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Re: Psssst! Can ya spare an ol’ taffer a frogbeast egg?

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From: Doc Photon
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:38
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Thanks,  I'll add that to the notes.

I'm working my way thru the T2X series now.

M.


E.Triebsch wrote:

>Hey Doc,
>
>I haven't played thief much recently and I am probably out of the loop with 
>the community as well. But, for myself, I cannot recommend anything that 
>Purah worked on HIGH ENOUGH! Anything that he was involved in was top notch! 
>Calendra's Cistern for example was awesome. I haven't played the sequel to 
>that but I heard it was great. That guy and the teams that he has worked 
>with are AWESOME!!!! I seem to remember they actually got a write up in a 
>gaming magazine for such high quality work. Anyway, that is my two 
>cents....now I'll have to go sneaking about in the shadows to make up for my 
>losses.
>
>Take care,
>
>Lord Sin
>"Doc Photon" <m3dwhitney@att.net> wrote in message 
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>>I’ve been away from gaming & Thief in particular for several years and had 
>>opportunity recently to blow the dust off the Thief II CD’s.  I have 
>>Deadly Shadows somewhere but sadly can’t find the DVD now so can’t check 
>>out the fan missions for it just yet.
>>I couldn’t get T2 to run on my original system; nVidia drivers I’m 
>>assuming after a bit of research and I didn’t really feel like dumbing 
>>them down.  Gave my main work system a try though & it installed, patched 
>>& ran perfectly.  Even got DromEd to work tonight.  Ran thru the original 
>>missions on Expert level to come up to speed.  (Hey, age & memory loss 
>>have some advantages I guess to make it all seem new again.)  That, and 
>>Expert level has definite play differences from what I do remember.
>>
>>Anyway, seems there’s nearly 4 years of Thief II FM’s for me to check out 
>>but very few have any sort of rating.  I’ve snagged a few of the more 
>>recent ones but was wondering if I could get some fan favorite suggestions 
>>from the past 3-4 years.  Must be a  few of you grubbers still lurking out 
>>there.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Mark
>>
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