April 05, 2007, 11:25:43 PM
Quote from: Tezkat on April 05, 2007, 10:33:33 PMOh great... will "Best Patch! Wing Size Enlargement!" become Furrae's version of Cialis spam? :mowtongue
Small hard to detect wings are an advantage, they can be hidden. So when in 300 years someone tries to do you in as if you were a normal being they get a big surprise and you get in the last shot. :doh
So like Thigh Cream spam then?
doesn't have that much to do with the current comic, but anyone else noticed Kria suffers from an ear growth syndrome similar to Jyrras'?
by the way, Freedos <link> (http://www.freedos.org/) can be a good choice, too, since DosBox tend to be SLOW. couple it with VirtualPC <link> (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx) if lazy to mess up with HD partitions
Quote from: Jack McSlay on April 05, 2007, 11:50:39 PMdoesn't have that much to do with the current comic, but anyone else noticed Kria suffers from an ear growth syndrome similar to Jyrras'?
Her head is just at a funny angle which Mrs. Amber is probably unused to drawing. I'm willing to cut her some slack, how about you?
Quote from: Jack McSlay on April 05, 2007, 11:50:39 PMby the way, Freedos <link> (http://www.freedos.org/) can be a good choice, too, since DosBox tend to be SLOW. couple it with VirtualPC <link> (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx) if lazy to mess up with HD partitions
Or you could buy an old 286 and MS-DOS 3.3 and try running it on that. I assume that that is suboptimal, and that what they're really looking for is something that they can run without having to reboot every time they want to start/stop playing the game.
Seriously. SCUMMVM. It was designed to run this game.
Quote from: superluser on April 06, 2007, 12:01:19 AM
Her head is just at a funny angle which Mrs. Amber is probably unused to drawing. I'm willing to cut her some slack, how about you?
current - http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol770.jpg (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol770.jpg)
first appearance - http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol96.jpg (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol96.jpg)
I don't think it's just angle, I've been noticing it for quite a while, actually
Quotethat what they're really looking for is something that they can run without having to reboot every time they want to start/stop playing the game.
that's why I pointed out VirtualPC lol
Quote from: Jack McSlay on April 06, 2007, 12:24:52 AMI don't think it's just angle, I've been noticing it for quite a while, actually
If ``For a while'' means sometime between 193 (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_193.php) and 229 (http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_229.php). Her ears at 229 are pretty much the same size we see in today's strip.
In fact, I retract my earlier statement of cutting Amber some slack. She doesn't need any--Kria is on-model.
Quote from: Jack McSlay on April 06, 2007, 12:24:52 AMQuotethat what they're really looking for is something that they can run without having to reboot every time they want to start/stop playing the game.
that's why I pointed out VirtualPC lol
I thought you said that VirtualPC would mess up partitions if combined with Freedos. Never having used either, I wouldn't know if that were true.
I thought it was kinda funny when Kria was thinking that another pull would get the wings into full size...
Edit,OOC> oh, and modelincard....get rid of the penguin telling people about their own computers...it can freak them out...
Art styles and character evolve over time. It's one of the natural laws of comic evolution.
Opus the penguin from Bloom County / Outland has a beak that continuously expands and shrinks throughout the art cycle.
crud, I make an account just to mention ScummVM, and it's already been done...
oh well :rolleyes
...back to nowhere...
In Kria's cast page it says that she has larger than normal ears =P
Funny, I was just there but I forgot why.
I don't know what Lorenda's so worried about. I think they're cute little wing-a-lings.
I'm sure Kria's not the first to get that idea. ;)
But I think Lorenda's wings are Ok like they came, she's half demon and it's easier to have small wing rater than large ones, specialy if you can't hide them at will.
Yay Young Frankenstein references!
Anyway, I think Lorie should dooooo eeeeet. Afterall, she gets to look beautiful, Kria gets to test her theory, the store makes a sale, and we get an eye-full of Lorie+corset action. Everybody wins!
The Loom thing: use http://www.scummvm.org/. It was designed to get old lucas-arts games working on modern computers. Loom is listed as 95% compatible, which is as good as it gets.
Hey hey.
Mason has tried the Scummvm program before...thats actually where his problems are coming from. He managed to get it to "run", and some sounds work...but the sound seems to keep messing up. I guess at certain parts of the game there are different notes and dialogue but oftentimes only one note will play followed by silence.
Is it wrong that I actually think Kria's suggestion is completely logical?
Quote from: Amber Williams on April 06, 2007, 03:35:21 AM
Hey hey.
Mason has tried the Scummvm program before...thats actually where his problems are coming from. He managed to get it to "run", and some sounds work...but the sound seems to keep messing up. I guess at certain parts of the game there are different notes and dialogue but oftentimes only one note will play followed by silence.
Odd. I "acquired" the cd version of the game with ScummVM and it runs perfectly.
What are the specs of his computer?
Quote from: Jack McSlay on April 06, 2007, 12:24:52 AM
Quote from: superluser on April 06, 2007, 12:01:19 AM
Her head is just at a funny angle which Mrs. Amber is probably unused to drawing. I'm willing to cut her some slack, how about you?
current - http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol770.jpg (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol770.jpg)
first appearance - http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol96.jpg (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol96.jpg)
I don't think it's just angle, I've been noticing it for quite a while, actually
Looking at the two comics you linked there, Kria's ears seem to be about the same size in proportion to her head (except for the first of the three panels in the older one) They're longer and pointier, but they're narrower too. I would call it more of an evolution of the art style than it is spontanious ear growth. (And, I might add, her ears aren't the only thing that's changed between her first and her most recent appearance, though they certainly are the most noticable change!)
Quote from: Illusionist on April 06, 2007, 03:41:34 AM
Is it wrong that I actually think Kria's suggestion is completely logical?
I'd say it was a perfectly logical suggestion.
Doesn't mean it would
work, but it's completely
logical.
Quote from: Rafe on April 05, 2007, 10:23:51 PM
But isn't it what we've come to expect? Lorenda and Kria are a little out of the ordinary, even for DMFA characters. One wonders if Jyrras had anything to do with this development. On the other hand, maybe Lorenda might ask him to help things, uhm, enlarge a bit (assuming she wants that, and you get the feeling that she does).
But what if they ( AHEM ) grow at the normal rate later ...
Quote from: Amber Williams on April 06, 2007, 03:35:21 AM
Hey hey.
Mason has tried the Scummvm program before...thats actually where his problems are coming from. He managed to get it to "run", and some sounds work...but the sound seems to keep messing up. I guess at certain parts of the game there are different notes and dialogue but oftentimes only one note will play followed by silence.
Try it again; ScummVm updates rather frequently.
Also, if you like Loom, you need to try Beneath a Steel Sky (http://www.revolution.co.uk/_display.php?id=16), now free. Yay.
Download (http://scummvm.org/downloads.php#extras), and get the 70MB version if you want the game to make any sense at all.
Dammit, this will teach me to have a lie-in :rolleyes
For Loom, use DOSbox. That's how I play it these days, although I have the EGA version.
The hardest part will be setting it up to access the real PC's disk, and given its massive popularity I'd guess that they've covered it well enough in the documentation by now.
If he was able to play Loom back in the day, he should be able to set it up and run it in DOSbox no trouble. And if not, there are people like me who grew up with DOS and were gutted when Windows came along >:3
And I absolutely agree about 'Beneath A Steel Sky'.
(Still thinks a 2D point-and-click adventure would be the best videogame use of the DMFA concept)
Maybe they'll grow some more with time, since she is only half demon o.o
or maybe. the squeeze brought them out prematurely O:
Quote from: kaskar on April 06, 2007, 05:34:38 AM
Quote from: Rafe on April 05, 2007, 10:23:51 PM
... On the other hand, maybe Lorenda might ask him to help things, uhm, enlarge a bit (assuming she wants that, and you get the feeling that she does).
But what if they ( AHEM ) grow at the normal rate later ...
Oooo, I hadn't thought of that. Jyrras develops the "Best Patch! Wing Size Enlargement!" (thanks Tezkat, that was perfect) and it works on Lorenda, and then her wing continue to grow to a huge, embarrassing size, making her a freak and outcast, and except among deviants with a "Big-Wing Fetish".
That would be unexpected, and funny, and Amber probably already thought of it, and now has to come up with something even better. It's people like you who make her job harder.
This is odd even for Kira. so it seems we only get more questions.
If it's a patch, she could just, you know, take it off. That's what makes patches so cool.
Otherwise they'd be really neat, but being instantly reversible makes them *so* cool. I totally want like a dozen of them.
Not even can argue the coolness...That is a splender to have wings...(http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d156/HuskieBoi666/BanditKeithinAmerica.jpg)
Yes I went there Mana :P
Quote from: terrycloth on April 06, 2007, 01:43:52 PM
If it's a patch, she could just, you know, take it off. That's what makes patches so cool.
Otherwise they'd be really neat, but being instantly reversible makes them *so* cool. I totally want like a dozen of them.
This would be something new. Nothing says that, even if it was a patch, it would be reversible.
It could make Jyrras even more money, of course, and maybe even have him appearing on late-night Viagra/Cialis-like TV commercials with soft music and satisfied-looking winged couples engaging in wholesome hand-holding activities.
I wonder if there are any side effects to wearing more then one patch at a time.
Quote from: thegayhare on April 06, 2007, 02:29:39 PM
I wonder if there are any side effects to wearing more then one patch at a time.
I imagine there would be, two patches conflicting with each other might turn you into some horribly deformed monster-thing...
Jyrras is probably smarter than that.
Maybe they cancel each other out?
maybe it was a side effect of using the catgirl patch!
Quote from: Rafe on April 06, 2007, 02:27:08 PM
This would be something new. Nothing says that, even if it was a patch, it would be reversible.
There was exactly one case of a patch not instantly reversing when you took it off, and that was the prototype generic-use patch that turned Dan into a human.
Dan's headwing patch, Azlan's 'not a fairy' patch, Jyrras' not-so-tall dark and handsome patch, all turned off instantly. Seems like the default behavior to me...
In my experience DosBox .63 and higher is reasonably fast except for certain action games and .70 might fix that with the new dynamic floating point capability. As far as I know it's only slow if you aren't running it with enough cycles or are running it on non x86 architecture (Mac).
I'm partial to Dfend to speed up the whole configuration process.
I'm quite sure that ScummVM gets it done much easier, but go ahead. :U
Quote from: BillBuckner on April 06, 2007, 07:02:38 PMI'm quite sure that ScummVM gets it done much easier, but go ahead. :U
Maybe you should read the threads you're supposed to be moderating. Especially when you are ignoring what other mods are saying:
Quote from: Amber Williams on April 06, 2007, 03:35:21 AMMason has tried the Scummvm program before...thats actually where his problems are coming from. He managed to get it to "run", and some sounds work...but the sound seems to keep messing up. I guess at certain parts of the game there are different notes and dialogue but oftentimes only one note will play followed by silence.
Yeah, if SCUMMVM doesn't work, Dosbox is your best bet. You might want to doublecheck to make sure that a new release of SCUMMVM hasn't fixed it, but I probably wouldn't.
Actually, that's where I get into a lot of trouble. I try to be an early adopter, but when the version 0.00001.00085β doesn't work perfectly, I abandon it, and when, years later, someone tells me that V5.105.27 works great, I dismiss it because I've already tried it.
I already read it ,you guitar noob. :U
Seriously, if LOOM, one of LA's most popular games didn't work for a majority of the players, I'm sure there would have been a mentioning on the site. Either that, or they fixed it. TRY IT AGAIN. (and again, and again!) :3
Quote from: BillBuckner on April 06, 2007, 07:17:07 PMSeriously, if LOOM, one of LA's most popular games didn't work for a majority of the players, I'm sure there would have been a mentioning on the site.
You mean like No sound in loom! (http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=100)? Or Loom Sound Problems (http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=2790)? Or...well, you get the idea. Looks like SCUMMVM 9.0 worked with Loom, but 9.1 b0rked it.
So Amber can downgrade to 9.0 and it should work, or she can rip the tracks from the CD (see link one) and it should work, or she can use Dosbox and it should work. I'd be equally likely to use any of those, myself.
I only use DosBox for Indy 500: The Simulation, which, incidentally, is a BADASS game.
Just a wee thought: if Wildy should see the lil wings, I wonder if it'll trigger a repeat of the "Just my size" comment she made to Dan about his head wings... and the cleaver. >:3
Quote from: Alondro on April 06, 2007, 09:58:12 PM
Just a wee thought: if Wildy should see the lil wings, I wonder if it'll trigger a repeat of the "Just my size" comment she made to Dan about his head wings... and the cleaver. >:3
ooooo...that would be interesting, but already done. Plus i don't think they're that close. But still a funny thought :giggle
O, and what Kria said, I was thinking the same thing... :3 Can't wait to see what happens next! :eager >:] :goamber
Quote from: Alondro on April 06, 2007, 09:58:12 PM
Just a wee thought: if Wildy should see the lil wings, I wonder if it'll trigger a repeat of the "Just my size" comment she made to Dan about his head wings... and the cleaver. >:3
And now we have a dear Abbie situation here . That is " Abbie Normal "
Well... me personally I think her wings are probably full sized. But if they did pop out early then they may be a bit undersized.
All in all the small wings could be like a fashion statement (like my avatar and his armor). For Lorenda she manages to pull the small back wings off pretty well considering she's probably a little to hefty to properly fly under her own power.
Of course this isn't usual to happen. Maybe a week or two, or an extra squeeze of the corset will tell . Then , instead of hiking trips, Kria could train Lorenda to do flying trips , or would that be too much of a long haul ?
Looks like someone stole Lorenda's earrings...
Quote from: ??? (Hellcat) on April 09, 2007, 12:45:54 AM
Looks like someone stole Lorenda's earrings...
I just figured thay were hiding beheind her hair... :confused
Quote from: Rythak on April 09, 2007, 02:05:59 PM
Quote from: ??? (Hellcat) on April 09, 2007, 12:45:54 AM
Looks like someone stole Lorenda's earrings...
I just figured thay were hiding beheind her hair... :confused
... specially since they're present in panel 2...