BLSTK Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 We now return to your regularly scheduled program... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroBodine Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Yep. Very sad. Working with Dan/Dani was one of the geek highlights of my career at EA. That, and working with Bill Budge on the remake of Pinball Construction Set for the Sega Genesis. I spent a week at Bill's house in the Oakland, California hills during final testing and tuning. It was a blast! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Seven Cities of Gold indeed! Only people over 40 (like me) probably know this. What a fun game that was. Atari 800XL, I loved that computer. It was one of the first games I really fell in love with. Sailing across oceans and watch the map develop. Seems like ages ago. Wait, it is ages ago - which means I'm old now.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUCASWILLEN05 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Let me put it this way Battlefront. You have two choices 1 Either you can release the game now. Tonight even if you have to work through the night! 2 Or you can spend the next week or two reading increasingly loud cries fro your loyal (and increasingly impatient customer who would love nothing better than istant deployment to ze Russian Front. Then you can get on wiith Black Sea which your loyal customers also cannot wait to see!!! The choice is yours 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Well, Steve has stated that it will be released in march. If so, we shouldn´t have to wait much longer... ...or perhaps another year? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vencini Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Tomorrow I'll swallow at least one message trolling about the game it's released... JAJA! (singing for myself: Kalinka, kalinka, kalinka maïa! v sadou iagoda malinka, malinka moïa !) Regards 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 ... 2 Or you can spend the next week or two reading increasingly loud cries from your loyal (and increasingly impatient ) customers who would love nothing better than istant deployment to ze Russian Front. ... You know they're used to it, right ? I actually suspect they have a copious supply of artillery earplugs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Or else!!! Too bad Putin isn't among the refresh monkeys 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PanzerMike Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 It was one of the first games I really fell in love with. Sailing across oceans and watch the map develop. Seems like ages ago. Wait, it is ages ago - which means I'm old now.... You are just as old as I am, if you are old, that means that I am old too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 They can't possibly release it tomorrow: who would believe an April 1st release? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popgun Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 You are just as old as I am, if you are old, that means that I am old too I'm so old I remember my cavemen clubbing other caveman to death in the original Age of Empires. Now that's old. At this point I'm just hoping to live long enough to get a couple of hours with CMRT before I expire. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[MyIS] Buffpuff Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I'm so old I remember my cavemen clubbing other caveman to death in the original Age of Empires. Now that's old. At this point I'm just hoping to live long enough to get a couple of hours with CMRT before I expire. Pfft. I remember my first game on the PC. An old relic by the name of "Silent Service II" by the now defunct Microprose (and Red Storm Rising by Microprose). Now THAT'S old!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLSTK Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 You Gents do know that Baneman's Grand Dad invented fire, right? He told me so himself. Now that's old! Tell 'em, Banesy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popgun Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Buffpuff;1514387']Pfft. I remember my first game on the PC. An old relic by the name of "Silent Service II" by the now defunct Microprose (and Red Storm Rising by Microprose). Now THAT'S old!!! Thank God. Someone older than me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 I'm so old I remember my cavemen clubbing other caveman to death in the original Age of Empires. Now that's old. At this point I'm just hoping to live long enough to get a couple of hours with CMRT before I expire. Did your cavemen club other cavemen with a fire burning in the background ? Thought so. Not really old then... Ahhh, Age of Empires. Many enjoyable hours. PS: Who played Wizardry on the Apple IIe ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroBodine Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Me! I bought Wizardry 1 for My Apple II (I didn't even have a IIe) at a computer software convention in San Francisco. Back then, software conventions were 75% games. That was the best game ever, for its time. Age of Empires? Silent Service? So, what, you guys are like 40? You think that's old? Pfah! What about SSI's 50 Mission Crush? Or Baltic 1985? Those were the earliest wargames around. Who remembers playing games on their Commodore PET? Warlords anyone? Will CMRT ever get released? The March deadline has come and gone. I'm so sad. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 PS: Who played Wizardry on the Apple IIe ? Definitely. My first computer wargames were SSI's Battle for Normandy, Germany 1985, and Computer Ambush (which might be considered a CM ancestor). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vet 0369 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 What's a PC? I got my first video game by opening a checking account. The bank gave me a Pong unit. Hooked it up to the TV and twisted the knobs to move the paddles. :eek: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroBodine Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Well, yeah that too. We had ColecoVision. I was deprived, never had Atari 800. All my friends did, but we had ColecoVision. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Bah. I used my uncle's programmable ti calculator - it had 8 LED's!- and would play lunar lander by entering in throttle position. Those were the days... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I got my Commodore PET with 4K of RAM in 1978 and had to write my own games, as there virtually none available. When I upgraded to 32K I was sure I could never run out of memory, but within a month I had written a game that used every byte. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymru Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Me! I bought Wizardry 1 for My Apple II (I didn't even have a IIe) at a computer software convention in San Francisco. Back then, software conventions were 75% games. That was the best game ever, for its time. Age of Empires? Silent Service? So, what, you guys are like 40? You think that's old? Pfah! What about SSI's 50 Mission Crush? Or Baltic 1985? Those were the earliest wargames around. Who remembers playing games on their Commodore PET? Warlords anyone? Will CMRT ever get released? The March deadline has come and gone. I'm so sad. Ah Wizardry! I still fire it up on an Apple II emulator from time to time---Tiltowait, better than a small tactical nuke! BTW 40 is a very distant memory, but 71 is the new 40. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FroBodine Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Tiltowait!!!! Oh my gosh, that was the best spell name! Cymru - yeah, I had a book called "The Big Book of BASIC Computer Games". It had the BASIC code for 100 games. I typed in Star Trek, the grid based tactical game, all 20 or so pages of straight code, in very small print. Talk about syntax errors galore. Debugging was half the fun. And when I finally got it to run, it was like so damn satisfying. What a game that was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collingwood Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Who remembers playing games on their Commodore PET? Warlords anyone? Will CMRT ever get released? The March deadline has come and gone. I'm so sad. Yes! I wasted many happy hours playing Warlords. The first computer I owned was a Sinclair ZX80, it came with a whopping 1KB of RAM. Not to be limited by this, I bought the amazing 4KB expansion module! Later on I got 16KB. All very well, except a complete program took forever to save to cassette, and oh the frustration if 15 minutes into loading a program it errored and you had to start again. My earliest computer game experience was playing Star Trek on an IBM system 360. I too am ultra-sad about the tardiness of CMRT. It's April 1st in my timezone. I believe the reason for it not being released is despite the game itself being ready, not all scenarios are. Which is ironic because the first thing I want to do is create a scenario or two to experiment with triggers - I won't be playing any scenarios at first. Give it to me without scenarios, I don't care! Scenarios can come later... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BletchleyGeek Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I too am ultra-sad about the tardiness of CMRT. It's April 1st in my timezone. I believe the reason for it not being released is despite the game itself being ready, not all scenarios are. Which is ironic because the first thing I want to do is create a scenario or two to experiment with triggers - I won't be playing any scenarios at first. Give it to me without scenarios, I don't care! Scenarios can come later... Hmmm, judging from your handle, you sound like being based in Melbourne or Victoria. Would you like to do some WEGO TCP/IP games when CMRT comes out? Cheers (for real)! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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