Linking games - old memories

[a7v]

Hi everybody,

a thread in the general forum about linked games brought back some long lost memories. Does anyone else here remember when in the nineties Gary´s Pacwar and carrier strike were the latest games of the pacific theater?

I remember that one guy in those days had a fascinating idea and started a project. The idea was, if a carrier battle was imminent in Pacwar, you would save the game and start an external program. This would load the save from Pacwar and save it as a carrier strike save. (Both games had very similar save formats)

Then you would start carrier strike and play the carrier battle on a tactical level, after the battle you would save and reimport the result into pacwar[X(].

Unfortunately the project never was finished. It was released as some kind of a beta and I was able to export battles from Pacwar and play them, but the reimport into pacwar never worked.

The author was one of the pacwar modders in those days and its a pity that there is nothing left of these old sites like the famous pacwar list or the old thegamers.net, where some guys started to mod sp2ww2, pacwar or WIR. They now are known as Matrix[;)]

Well, for me its a fascinating idea to play AE and when a carrier/surface battle is imminent you change to a tactical programm and play it out. Ok, I admit that a game would take a few years more [:D] but who cares...

I´ll have to live with the fact that some dreams never will come true[:(]

Best wishes

Rainer

[topeverest]

Dig out the old Flat Top and play it the old fashioned way...

[greg_slith]

And don't forget to get your Advanced Squad Leader games out to replay EVERY land battle.[:D][;)]
After all, individual squads ARE in the game so....[8|]

[Smeulders]

I demand silent hunter for sub and ASW attacks !

[Nikademus]

I remember playing "Carrier Force"

You just can't reproduce the suspense waiting for the combat portion of the game to load from the floppy after you've gotten a radar warning of incoming enemy aircraft during the orders phase. [:D]

[vonTirpitz]

I remember playing Grigsby's Guadalcanal campaign for days on an Apple II+.

The computer was right next to the family radio and I figured out that I could pick up EMI from the computer on some of the lower AM bands. The various electronic "chirps" and "chortles" eventually translated to the computer AI forming up TFs and planning air raids that added an interesting dimension to solitaire play. [:D]

[Chickenboy]

As far as naval games, I'm almost glad that I didn't get involved in PacWar. The only one that captured my interest was the Harpoon series.

CIV and CIV II must have cost me a full grade point average in College. [:@]

[spartanwarrior]

I remember played advanced squad leader and Strat-O-Matic baseball in the late 70's! Hours of fun until the dog knocked all the pieces off the board

[Schanilec]

The original AH Midway and Guadalcanal I bought back in `72. Still have both, plus about 40+ others, SPI, VG and such.
 
Every now and then I take one them out. And with Vassel I can play them on the computer. Don't have to worry about messing up the board.

[tocaff]

"AH Midway," now that brings back memories from the '60s.  

[USSAmerica]

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

As far as naval games, I'm almost glad that I didn't get involved in PacWar. The only one that captured my interest was the Harpoon series.

CIV and CIV II must have cost me a full grade point average in College. [:@]

I bought PacWar and CIV on the same trip to Egghead Software in Virginia Beach, many years ago. I was playing them on a 286 computer. [8D]

[Chickenboy]

Oh! I nearly forgot the "Master of Orion" series. This one was also devastating to my GPA too!

[Central Blue]

ORIGINAL: A7V_U

Hi everybody,

a thread in the general forum about linked games brought back some long lost memories. Does anyone else here remember when in the nineties Gary´s Pacwar and carrier strike were the latest games of the pacific theater?

I remember that one guy in those days had a fascinating idea and started a project. The idea was, if a carrier battle was imminent in Pacwar, you would save the game and start an external program. This would load the save from Pacwar and save it as a carrier strike save. (Both games had very similar save formats)

Then you would start carrier strike and play the carrier battle on a tactical level, after the battle you would save and reimport the result into pacwar[X(].

Unfortunately the project never was finished. It was released as some kind of a beta and I was able to export battles from Pacwar and play them, but the reimport into pacwar never worked.

The author was one of the pacwar modders in those days and its a pity that there is nothing left of these old sites like the famous pacwar list or the old thegamers.net, where some guys started to mod sp2ww2, pacwar or WIR. They now are known as Matrix[;)]

Well, for me its a fascinating idea to play AE and when a carrier/surface battle is imminent you change to a tactical programm and play it out. Ok, I admit that a game would take a few years more [:D] but who cares...

I´ll have to live with the fact that some dreams never will come true[:(]

Best wishes

Rainer

I seem to remember that Gary would update PacWar from time to time and you could download it from bulletin boards.

So, what's the phone number to get that mod? [:D]

I think there were some people doing similar with Harpoon and TOAW when the web came along but I'm old enough to be confused.

[AcePylut]

I think I owned about every AH/VG title there was. My parents had no problems purchasing these games for me - because for the low low price of 50$, I would stay quiet and focused for hours and hours and hours... and plus, learning how to do all those odds calculations was very instructional for a young man growing up.

[morganbj]

Ditto AcePylut.

[Schanilec]

Although back in the day. $7.00 for most any SPI game. AH Bookcase game were a bit more I think $15.00 or $18.00. The other AH games were around $7.00. Again that was in the early `70's. Boy that was many snows ago.

[crsutton]

It was just the best game...

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: crsutton

It was just the best game...

I still have this game, in it's original (and somewhat large) box! Dang thing takes a week to set up [:D]

[Schanilec]

Also a favorite. Also the last Guadalcanal AH put out. To bad I didn't get the General with the expansion for Coaral Sea. It was sold out.

[pmelheck1]

Do any of you remember rules of engagement by omnitrend?  A tactical space combat game.  It was supposed to be able to link to breach, a game of boarding combat.  You would fight a tactical battle and when you boarded a ship you would switch to breach to resolve the boarding action then return to rules of engagement to finish resolving the tactical battle.  I have seen other games that had similar switch to other types of combat but they were part of the main game not separate games.  Only other game that would have been incredible if the tech and been up to it (but it wasn't) was the electronic battlefield of Spectrum Holobyte.  The electronic battle field would have been still in use today if it could have been worked out.