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Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 2:02:32 AM

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Its called Earth Orbit Stations and was made for the C64. In the day when I played games, this was a fantastic strategy game. I hope that Slitherine or Matrix Games would be interested in revamping this game. I think it has alot of possiblites.

Here is the link: http://www.myabandonware.com/game/earth-orbit-stations-an

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 9:36:54 AM

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That had the worst UI ever, they used to be bad but that was terrible. Spent more time with trying to work around the UI than I did loading it

Now this is really where its at, a game that really needs a remake. Doing the egyptian dance to the music as im writing this

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 10:11:44 AM

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I don't remember it, but old games...

"Our" first computer was a ZX Spectrum (48K). Games loaded from the old family stereo... The thing I remember about interfaces, was that each game had their own keys. It was a pain, but there was a rescue. There was a joystick interface that almost all games supported (Kempston? Protek), that was a keymap.

5 left
6 down
7 up
8 right
0 fire

I think the joystick may actually have been something to put above the keyboard.

Ah, 5 minutes to load a game, then the load fail. Adjust the volume a tad (or "tone") and try again. Those were the days. Computer magazines. Me reading code listings aloud, my brother typing. Snake! Store on casette (multiple games on one was OK) on our stereo to load them later.

5 minutes to load max 48K (unless they had some weird stuff).

The C64 guys were both late arrivals and lost something significant. I think there are style points for having loaded the first games through the headphone jack on a normal stereo. Too bad I missed punch cards...

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 2:46:29 PM

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Memories from a distant youth. C64 was but a dream.....

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 2:52:29 PM

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All the friends had Commodores, but I think we were a tad early. My older brother wanted a programming calculator so badly that he wanted to purchase it for savings (dad had one from work that he programmed to do some rather nasty, repeatable, calculations. My dad refused, and my brother rebelled until he realized that my father suggested they should share cost on a proper computer instead.

And in came.

You never typed commands, notice that everything in the programming language is on the keys with modifiers. That never caught on much.

Hm, arrows are above 5-8, I can't remember that ours had that.

Ah, and line number programming. Go to a store where one was on display (and on).

10 Print "."
20 GoTo 10

Or to that effect.

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 3:00:01 PM

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I prefer this : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_the_Samurai_%28video_game%29

An excellent game that definitely need a remake.

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 8:30:17 PM

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Remember StarFlight by InterPlay, played on the Tandy 1000EX?

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/16/2012 11:00:47 PM

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ORIGINAL: Darkspire

That had the worst UI ever, they used to be bad but that was terrible. Spent more time with trying to work around the UI than I did loading it

Now this is really where its at, a game that really needs a remake. Doing the egyptian dance to the music as im writing this

Darkspire

How old is M.U.L.E.? http://www.planetmule.com/download

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/17/2012 4:04:52 AM

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quote:

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ORIGINAL: Darkspire

That had the worst UI ever, they used to be bad but that was terrible. Spent more time with trying to work around the UI than I did loading it

Now this is really where its at, a game that really needs a remake. Doing the egyptian dance to the music as im writing this

Darkspire

How old is M.U.L.E.? http://www.planetmule.com/download

29-30 years old, and still as playable as ever, your link is for the faithfull remake of the original try this for the real deal

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/17/2012 8:20:52 PM

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quote:

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Its called Earth Orbit Stations and was made for the C64. In the day when I played games, this was a fantastic strategy game. I hope that Slitherine or Matrix Games would be interested in revamping this game. I think it has alot of possiblites.

Wow, I never knew about that one. I played a very similar looking game called "Project Space Station" which I cant post a link to because I seem to not spam these forums enough for that to be allowed.

Anyway, it had a similar feel, but was a very detailed budget, station planning, and shuttle fleet management sim. It looks like (based on the mission list) much more to do in EOS, but I wonder if it has the same level of detail?

I've looked at newer things that NASA is making and that vision-play is publishing, and the Oribiter game... they are all nice and 3d but none of them seem to have the robust program management and design aspects that the older games had. They just dont look to be as "fun".

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/17/2012 10:25:43 PM

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starflight was created by binary systems and published by EA. or you mean a diff one?

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/18/2012 12:41:16 AM

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Castle Wolfenstein... the ultimate in early years computer gaming...
Not the later incarnation of the early 90s...
The late 70s, and early 80s...

A castle, a pistol, 3 grenades, and a whole lotta of SS and Wehrmacht troops to get past...

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/18/2012 12:55:39 AM

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Remember StarFlight by InterPlay, played on the Tandy 1000EX?

OOOOOMG, while Starflight was published by EA and developed by Binary Systems, I TOTALLY first played it on the Tandy 1000EX with an extra floppy drive back in late 1985. Ah memories.

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/18/2012 3:39:57 AM

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starflight was created by binary systems and published by EA. or you mean a diff one?

My bad Cruis.In, and my apologies to Joe Ybarra and crew. Yes the ones by Binary System.
Both Starflight and Starflight II: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula. The games that 'hooked'
me into space games FOREVER. (The 'Trekkie' in me made me mis-remember Interplay who published
the early Star Trek games!)

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/19/2012 7:21:52 AM

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Remember StarFlight by InterPlay, played on the Tandy 1000EX?

OOOOOMG, while Starflight was published by EA and developed by Binary Systems, I TOTALLY first played it on the Tandy 1000EX with an extra floppy drive back in late 1985. Ah memories.

My memories of the Tandy 1000EX are not so wonderful...mainly term papers.

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RE: Anyone remember this game? - 12/19/2012 4:40:27 PM

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quote:

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ORIGINAL: Veloxi

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ORIGINAL: ehsumrell1
Remember StarFlight by InterPlay, played on the Tandy 1000EX?

OOOOOMG, while Starflight was published by EA and developed by Binary Systems, I TOTALLY first played it on the Tandy 1000EX with an extra floppy drive back in late 1985. Ah memories.

My memories of the Tandy 1000EX are not so wonderful...mainly term papers.

Boy, I remember way too many crashes at near ends of term papers or screens going blank...

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