It was the amount of planning, diplomacy, scouting and avoiding getting into a war with neighbours while playing on the paranoias of players on the other side of the galaxy.?
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Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
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On 2 Jul 2020, at 18:49, James Catchpole via groups.io <jlcatchpole@...> wrote:
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This one??!
I used to play it a bit...
Has anyone ever played Stars ?
A space conquest/strategy/diplomacy game written I think for DOS but I played it in Windows 3.11 for 16 players
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Mike Leese
(N. Wales)
On 2 Jul 2020, at 18:12, Keith Davies via <keith.davies1960=[email protected]> wrote:
? My first crack at a computer aid for war gaming was writing Basic on a ZX Spectrum to manage calculations for Steve Birnie¡¯s Napoleonic Naval games - along with record keeping - print outs via Sinclair thermal printer....
Those were the days....
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I remember getting incredibly excited a few years back when we went through the store room and turned up a genuine green screen laptop the same as the one used to control the autoguns in Aliens. Unfortunately there was a strict policy that it had to go for
disposal and I had to watch it? being carted off...
Doug
We had an older computer at work but I only used it twice. I am not even sure of the make or model so I didn't mention it. Small green round screen in a microwave sized box, but there may have been other boxes. I just remember cables and not
having to use correction tape like I did at home.
Started miniature gaming in 1962. WW2. By 1970 had played ancients and Napoleonics so I guess my gaming background was well rounded (board games in 1968 - Battle of Britain). Although there was that older guy. You couldn't always be sure of
what game he would run, like a Viking raid somewhere in the Med. We had axes, they had pikes. He also was into that fantasy stuff. Gary had a wide range of interests.
Mike Reese
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Mike Leese
