Old School
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Old School
Does anyone remember pre- WITP?
I remember this game back in the late 80's early 90's when you had a 5 1/4" floppy.
When the new machines came out you couldn't play it. I think that was 386/486
I remember this game back in the late 80's early 90's when you had a 5 1/4" floppy.
When the new machines came out you couldn't play it. I think that was 386/486
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ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War?
Yep, just pulled it out of my ancient software cabinet. Opened the box for the first time in forever and it's got a deteriorating manual and a 720K 3.5 floppy. Fortunately my current system has more than the necessary 640K RAM, but it's sadly lacking in floppy drives of any variety.
Reading the system requirements was like stepping into the wayback machine:
"The game requires 2.5MB of hard disk space and can only be played on a hard drive. An EGA or higher color video system is also required. Note: FILES must be set to at least 20 in your CONFIG.SYS file. No change to BUFFERS is required."
Extra hilarious: There's handwritten sheets in there laying out the Allied set-up requirements. Oh.my.god.
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You know something, I think it was Pacific War, but it was an earlier version than that if I recall.
I think Pacific War was out before GG got a hold of it. Just like Bombing of the Third Reich. I have a version before GG improved it.
I have been wanting to pick up WITP-AE for years but kept hearing about the negatives, which are basically time and complexity.
Finally made the buy for Christmas.
I'm still waiting to get use to processing a turn. What to do, what order, then what to look for.
Once I get the right combinations down I hope to get each turn down to 20 minutes or less. I can get a turn in about 5 to 10 minutes after the first turn of the day.
I remember Pacific War being one of the best games I ever bought.
Still haven't jumped into War in the East but I spent several months reading each thread.
I think Pacific War was out before GG got a hold of it. Just like Bombing of the Third Reich. I have a version before GG improved it.
I have been wanting to pick up WITP-AE for years but kept hearing about the negatives, which are basically time and complexity.
Finally made the buy for Christmas.
I'm still waiting to get use to processing a turn. What to do, what order, then what to look for.
Once I get the right combinations down I hope to get each turn down to 20 minutes or less. I can get a turn in about 5 to 10 minutes after the first turn of the day.
I remember Pacific War being one of the best games I ever bought.
Still haven't jumped into War in the East but I spent several months reading each thread.
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You could just download a copy
http://www.matrixgames.com/products/235/details/Pacific.War:.Matrix.Edition
Bill
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RE: Old School
ORIGINAL: Kull
ORIGINAL: gradenko_2000
Gary Grigsby's Pacific War?
Yep, just pulled it out of my ancient software cabinet. Opened the box for the first time in forever and it's got a deteriorating manual and a 720K 3.5 floppy. Fortunately my current system has more than the necessary 640K RAM, but it's sadly lacking in floppy drives of any variety.
Reading the system requirements was like stepping into the wayback machine:
"The game requires 2.5MB of hard disk space and can only be played on a hard drive. An EGA or higher color video system is also required. Note: FILES must be set to at least 20 in your CONFIG.SYS file. No change to BUFFERS is required."
Extra hilarious: There's handwritten sheets in there laying out the Allied set-up requirements. Oh.my.god.
If I remember correctly, the manual explained air combat. What the range means when you see it displayed in combat.
engaging range 5, range 3 etc.
The closer the range the better chances for a hit.
I hope I still have the manual. I'll have to look someday.
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Does anyone remember pre- WITP?
I remember this game back in the late 80's early 90's when you had a 5 1/4" floppy.
When the new machines came out you couldn't play it. I think that was 386/486
I can go even further back to an old Apple IIe game produced by SSI in the early 80s. I no longer have it but I have just found this on YouTube. Just amazing wants out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94NfFT4qN0
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Another game which I still have is Sea Battle from Mattel on the Intellivision.
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I can go even further back to an old Apple IIe game produced by SSI in the early 80s. I no longer have it but I have just found this on YouTube. Just amazing wants out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94NfFT4qN0
Superb directing and awesome special effects! Would watch again.
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RE: Old School
ORIGINAL: Chris H
I can go even further back to an old Apple IIe game produced by SSI in the early 80s. I no longer have it but I have just found this on YouTube. Just amazing wants out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u94NfFT4qN0
A friend of mine had SSI's GUADALCANAL (one of Grigsby's earliest), and we used to stay up all night playing it. Another (later but still old) game was WAR IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, which I had for my Commodore 64/128 and which I believe was also an SSI product (not sure if it too was a Grigsby design).
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I remember playing this on the good old C<64;
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I liked the Great Naval Battles volume that covered the South Pacific. I never could get any of the other games in the series to run.
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Steel Panthers, Typhoon of Steel, Carriers at War- ahhh the memories.
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Well, if you like retro game AARs, remember the good old Europe Ablaze, CAW and of course Gary's USAAF?
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Well, if you like retro game AARs, remember the good old Europe Ablaze, CAW and of course Gary's USAAF?
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Ahhh...USAAF. (nostalgic pause )...One of my favourites from the 80's.......
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My two favorates were USAAF and Tigers in the Snow. I had USAAF for the Apple IIe and I had Tigers on the Atari. Man I spent many hours with those games. Tigers in the Snow was on a cassette tape that had to be loaded on the atari set each time before playing. It took about an hour IIRC.
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I liked the Great Naval Battles volume that covered the South Pacific. I never could get any of the other games in the series to run.
Bill
Aye, Great Naval Battles - Guadalcanal
Fond & fun memories to this day.
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Does anyone remember pre- WITP?
I remember this game back in the late 80's early 90's when you had a 5 1/4" floppy.
When the new machines came out you couldn't play it. I think that was 386/486
I played GGs Pacific War up until about a year ago. I think it was an early 90's program? I got it from an abandonware site called Home of the Underdogs, so there were no disks with it. It will not run under Windows 7 directly, but runs just fine using DosBox. As someone else pointed out, it is still available for free on the Matrix site.
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I'm a youngin'. My Pacific War gaming experience began with PTO for the SNES, at which point I began to learn all about the places my dad talked about.
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I liked the Great Naval Battles volume that covered the South Pacific. I never could get any of the other games in the series to run.
Bill
Yep, the Great Naval Battles that covered the Guadalcanal campaign was excellent. Best part was that if you had an injured ship, you could devote hours to trying to save it. It just broke your heart to see the compartments filling up with water as you transferred your pumps back and forth trying to keep up. They then made two or three more larger games based on the same system that were all crap as they never worked. And they did not care much to fix them.
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