OT Archeology: the origins of witpae

[MrBlizzard]

Found this war in the south pacific by Gary Grigsby for commodore64 , 1987
[:)]
war in the south west pacific

[iley]

I have that game and a working commodore 64.

Yes: I am a pack rat. My walk in closet could be a museum for war gaming.


Iley

[MrBlizzard]

Wow, nice! I have to look for my C64 in my parents' cellar. I'm afraid they throw it away when moving to another home

[oaltinyay]

ORIGINAL: iley

I have that game and a working commodore 64.

Yes: I am a pack rat. My walk in closet could be a museum for war gaming.


Iley

I have one too but not the game .... I played it in its day but disk is missing. Is there a way to get it ?

[tocaff]

I remember that one, and others.

[Dobey455]

ORIGINAL: MrBlizzard

Wow, nice! I have to look for my C64 in my parents' cellar. I'm afraid they throw it away when moving to another home

You can download C64 emulators to play commodore games on your PC.
Just google "c64 emulator".

I used to run one on XP, not sure if they work on Win 7 though......

[JocMeister]

C64 emulator? Blasphemy!

I still have my old C64. I start it up every 5th year or so and play "The Detective" and "Theatre Europe". [:)]

[MrBlizzard]

Joc you're reallly great! [8D]

[Big B]

I had that one too, and played the heck out of it too. I didn't know it was done by Gary Grigsby, I guess I never payed much attention to the authors of computer games back then.
My best friend, and oldest war-gaming nemesis, has my old C-64 (and his too) in working condition.

ORIGINAL: MrBlizzard

Found this war in the south pacific by Gary Grigsby for commodore64 , 1987
[:)]
war in the south west pacific

[wworld7]

I had many hours of fun with this one back in the day.

[wegman58]

I never did C-64. I did have the old Guadalcanal campaign game - probably for a DOS Box (Possibly an Apple ][ +

[TheElf]

Hang on to that old tech!! Some lady dropped off a bunch of computer parts from her garage after her husband passed and turns out there was an Apple 1 computer in that box... it sold for $200,000 and now the store is trying to track her down to give her a cut.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /28299275/

[m10bob]

ORIGINAL: TheElf

Hang on to that old tech!! Some lady dropped off a bunch of computer parts from her garage after her husband passed and turns out there was an Apple 1 computer in that box... it sold for $200,000 and now the store is trying to track her down to give her a cut.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati ... /28299275/

Reminds me of the story of the guy who dropped his wallet in the store....Store manager realized it, retrieved the wallet...and beat on his plate glass window to attract the wallets' owner as best he could....with a handkerchief!!



Nice to see you dropping by Elf..Glad you are safe..(Hope to think you have retired or gone commercial by now......)

[iley]

"I never did C-64. I did have the old Guadalcanal campaign game - probably for a DOS Box (Possibly an Apple ][ + "


Rain that one on a 286. Yes I still have the game and the 286.

Iley

[Symon]

ORIGINAL: m10bob
Nice to see you dropping by Elf..Glad you are safe..(Hope to think you have retired or gone commercial by now......)

Good to see Elf dropping by, as well. Elf doesn't like to toot his own trumpet, but some of the guys at Pensacola tell me that Lt. Commander Ian "ELF" Kibler is with the test and evaluation squadron VX-9, in bee-you-tee-ful downtown China Lake in the middle of the Mojave freakin desert. They think that's a pretty hot posting (pun intended) and some smart money thinks he's well on his way to a silver chicken.[8D]

[AW1Steve]

ORIGINAL: Symon

ORIGINAL: m10bob
Nice to see you dropping by Elf..Glad you are safe..(Hope to think you have retired or gone commercial by now......)

Good to see Elf dropping by, as well. Elf doesn't like to toot his own trumpet, but some of the guys at Pensacola tell me that Lt. Commander Ian "ELF" Kibler is with the test and evaluation squadron VX-9, in bee-you-tee-ful downtown China Lake in the middle of the Mojave freakin desert. They think that's a pretty hot posting (pun intended) and some smart money thinks he's well on his way to a silver chicken.[8D]

Captain Elf! [&o][&o][&o] BZ on making the stuff the Navy buys "sailor proof"![:D]

[geofflambert]

I had a Commodore and a TI-99/4a and a TI programmable scientific calculator. I don't know what I did with them. [:(] I got an IBM PC (with the unbelievable memory of 64k [:D]) like the first month it was out. Don't have that anymore either. An Epson dot matrix printer too. It worked. It was reliable. It wasn't pretty though.

[geofflambert]

Does anyone know how to make "Fighting Steel" work on Windows 7 or 8? I miss it so. I have to look at porn instead. [:(]

[Lecivius]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Does anyone know how to make "Fighting Steel" work on Windows 7 or 8? I miss it so. I have to look at porn instead. [:(]

Gorn porn? [X(]

[geofflambert]

Similar to lizards dropping there tails to escape, male gorns drop their (censored) if the female tries to hold on to them. That's ok, they grow back.