The Mark of a True CIV3 Fanatic: Conquest Logs

[vmxa1]

I have been known to brn that stuff of to a dvd or a cd. I do not even have a 3.5 on my current box. Everything put to CD.

[wilbill]

Skeeve, you'd get along well with my old college buddy, Bob. He has the scorecard of every major and minor league baseball game he's ever attended - hundreds of them - indexed both chronologically and by team. He plays Avalon Hill type war/board games and keeps a log of who won and what units were destroyed ("3d Guards Armored destroyed at Kursk 20/11/43 by 2nd SS Panzer")

I'm not going to introduce him to MP Civ 3 because he'd drive everyone crazy with statistics.

Is "anal retentive" hyphenated?

[aahz_capone]

erm... ah-na-hl-re-ten-ta-ti-t-v-e

there you go.

get this: I have a folder with print out like civ unit stats, Heroes of M&M, Panzer Generals and the like. And do you know what's still in there? A hand drawn map of the worlds of King's Quest 1, 2 and 3!

Talk about retro, my tandy1000sl still has those games on it! (even though the poor thing is in my closet.) I wouldn't be surprise if my saved games are on it too.

[SanPellegrino]

Tandy? I guess my grandpa told me about it

[vmxa1]

Was it the 286 at Tandy that had DOS?

[SanPellegrino]

yes, I guess Tandy is from the 086/088 era, don't know about the 286. I only remember my 386 having 60 MB HD, and that was MUCH at this time

Oh, we're getting old talking about glory days

[Skeeve]

Originally posted by wilbill
Skeeve, you'd get along well with my old college buddy, Bob. He has the scorecard of every major and minor league baseball game he's ever attended - hundreds of them - indexed both chronologically and by team. He plays Avalon Hill type war/board games and keeps a log of who won and what units were destroyed ("3d Guards Armored destroyed at Kursk 20/11/43 by 2nd SS Panzer")

I'm not going to introduce him to MP Civ 3 because he'd drive everyone crazy with statistics.

Is "anal retentive" hyphenated?

I know someone like that, too. I'm not one to go that far, but I can come pretty close. For example, when Star Control II first came out, I set out to catalog every single one of the 3000+ planets by Star Coordinate, Weather, Atmosphere, Mass, Axial Tilt, etc.

Then the Internet came and sure enough someone already had completed the job. I believe that this web site: http://www.classicgaming.com/starcontrol/ still has access to all that information.

*Sigh* those pre-internet days....

[Skeeve]

Wilbill,

I forgot to ask in my last post, does your friend Bob remember playing an Avalon Hill game called Wizard's Quest??

That was one of my all time favorites - came out over 20 years ago! I played it in 8th grade (1981), and even tried writing a BASIC program in high school to try and simplify some of the arduous dice rolling.

I wonder if someone tried creating a PC version of the game?

[aahz_capone]

Well on my tandy there was MS DOS as well as a very wierd form of windows, with one game, hangamn, which is still the best programmed computer hangman game I've played to date.

Don't even get me started on how those youngens with thier PS2 and Xbox think they know what gaming is when I remeber the Master System/NES war. Still have my NES and use it, damnit! (Next too my NGC and PentIII ) Hell, I had to learn from scratch, and I GOT ON MY KNEES and thanked God for the upgrade from monochrome to 4 colors! Now these kids getting born into the easy life of 16bil colors and after Commoder gave the gloves over to ...

ah, what the hell....

[Skeeve]

Originally posted by aahz_capone
Hell, I had to learn from scratch, and I GOT ON MY KNEES and thanked God for the upgrade from monochrome to 4 colors! Now these kids getting born into the easy life of 16bil colors and after Commoder gave the gloves over to ...

ah, what the hell....

Indeed, you speak the truth Aahz!
I can remember playing Zork on my buddy's Apple II which was monochrome Green.

Oh, those were the days. 'Dem kids don't know what they got today.

- Skeeve.

[SanPellegrino]

That's why we play turn-based, our reactions are just too bad for the new shooter stuff

[vmxa1]

Worse than that, I get dizzy and had to stop back on Quake 3.

[wilbill]

I forgot to ask in my last post, does your friend Bob remember playing an Avalon Hill game called Wizard's Quest??

That was one of my all time favorites - came out over 20 years ago! I played it in 8th grade (1981), and even tried writing a BASIC program in high school to try and simplify some of the arduous dice rolling.

I wonder if someone tried creating a PC version of the game?

I doubt he ever played it. At that time (too many years ago to mention) he was introducing me to the early AH games such as Stalingrad, Guadalcanal, Waterloo, etc. We both nearly flunked out of college because of those babies. Even a few years before that, when I was in 8th or 9th grade, I briefly played the original AH wargame called "Tactics II" - very primitive.

I wrote a dice rolling program for my first computer - a Sinclair ZX80. Which I still have, BTW.

[bongo]

Weirdos

Have to admit that I alwas kept paper-logs of my original civ-games...I still make the odd note on civ3 games to keep track of 'interesting' stuff.