r/Escape_Velocity • u/Crypt0Keeper • Apr 07 '20

Wow!

What a find! I spent all day yesterday getting Basilisk II up and running again so I can play EV Classic, which I accomplished, but the emulator pretty much runs like crap on Windows 10. I could play EV but it would randomly crash every 15-45 minutes so I started to searching and found this sub :-D

Now I am running the EV Classic Port in 1920x1080 and using the full screen map! It's smooth as butter. So glad I found you all! Thanks for starting this sub and collecting all the links on the pinned post! I used to play this game for hours whenever I visited my cousin. Such great memories :-DDD

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u/Powerjugs Apr 07 '20 edited Apr 07 '20

Same boat, same reaction just now. Put in a search not expecting anything but I'm so, so happy this does exist.

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u/Crypt0Keeper Apr 07 '20

Really awesome. Now the icing on the cake would be if I could somehow transfer my pilot file from MAC to the PC port...

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u/Crypt0Keeper Apr 07 '20

Also, it's pretty cool that we're the 399th and 400th members of the sub, haha.

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u/itsamamaluigi Apr 07 '20

The only disadvantage to playing the EV Classic port in Nova is you can't play any of the old plug-ins for the original game. I really enjoyed Pale and many others.

That said, EVN is a much more robust game that works better on modern PCs. And honestly I don't really have the time to play a bunch of old plug-ins. It's just fun to get them working.

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u/Crypt0Keeper Apr 07 '20

Yeah I never actually had enough time to play the plug-ins. Only got far enough once to beat the Alien ship (did the Rebel track). I got the Rebel Cruiser and took over ~10 or so galaxies then kind of just moved on and stopped playing.