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Thanks for the exe Aussie Gamer.

...and dont worry because I am REALLY a owner of the CD as can be easily confirmed if the guys at Shrapnel Games take a look at my address and name and compare it with the orders database.
MMMMMMMMM... coming home I found I gave you an incorrect description of the print on the CD. It has not an alien looking at us... it has the name Space Empires IV at the top, in the top left the MM logo, in the top right the Shrapnel Games logo and at the bottom it has a spaceship firing two shots at two satellites.

Have a good day Triumvyr...

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sit back a while lads, and harken back to the good old days when there were WWIV Boards and VBBS and others, you knew which one were the pirate Boards, and you could tell who hackers and phreakers were just by how they typed and the kinds of things they knew.

man, has it gotten wierd with the internet. 1337 W4R3Z d00dZ and other wierd **** has popped up out of nowhere, and man, look how polite some of them have gotten. I wonder if they switch back to 1337 speak when they get their .exe's back to the USENET and IRC chanels where they hide out, or if they stay this polite the whole time.

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Yeah, Puke, I remember those days. I ran VBBS myself, rather than WWIV, but it was all the same. I ran a BBS for about three years before the web really took off, and I had a personal internet account back when there were still no ads on the web. Of course, there wasn't all that much ELSE on the web back in those days, either http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

I agree that it was not technically correct for whoever to have sent him the EXE, but I'm also pretty convinced that Ubik is legit.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Possum:
Yeah, Puke, I remember those days. I ran VBBS myself, rather than WWIV, but it was all the same. I ran a BBS for about three years before the web really took off, and I had a personal internet account back when there were still no ads on the web. Of course, there wasn't all that much ELSE on the web back in those days, either http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Dude, you're from SD? I grew up there, what board did you run? Im trying to remeber all the BBS hang outs, all that comes to mind right now are The Mental Playground BBS and Hell and Beyond BBS. oh yeah, they are coming back to me now.. Schrodinger's Cat Box; No Name Yet BBS (nameless for about 5 years); Oasis... god, there used to be a two page fine-print list of them in that monthly free computer magazine, whatever it was called.

did you guys know there is a commercial massivly-multiplayer-Online sequel of Trade Wars comming out 3rd quarter this year called Dark Millenium, and there is a open source Online Version of TW2002 you can play from a web based java-app?

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Tradewars!! Oh my god, that game ate up most
of my life back at Univ. I think I lived and played Tradewars for 5-8 hours a day!

damn, and a new Version is coming out??

** must resist ** must resist **

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*Slamming head against Wall*

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MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM trade wars......... feringal home world here i come....... hehe

tobad i lost my reged copy of tw 2.x

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&lt;me drools at prospect of new ver&gt; humm is the same creator working on it... if so i may have to pop in http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by KiloOhm:
OK, you youngins have confused me again... what the heck is 1337 mean? I can't figure that one out.

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Elite....'leet' == 1337


and, yes, I remember when I was top of the block with my 4800 baud modem & my XT running at 12mhz http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I had a 8088 PC back in 1988. It took the place of the lovely ZX Spectrum. But I only catch up with the modems with my Zoom 14.4. I was sysop of a BBS too... eh! Good times!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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I got that beat.... C64 with 300 baud modem playing Rabbit Jack's Casino on Q-Link! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

Does that make me '1337' ? http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif

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BAh! Vic 20 with 4k ram playing Riverboat...something http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif and a cassette tape drive http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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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

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Now even our wristwatches have far more memory than that.

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Yep, Derek, that was it http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif Compute! Magazine

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Puke, yes, I'm a San Diegan, born and bred. Hell, second generation even http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Spyder:
BAh! Vic 20 with 4k ram playing Riverboat...something http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif and a cassette tape drive http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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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! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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.
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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! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon9.gif



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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 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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 http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>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! http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/images/icons/icon7.gif

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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.

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I remember getting a woopin' for moving the heads on my dad's cassete player to get a data tape to work on my acorn electron,...

my days are always good Ubik, thanks for wishing. Maybe i am overly sensitive, but i support computer Users for a living, by my unofficial estimate i believe 75% of the computers i deal with have a pirated OS, taking into account all the software i would say 90% of those computers have illegal stuff on it. Kinda sad when we condone stealing because the object of theft has no physical shape. Just because it is digital doesn't mean,... anyway,.. enough jammerin' about piracy,...

Maybe you'll let me kick your butt in a game sometime LOL.

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Apple ][e, 16 colors, 300 baud modem. Wowee that was a piece of crap.

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My first computer was the Timex Sinclair 1000. Had to be pluged into a TV. Had like a K of memory. You programed everything in a crude form of BASIC (where I learned to program in fact.) And you had to leave it on 24/7 or you lost all your work.

Any one else remember that thing?

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Hey!

Trade Wars... great great game!

It starts me having fond memories about 14.4k modems, a truly enjoyable comunity, a shareware game called Stars! Dont know if the name means anything to you...

But from what I have seen so far, this community is very very mature... only a bit too distrustfull, but I think that is what happens when we start pumping money at all this... ;-)

Regards,

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Whow, Darwin, That's better than me! I started with a ZX 80. No need to explain what this "computer"could do. http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon10.gif

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Puke:
I wonder if they switch back to 1337 speak when they get their .exe's back to the USENET and IRC chanels where they hide out, or if they stay this polite the whole time.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

OK, you youngins have confused me again... what the heck is 1337 mean? I can't figure that one out.

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

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Sorry...Don't know what happened.

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mofo888:

Tradewars!! Oh my god, that game ate up most
of my life back at Univ. I think I lived and played Tradewars for 5-8 hours a day!

damn, and a new Version is coming out??

** must resist ** must resist ** <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Tradewars ruled. I remember setting my own wildcat BBS to play around on. (Rip-Term graphics...mmmmm) http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif


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