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The only drawback is that the levels are not read-only like through the servers, and they replace specific blocks on the memory stick. But, it's still fun. My ONML port is nearly done. I'm on Havoc. xD
I already have that plugin. Please, can you just make a topic for all of these combined instead of making a seperate thread for each version?
I will do it when I find some more Lemmings music. Now I'm searching for NES files. Thanks for your interest!
Le Grenier du Mac.
No, some of them are original to Tim and Brian.
Taking the Amiga naming order, the original ones are:
Only floaters can survive this
Tailor made for blockers
Now use miners and climbers
A task for blockers and bombers
Builders will help you here
Smile if you love Lemmings
We all fall down
Alot of people like to say that the intro to Only floaters can survive this sounds like some classical piece. About five notes do, the rest sound different. I don't think that's basis to say it was derived from the classical piece (thewhich I can't recall). If that was true, every song ever made would sound like every other song because they have middle C in them (or something stupid)... etc
What would I love to see in a new Lemmings game...
The original 8 skills, and no more. Oversaturation killed Lemmings 2. Having ONLY 8 skills meant you had defined constraints, the same for each level. You could go down, across, diagonally, up, or dead in your tracks. What more do you need? Anything else just makes hero Lemmings easier to come by, and the need to think becomes absent.
Quirky themes. Crystal, Hell, Earth, Pink (aka Roman), Yellow (aka Egypt)... They're all rather surreal, except for maybe Yellow. I mean, little men running through the pits of hell and jumping into a giant pig... that's just brilliant. Waltzing around an ice-palace outlined with giant crystals the size of blue whales? Great! ... It fits Lemmings. Changing that prospect causes a failure to maintain an aspect of the spirit of Lemmings.
Lemmings need to die. If there's a need to save them all, then... no. There needs to be bombers, they need to die when they fall from a height, they need to drown, they need to burn. Otherwise, what are we saving them from? ... Just the clock, it seems.
That's all.
Maybe that's holding too close to the original? Well... it is. The original is the best, and say what you like, the sales said it all. The multitude of ports say it all. The fangames which only recreate the original say it all. The forums that are dedicated to all things Lemmings but 99% of the time only touches on the originals or Xmas or Oh No say it all. The fansites on the original say it all.
Don't mess with success. (Or else you get a PS3...)
Eh, it's a bit of an involved field. A proficient programmer not only knows how to instruct a computer to do certain things, but also understands how those things happen on the internal circuitry and knows how to make the necessary considerations accordingly. For the time being, I recommend you find some programming tutorials via your favorite search engine. Once you're comfortable making things that are functional, I can help you dig into the deeper stuff and get really good at it.
BASIC and its variants are by far the easiest to learn if you've never programmed before. C and C++ are nearly universally supported, so if you learn one of them, you'll be able to write programs for virtually any computer. What I suggest is finding an old copy of Microsoft QBASIC and learning some of the fundamentals to programming through that, then move to C to see how most of the world does things. You can dip into C++ if you want, but be advised that there are many features in that language that are geared towards productivity at the loss of performance--which results in programmers not really knowing what the computer does when they tell it to do things--so I tend to avoid it like the plague.