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Article #697717Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Toby Newman
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:26
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:26
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On 2017-04-17, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first computer game I owned - barring whatever came on the > "Getting Started" diskettes for my Apple IIc - was Zork I. It wasn't Atari ST: Azarian (1987) Top down Asteroids type game. PC: Civilization (1991) Installed it inside Win3.1 on my mum's office PC. Was blown away to see it running in DOS on a friend's PC and the animation was 4x faster. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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