Looking for a good timewaster

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Rod said:
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.
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Boxworld, or an inferior 3D clone, 3D Crates

mike
 
I thought later Boxworld levels were much more difficult than Sokoban
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You're right, I meant by looks and gameplay. there are some serious
interesting brain-exhausters among the levels.
 
Install Linux on your PC.
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Install Linux is also my favorite. I think of how many times I've
loaded different distros onto my hd, configured, etc. Linux can consume
all of your free time.
 
canetoad said:
Then can you give me a hint for screen 3 :)
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LOL.

OK, I checked the link and installed the game. It is 1.09, where the one
that I finished was 1.07... but they look identical having played a few
levels.

Hint for screen 3? Same as the hint for any levels with open sides: send
the ball up the sides and hope it bounces about up the top for ages
while you get a rest :-)

Because you will need a rest if you ever hope to finish the thing.

I don't think you can pause and resume tomorrow, so you have to finish
at a sitting and IIRC the only pause feature is to get a sticky paddle.
I think it took me about 5 hours, but that included putting kids to bed,
fetching beer, etc.
And. of course, that 5 hours was at the end of a learning curve that had
taken months of serious competition with my G/F, each of us trying to
get a better score than the other. She nearly wiped me off the score
sheet altogether once. :-(
And the dreadful thing, the truly awful thing about finishing is that
you do not get a mention on the top score board. Finishing is its own
reward ffs.

General hints: be patient and settle down for a long haul. Always get
the slow ball, always get the sticky paddle. Ignore those who tell you
that you are really, really sad. Have the best mouse you can get. Beware
the invisible bloody bricks. Be very, very patient when there is one
brick left because the game will nuke it after a while. Learn precise
aiming and precise use of angles... in one of the later levels you have
to come into a bucket shape from the top which is seriously challenging.

I tried quite a few breakout games and DX Ball is the best by a mile.
 
Bill said:
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.
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Thanks for this. I've played it before, it is much more sedate than DX
Ball which I think is the leader of the field for this sort of game.
 
Rod said:
You're right, I meant by looks and gameplay. there are some serious
interesting brain-exhausters among the levels.
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Too interesting for me by half!

mike
 
Mark Carter said:
If you're into mathematical diversions:
http://www.qbyte.org/puzzles/


Don't forget to back up your important files first, though!
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Alternately, get a spare older computer to play with linux on. Then you
aren't risking much of anything, and you can install each distro for a
few days -- that ought to eat up a year right there.
 
Swans4me said:
I am looking for a program that will keep me occupied for the next few
weeks.
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Download Apache and learn how to set up a webserver. If you still have
time to kill, download PHP and learn to create PHP web pages. If you
still have time to kill, download mySql, or PostgreSql, or some other
freeware SQL database, and learn to build interactive-content sites with
database functions. If you still have time, download Perl and learn to
set up perl cgi and maintenance programs. If you still have time, learn
CSS and make your website pretty. If you have even more time to kill,
download a C++ compiler and rewrite all your perl cgi scripts into
compiled executables for faster performance. If that's not enough, grab
Sendmail and learn how to set up a mail server as well. If that doesn't
use up all the time you have, get a spare computer, install linux, and
migrate your (by now pretty killer) website to that box.

If you're still bored, take all these skills and get a job as an on-call
network admin.
 
I looked at some of these today and find them very interesting. How hard is
it to get advice and help. What if I have a senior moment or a blond moment
or worse yet, both at once?
 
Install Linux is also my favorite. I think of how many times I've
loaded different distros onto my hd, configured, etc. Linux can consume
all of your free time.
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yeh, but downloading iso's with a dial-up line?

There is a nice game named atomic in Linux distributions.
It could keep you occupied for the next few weeks.
Anyone knows if there is a windows variant?
 
Thanks for this. I've played it before, it is much more sedate than DX
Ball which I think is the leader of the field for this sort of game.
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Yes...no doubt DX Ball, with its visual & sound effects will always
remain ahead of a 'sedate' little game like Ballistic, but I just like
the 'feel' and strategy of the quieter type....and I think Ballistic
tests a wider range of skills.

My wife, on the other hand, has beaten my 22 year old son at DX Ball,
much to his chagrin....she has finished the default version 6-7 times.
But neither of them have come close to my scores in
Ballistic...*grin*...

Different strokes......
 
I looked at some of these today and find them very interesting. How
hard is it to get advice and help. What if I have a senior moment or
a blond moment or worse yet, both at once?
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Sounds like you need my phone number ;-)


mike
 
Alternately, get a spare older computer to play with linux on. Then you
aren't risking much of anything, and you can install each distro for a
few days -- that ought to eat up a year right there.
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That's what I did, and it's a very efficient way of passing time - it felt
like a hundred years!

It was also very educational; it certainly taught *me* a lesson

mike
 
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