This morning, while working on the v3 port of The Sully Chronicles, I started combing through the site in an effort to improve content on a whim. In particular, the current about VERGE page oft strikes me as annoyingly incomplete and wholly inadequate (it's still just the silly filler page I made eight months back).

So I remembered the original About VERGE page, and looked it up (courtesy of the Wayback) because, after all, the theme for VERGE 3 is '1997 all over again'. Now, the old about page was rather useless (I'd been hoping to grab some content to paste), but the files link caught my eye. I went there, and found that the clever fellows at archive.org actually kept a copy of the VERGE.ZIP from June 15th... 1997!

So I downloaded that bugger, ran it through a zipfixer (it was slightly corrupt), and gazed upon it's treasured contents. Only a handful of hours earlier I'd been talking with Toen about how I regretted how we'd lost the Eldar versions of Sully. And here the very version that tempted me into the community all those years ago falls into my lap. Two months to the day of this particular release I came out with the first SotS. So opening it up brought back a bunch of memories.

This version (which I uploaded to VRPG) is amazing. It's pre-entities, pre-Kathy-Lee-sparklie-money, pre-manga-cels, hell, it's even missing Bumsville! I'dn't even remembered that there was a time when Bumsville didn't exist!

Anyways, any of you cats who aren't familiar with the eldest version of Sully out there, feel free to [check it out]. You'll need win95, win98, or Millenium to run it, but if you can, it's worth it, if only so you'll get some of the self-referential jokes when the new version comes out.... which'll be Real Soon Now (tm).

Now, back to work!

No, the dread epidemic of Aldencian Hemorrhoids were 100% tile-based people. This Sully has the same deal going; The only entities are the cast.

Btw, the Hemorrhoids-line is basically the only reason I want the mark 1 and mark 2 versions of that infernal demo. :(

Kildorf suggested DosBox, run fullscreen. It was slightly choppy on his 1 ghz, so one assumes the moar ghz, teh bettar.

Emulation is all very well, but I'm sick and twisted, and get a perverse thril at the thought of making a composite WinSully Ancient ;)

I am (almost) sad that there is nowhere anyone can dig up some pre-Sully VERGEs. :o

I would be more sad if there was really much to them, other than the nostalgia/mystic feeling of playing a pre-Sully VERGE.

Haha. This brings back so many memories. I remember 1997 was the year I first got interested in making games, and I came upon VERGE by chance after reading an article on GCEs someone wrote, claiming that VERGE is a promising up-and-coming GCE. The first version of Sully I downloaded definitely did not have a Bumsville map, and entities were a thing of the future, so this must have been the one that introduced me as well. ;)

Yes, thank god the hemorrhoid infection was cured. Sadly, the curse of the teleporting butler was never fixed.

Man, I only remember three things about Silver circle: it had one really good tune in it, there was a little floating ball named Windigone, and there was this one gorgeous place early on where a precipice jutted out into the darkness.

Quote:Originally posted by Gayo

Man, I only remember three things about Silver circle: it had one really good tune in it, there was a little floating ball named Windigone, and there was this one gorgeous place early on where a precipice jutted out into the darkness.

I remember a stone prison and silver hair dude. I remember a lot more from SotS. Which in fact, the most memorable is losing all my money to a game of dices... DAMN YOU GRUE!

Quote:Originally posted by athocreft

Something is wrong with the world... like a splinter in my mind driving me mad... GRUE! What was I supposed to do with the Onam doll?!

In that demo? Nothing.

Also, it's an ACTION FIGURE. (grumble).