Oh yeah, those cassettes are like antiques now. If I ever got myself back an Amstrad CPC 464 I'd try to source a good tape-to-tape recorder so I could copy the games onto fresh cassettes.
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LOL, I was stationed at NAS Oceana, Virginia Beach. They had the game put in at a beer bar place called Guys and Dolls on the beach. Bottle beer and draft. Ended up working there part time.
Yeah, Dirk the Daring. I called him D**k the Darling. Loved the big room with the giant knight tapping the floor with his huge sword.
This evening every single trip I have made to an Outpost I've had to wait for NPCs to clear the pads... that hasn't happened once in the first 60% of hauling for the Outpost. Weird.
Medium sized ship, I guess. Many outposts only have one medium pad, thus it can get crowded at certain times.
Navy or Marine Corps? I did several deployments from Little Creek, Va. (I think they changed the name).
I still have those laserdisc games (space Ace, Dragons lair etc.) on my arcade cab.
They still look awesome.
Yep, T-8. Even if there were some good large-pad settlements near me I'd rather fly twice as many trips in this!
Agree there's "often" a queue but the odd thing here is it hasn't happened all week, until last night when it was every. Single. Trip. And those trips were spread over six outposts in four systems.
Edit: looks like I might finish the metals just before I get the last 20 tons of Membrane, dammit.
Navy. I worked on the flight simulators for the F-14 and F-4. I made a couple trips to Little Creek Amphib base, home to Seal Team 2.
nice (plane enthusiast here)
Well, the original '84 Elite has poor graphics 
By today's standards of course; but back then it was fantastic. Especially when you had 2 (or was it more?) entire galaxies fitted into 64K of RAM and CPU's running at 4MHZ...
By today's standards of course; but back then it was fantastic. Especially when you had 2 (or was it more?) entire galaxies fitted into 64K of RAM and CPU's running at 4MHZ...One of the trainers in 1983. Tomcat cockpit...
Wow, very cool pieces of aviation history you have there
The pit is gorgeous, but I wonder, how was the scenery rendered back then?
Wow, very cool pieces of aviation history you have there
The pit is gorgeous, but I wonder, how was the scenery rendered back then?
Look at the one that shows the canopy, notice a white background. That is the inside surface of a dome the cockpit sits in. The big black thing at the back of the pit is a laser projector which "projected" the image on that white surface like a movie screen, only the image is real-time in flight. No real detail of the ground because it was an ACM, Air Combat Maneuvering Simulator, so the focus was on the aircraft and weapons. We even simulated "grey out" by having all the lights fade out and back based on the aircraft's actions. And the air bladders in the G-seat worked. Very cool experience flying that thing!
Those F-4 Phantoms were really something, they still hold many world records. I was with a Combat Engineer Squadron at MCAS El Toro and those things would rattle our guts when a Wing of 4 would take off on full AB, we were out doing a FOD walk.
LOL, gotta say I'm a Tomcat fan, but I know what your saying. The Phantom does still hold several records, it was known for it's climb rate if I remember correctly. Flying it was...a workout. You had to fly it, unlike the F-14 that was like flying on cruise control in a Caddy that could handle. The Tomcat would just do it, the Phantom you had to make it do it. It was known as "flys like a rock!".
Impressive tech considering what civilian graphics and stuff was back then.
I can only imagine how impressive such a massive 3rd gen fighter passing by was. I remember reading somewhere people joking about the Phantoms being the evidence that even an anvil can fly if you put massive engines on it (approximate translation)
I loved that first version of Elite on my Commodore 64. I recall it having 8 galaxies each composed on 2048 stars.Well, the original '84 Elite has poor graphics
I never left galaxy 1 until I had the mission to locate and destroy a stolen Constrictor.
Here is the younger Ryder7 circa 2010 randomly spotting a Mig-21 with her UB rocket pods and central fuel tank sitting on a small square near a Sa-2 missile on its rail while on a trip to Moldova. Phantom's foe. (For some reason I wasn't allowed to keep the plane. People can be fun suckers sometimes, would have loved that on my garden)
)LOL, Sure, put it next to the gnomes.
BTW, cool picture.