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The Wobbler · Post by **The Wobbler** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 12:58 am

http://superwalrusland.com/ohr/issue55/cover.html

A small issue with lots of colorful pictures. For cool guys only.

RMZ · Post by **RMZ** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:37 am

Loved the Cool Guy Bob art. Good issue overall.

Master K · Post by **Master K** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:01 am

Nice cover! It feels good to see my artwork in the gallery, especially Master K (Not me as in my username, my avatar).

Maybe next month a demo of Pokemon Beige will be in there.

Pepsi Ranger · Post by **Pepsi Ranger** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:44 am

A note to Willy Electrix, and anyone else who does a retrospective on an old game: Most of the games on CP dated Feb. 2, 2003 were ports from Operation: OHR and are in fact older than 2003. I'm pretty sure The Adventures of Bill was released in 2001 or 2002. Unfortunately, there is no record of when games were released on Operation: OHR, so you really just have to refer to them as pre-Castle Paradox, or pre-2003.

Just wanted to clear that up.

Willy Elektrix · Post by **Willy Elektrix** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 2:06 pm

Pepsi Ranger wrote:A note to Willy Electrix, and anyone else who does a retrospective on an old game: Most of the games on CP dated Feb. 2, 2003 were ports from Operation: OHR and are in fact older than 2003. I'm pretty sure The Adventures of Bill was released in 2001 or 2002. Unfortunately, there is no record of when games were released on Operation: OHR, so you really just have to refer to them as pre-Castle Paradox, or pre-2003.

Thank you for that great info. I've suspected that for a while since I've never seen a Castle Paradox game older than 2003. I'm assuming Operation: OHR isn't archived anywhere, right?

Also, out of curiosity, what are some of the oldest known OHR games that are still available?

Meatballsub · Post by **Meatballsub** » Mon Nov 07, 2011 3:23 pm

http://www.castleparadox.com/archive/op ... isthub.php

Some of the links don't work anymore.

ncw64 · Post by **ncw64** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 3:42 am

Awesome issue... I miss SBG though

If I have ideas am I free to submit them? Although they're probably anything but original...

Post by **TMC** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:38 am

Willy Elektrix wrote:Also, out of curiosity, what are some of the oldest known OHR games that are still available?

These ones: http://rinku.castleparadox.com/Ohrhits/

This list of games might help: if you scroll to the bottom you'll see a list of all the RPG files on CP (main game list, Op:OHR, and ohrhits), SS, and a few others, sorted by the modified date of the RPG file. Halfway through the file it lists the long name and about line for each game.

Shizuma · Post by **Shizuma** » Tue Nov 08, 2011 8:09 am

I really love the cover. Thanks a lot Jack.

Will read the whole thing tomorrow.

Willy Elektrix · Post by **Willy Elektrix** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:40 am

TMC wrote:
Willy Elektrix wrote:Also, out of curiosity, what are some of the oldest known OHR games that are still available?
These ones: http://rinku.castleparadox.com/Ohrhits/

This list of games might help: if you scroll to the bottom you'll see a list of all the RPG files on CP (main game list, Op:OHR, and ohrhits), SS, and a few others, sorted by the modified date of the RPG file. Halfway through the file it lists the long name and about line for each game.

That is very interesting. I'll make good use of this. Thank you very much.

Pepsi Ranger · Post by **Pepsi Ranger** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:33 pm

Hey Willy, just wanted to reiterate if you haven't noticed it already that the list gives only the dates when a game was last uploaded, not when it was first uploaded. Might be important to remember.

Post by **Mogri** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:05 pm

The oldest available games predate Castle Paradox anyway.

Willy Elektrix · Post by **Willy Elektrix** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:03 pm

Pepsi Ranger wrote:Hey Willy, just wanted to reiterate if you haven't noticed it already that the list gives only the dates when a game was last uploaded, not when it was first uploaded. Might be important to remember.

I had noticed that. So the first games were made in 1997 or 1998. At what point did the engine start to run in Windows? At what point was the 4 map restriction abolished?

I'll probably cover Heart of Riva for next issue. Interestingly, I already have a copy of that on my hard drive for some reason.

Post by **Bob the Hamster** » Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:22 pm

Feb 2006 was the first official release of the Windows version

http://rpg.hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce ... ease_Dates

Post by **TMC** » Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:13 am

In my opinion, it's more likely the engine was first released in early 1998 than in 1997 (no one seems to remember). I was wondering myself when the 4 map limit was removed; there are no records for that either. I'll eventually work it out when I look into the bugs in reading maps from ancient games.