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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8568398" data-attributes="member: 19675">I played that old IIe Star Trek game in BASIC where your ship was an “E”, the Klingons were “K”s, stars were asterisks and photon torpedoes were “#”s.&nbsp; I knew just enough to reprogram it so your phasers got MORE powerful the farther away the target.And text games like Zork and Madventure.Then came things like Wizardry &amp; Ultima III. When we got Macs to replace the Apple IIe, Bard’s Tale, Sim City, Sim Earth and those Forgotten Realms games got lots of play.That last one was hilarious to me because I found a fatal bug.&nbsp; My party, which included a Magic-User/Thief, encountered a Spectre (in library, as I recall).&nbsp; She kept getting nailed as I battled it, but she survived.&nbsp; Then I noticed she had -300 levels or more.&nbsp; It was late, so I saved the game, thinking to figure it out later.&nbsp; The next day, the saved game would NOT reload properly.&nbsp; The few times it rebooted, it crashed within minutes.&nbsp; I tried resuming play from a prior save, but each time, the Spectre encounter ended the same way- the MU-Th in big negative levels, followed by a crash.I restarted the game with an entirely different party, but by that time, I was too frustrated to continue.&nbsp; (A friend of mine who frequently visited from out of town would play the game when I had to go to class or do homework…and he eventually finished the game.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8568398, member: 19675"] I played that old IIe Star Trek game in BASIC where your ship was an “E”, the Klingons were “K”s, stars were asterisks and photon torpedoes were “#”s. I knew just enough to reprogram it so your phasers got MORE powerful the farther away the target. And text games like [I]Zork[/I] and [I]Madventure[/I]. Then came things like [I]Wizardry[/I] & [I]Ultima III. [/I] When we got Macs to replace the Apple IIe, [I]Bard’s Tale[/I], [I]Sim City[/I], [I]Sim Earth[/I] and those Forgotten Realms games got lots of play. That last one was hilarious to me because I found a fatal bug. My party, which included a Magic-User/Thief, encountered a Spectre (in library, as I recall). She kept getting nailed as I battled it, but she survived. Then I noticed she had -300 levels or more. It was late, so I saved the game, thinking to figure it out later. The next day, the saved game would NOT reload properly. The few times it rebooted, it crashed within minutes. I tried resuming play from a prior save, but each time, the Spectre encounter ended the same way- the MU-Th in big negative levels, followed by a crash. I restarted the game with an entirely different party, but by that time, I was too frustrated to continue. (A friend of mine who frequently visited from out of town would play the game when I had to go to class or do homework…and he eventually finished the game.) [/QUOTE]

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