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Reply #30 on: April 16, 2020, 08:14:55 PM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on April 16, 2020, 07:37:53 PM
Since my first experience with Amigas was Cinemaware games, thought I'd mention that Steam has a deal on 13 Cinemaware tiles for $9.99.

 :o Want!

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Reply #31 on: April 17, 2020, 06:05:01 AM
Oh blimey!

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Reply #32 on: April 17, 2020, 04:19:30 PM
Almost worth getting just for 'Wings' and 'Defender of the Crown'.

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Reply #33 on: April 17, 2020, 06:02:14 PM
I've got Wings already, which is not bad. I never played it back in the day and today it holds up decently.

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Reply #34 on: April 17, 2020, 06:02:57 PM
I used to enjoy the bombing missions.

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Reply #35 on: April 17, 2020, 06:23:58 PM
Quote from: bob48 on April 17, 2020, 06:02:57 PM
I used to enjoy the bombing missions.

That was fun, I agree. So much so I went in for the kickstarter when someone redid it with more modern graphics. I've somehow lost my copy of the installer file and now the old email link goes to some chinese cybersquatter soft-porn-looking site. The kickstarter team must not have paid to keep the domain for more than a couple of years.  :(

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Reply #36 on: April 17, 2020, 06:32:39 PM
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The "Cinemaware Anthology: 1986-1991" includes the following titles:

Defender of the Crown
SDI
The King of Chicago
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
Lords of the Rising Sun
Rocket Ranger*
It Came From the Desert
It Came From the Desert II: Antheads
Wings!
TV Sports: Football
TV Sports: Basketball
TV Sports: Baseball
TV Sports: Boxing

The asterisk on Rocket Ranger means those in Germany get a different version. I don't think there are any swastikas in the game but I could be wrong; that might be why.

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Reply #37 on: April 18, 2020, 04:07:21 AM
Quote from: BanzaiCat on April 17, 2020, 06:32:39 PM
I don't think there are any swastikas in the game but I could be wrong; that might be why.

Yeah there definitely are.  They're on the blimps that you have to shoot down, I remember that much.  Probably elsewhere too.


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Reply #38 on: April 18, 2020, 10:27:19 AM
Oh crap, that's right. When you're in the stage shooting down the missiles the blimp is firing at you...swastikas all over that bad boy.

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Reply #39 on: April 18, 2020, 10:35:46 AM
Quote from: Staggerwing on April 16, 2020, 06:59:15 PM
I remember seeing those at CompUSA. What was their advantage over using a hard drive? Was it common in business/academic machines for exchanging large files?

It was a portable hard drive where the media could be swapped out instantly (and so was also super-portable) just like a normal disk drive.

We used a set at the factory back in the day, practically up to the point where data sticks were invented. I still think some of our years are backed up on those discs in the safe! -- but we have no way to access them anymore, since the drives themselves are long gone.


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Reply #40 on: May 04, 2020, 03:08:29 PM
FYI, the Cinemaware Anthology on Steam is now only $1.99, instead of $9.99.

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Reply #41 on: May 04, 2020, 07:36:15 PM
Oh well, I probably would have wasted the extra eight bucks on gas or food anyway.

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Reply #42 on: May 05, 2020, 06:10:08 AM
...sounds like another good sig line to me..............

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