.com.unity Forums
  The Official e-Store of Shrapnel Games

This Month's Specials

Raging Tiger- Save $9.00
winSPMBT: Main Battle Tank- Save $6.00

   







Go Back   .com.unity Forums > Shrapnel Community > Space Empires: IV & V

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #11  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 08:32 PM

KiloOhm KiloOhm is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 81
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
KiloOhm is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
Elite....'leet' == 1337


and, yes, I remember when I was top of the block with my 4800 baud modem & my XT running at 12mhz




I got that beat.... C64 with 300 baud modem playing Rabbit Jack's Casino on Q-Link!

Does that make me '1337' ?

------------------
Regards,
KiloOhm
__________________
Regards,
KiloOhm
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 08:39 PM

Spyder Spyder is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Lee\'s Summit, MO, USA
Posts: 195
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Spyder is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

BAh! Vic 20 with 4k ram playing Riverboat...something and a cassette tape drive

[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 23 February 2001).]
__________________
Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 08:56 PM

Derek Derek is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Salinas, CA
Posts: 175
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Derek is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

Vic-20 with tape drive, typing in programs (games) from Compute! magazine. At least I remember that being the name of the C-64/Vic-20 rag.


Derek
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 09:36 PM
ColdSteel's Avatar

ColdSteel ColdSteel is offline
Sergeant
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 248
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
ColdSteel is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

Now even our wristwatches have far more memory than that.
__________________
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 09:46 PM

Spyder Spyder is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Lee\'s Summit, MO, USA
Posts: 195
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Spyder is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

Yep, Derek, that was it Compute! Magazine
__________________
Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 09:48 PM

Possum Possum is offline
First Lieutenant
 
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
Posts: 731
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Possum is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

Puke, yes, I'm a San Diegan, born and bred. Hell, second generation even

My BBS was called The Possumhole, as in where a possum lives, eh?

We ran TW2002 madly, usually 2 games at once, occasionally three, since it was hard for a newcomer to break into an endgame situation. I remember we had some great utilities for use with TW2002. No cheating, I've never done that, just macros to automate trade routes and stuff.

The BBS was significantly different from the Net in one big way; the whole community lived in the same area, and you could actually get people together for pizza or a sunday breakfast.

Heh, Geeks R Us
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 10:20 PM

KiloOhm KiloOhm is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 81
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
KiloOhm is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

quote:
Originally posted by Spyder:
BAh! Vic 20 with 4k ram playing Riverboat...something and a cassette tape drive

[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 23 February 2001).]



Yea, I had a VIC too, never tried to go "Online" with it though.. could you even do that with it, did they even make a modem for it?

My friend had a TI99/4A.... We used to play Tunnels of Doom for HOURS on end...what a bLast!

------------------
Regards,
KiloOhm
__________________
Regards,
KiloOhm
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 10:23 PM

KiloOhm KiloOhm is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 81
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
KiloOhm is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

quote:
Originally posted by Possum:
We ran TW2002 madly, usually 2 games at once, occasionally three, since it was hard for a newcomer to break into an endgame situation. I remember we had some great utilities for use with TW2002. No cheating, I've never done that, just macros to automate trade routes and stuff.



I remember playing and this one player would always find me somehow. Then I got to know the sysop and found out HE was that player. Jerk kept watching me play my turns!



------------------
Regards,
KiloOhm
__________________
Regards,
KiloOhm
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 10:28 PM

Spyder Spyder is offline
Corporal
 
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Lee\'s Summit, MO, USA
Posts: 195
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Spyder is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

The TI 99 was the first computer I tried to seriously program. When I had the Vic, I had this vague idea that I wanted to program it and had a friend who was into programming come over and try to write a basic program for/with me to help with my check book...kept getting an 'out of memory' error...imagine THAT

After I got out of the USMC ('86), I started back at school and accidentally got into computers by signing up for basic & fortran out of curiosity. After I signed up for those classes, I broke out my father-in-law's TI 99 and began fiddling around with basic. I was trying to write a dungeon generation program for D&D using the tables in the DMG. That program started in TI 99A Basic, then changed to Pascal, then to C (Borland C 1.0), and it never got finished
__________________
Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old February 23rd, 2001, 11:22 PM

abkaiser abkaiser is offline
Private
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Posts: 14
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
abkaiser is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Thanks!

quote:
Originally posted by KiloOhm:
Yea, I had a VIC too, never tried to go "Online" with it though.. could you even do that with it, did they even make a modem for it?

My friend had a TI99/4A.... We used to play Tunnels of Doom for HOURS on end...what a bLast!




A TI! Aaaah! Awesome! We had the same TI99/4A. And we loved Tunnels of Doom. And Hunt the Wumpus, and Munch Man, and TI Invaders, and The Attack, and all those infocom text games, and don't even get me started when we bought the speech synthesizer unit... That added a whole new level of fun to Parsec: "Enemy approaching..."

And don't even ask about Terry Turtle's Big Adventure using the speech unit *and* the voice recognition unit!....

Me: "Eat."
TI: "A strawberry. Yum yum."

Those were the days.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 12:41 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©1999 - 2024, Shrapnel Games, Inc. - All Rights Reserved.