Westfront PC The Trials of Guilder

While cleaning out some old USB sticks I found one where I backed up all my 3 inch floppies before throwing out the last computer that had drive to run them.

Among tons of things I forgot about, there is a copy of one of the first games I owned, Westfront PC The Trials of Guilder.

To run it on my computer today I have to use DOSBox.

I still remember where I got stuck in it. Yeah, I never beat it. I was supposed to 'appease the wolf'. Nobody on any of BBS's I frequented had a clue what this game was, nor how to appease the wolf, there was no place to look it up, so I set it aside and forgot all about it for all these years.

I Googled the name of the game to find how to appease the wolf, or at least read a summary of what actually happens in the game, and found this page:

http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=yurg8ah4pdcapc5g

This game is now in public domain (used to be shareware). You can download it at that link for free.

Edit: I just found out that Paul Allen Panks, the creator of Westfront PC The Trials of Guilder died back in 2009, 5 years ago. More specifically I found out about it by reading this:
http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2063

I was not aware of anything he said/did other than this one game. And as it seems that there were lot of people who disliked him and as he is not around to defend himself, I feel need to add this here as well. I cannot post on that page as it does not seem to have a comment box any more, but I can clone post that I wholeheartedly agree with that somebody else posted and that reflects how I feel about it today:

Thank you Paul.

ORIGIN is giving away FREE GAMES

Yeah. Really free.

They are starting with Dead Space, available for free until May 8th 2014:
https://www.origin.com/en-us/store/on-the-house-ANW.html

I already have it, without Origin, so this is not incentive enough for me to get Origin just yet. After all, I even use cracks on my legally purchased Steam games just to avoid having Steam on, so last thing I want to do is install yet another unneeded DRM piece of crapware that might interfere with something else.

I much preferred when I could just buy the game in store and not need to activate it online.  All they are doing with all this online DRM is making people like me use cracks so that we can enjoy our legally purchased games.

It just makes no sense that pirated products give you less headache than buying directly from manufacturer.

Free Elder Scrolls Online Beta Weekend Codes!!!

Raptr Giveaway.

It costs 10 points, which basically means play one game with Raptr running.

More info here:
http://raptr.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31637

Weekend ENDS March 16th 11:59pm EDT, it starts 14th noon, so if you want to try ESO, heres your chance, don't miss it.

Good luck.

IMGBURN and how to get rid of adware in its installer

Download Imgburn here:
http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Do NOT run that exe.

Instead, get 7zip here:
http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Then use 7zip to extract Imgburn setup. Delete plugins folder from that (its just malware), and there goes all the adware.

Its sad how low some people sink just to make few bucks.

Adobe PDF iFilter 9 for 64-bit platforms ... its FREE

Amazingly enough, it exists and its free.

I did not look for it before as I remember them not having it when I started using 64 bit OS. Yesterday, totally randomly I found out at some point Adobe released this, so as there is possibility of this post pointing it out to somebody who, like me, assumed they still did not have it, here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025

Free League of Legends Tristana and Alistar + some skins

Simple.

For Alistar:
http://youtube.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/youtube#

For Tristana:
http://woobox.com/potb6z
or
https://na.leagueoflegends.com/facebook

Cool Portable book reader: Sumatra

I tried dozen readers today, and this is first one I liked, so I'll share the link.

It reads number of formats of interest to me: CBZ/CBR, CHM, ePub, Mobi and PDF, and is barely 5 MB in size.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/download-free-pdf-viewer.html

FREE Online 3D Model Converter

Earlier today I needed to convert a cap from .lwo to .obj so I could import it into C4D so while looking around I stumbled upon this place which did job perfectly:

http://www.greentoken.de/onlineconv/

FREE 3Ds Max, Student Edition, Legally

If you need it, go get it:

http://www.autodesk.com/education/student-software