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markkur
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posted November 01, 2010 06:02 PM |
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Treasure in a box
Edit = The "Box" can be a lot of things. So that can broaden the discussion as has happened in a very good way...Where does your treasure lie? Past and present? Markkur 11/9/10
I was moving around some boxes trying to make some room to set up my PA system, when I came across one marked "Old PC Games"
I opened it up and saw 'WarCraft 2', one called 'Age of Wonders' (that I don't recall at all) and maybe the first 'Jukebox' software
At the bottom of the stack was my Heroes II "The Price of Loyalty". The expansion box and booklet are in perfect shape but sad to say the box etc. for the base game were not in the box. TG the game's discs are.
Anyway, here's the grin;
System requirements:
Win-95
IBM 486 66Mhz or higher
DOS version 5.0 or higher,
480 K memory
35MB of hard drvie space
2X speed CD-ROM
SVGA Graphics card and mouse.
From 1997: We're coming up on 15 years ago....whew!
New Artifacts...Crystal Ball... if you are close enough you can see all stats of heros or towns.Broach of Shielding, 1/2 damage from spells. Gravedigger's Shovel, 10% necromany boost.
New Locations...Hut of the Magi, Evil Shrine, Mermaids, Barrow Mounds, Elemental Altars, Jail, Sirens and Stable
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posted November 01, 2010 06:12 PM |
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I'd say that's three treasures in a box. 
I might even appreciate Age of Wonders over H2.
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posted November 01, 2010 07:12 PM |
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I'd say that's three treasures in a box.
I might even appreciate Age of Wonders over H2.
No kidding? My brother gave it to me I think and I do not recall anything about it. It is in near perfect shape. I read it came out in 2002. Makes me wonder if I forgot it...then So. it was good then?, because I liked H2.
I also found 'Age Of Mythology' from the same year. I remember now that my brother did give me both at the same time. Don't know beans about it either
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posted November 01, 2010 07:55 PM |
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Age of Wonders 2002? No way man. It's from the 90s. Maybe you've got Age of Wonders 2, that's not nearly as good as H2 is though.
Age of Mythology is okay, the second best in the Age of Empires series.
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posted November 02, 2010 06:39 PM |
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Edited by markkur at 18:41, 02 Nov 2010.
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Age of Wonders 2002? No way man. It's from the 90s. Maybe you've got Age of Wonders 2, that's not nearly as good as H2 is though.
Age of Mythology is okay, the second best in the Age of Empires series.
You're right...it is Age of Wonders II. Maybe you just explained why my brother gave it to me...the dirty rat Actually he did that several times;, bought something and did not like it and he gave it to me. I seldom did, we were too much alike in game wants. Too bad that changed over the years. He does not like HoMM at all now, but prefers Total War by far. Oil well. deep subject
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posted November 02, 2010 07:40 PM |
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I have games all over. But I checked one location with a bunch of old games and had these.
Jewels of the Oracle <- old adventure game but never played
Kyrandia - new in shrink wrap - I think it's another adventure game
Populous - sucks
Gansters - ok, but not enough variety to last long
Empire of Magic - RPG/strategy I think
Age of Wonders - sucks (yea I know a lot of homm people liked it)
the original Civilization
Colonization
Conquest of the New World - good game
Seven Kingdoms - sucks if I remember right
SSI games:
Soldiers at War
People's General -very good with good AI
Pacific General
Albion - very good rpg for it's day and first game I played with turn based combat
Auryn Quest - looks like an adventure
Civil War Generals 2 - excellent game, one of my all time favorites with great replay value
If I really dig I could probably find some REALLY old games from the 1970s before the PC was even invented.
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posted November 03, 2010 08:07 AM |
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Edited by markkur at 08:11, 03 Nov 2010.
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I have games all over. But I checked one location with a bunch of old games and had these.
Jewels of the Oracle <- old adventure game but never played
Kyrandia - new in shrink wrap - I think it's another adventure game
Populous - sucks
Gansters - ok, but not enough variety to last long
Empire of Magic - RPG/strategy I think
Age of Wonders - sucks (yea I know a lot of homm people liked it)
the original Civilization
Colonization
Conquest of the New World - good game
Seven Kingdoms - sucks if I remember right
SSI games:
Soldiers at War
People's General -very good with good AI
Pacific General
Albion - very good rpg for it's day and first game I played with turn based combat
Auryn Quest - looks like an adventure
Civil War Generals 2 - excellent game, one of my all time favorites with great replay value
If I really dig I could probably find some REALLY old games from the 1970s before the PC was even invented.
Now you did it! I have to go see what else might be around As far as your list, almost all I have not heard of, except Civ. I have nearly all of those but honestly lost interest after Civ III. The triple-dudes standing over a city did me in I have Sid's Gettysburg and have had another one or two civil war titles that were not any good. So the 'General's' one is a good one?
I owned PONG and I sold it years ago. Wonder if it would be worth anything now? I also remember a tank game (probably called tank because it was truly the first) that my brother and I played. We still laugh about it. "Silly looking boxes, with a cheesy explosion sound." The most fun we had was when nether of us could see our own tank because they were off the TVs screen and yet we were still able to 'hit' the other's tank, once in a while. It was very bizarre but gave us the lasting effects of laughter.
Now where are those 'other' boxes?
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posted November 07, 2010 10:11 PM |
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Reading this I wish I still had my old Commodore 64 without hard drive and the box with game discs I had for it... that was my first own computer games (if you call that a computer still XD)...had some great among them:
Spy vs Spy
several nice fighting games
a donald duck minigame games
the greatest olympic games games I ever had!!!
A text&symbolsonly strategy/buildup game called "king arthur which I recall to be quite great
a nice race game
and some more
...can't even recall what I did to all this...but I think I idiot sold it
EDIT: found some svs pictures:
that was an awesome game!!!!!
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posted November 08, 2010 03:45 PM |
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Reading this I wish I still had my old Commodore 64 without hard drive and the box with game discs I had for it... that was my first own computer games (if you call that a computer still XD)...had some great among them:
Spy vs Spy
several nice fighting games
a donald duck minigame games
the greatest olympic games games I ever had!!!
A text&symbolsonly strategy/buildup game called "king arthur which I recall to be quite great
a nice race game
and some more
...can't even recall what I did to all this...but I think I idiot sold it
Welcome to the club Don't we ALL wish we still had something from the past. I sold my Sweet 57 Chevy to pay of bills. It was a beautiful Tricked out-2-door HT, that would be worth 20 times what I sold it for in 1990.
Commodore 64! Too funny. I had a friend that used a "Music Program" on one, to record with my guitar for a song I had written and believe it or not, it sounded really good, way back then.
Make a great day my _____? How do you say 'friend' in German?
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posted November 08, 2010 06:07 PM |
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Indeed we do XD
I wish for many such things -.- and I'm still young! But a bit nostalgic XD
I know a band which makes some really freaky tunes with a C64 XD
friend isn't far from the german word "Freund"
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posted November 08, 2010 08:52 PM |
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Still have some of the old stuff. These weren't mine at the time I used them but they are a couple of the early computers I used. There are two computers here.
In the lower left is an old GIMIX computer. The motherboard that's sitting vertically (open for repairs) is an old Heathkit computer. Both are Motorolla 68XX processors. Also notice the dual 8" floppy disk drive (upper center with the yellow buttons). Missing from the picture (but I think I still have) are a couple old Ataris, I think they are either an 800 or 400 and also maybe an ST.
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posted November 09, 2010 03:25 PM |
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Edited by markkur at 18:38, 09 Nov 2010.
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Still have some of the old stuff. These weren't mine at the time I used them but they are a couple of the early computers I used. There are two computers here.
In the lower left is an old GIMIX computer. The motherboard that's sitting vertically (open for repairs) is an old Heathkit computer. Both are Motorolla 68XX processors. Also notice the dual 8" floppy disk drive (upper center with the yellow buttons). Missing from the picture (but I think I still have) are a couple old Ataris, I think they are either an 800 or 400 and also maybe an ST.
Too funny. Seeing those old ones brings back a lot of memmories. And that TV set You should have seen the TVs I grew up watching, in world before color transmission. That seeems nutz now. Back to PCs, in 1990 I bought HPs first "Mult-Media PC" Wish I still had that one it had my first cd-drive. And my pong too.
I remember going over to a friend's house who knows how long ago and playing friday nights on his Atari. It beat losing money at the bars
I might have a "treasure in a box". I have a very early console sort game system. But it had its own screen...it was a stand alone unit called "Vectrex" There were several games for it and you would place a "thin plastic square" over the monitor screen, one for each game cartidge you loaded in its side. A game exactly like asterroids was default and you played with only the screen. Stand alone, now there's a progressive idea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
Edit = Ok no treasure. A complete system at EB is posted for a C-note. Oil well.
@Jiriki9
Our languages are very close because our Angles and Saxons spoke a 'low-German'. But you probably knew that By the way I think I told you I have several ties to Germany in my family tree, Wales and France too. I have found they combine well with my last branch ...Blackfoot/Ute
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posted November 10, 2010 08:19 AM |
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I like to keeep memorys of the past, anyway^^
A treasure-keeing place for me is also the part of my wall behind my desk, between the windows, where I keep a whole lot of tickets for concerts, theatre and such, a photograph of "my" dog, a sainfair bon and some paper memories of my Paris vacation last silvester - the boarding pass, a metro ticket, the entry ticket for the eiffell tower... I love to keep all the wonderfull moments of these events in my sight
Concernign PC games, I have some cds left of my first days at my dad's PC...I used to spent there the whole time between when my school ended and my Dad came home from work and told me I sat too much in front of the Pc and made me do my homework XD...these CDs won't work anymore, but I still have some at least Tomb Raider 1, somewhere here must be Civ 2, aaand definitely MoO 2. I also have a cd of HoMM2 now, but I bought it just 1 or two years ago, though a demo of the game was also among the very first games I had on "real" PC =)
@markkur: Yeah, but there are also a lot of differences. Alone the articles - in English you only have 'the', while in German you have "der","die" and "das" fpr m,f,n^^ And there also are a lot of "false friends" - for example the German word "Brief" has nothing to do with the english word, but means "letter" (the one you send^^).I like to keeep memorys of the past, anyway^^
A treasure-keeing place for me is also the part of my wall behind my desk, between the windows, where I keep a whole lot of tickets for concerts, theatre and such, a photograph of "my" dog, a sainfair bon and some paper memories of my Paris vacation last silvester - the boarding pass, a metro ticket, the entry ticket for the eiffell tower... I love to keep all the wonderfull moments of these events in my sight
Concernign PC games, I have some cds left of my first days at my dad's PC...I used to spent there the whole time between when my school ended and my Dad came home from work and told me I sat too much in front of the Pc and made me do my homework XD...these CDs won't work anymore, but I still have some at least Tomb Raider 1, somewhere here must be Civ 2, aaand definitely MoO 2. I also have a cd of HoMM2 now, but I bought it just 1 or two years ago, though a demo of the game was also among the very first games I had on "real" PC =)
@markkur: Yeah, but there are also a lot of differences. Alone the articles - in English you only have 'the', while in German you have "der","die" and "das" fpr m,f,n^^ And there also are a lot of "false friends" - for example the German word "Brief" has nothing to do with the english word, but means "letter" (the one you send^^).
Yeah you told me that ute/Blackfoot? I don't know that? Is it a place or a group?
Yeah you told me that ute/Blackfoot? I don't know that? Is it a place or a group?
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posted November 10, 2010 05:33 PM |
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@markkur: for example the German word "Brief" has nothing to do with the english word, but means "letter" (the one you send^^)
It is in Emglish but it is a "legal term". "A short descriptive writing" So brief is a "Formal" letter while alos being a short time period.
.I like to keeep memorys of the past, anyway^^
A treasure-keeing place for me is also the part of my wall behind my desk, between the windows, where I keep a whole lot of tickets for concerts, theatre and such, a photograph of "my" dog, a sainfair bon and some paper memories of my Paris vacation last silvester - the boarding pass, a metro ticket, the entry ticket for the eiffell tower... I love to keep all the wonderfull moments of these events in my sight
Paris was fine but it was the "Loire Castles" for me. Chambord especially. 2,000 men 20 years to build? Awesome.
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I also have a cd of HoMM2 now, but I bought it just 1 or two years ago, though a demo of the game was also among the very first games I had on "real" PC =)
I was thinking about adding H2 back on. I've not played it forever. Would be fun to see it again.
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American Indian Tribes, mostly in the North-Central U.S. and present day Southern Canada. The French side of the family came in through Quebec.
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