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This is exciting, would love a new excuse to play space trader again and then patiently wait for picoverse to come out. I’ve been stuck in that loop for over 20

This is exciting, would love a new excuse to play space trader again and then patiently wait for picoverse to come out. I’ve been stuck in that loop for over 20 years now.

OhMeadhbh 2y ago
I remember wasting HOURS on the CalTrain playing space trader. And QForth (Quantus Forth?). I spent some time working for Handspring and PalmSource. I wonder if I can still remember the magick binder incantations...
- Kichererbsen 2y ago
  Logged in just to +1 for QForth. I learnt _so_ much about computers trying to figure out QForth from the docs (on my palm pilot) in the train back in the day!!
alexjplant 2y ago
You and me both. I saw my Visor Deluxe in a storage bin last week while rummaging through it and was hit with a deep pang of sadness as I remembered 11-year-old me checking Pieter's site every week or so in anticipation :-(
throwanem 2y ago
It's your lucky day! CloudpilotEmu [1] works fine in phone (and non-phone) browsers, and the .prc still available on the Space Trader site [2] works fine there too. [1] https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ [2] https://spronck.net/spacetrader/STDownload.html https://spronck.net/spacetrader/STDownload.html
atribecalledqst 2y ago
Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to make money) but then with exciting space combat, an actual storyline, and so many interesting locations!! I gave up eventually because I got stuck on a certain station, and whenever I tried to leave I was immediately killed by a swarm of stronger ships. But it was still a cool experience.
- 7thpower 2y ago
  Never heard of it but I will have to check it out! Thanks for nothing, now I won’t get anything done.
- mmmlinux 2y ago
  The Escape Velocity series were fantastic games.

This is exciting, would love a new excuse to play space trader again and then patiently wait for picoverse to come out. I’ve been stuck in that loop for over 20 years now.

OhMeadhbh 2y ago

I remember wasting HOURS on the CalTrain playing space trader. And QForth (Quantus Forth?). I spent some time working for Handspring and PalmSource. I wonder if I can still remember the magick binder incantations...

Kichererbsen 2y ago
Logged in just to +1 for QForth. I learnt _so_ much about computers trying to figure out QForth from the docs (on my palm pilot) in the train back in the day!!

alexjplant 2y ago

You and me both. I saw my Visor Deluxe in a storage bin last week while rummaging through it and was hit with a deep pang of sadness as I remembered 11-year-old me checking Pieter's site every week or so in anticipation :-(

throwanem 2y ago

It's your lucky day! CloudpilotEmu [1] works fine in phone (and non-phone) browsers, and the .prc still available on the Space Trader site [2] works fine there too. [1] https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ [2] https://spronck.net/spacetrader/STDownload.html https://spronck.net/spacetrader/STDownload.html

atribecalledqst 2y ago

Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to make money) but then with exciting space combat, an actual storyline, and so many interesting locations!! I gave up eventually because I got stuck on a certain station, and whenever I tried to leave I was immediately killed by a swarm of stronger ships. But it was still a cool experience.

7thpower 2y ago
Never heard of it but I will have to check it out! Thanks for nothing, now I won’t get anything done.
mmmlinux 2y ago
The Escape Velocity series were fantastic games.