strength scumming demo

[gut]

I finally got around to making a strength scumming demo for
the early game. It runs 10-15 minutes, and you'll notice the
profound lack of Dx drains : )

[Epythic]

I finally got around to making a strength scumming demo for
the early game. It runs 10-15 minutes, and you'll notice the
profound lack of Dx drains : )

Why, oh why .exe?

$ wine STRENGTH.EXE
winevdm: unable to exec 'STRENGTH.EXE': DOS memory range unavailable

[gut]

> Why, oh why .exe?

In the past I have posted identical demos in both .rec and .exe
formats, heavily advertising the benefits of .rec over the .exe ones.
Without exception, the .exe format demos always had ~10 times
the number of downloads as the .rec ones. It seems that despite
the disadvantages of no rewinding, pausing, fast forwarding, and
virus concerns, the .exe files are always favored. I just stopped
bothering to upload the same file twice.

Here is the .rec file:

[Ars]

Why, oh why .exe?

Try it through dosbox.

[Epythic]

> Why, oh why .exe?

In the past I have posted identical demos in both .rec and .exe
formats, heavily advertising the benefits of .rec over the .exe ones.
Without exception, the .exe format demos always had ~10 times
the number of downloads as the .rec ones. It seems that despite
the disadvantages of no rewinding, pausing, fast forwarding, and
virus concerns, the .exe files are always favored. I just stopped
bothering to upload the same file twice.

Here is the .rec file:

Thanks a lot!

I think it's just that the majority of people (aka average windows user) doesn't really care - they have enough spy-/mal-/adware on their systems already anyway. Some people do care, most of them probably linux users.

Although it surprises me a little; I always thought roguelikes appealed mainly to programmers, and one might expect they know what is right and what is not.

But then, ADOM was #1 on some big site for a while...

Anyway, that's just the way it is.

EDIT: tried it, but ttyplay gives me just semi-random garbage. Something wrong with the encoding or terminal emulation type? Any ideas?

[gut]

I recorded it using demo workshop, and you have to
have demo workshop installed to view the .rec files.

I forget the official web adress, so stuck it on a file
hosting site. It's only ~130K zipped, but it's also for
windows/dos.


http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/92ea0e0f43_0.13MB

[Epythic]

I recorded it using demo workshop, and you have to
have demo workshop installed to view the .rec files.

I forget the official web adress, so stuck it on a file
hosting site. It's only ~130K zipped, but it's also for
windows/dos.


http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/92ea0e0f43_0.13MB

Oh! I thought you used `ttyrec`...

[Pushpabon]

Hope this helps: http://dosrecorder.sourceforge.net/

[baby-eater]

Hey what turn did that put you to, roughly?

[gut]

I haven't the foggiest, but I probably could have beaten
the game by then : ) Seriously, it takes >1000 turns for
just the stat to increase, and I had to increase the potential
along with the stat.