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  • Re: FREE GAME: Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century

    From Justisaur@[email protected] to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action on Thu Feb 5 10:32:58 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

    On 1/30/2026 11:16 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
    On Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:53:19 -0800, Justisaur <[email protected]>
    wrote:

    On 1/29/2026 4:21 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

    Hey, a free game I actually care about! Will wonders never cease?


    * Star Quest 1 in the 27th Century (30th Anniversary)
    https://virtual-adventures.itch.io/star-quest-1-in-the-27th-century


    Haven't played it, or even heard of it. It looks cool, I wonder if it
    works with a controller? I suppose I can try to dust off my kbm skills,
    but my hands/elbows/shoulders can't handle that more than an hour a day
    at this point.

    Reportedly, one of the major feature-adds by the developer was full
    support for controllers, mice, joysticks and HOTAS setups. That, and
    making sure it runs on modern Windows. Otherwise, it's still the
    crunky old game from 1995, with the same pixellated visuals and
    gameplay.

    I'll admit, I like it mostly because it's an old DOS game. I've played
    it a bit, and I wouldn't really say its good. It's not terrible... but
    there are better games --even from the DOS days-- that you could spend
    your time with. But if you've gotta spend your time and effort
    remaking something, better something from three years ago than
    remastering a five-year old game (yeah, I'm looking at you, Sony!)

    Yet they still won't remaster Bloodborne, 10 years old, and all the
    souls fans are clamoring for it, well if it comes to PC at least. I
    think they missed the boat, it's a bit hard to set up right, but the
    emulation is working with higher resolution and improved fps.
    --
    -Justisaur

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