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Old 10-11-2007, 03:07 PM
CubicZirconia CubicZirconia is offline
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Default Re: Links LS and other golf sims

I'm having massive flashbacks looking at those screenshots. I loved the sound effects, and trying to hit the clubhouse on the 18th hole.

More recently I've played TW03, TW04, and TW05. But the games are so easy on PC that I never did enjoy them that much. It just doesn't seem like golf when every shot you hit is perfect.
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Old 10-11-2007, 03:31 PM
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There are no doubt a ton of screen captures out there, but here is one I found off of Google images, it looks like the 18th hole at Cabo del Sol. Pretty sweet, and to address what the poster above mentioned, it's pretty friggin hard to master.

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Old 10-11-2007, 04:57 PM
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Cabo del Sol? Augusta? I must get this game.
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Old 10-11-2007, 08:00 PM
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Loved this game. I can hear those birds tweeting as I swing.

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Links386 taught me how to fine tune my computer. You had to load a vesa driver and fit it in the 640k memory space DOS had, along with any other drivers like cd-rom or your sound blaster. I was constantly tweaking my autoexec.bat and config.sys to try and fit everything in the 640 and still have the game run smooth. Thank heavens dos 6.2 had upper memory management.

I played in a links386 tournament where you emailed your scores in to a guy in England. People from all over the world were playing in it up until Links LS was released. It was on the honor system, you had to record the game and not start it over if you munged it up early. I got pretty good, coming in 3rd most every week. If you played a lot it was actually pretty easy.

Damn, that was a long time ago as well, about 1994-95.
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Old 10-11-2007, 08:18 PM
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TomE,

Come on man, Oakland Hills = super boring!!!

Here, does this leaderboard from Valhalla jog some memories?:

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Old 10-11-2007, 08:30 PM
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So this is not available anywhere right now? Or am I a complete googletard?
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Old 10-11-2007, 08:55 PM
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Come on man, Oakland Hills = super boring!!!

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Yeah, I know..."Sominex Hills". Still, Oakland Hills is in my backyard, so I have to defend it. Besides, that's the course where I beat Paul Willey in a ladder match to jump to 3rd - IN THE WORLD - behind him and Petteri.

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Here, does this leaderboard from Valhalla jog some memories?

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Haha...there it is! I never played well at Valhalla even though I loved that LS course. I you and I had a weekly round, the 2nd or 3rd round, wasn't it? I know I'd play Woody on Sunday mornings, and then Hyay and/or Bahmo for the other round or two.

#16 on that list, the Frenchman (literally - he was from France) Francois Geousserant, and I played a head-to-head match in the Ryder Cup Roger and Petteri set up. I was beating him like a circus chimp, he was down in the dumps, so I started naming Jerry Lewis movies in the chat window to brighten his day. It didn't work.

Geez, that was a great community in it's prime. We almost got everyone to go to Banff to play IRL! My wife was actually looking forward to meeting the guys I spent so much time with. I sent Lloyd Sheidt (whose named cuased you to coin the phrase "Sheidt Happens") a bowling ball I wasn't using, he shot the first (and probably only) 700 of his life with it the first time he put it in play.

Good times.
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Old 10-11-2007, 09:04 PM
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Tuq:

"Money" paid in Stars play chips?
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:49 PM
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Default Re: Links LS and other golf sims

Do you guys still play Links 2003? I downloaded the demo, but it bugs out when I try to play (it loads, just can't play).
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:57 PM
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Do you guys still play Links 2003? I downloaded the demo, but it bugs out when I try to play (it loads, just can't play).

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I have friends who are still in a competitive Links LS league. I MUCH prefer playing live with other people though, so have never been one to like playing the mail-in solo rounds. Last year Evan and I kicked around setting up a league or at least playing online but he's too damned busy.

CrazyEyez, that's an old pic from Links386, the predecessor to Links LS. Takes me back but it doesn't do LS justice, which I think was first released in 1996.
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