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Dogbreath
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Mac KGB brainwashing, no doubt. 
FWIW, if I ever organize my stuff, it'll definitely be on a external HDD - but the thing is a lot of the CDs aren't even labeled, so I'd have to unzip each game, probably play it to make sure it's not corrupted, and write a mini-review so I'd remember what it was/what it was about before indexing it.
Last time I tried I got up to game 14... got too busy playing to go any further. |
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Larry Laffer
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| dosraider wrote: | DVD???? For games that rarely exceed 1MB 
Larry, what have they done with you?  |
If you think that's fucked up, try burning a dvd with 4 cd images containing dos games. 
Yea, there was a time when I was young and stupid. Now I'm just young!  |
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dosraider
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4 CD images on 1 DVD? .... dsDVDs* you have there in *.ro.
*dsDVDs= damn small DVDs... |
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Larry Laffer
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Erm, no, rather, 4 ISOs on a DVD.
Besides, I rarely write a complete DVD, I almost always end up with 1 GB+ of free space(and I always say I'm gonna do a second session when I got the time... just like you guys with the CD organizing)  |
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dosraider
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No double layer burners in *.ro?
Tssssssssssssssssssssss ...... |
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Larry Laffer
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Tssssssssssssssssssssss yourself!
I'd rather buy 4 DVDs than 1 DL DVD for the same amount of dough! |
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dosraider
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Oh ... you must buy empty CDs/DVDs ...... oh poor you.
Tssssssssssssssssssssssssss ......
*.ro isn't anymore what it was. |
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Dogbreath
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As fun as it is to mock Romania, you must remember that until 18 years ago, they were quite literally at a medieval technology level. The fact that people there have computers, or even electricity, is indicative of the amazing progress the country has made.
^How Romanians use their CDs. |
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Larry Laffer
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| Dogbreath wrote: | | As fun as it is to mock Romania, you must remember that until 18 years ago, they were quite literally at a medieval technology level. The fact that people there have computers, or even electricity, is indicative of the amazing progress the country has made. |
Maybe so, but at least due to that progress the gadget-console-modding market is quite under-developped -------> hence, I'm makin' a semi-sweet buck from selling stuff you would normally buy from ModChip.com and ThinkGeek! 
And who the hell uses metal CDs for anything other than wind chimes anyway? |
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Pere Ubu
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PDTrek is the name!
Available here:
www.aocstuff.com/files/gamecd/walnutcreek/MSDOS/MODEM/
"PDTrek 2.5. Vast space exploration and battle game. By Carl Mclawhorn."
It's not as much as like EGATrek as I remembered, but yeppers, that's the game I was lookin' fer.
Time to fire up DOSBox! : |
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dosraider
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Good that the mods kept this topic alive .....
Enjoy the game.
Hmmm, Walnut CDs, have a whole pile of those, really must make a DB from all that stuff.
And the NightOwls...
And ... who I'm kidding, will never happen.
And all those floppies ....  |
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tviceman
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| Pere Ubu wrote: | I've checked Trekcore and I can't find it - the screenshot there of EGA Trek looks very much like the display I remember from this game, but it ran in real-time and didn't have "sectors" etc. - the "universe" was one large area you could fly around in.
Lots of color - different types of weapons and aliens, including one annoying alien who'd chase your ship and drain it of energy. Different planets with resources.
Imagine a cross between EGA Trek and the video game "Bosconian" and you'll pretty much have what I'm looking for.
I could have sworn the game was "VGA Trek", but a) it LOOKS more like EGA Trek and b) none of the "VGA Trek"s I can see corresponds to it.
Another detail - documentation had to be accessed from inside the game; there was no seperate doc file, and the instructions were very long and very complicated. The game would have probably come out around the late Eighties.
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I think I know exactly what game you're talking about.
There were different ships you could command (I specifically remember the enterprise and a klingon warbird), each with it's own attributes. The torpedoes from the enterprise would often miss at long range but always did a specific damage, while the torpedoes from the klingon ship would always hit but damage varied and wasn't as great compared to the Enterprise's. Also, phasers lost power the farther away they were fired from....
You would issue commands on a seperate screen, like speeding up warp drive, diverting power to shields, fixing damaged sections, and would watch it happen in "real time"
Does this sound right? |
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dosraider
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:44 am
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Two posts above yours:
| Pere Ubu wrote: | PDTrek is the name!
Available here:
www.aocstuff.com/files/gamecd/walnutcreek/MSDOS/MODEM/
"PDTrek 2.5. Vast space exploration and battle game. By Carl Mclawhorn."
It's not as much as like EGATrek as I remembered, but yeppers, that's the game I was lookin' fer.
Time to fire up DOSBox! : |
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tviceman
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| Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:46 am
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| dosraider wrote: | Two posts above yours:
| Pere Ubu wrote: | PDTrek is the name!
Available here:
www.aocstuff.com/files/gamecd/walnutcreek/MSDOS/MODEM/
"PDTrek 2.5. Vast space exploration and battle game. By Carl Mclawhorn."
It's not as much as like EGATrek as I remembered, but yeppers, that's the game I was lookin' fer.
Time to fire up DOSBox! : |
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Yeah I saw that after I posted, downloaded it but wasn't the game I was thinking of. |
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