So, having given up my Shockbyte server earlier this month and moved our Minecraft world to a local single player instance, I have now created our own local Minecraft server using AMP (Application Management Panel) from CubeCoders.
Here’s how I did it…
Continue reading How to set up your own local Minecraft Java server using AMP
Back in the mid-1980s my friends and I would often tease each other about which was the better home computer, the Commodore 64 or the ZX Spectrum.
Clearly it was the Commodore 64!
There was one Spectrum (and BBC micro) game, however, that I was very envious of: Atic Atac from Ultimate Play The Game.
Continue reading Melkhior’s Mansion (the Atic Atac remake for Windows PC)
Five years ago today, Campo Santo released what quickly became my all-time favourite computer game, Firewatch.
If you haven’t already played it and you’re tired of running, jumping, shooting-at-people games, this is a very welcome change.
In a world that has been locked down for almost a year, this game has been a perfect virtual escape for this introvert who loves to explore the world alone.
Continue reading Firewatch (redux)
One of my favourite board games is the excellent Carcassonne from Z-Man. It’s a simple but fun tile-based game where you build and claim cities and roads, farms and monasteries and gardens to acquire points.
Over the last few months, I’ve been enjoying playing the latest official version of Carcassonne for Android but it wasn’t until last week that I realised the game was also available for Windows via Steam.
I wonder if any of the Tour de France cycling teams will be playing Carcassonne on the rest day in the city that inspired it this year?
For the last few years in Baldur’s Gate (in the few moments that I’ve had a chance to play it) I have activated the cheats (or debug mode). This gives me access to the entire game inventory to equip my character accordingly and a better chance to survive the adventure—I have never yet completed Baldur’s Gate, despite owning it since about 1999 (I still own my original copy on five CD-ROMs).
Having just reinstalled my PC, I was disappointed to discover that the old way of activating cheat mode (by editing baldur.ini) had changed. This is how I managed it today (on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, with OneDrive installed).
Now when you run the game, you can enter the game console by pressing Ctrl + Spacebar. It looks like this, at the bottom of the screen:
This allows you to enter codes that generate items, amongst other things. For instance this code allows generates a set of Ankheg Plate Mail armour for your current character:
C:CreateItem("PLAT06")
The older versions of Baldur’s Gate used the code CLUAConsole: but this has now been shortened to a single, uppercase C: followed by a colon.
Thanks to a tip from Craig in the comments. If you want to create multiple instances of the same item, add a comma and a number, e.g.
C:CreateItem("AROW01",200)
will create 200 arrows.
Here’s how my intrepid fighter character started his adventure in Candlekeep:
Feel free to download my full list of cheat codes, arranged by type (clothing, jewellery, weapons, magic, and miscellaneous).
You can look up what each item is on the Baldur’s Gate Wiki.
2020-07-08 Updated article to remove introduction and get straight to the how-to section. Added tip from Craig in the comments about adding multiple items at once.
2020-03-17 Updated cheat codes document to include instructions on how to activate cheats.
2017-04-17 Updated the location of Baldur.lua as it was in two different locations on two PCs running Windows 10. It depends, I guess, on whether Windows 10 is told to use OneDrive as the default save location.