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Descent II from Interplay

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by cg it

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anyone got a copy? Mine is to scratched up to install.

hate to go to Ebay new to those guys is used and in poor condition...

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by tig2

A lens cleaner on the original media? I have managed to get a lightly scratched CD back to function one last time doing that. If it works, copy it to your computer in its entirety and burn fresh.

When I say lens cleaner, I am thinking of the photographic quality cloth that I use to clean my glasses.

Edit to add: Have you tried Game Spot?
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/descent2/download_2539796.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gsupdates&tag=updates;title;6

by cg it

I'll give your suggestions a whirl...

by older mycroft

I managed to d/l the entire 4.7GB for Freespace2 Source Code Project.

The code keeps moving round the net but you'll find it eventually.

ALL of Interplay's code is now either Public Domain or Abandonware. otherwise Freespace2SCP wouldn't be so popular.

by cg it

I've played Descent since 94... I,II and III.

I wish they had come out with Descent IV .

Didn't like Free Space because it was to much like a flight simulator. Way complicated where as with Descent, you could use the keyboard/mouse combination really well [except with P2P and to do that well one needed a joystick]

by older mycroft

The complex key-commands (instructing wingmen, calling in reinforcements, specifying targetting, requesting re-supply drones) was what really made it for me with Freespace2 SCP.

The graphical 'make-over' was just the icing on the cake.

I never imagined I'd ever be running a 7-year-old game that occupied just over 5.5 Gigabytes on my NB hard drive, but Freespace is really like a busman's holiday to me and I love it.

The Descent series was pretty good too, I'm just away now to see what they've managed to do to it with the OpenGL application.... :D

by cg it

I got into the whole online game playing there with Ghost Recon and Eve but after a while, I dusted off all the single player games I had and have just a ton of fun.

just finished Unreal II last night and though I knew how the game ended, I still love how the makers spent time creating a storyline, characters, and levels.

Play many single player RPGs and still have Diablo which I play occasionly..

But back to Free Space... the complex key commands undid Free Space for me... Think I still have it here somewhere... will have to dig it out.

Also, there are still guys playing Descent 3 online.... I sometimes climb on a server to try my luck as seeing how long I last before they blow me up.

by older mycroft

I don't play ANY games online bar two.

I've never had the bottle to play even Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Counterstrike or Ghost Recon.

Freespace2 I can hold my own - when I'm playing on my own!! :D

The only games I've played online are:

Combat Flight Simulator
&
Wings of War

The simple reason for this is that I flew in the RAF for 6 years, so I've got a slight edge on the average online adversary.

I much prefer to deal out death from a distance, rather than up close and personal.

That's what I meant by 'a busman's holiday'.

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