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Hey, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 running at 8 mhz! Wow... and I bought a Sony V20 'clone' chip to make it go even faster. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I think I still have that V20 chip, or a spare, around here somewhere. The T1000 is long gone, though.

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Heh, TI-99/4A was my first computer. It had a CASSETTE drive and a whole 16K of RAM. Boy, I was stylin' http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif My first real program was a silly little dungeon crawl on that TI using a primitive BASIC.

Heh, I guess I just dated myself, huh http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Ya know, I used to think I spent too much time on the computer, and especially playing games. I'm obsessed with games - always have been: computer games, board games, RPGs, you name it. Finally, I gave up trying to resist them and I got a job making games for a living. If you can't beat 'em... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

That said, I do see my productivity at work going down for a while as I get into SE V. Now, if only I could get a damn copy of the real game instead of the demo. *sigh*

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Man...you guys are old!! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

My first computer was actually my parents, bought in '97 when I was 10 years old. 500 MHz I think, with a 2 GB hard drive and 16 (I think) megs of RAM.

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Does any one remember the web browser based game called Planetarian or something like that?

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I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

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Sorry AT, never heard of it.

Now who remembers *this* old beauty?

http://www.cinemaware.com/browser/dotc/final.asp

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Sorry, my browser won't install macroware software. It wants me to manually install it and well who the hell knows how to do that, certainly not me.

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Tradewars?

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Right click on the title and 'save target' on your computer. Then just create a shortcut to it and set the properties to run under 95 or whatever works on your computer.

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heheh. Just beat it, despite being massively outgunned by the AI. I'm sure the AI cheats. I won by using raids to gain cash/ deplete the enemy rather wasting troops than squabbling over territory. He had a maurauding army of over 700 troops (to my measly 100) but I just skipped right past them and took his home territory.

Ah, the memories though. You know I'd almost forgotten the steamy sex scenes in that game - I think they had a profound influence on my younger self.