I’ve spent much of my recent commuting time hunched over my NDS, playing Wordwrap
It’s a very simple game which presents you with a number of letters, and you have to construct as many words out of them as possible, with or without a time limit, depending on your chosen game type. Simple, but very very engrossing.
Whilst engaged in a bit of post-lunch Google vanity browsing, I came across what must be my first post to Usenet from my old Demon Internet account.
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.misc
From: Polomint@turing.demon.co.uk (Nick Ludlam)
Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!
howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!
turing.demon.co.uk!Polo
Subject: Starwars?
Organization: None
Reply-To: Polomint@turing.demon.co.uk
X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29
Lines: 7
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 21:38:34 +0000
Message-ID: <779924314snz@turing.demon.co.uk>
Sender: use...@demon.co.uk
Hi! I just wondered if there was a
MUD/MUSH/whatever related to the Starwars trilogy?
Thanks in advance,
Nick.
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Nick Ludlam -*- polomint@turing.demon.co.uk
This was around the time that I was really into MUDs and MUSHes, and was casting around for engaging ones, before I settled on Elephant MUD through which I met some very very good friends. As I remember it, this is when Demon also packaged the KA9Q software, which was a DOS implementation of a TCP/IP stack that was used to access all the various services, before Win95.
UPDATE:
I've also spotted the first bit of code that my brother Dominic posted to the internet in AMOS basic for the Commodore Amiga. In his words, 'That was, like, before the internet was popular!'
In other news, I've hauled my home PC out of the 32bit stone age into the gleaming 64bit bronze age, with a reasonably priced Athlon64 3200+. This is in an effort to get reasonable framerates out of X3 Reunion, but unfortunately I've found out that the bottleneck sits more with the graphics card than it did with the CPU.
With modern games, it seems that having a decent GPU and a reasonable CPU is a much better situation than a decent CPU and an average graphics card. My GeForce 6600 GT simply doesn't cut it with Black and White 2, X3 or Valve's 'The Lost Coast', which is doing a nice job of demonstrating what it's like to have a decent optical physics model in games.
Now I'm left wondering at exactly what point I can buy a top-end graphics card without paying too much of a premium, taking into account that my gaming experience gets worse with each new game purchase.
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