Looking for a good timewaster

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I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
Swans4me
 
Swans4me said:
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
Swans4me
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Terragen from http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ might do the trick.
Plenty to learn, read & play with!
 
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
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Get into Windows shells. They're the best timewaster I know. Here's
a starting point:
<http://shellcity.net/cgi-bin/DB_Sea...topicpage.setup.cgi&submit_search=yes&topic=A>
 
Thanks to all of you for the great ideas. I just think I know
somebody that might let me play with Bryce. That would be interesting
too.
swans4me
 
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next
few weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many
years already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often.
I have PSP and have had that for years too. I am older and not
really into games very much. I use dial up so web games are not
very good. I guess I am just looking for something new and
exciting enough to keep the brain working. If anyone has some
good ideas please let me know. Thank you all very much.
Swans4me
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Partition your hard drive and install Linux.
 
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
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There used to be a game that came with DR-DOS, it was netwars.exe and was a
few hundred kilobytes at most. Had nice simple 3D line drawings and was
damn entertaining, but alas, I lost it in the "who owns this DR-DOS"
confusion of late.
 
On that special day, jo, ([email protected]) said...
http://www.magicwandsoft.com/games/dxball/

Hopefuly this link gives you the build that drove me mad for weeks :-)
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This surely is a great game, but Swans4me said in advance, that he/she
is a bit older, which means, reaction time is by now longer, and the
game too difficult. Something turn based might be more to his/her
tastes.

Something which might be interesting, are crossword puzzles. There are
downloadable ones from various places, and a standard "engine", which
can be used to solve them.

http://www.litsoft.com/across/preview.htm

Puzzles to be downloaded can be found in various places, especially
newspapers. eg http://www.chron.com/content/fun/games/xword/index.html

The New York Times and some other newspapers ask you to subscribe,
though.

Just as an aside: There is one Swiss newspaper, which does extremely
difficult puzzles, yet they are very interesting. The Neue Zuercher
Zeitung (www.nzz.ch) publishes them every other Sunday; beware, they're
using five languages, if you count Schwytzerduetsch as a separate one.


Gabriele Neukam

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I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
Swans4me
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Download and install ObjectDock from www.stardock.com It's a small-ish
download, and totally free.

Create a nice hidden Mac-like menu with customized icons. They're very
pretty, very handy, and take a day or 2 to set it up as you like. It's not
hard to do, just time consuming. Everyone that sees the ObjectDock menu on
my computer wants it too. :)


-- Bob
 
On that special day, jo, ([email protected]) said...


This surely is a great game, but Swans4me said in advance, that he/she
is a bit older, which means, reaction time is by now longer, and the
game too difficult. Something turn based might be more to his/her
tastes.

Something which might be interesting, are crossword puzzles.
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Does anyone remember that game where you had to push boxes into their
places ?
I think it was called Boxerman or Boxman or something like that.
Very addictive, I remember struggling with level 14 (or close to that) for
a week.
There should be more of those little mindbreakers out there.

Another option for the OP might be the noble game of chess.
It still amazes me how after 20 years of playing my game is still improving
and changing, and it has been fun from the first day I played it.
Smoe freeware chess programs listed here:

http://www.freewarehome.com/index.html?/Games/Board/Chess_t.html

There are a lot of sites to explain the rules, first on google is:

http://www.chessvariants.com/d.chess/chess.html
 
Finish DX Ball (Not DX Ball2)

http://www.magicwandsoft.com/games/dxball/

Hopefuly this link gives you the build that drove me mad for weeks :-)
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If you'd like to try a vaguely similar one that makes no noise, and
sends no Death's heads after you, and has no 'end' as such, (meaning
you can play till you lose all your lives) try Ballistic....I can no
longer find it on the WWW, but it is a simple little file. I put it on
my web storage space. 373kb

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/Ballistic.exe

the game looks like this (round 10) ..
http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/Ballistic.jpg

there are 50 levels, which test you in many ways....reaction time,
pateince, planning, figuring out the 'rules', playing for score, or
just trying to beat certain levels.....plus deciding where to start.

You can pause it with a right click and get some work done and go back
later.......

It's...ummmm....addictive.
 
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks. I have fractal programs, but have used them for many years
already. I have Pretty Good solitaire and play that often. I have PSP
and have had that for years too. I am older and not really into games
very much. I use dial up so web games are not very good. I guess I
am just looking for something new and exciting enough to keep the brain
working. If anyone has some good ideas please let me know. Thank you
all very much.
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Install Linux on your PC.
 
Rod stated:
Does anyone remember that game where you had to push boxes into their
places ?
I think it was called Boxerman or Boxman or something like that.
Very addictive, I remember struggling with level 14 (or close to that) for
a week.
There should be more of those little mindbreakers out there.
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I had something similar on my HP-48 calculator. Isn't this game like
Sokoban?

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--
Chaos Master®, posting from Canoas, Brazil - 29.55° S / 51.11° W / GMT-
2h / 15m


"Now: the 3-bit processor, with instructions:
1. NOP - does nothing, increase PC. / 2. HLT - does nothing, doesn't
increase PC
3. MMX - enter Pentium(r) emulation mode; increase PC / 4. LCK - before
MMX: NOP ; after MMX: executes F0 0F C7 C8
5. HCF - Halt and Catch Fire / 6. EPI - Execute Programmer
7. DPC - Decrease PC"
 
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