Posted: 3/8/2008 6:33:42 AM EDT
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www.badscience.net/?p=622 not a rick roll work safe edit : my link is filled with fail. double edit : works now. |
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I tried to install it a few weeks ago and it wouldn't run. I need to see if there's an updated version. ETA: At home, my virus scanner goes nuts when I try to download Phun. I'm researching this...apparently others have had the same problem, but I'm not sure whether it was determined to be a scanner error or an actual virus. There's another one that's a lot simpler, that does run: Crayon Physics If you have a tablet PC, there is also a bit of Microsoft freeware  that is cool:Microsoft Physics Illustrator |
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I predict that something similar to this will become part of a future gaming system. Imagine an online multiplayer game where one team's job is to build and defend a city and the other team's job is to invade and conquer it. Using a Phun type system for constructing, creating, and modifying tools and environmental factors, it would truly become a battle of wits between the two teams. The potential of this is beyond imagining. CJ |
Does that work on newer systems? Last one I had wouldn't work. |
You mean like Unreal Tournament? (Assault Maps) |
Below the video it said the program can be downloaded here: www.acc.umu.se/~emilk/ |
I don't know, I haven't registered for that site yet. |
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Or here is a direct Download link. www.phun.at/ I have the program open and i just don't get how it works.  ETA duh you have to press the green play button to get things moving lol. |
That was a great game. I bought it back in the day. But when I try to run it on new systems it returns an error saying it doesn't run in this graphic mode - even when I set the display to the lowest level. Something about it being imcompatible with Truecolor display. |
Shows you how old you are...  I downloaded and got it started. Left my 9 year old son and when I came home he was showing me how to do many of the things show in the videos. That and some other cool stuff. He says he knows how to build a spring powered gun... But was too tired to do it. My daughter tells me he was on it for 3 hours striaght. I'll play with it later. ( Get my son to show me how it works) 
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I think u need to run it on an Emulator program. |
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There already is something similar to that, it's called Garry's Mod (source engine, a 3D physics sandbox). The one thing that amazes me the most in this software is the way the water flows. I doubt that current computers could handle that in 3D.
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Hey! Finally I get to cry dupe! And I only do it, cuz I'm the one what posted originally.  My Phun thread: |
I downloaded DOSbox but the original game wouldn't run on that either - it said it needs to run in Windows. But when I run it in Windows it says this graphic mode is not supported.  I supposed there's a version made just to run in DOSbox - but I haven't registered at that site and jumped through their hoops to download it. So there's no way to run the original version of The Incredible Machine on a new computer now?
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