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I suspect part of it was being stuck in the school computer lab, without a portable supercomputer in your pocket, and with little web to speak of (and less conn
by ethbr0 5y ago
I suspect part of it was being stuck in the school computer lab, without a portable supercomputer in your pocket, and with little web to speak of (and less connectivity to what there was).
A moment that will never exist again.
- Waterluvian 5y agoFunny enough, It was 1996 or 1997 that I played the game and we had cable at home as well as two computers side by side. But the same problem kind of existed: there really wasn't some quick access reference to the game, so we didn't think to just look stuff up. And I think that was a lot of the magic. I still remember a moment where we hit the wrong key at a specific time and we got a warning BEEP and the text, "You are moving too fast to board this ship." "YOU CAN BOARD SHIPS?!"
- rdtwo 5y agoTrue mine just barely ran on a Mac lc3 with ram doubler installed. Somehow it tricked the computer into thinking it had 8 megs vs 4 and that that the game run. Though quite slowly as it couldn’t handle all the assets
- ethbr0 5y agohttps://apple.fandom.com/wiki/RAM_Doubler https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/RAM_Doubler Better disk paging and compression
- Waterluvian 5y agoMy LC3 had 8MB so it ran okay. It slowed down when you get some large battle of like 20+ ships. What REALLY slowed it down is when my brother, friends, and I daisy chained 4 ADB keyboards so that we could all control different parts of the ship (weapons, targeting, navigation, fleet).
- rdtwo 5y agoDamn man I thought I was like the only kid out there playing ev on that crappy computer. It’s crazy to think that there was at least one other kid doing the exact same thing