Oh, I absolutely loved all of them, but it’s def a different kind of sci-fi (less human-techy).
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clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoThat’s one of my very favorite books. It’s fantastic at setting the mood. The further books are ok but not as much to my taste.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
I still need to read the book! My main familiarity with RAMA is the 199(5?) PC game that was mind bogglingly obtuse with math puzzles but the world was SO fascinating! I need to figure out how to play it again with my grown up brain…
The soundtrack was INCREDIBLE…
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Apparently ScummVM supports the game, though idk what’s with the file size in this particular upload.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
That’s awesome! Thanks SO much for pointing me to that! I too wonder what the 2GB size is. It looks like they have two different sets of packages, one being a “source archive” that’s just a raw CD dump.
I can see it, since the game was on like, 4 or 5 CDs back then, and involved a lot of heavily compressed video!
I have a fun feeling that maybe I can run this really well in Bottles, it ScummVM alone doesn’t do the trick. :D
Here’s a link I found to the soundtrack in “CD Quality”, with a download link, if you’re interested.
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbSFnTrLHtkp8Yj7bSdaN_…
That 90’s crystal-synth is the most gorgeous thing…it reminded me very much of the soundtrack to Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. :D
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ScummVM should work swimmingly and better than Wine. I used it on an Android tablet — though one game crashed at a particular point, thankfully not far into it.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
There’s also an audio play which was neat.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Oh that’s really cool! I’m gonna search for that! Maybe my library has it, or I can bug them to get it. :)
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It is. I found it interesting!