Never heard of this Maxis game. Aside from its horrible performance, it looks ambitious, and it has all the quirky Maxis whackyness humour which I didn't know I'd miss from the "be wierd in your own way" 90s era sentiment. You can clearly see most of this being removed after Maxis got sold to the EA glue factory.
I was given an old HP 2000 series Laserjet made in the early 90s, and used it until a few years ago. I just used a USB to parallel cable, and it worked fine, even with stock Windows drivers. The only issue with it was the tiny amount of RAM it had on board, so it took forever to print anything with images. The HP home inkjet I had in the 90s was, of course, dogshit.
A couple days ago I was trying to remember this driving game I played in the PC as a kid but couldn’t remember much other than the graphics and overall experience. Then this video pops up on my feed and it all came back!
Man time flys! I remember playing this in our Typing class and website design class in highschool. Someone found it on the shareable drive and every computer in the class had access to installing it. What a time.
Used to be their way of showing the world what their Engine could do. Sadly UT was shelved and they never made the game they were suppose too since fortnite took off. I still have the UT game on Epics store, surprised they havent taken that off. I never supported their platform, i own two games on it, i refuse to play and buy into their greed even if they only take 12% instead of 30% like steam. I own both 03 and 04 of UT, i also pretty much bought every UT anthology that was on sale at gamestop for about $10 USD and gave them to some of my friends. Sadly i dont have any boxes of any games i bought. I did not know that was a thing that would end, or that buying games in stores would end. Seems like were at a crossroad i didnt see coming. Glad to see you still have the boxes of the games. I still enjoy a good few matches with bots, i know that theirs still some UT99 servers up.
Mad props for PC Speaker version. The "CD Quality digital audio" version, isn't quite the best one as far as technically. The best WAS the cd-audio soundtrack that came with the cd-rom version. I'm used to the sound blaster yamaha opl chips, however, the version of Monkey Island I had back in the day, came with our shiny new cd-rom drive.
I had a single touchscreen HP Touchsmart, a foldable 12 or 13" (i think) laptop from this same period. Loved that thing. It was a bit clumsy, and way too heavy, but it was so neat. And more capable. And had wacom. And was $300 cheaper.
The Mac version I had came in the smaller box with a single DVD in a regular jewel case, no bonus DVD available. :( I think they could get away with DVD-only on the Mac version, as Apple had been shipping DVD drives in the higher-tier iMacs and up since 1999. The Mac disc was all I ever needed, as one could freely copy the data files over to Windows or Linux and download the client for that OS from Epic's website. I spent quite a bit of time playing it on a tricked-out Gentoo Linux build. Truly sad that Epic has disappeared this game from history. That, plus dumpstering their modern remake of UT, has guaranteed I won't be installing Epic Games Store on any of my computers anytime soon.
My parents used to have a version of that printer (bjc 1000). You can only use one type of cartridge at a time, and it was very slow. Also, there's a small thin part of the catridge that felt very flimsy as if they'll broke apart if you touched them wrong. They sure know how to upsell glossy photo paper inside a manual, though.
