Recently in Computer Games Category

I was going to promote Shamus Young's webcomic Chainmail Bikini but it appears he's no longer going to continue it.  Pity.

I will mention though that he has a pair of interesting articles posted about his take on Video Game Piracy and Digital Rights Management that may be of interest.  He even takes a shot at Penny Arcade's new game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness.

I don't run into the problem of re-registering my games that much.  The computer I have at home is fairly old and most of the games I play came out when DRM hadn't been created as a anti-piracy program.  I think the newest game I play is Morrowind and that came out in 2002. (I do have Oblivion but I know my system can't handle the graphics. Maybe in a few years.) I'm still going through the old Dungeon and Dragon's Gold Box games from way back when and those sit on my flash drive.  I have to type in a CD key when I install something but I don't mind doing that.

One comment that bothers me is how some folks who have purchased the game have to obtain a crack just to get around the security program.  I had that issue way back when when CD games first came out. (Trying to remember what game it was.  Maybe Pizza Tycoon?) I had a CD burner in that computer at the time and the game saw it and refused to play.

edit: Oh, forgot to mention that Mr. Young also did a Lord of the Rings Photoshop'ed webcomic called DM of the Rings.  It's finished now but it's a good read.  I wonder if he'll start a new one of the Hobbit.

Image from here.

FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization, and similar to Civilization. The objective of the game is to create an independent nation. It was Sourceforge's Project of the Month for February, 2007.

Andrea reminded me recently about playing old DOS games that she's found on the net. I've been doing some searching online trying to find some of the old games that I used to play. Here's a site called Abandonia where I found a number of them. Heck, they even have Sword of the Samurai for download.

I haven't done a desktop wallpaper in ages.

Check out a bunch of them based on the Elder Scrolls Computer Game series here. I really like this one from Morrowind:

Found an interesting mention of a game on line:

Star Lords - the first version of Master of Orion.

Foo also gives us a link to Classic Commodore 64 Games playable online.

I wonder how long it'll be until someone shuts down the site. :)