Yup, you can play the ‘post steam’ version via steam or free download and get the ASCII characters, however you are still forced to use the mouse to play it, which doesn’t work for me, so I stick with the old 47 release and just play that forever I guess!

At my age with my eyesight a little up-scaling is fine, especially as I’ve been having to spend the past few years playing newer games at half resolution sometimes to get decent frame-rates on the 1660 ;) I’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for any price drops when the next series of cards come out. Hoping this build will be one I can tinker with better parts as the prices drop in the future.

The 7600 vs 7600X here in Denmark is only a 100 DKK difference, (About $14) so I figured, what the hell :)

Good point, the one i have flagged right now is CL36 so I’ll have a look into the options there.

Yeah, I was thinking of going full AMD as I haven’t for a long time, and nVidia are a little, shall we say, consumer unfriendly… but like you say I’m not sure how well that will play with the AI stuff. I actually looked at getting a second hand 3060 just to save money so I could replace it sooner in the future but not a huge number of them out there locally, especially as I’m on a small island which further limits that route.

Just realised I never listed my monitor resolution, but I think either option will be good enough for 1440P?

Good info, thanks. I’ve certainly seen a few YT vids with people having issues with Expo, had hoped they would have been ironed out by now, but as you say not game ending stuff, just rather annoying I can imagine.

Just started a run through of The Isle Tide Hotel on Steam, enjoyed the demo a while back and I’m a sucker for a bit of FMV.

I guess I always have it my head I’m the object I’m controlling rather than the camera following, so my brain defaults to more direct control? I do tend to favour “in-cockpit” / first person view.

Standard unless there’s and flying involved, either in atmosphere or space, then I invert Y. Can’t imagine ever inverting X, that just blows my kind. Been playing since before WASD was a thing, so I’ve seen most implementations I guess.