Matt, You know what I like about this game? There's always something new. For the first time I prayed to a saint to get past the city guards and into the...
Alan Pitts
ajpitts@...
May 5, 2002 11:59 pm
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is it possible for there to be a Darklands English-German translation patch for the game, just so I can better my German skills? (I own the English version you...
Haven't tried using the German resource files pasted into an English install. It would have to be version 7; but I doubt that it would work that easily, if at...
matt wrote: ... And as for the game presenting a good example of the German language, I cannot be the judge of that. Ich spreche deutsches wenig. dietmar: i...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 12, 2002 5:50 am
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Yes, rhyming words such as fat, and cat, DO NOT RHYME IN GERMAN! (Dick, katze...) Same with many operas and musicals, they dont sound right in their translated...
... Same to me. ... Another point made the translation nearly impossible. The kind of german language, which was spoken in the middle-ages, is very different...
ENeubacher@...
May 12, 2002 8:21 pm
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oops now you got me. didn't see south park in no version. 8-) dietmar _____________________________________________________________ Get in quick and get your...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 12, 2002 11:35 pm
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... Indeed! I worked on an system that provided directions, descriptions, etc of hotels and rental cars. It had to provide the same info in english, french,...
In `95/96 I was a tester on a database product, which marketing for some reason decided would sell better if it came in very fancy and extremely expensive...
My replies inline... ... [MWIRKK] I have a copy, thanks to the generosity a couple of years ago of another DL list member. But, unfortunatley, only the...
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/92308 http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/92560 There's a reason I fill these things with bogus...
The Fool
kneem@...
May 17, 2002 3:39 am
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Yup, looks like it's true. Thanks. I updated all my accounts. BTW - You read Eastside Journal?...
... It came up on slashdot. I imagine There'll be C|net article sometime, and probably a Wired, and a TheRegister.co.uk article as well....
The Fool
kneem@...
May 17, 2002 4:30 am
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to Merle: adjusting the font size for the translation to fit into the box was a great solution. to Matt: the presented translations of the darklands msg files...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 17, 2002 5:17 am
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Hmmmm. That's good to know. I wouldn't have guessed that. But maybe I should have, considering, as I'd said, there being so many word-forms I was unable to...
... I was having a discussion with a native German speaker a few months ago discussing translations of the Bible. As an example of some point or other I...
Alan Pitts
ajpitts@...
May 18, 2002 3:12 pm
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err, Matt, to get this right: i thought the listing to be extracted from the corresponding english and german version files ? this is not a translation by you...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 18, 2002 7:18 pm
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... Thus, ... I think I covered most of the map already with the exception of single remote cities with no success. I guess some formulas can't be bought at...
No, this is certainly NOT a translation by me! I took a two years of Deutsch to satisfy the foreign language entry requirement for the university I attended....
Matt, i'll proof-read it (especially for spelling, as i understand it ?). i went to an american school for two years over 20 years ago. but my mother tongue is...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 20, 2002 5:22 am
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hi Matt, if you want this in a text file, tell me where to send it. the numbers apply to the numbers on your dl_strings*.html files. dietmar ... 1 is the...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 21, 2002 10:37 am
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Off topic because it's another game but I found it interesting that it is an RPG set in 16th century Europe. Don't know how well that setting will be ...
Steven J. Cotellesse
stevec@...
May 22, 2002 9:01 pm
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Thanks for the tip, Steve! Looks interesting. I think some of the developers are starting to get the right idea. But whether good or bad, it sounds like...
... Looks like an interesting idea. The screenshot doesn't inspire confidence in me, as it's almost completely pitch black. One of the things I really love...
"The only thing I don't get, from reading the marketing ... 3rd Crusade, 1188 - 1192 (approx) - maybe it's just a typo? alternatively, we're looking at the...
Merle is right. the screenshots do look a bit dark. the ones with plenty of light have nice graphics, though. dietmar ...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 23, 2002 12:52 pm
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I am new to the list, but an old player at this game. Just recently I started going back through my old games, and went looking for Darklands stuff on the...
Matt, was that what you wanted me to do ? dietmar _____________________________________________________________ Get in quick and get your nick--over 1,400...
dietmar petrus
dp@...
May 25, 2002 3:56 pm
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... I think that would be quite difficult. If you look at Matt's pages with dumps of the "msgfile" file, it contains much of the text of the game menus. You...
