Paul Hartman writes: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> > wrote:
> > And I could play the ancient spacewars game once again. > > Star Control? Wing Commander? hmm :) No, those came later. It's a clone of the probably very first computer action game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar! This is the one: http://jeff.rainbow-100.com/?p=93 Wow, it even has a download link. And it sort of runs in dosemu. Although the CGA version only (640x200), not the one using much nicer Hercules graphics (720x384), which I still have a copy of anyway. That was why I had started it on my old AT. Interestingly, while the nice animation of the SPACEWAR logo is way too fast to see, the game itself is playable. Not against the robot though, the wining strategy is to simply wait until it has no energy left due to excessive hyperjumping (which it normally doesn't do), and finish it with a single laser beam when it comes nearby. Wonko
