Post by FriedGruntzaholic on Jan 20, 2020 19:39:57 GMT -8
*A muddy hand, with a baked (more like, half-baked) grunt pinched between its index finger and thumb, drops the grunt onto a spawning pad* Unnngh! Why I!...Oh, hello, there! Greetings to all the old friends who may still be here. And greetings to those folks who I haven't met yet. I see my title has changed a little bit, and probably rightly so. I did sort of vanish quite a few years ago, not without reason, of course. Life has changed greatly for me over the last ten years. Really, the last fifteen. Let's see...over the last fifteen years, I've lost a spouse; gained a spouse; seen my children finish growing up and move out into lives of their own; and graduated from college myself (finally!) with a bachelor's degree in Business Management Information Systems, although it hasn't helped land me a better paying job yet. I even have grandchildren now. My new wife (and the grandkids) keeps me quite busy, so I don't have a whole lot of time to spend playing Gruntz like I used to. What free time I do have, I usually spend surfing around the internet; however, the internet is beginning to bore me a bit. For that reason I'm interested in trying to resurrect Gruntz, which is partially why I'm here.
However, I don't know how well that's going to go, seeing as how I couldn't get it going previously on this machine, a Dell laptop that was originally a Windows 7 machine, upgraded to 10. And my older desktop machine, a homebrew Windows XP upgraded to Windows 7, had trouble running Gruntz. It would either crash immediately to the desktop upon trying to start, or, if I managed to get it started, when I finished a game (such as a Questz level ), the game would crash out to the desktop and I would lose any progress I made in the game, unless I had done a save somewhere along the way. And now with the ending of support for both XP and Win7, I find I have to either attempt to upgrade that machine, or leave it as is sans a connection to the internet. I think the frustration I had trying to just play Gruntz with a constantly crashing game was another reason I kind of left the scene. In any event, whether I'm successful in resurrecting this game, I thought I'd pop in and say, "Hi!". Don't know how long I'll stay or how much I'll participate here, but whatever comes, it's good to be back, if only for a short while.
However, I don't know how well that's going to go, seeing as how I couldn't get it going previously on this machine, a Dell laptop that was originally a Windows 7 machine, upgraded to 10. And my older desktop machine, a homebrew Windows XP upgraded to Windows 7, had trouble running Gruntz. It would either crash immediately to the desktop upon trying to start, or, if I managed to get it started, when I finished a game (such as a Questz level ), the game would crash out to the desktop and I would lose any progress I made in the game, unless I had done a save somewhere along the way. And now with the ending of support for both XP and Win7, I find I have to either attempt to upgrade that machine, or leave it as is sans a connection to the internet. I think the frustration I had trying to just play Gruntz with a constantly crashing game was another reason I kind of left the scene. In any event, whether I'm successful in resurrecting this game, I thought I'd pop in and say, "Hi!". Don't know how long I'll stay or how much I'll participate here, but whatever comes, it's good to be back, if only for a short while.
...Ha! Ha! Scared ya', didn't I?
