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(...) was (...) city (...) and (...) referred (...) Chaos. Yes, I seem to remember that one, too. People don't understand how to pronounce the greek CH sound in this country sometimes. The guy from company X is coming today, someone would say, and (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ahhhh, my brain kept trying to come up with something starting with an S and I kept drawing blanks on the company name. Going down the wrong path. (...) avoid (...) Alliance, (...) Abe's (...) I stand corrected - for one particular product, it (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Didn't know they were ever called Brainstorm. Silicon & Synapse (after creating great games like The Lost Vikings and Rock & Roll Racing) had decided to change their name, mostly because no-one could pronounce synapse. They decided to change (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Castle Wolfenstein was created by Silas S. Warner in 1981 for Muse Software. Muse later created Beyond Castle Wolfenstein in 1984. (...) Actually, the licensing of engines is very common! Why make it easier for someone to compete with your (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) This is partly true, but I would like to clear up some of your nomenclature. You could say that Id created the First Person Shooter (FPS) genre of games when they created Wolfenstein 3D. This is different from an engine, as an engine is a (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) yah yah! I remember copying it (shhh, i was young) sector by sector, since my poor apple][+'s 48k memory couldn't do more than that... :) yay locksmith *grin* :) Dan PS. Hope my age isn't showing ;) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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These are great! Lots of praise to follow: 1) I am amazed by the green-hilly-mountain-forest area of the scenery - it looks amazing! With the trees and use of those huge baseplate mounds and the water ... *drool drool* Landscaping can make the (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Ahh, that's it! I looked up vehicle stats in the Brikwars 2000 tome (I'm slowly making the conversion from version '98), and it all makes sense to me. Under the 2000 guidelines, the halftrack is actually a "huge" treaded vehicle, with base stats of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Well, if you're going to write it, then I won't bother :) (...) Never fear, Adrian is here! I remembered that (after you left, of course) so I at least have hte 4 of us still there. I'll send it to you (or upload it to the brickshelf archive (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Wolfenstein was created by....ummmmm....dang....that was so long ago even I forget. I mean the ORIGINAL Castle Wolfenstein (Apple ][). Top down graphics, not first person. But yes, the engine by IDG has been copied many times. These guys (...) (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Always. Still is (my question was rhetorical). Bruce (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Blizzard (originally Silicon and Synapse, then Brainstorm, now Blizzard) was founded by Alan Adham (Allen? I forget). Much of his early contract work was for the company he lived near, Interplay Productions. Interplay has been in Orange County (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Inaugural Ohio BrikWar battle report! (...) Oh shoot! You know what we forgot? The group photo at the end, where it shows the players together. :( Drew Lawrence (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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Well, I'm not sure what my brother-in-law did in regards to uploading the pics of BrikWars to BrickShelf, but something went wrong along the line. Yesterday he gave me copies of all the pics he took on floppy disks along with his password for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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The way this works is a creative company invents a gaming engine and several others copy it. Classic example Wolfenstein/Doom invented by Idg. These guys invented the 3D shooter engine that was copied by many others. Once software engine is created, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Maybe they're there now. They were in Canada before (where they started). -- Paul Davidson Alex <legowiz@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:Ft6nnL.89v@lugnet.com... (...) take, (...) Blizzard (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I'm not likely to field another keep any time soon. Re-reading the rules Saturday made me realize that my real strength as a TL2/3 army is in my ability to field fairly fast and powerful units (mounted knights) fairly cheaply. For the cost of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) Well it does say that you can tow other, smaller vehicles, with a movement penalty equal to that vehicles power rating. (2000 rules 4.1.3 - third from last paragraph) If you treat the Mass Driver MkII as a vehicle in and of itself, you'd only (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.org.us.nelug, lugnet.gaming)
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(...) Had the tree not obscured my Pilot's vision, I would have just left it there for the duration of the game. (...) I saw that yesterday about the -2 UR for opportunity fire, that and you can't have fired on your previous turn, not on the turn (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.gaming, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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(...) WHAT!!!!!!! It was in Irvine???? I live there! When was it there? (...) would (...) Alex Alex (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.gaming, lugnet.dear-lego)
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