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Post by director on Jan 20, 2019 12:00:24 GMT -6
I owned an Apple IIe. I had to argue with the salesman; I wanted the expanded memory and he insisted there would never be a program written that would need 64 K of RAM. Heh. Had to load up the OS from floppies... It also had the first printer ever made for a personal computer, a dot-matrix called a Paper Tiger that sounded like a roaring tiger as it ran. But it had an attachment that let me replace the print-head with a scanner, and I was able to do some neat things with that. I wrote a version of Alnavco's 'Seapower II' for it. Clunky graphics - just a single colored square for the ship - but it could handle land, radar, starshell, torpedoes, critical damages, etc and so forth. Had a lot of fun with it. I eventually wrote out a set of rules for the Guadalcanal campaign, giving the USN and IJN players a force-pool they could draw from by expending fuel points... it worked very well, with players accruing points for missions (amount depending on what you tried to do) and fuming while they waited for their force-pool and fuel to build back up. One memorable engagement saw the US bring up an old BB from Samoa-Fiji duty; I think it was a pre-modernization Colorado with a gunnery radar set. Anyway, a scratch-built force of US cruisers and DDs plus Colorado ran headlong into an all-in Japanese force of two Kongos, at least 4 heavy cruisers and appropriate escorts. Colorado got mangled (but not sunk) and despite other heavy losses the US sank a Kongo, disabled another so badly it didn't make it home and sank 2 CAs... plus the bombardment mission did not take place. I still remember when Colorado landed an 'all-call' on a Kongo at 8k yards... Also wrote a pretty hip version of the ancient Star Trek game where you got a randomized opponent of unknown capabilities in every game. It was a cage match - the two of you could run around the play-area but the only escape was to win. That little Basic game took down the Computer Science department at USM (just west of Hattiesburg and Fort Shelby, oldpop2000). But that's another story. Anyway, I'm playing Distant Worlds and dabbling with Transport Fever. I wish someone would write another Railroad Tycoon (yes, I've seen Sid Meyer's Railroads and I've seen Railroad Empire and... no, thank you).
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 20, 2019 12:04:42 GMT -6
I owned an Apple IIe. I had to argue with the salesman; I wanted the expanded memory and he insisted there would never be a program written that would need 64K. Heh. It also had the first printer ever made for a personal computer, a pin-type called a Paper Tiger that sounded like a roaring tiger as it ran. But it had an attachment that let me replace the print-head with a scanner, and I was able to do some neat things with that. Had to load up the OS from floppies... I wrote a version of Alnavco's 'Seapower II' for it. Clunky graphics - just a single colored square for the ship - but it could handle land, radar, starshell, torpedoes, critical damages, etc and so forth. Had a lot of fun with it. I eventually wrote out a set of rules for the Guadalcanal campaign, giving the USN and IJN players a force-pool they could draw from by expending fuel points... it worked very well, with players accruing points for missions (amount depending on what you tried to do) and fuming while they waited for their force-pool and fuel to build back up. One memorable engagement saw the US bring up an old BB from Samoa-Fiji duty; I think it was a pre-modernization Colorado with a gunnery radar set. Anyway, a scratch-built force of US cruisers and DDs plus Colorado ran headlong into an all-in Japanese force of two Kongos, at least 4 heavy cruisers and appropriate escorts. Colorado got mangled (but not sunk) and despite other heavy losses the US sank a Kongo, disabled another so badly it didn't make it home and sank 2 CAs... plus the bombardment mission did not take place. I still remember when Colorado landed an 'all-call' on a Kongo at 8k yards... Anyway, I'm playing Distant Worlds and dabbling with Transport Fever. I wish someone would write another Railroad Tycoon (yes, I've seen Sid Meyer's Railroads and I've seen Railroad Empire and... no, thank you). Railroad Empire was nice. I have Medieval II, Age of Empires, and Dawn of Discovery. I also enjoy WinMBT, WinSPWW2 and the Operational Arts of War. Peoples General is nice. Here is a website you might enjoy - <LINK TO WEBSITE REDACTED>
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Post by jeb94 on Jan 20, 2019 18:08:49 GMT -6
Wow. It was my general impression that playing hardcore strategy games like RtW is more for people who played SSI, SSG and Microprose products around 1990. Guilty as charged.
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Post by tbr on Jan 20, 2019 18:49:22 GMT -6
40 Kinda weird - I am one of the last few thousand sailors to cross the Atlantic on a ship with oil fired steam propulsion. There are so many "lasts" which slip by. Like "last to cross the Atlantic in a combustion engined plane", or one with turbojets, or "last to calibrate a mechanical gyro outside a museum"... So many technologies which were once the height of modernity are becoming defunct museum cases. Others are kept alive by enthusiasts. Hundreds of years from now people will sill sail ships and boats when burning fossil fuel for anything but a campfire or grill will be looked on as barbaric. Sounds interesting, I flew from Hattiesburg, Mississippi to New Orleans from Keesler on a Martin 404 with a leaky left engine turbo over the swamps. That was fun. I also few from Fallon NAS in a VC-120, backwards in the seat to Dayton, Ohio to the USAF Museum. That was something. I also had to run a test set on a mechanical gyro for the ASN-92 Inertial Navigation set. Ich!! We are dating ourselves. I just had to add this.... waaait for it, I worked on equipment with vacuum tubes. Specially 5814's, that was fun. To be clear - while I did cross the Atlantic on a steam DDG (I think there were only three later to-and back crossings by steam DDG's after that one) I never crossed the Atlantic on a combustion engined plane and, while I probably am one of the last to cross the Atlantic on a Boeing-707 configured for head of state/government travel, that one had been reengined with turbofans, so no turbojet crossing either. Those were just examples of "lasts" happening in the last few decades which, when "firsts", made history but passed public consciousness by as "lasts".
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Post by ursamaior on Jan 21, 2019 1:55:36 GMT -6
Wow. It was my general impression that playing hardcore strategy games like RtW is more for people who played SSI, SSG and Microprose products around 1990. Guilty as charged. Forgot to add like me.
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Post by boomboomf22 on Jan 21, 2019 2:08:12 GMT -6
Like many I am actually quite surprised by the number of people in my age group who are interested in this stuff. Kinda nice to see actually.
I'm 22btw
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Post by corsair on Jan 21, 2019 4:24:51 GMT -6
Wow. It was my general impression that playing hardcore strategy games like RtW is more for people who played SSI, SSG and Microprose products around 1990. The first computer game I ever played was Red Storm Rising. I got it specifically because it could run in monochrome, which is the monitor I had at the time. Spent a lot of time with that game, it was very good.
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Post by akosjaccik on Jan 21, 2019 4:59:51 GMT -6
30 here (well... not necessarily mentally, but that's what my ID card stated). Started gaming on C64, but the Crown Jewel of my collection was probably Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin and the classic Rome: Total War. Funny thing, I am sitting on more computing power than I ever had in my life, but my most anticipated game is a gentleman's hobbyproject about naval warfare.
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Post by steveh11 on Jan 21, 2019 5:56:49 GMT -6
I'm 62... not the oldest, thank goodness!
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Post by tbr on Jan 21, 2019 11:15:21 GMT -6
Wow. It was my general impression that playing hardcore strategy games like RtW is more for people who played SSI, SSG and Microprose products around 1990. The first computer game I ever played was Red Storm Rising. I got it specifically because it could run in monochrome, which is the monitor I had at the time. Spent a lot of time with that game, it was very good. While not my very first computer game RSR is a fond memory for me too. Now, my first complex computer game was Silent Service on the C64.
Oh, and if you are a RSR fan, check out Cold Waters.
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Post by JagdFlanker on Jan 21, 2019 15:12:21 GMT -6
46, got into naval by spending hundreds of hours playing Simulations Canada modern naval games, often with my friends - Fifth Eskadra, Seventh Fleet, and the crown jewel Northern Fleet. no graphics, just a laminated map divided into 60nm squares and an erasable marker. nothing like those games have been made since (graphics or no)
click on the Northern Fleet article on the left menu for a review (i still have a copy of that mag as well)
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Post by ilyusin28 on Jan 21, 2019 21:59:14 GMT -6
The game that I played for the first time is "Steal Rouge 3"(鋼鉄の咆哮3).This game is a game that designs warships and sinks enemy warships. It is very interesting, but the game developer withdrew. Therefore, it is not delivered on Steam, and the used price is very high.(100〜200$)In addition, because the game ia using safedisk, that will not boot in the usual way. Now I am doing a warship anthropomorphic game,battleship girls R.This is made in China.
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Post by AiryW on Jan 23, 2019 8:14:51 GMT -6
Wow. It was my general impression that playing hardcore strategy games like RtW is more for people who played SSI, SSG and Microprose products around 1990. I was too busy wetting diapers in 1990. But I did end up playing them around 2010-today.
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Post by oldpop2000 on Jan 23, 2019 11:33:06 GMT -6
I'm 62... not the oldest, thank goodness! Hey, watch that. Now, I remember duck and cover from elementary school. Ich!!
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Post by joebob1337 on Jan 23, 2019 12:59:56 GMT -6
Another 17 here, Found the game through Tortugapower and I loved it ever since. I mostly play Paradox’s grand strategies. Besides Vicky 2, screw that!
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