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From: mossberg479
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:19
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 20:19
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On Monday, October 7, 1996 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, John Welch wrote: > Hahah! Right Now I use the old binder For Universe to hold all of my role > playing materials... I didn't think anyone had ever played this game. It > was such a pain in the rear.. All that switching disks and all heh... I still have the game and my Atari. I used two Atari 1050 floppy drives daisy chained and that eliminated most of the disk swapping. I made so much money trading Radiotope furnaces that I was able to buy a new ship with a fast drive and massive weaponry. I switched from trading to outright piracy. I was able to kick the arse of any warship that challenged me. I forgot all about searching for that damned Hyperdive. I was having too much fun plundering the Universe.
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