Happy Tess

[altivo]

She finally got to go out to the pasture for the first time this year. Only for 45 minutes or so, but it has to be short for a while to get her adjusted to fresh grass again. Usually the first walk out there is a wild tussle, and I was prepared for dancing, lunging mare with my steel toed boots and leather driving gloves. Fooled me. She was a perfect lady. Eager to go, but only once did she tug on the lead and that subsided immediately at a sharp word. Instead of taking off at a gallop when released, She stood around looking at me and then started eating grass right there.

When it was time to come back in, she did make me walk most of the length of the pasture to get her, rather than coming to me when called as she was doing last year. However, when I got within arms length she raised her head and quietly acquiesced, letting me attach her lead and walk her sedately back to the barn. Good grief, she must finally be getting "old."

I think I'd better not be fooled. The usual spring precautions must continue for a while, in case she has a relapse to her old wild ways.

Went in to work this evening as planned, 4 to 8. Now I'm done until next Monday, hooray!

Out of curiosity, pulled out the original CDs for some other old DOS games that I had lying around. Results were pretty good. DOSBox runs most of them without complaint. The ones from LucasArt that were written using their SCUMM system, however, do not quite work in DOSBox. Image and text are OK, but there was no sound. After hunting around I concluded that I should be using the SCUMMVM system to run these rather than DOSBox. So I downloaded and installed that, and sure enough, after a few false starts and a reboot or two, I succeeded in getting LOOM to run with music and voice segments.

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[schnee]

*s* Maybe Tess was just in a calm mood there — it might be better to not get fooled indeed. ^_~

And yay, LOOM! I loved that game, and many of the other old SCUMM games, too.

[altivo]

I've never been much of a gamer, but I have a stack of 90s stuff that was mostly still in the shrink wrap. It all came bundled with a CDROM drive at one time. Lemmings and Loom were two that I had on the Amiga, and the PC versions were included in that bundle. I also had A-Train and Railroad Tycoon on the Amiga.

Loom was particularly enjoyable, I remember, because of the music and voice features. The story was a bit predictable, but I liked the idea of using musical notes to invoke magic.