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  1. One fascinating thing about #Starflight on the #Commodore64 is that when you are saving the game, it seems that in fact the whole RAM content is dumped to disk, 236 blocks all together.

    Same when loading a saved game - last thing you see before restore is finished is how the screen and the charset are being restored.

    #RetroGaming

  2. It`s a grey, rainy day today and so I decided to get on with my #Starflight career. It's such a nice game, even if the #Commodore64 version lacks a few details.

    However, I wouldn't want to play this game without a proper #fastloader such as #JiffyDos or #SpeedDOS etc. - and even then loading times are ... demanding.

    But I won't let myself get annoyed by that.

    #RetroGaming

  3. As a Space person, I will digest this all at my leisure later. But I must address the reason why this competition has been brought to my attention, and that is once again you have not given Women pockets!
    There are Women on that design team too, so I can only imagine the guys just shouted over them, or its some internalised Misogyny?
    1/2

    projecthyperion.org

    #ProjectHyperion #Space #Patriarchy #Pockets #Starflight #GenerationShip

  4. As a Space person, I will digest this all at my leisure later. But I must address the reason why this competition has been brought to my attention, and that is once again you have not given Women pockets!
    There are Women on that design team too, so I can only imagine the guys just shouted over them, or its some internalised Misogyny?
    1/2

    projecthyperion.org

    #ProjectHyperion #Space #Patriarchy #Pockets #Starflight #GenerationShip

  5. As a Space person, I will digest this all at my leisure later. But I must address the reason why this competition has been brought to my attention, and that is once again you have not given Women pockets!
    There are Women on that design team too, so I can only imagine the guys just shouted over them, or its some internalised Misogyny?
    1/2

    projecthyperion.org

    #ProjectHyperion #Space #Patriarchy #Pockets #Starflight #GenerationShip

  6. As a Space person, I will digest this all at my leisure later. But I must address the reason why this competition has been brought to my attention, and that is once again you have not given Women pockets!
    There are Women on that design team too, so I can only imagine the guys just shouted over them, or its some internalised Misogyny?
    1/2

    projecthyperion.org

    #ProjectHyperion #Space #Patriarchy #Pockets #Starflight #GenerationShip

  7. As a Space person, I will digest this all at my leisure later. But I must address the reason why this competition has been brought to my attention, and that is once again you have not given Women pockets!
    There are Women on that design team too, so I can only imagine the guys just shouted over them, or its some internalised Misogyny?
    1/2

    projecthyperion.org

    #ProjectHyperion #Space #Patriarchy #Pockets #Starflight #GenerationShip

  8. But old game manuals? So fucking cool. Wish I could do technical writing in the style of the Starflight manual sometimes.
    #starflight

  9. Spheres of Influence. The stars to coreward have an inconvenient habit of exploding.
    #Starflight

  10. @vkc
    “Floppies! Which actually flop! 256K RAM!” (Been regaling friends with #Starflight, a 1987 release.)

    #retrocomputing #windows95 #windows98

  11. ⚮⚮⚮The fancy picture frame was a bit too small for the #Starflight map, but I'm glad I got it.
    ⚮⚮⚮Dusted the Computer Suite and set up Computer the Elder now that it's cooler. It's happily running #BOINC mathematical and astronomical projects.
    ⚮⚮⚮Also set up #Linxdot for old time's sake.

  12. •••Iced coffee hits the spot.
    •••Revisiting Perelandra and glossing it like mad.
    •••Got a picture frame at Ross for the #Starflight map, big #ActuallyAutistic.

    #retrogaming
    #ScienceFiction

  13. My back of the envelope calculation is that the interest rate rate in #Starflight is 0.1833. Ah, game abuse, sweet, sweet game abuse.

    #hacking
    #retrogaming

  14. The Pauli effect is in full effect! Janky download bars... Cryptic rendering error messages... Frozen #internetarchive #Starflight (no saving it)...

    So much for #retrogaming.

    #ActuallyAutistic

  15. Downloaded #Starflight from #GOG despite its not being playable on Linux & learned that that's the case, DOSBox, DOSBox-X, and Wine variants notwithstanding. Hence I'll just putz around, gathering minerals and earning interest for a while...
    #retrogaming

  16. From what I gather there’s no way to save the saves of #Starflight, on #InternetArchive (in-browser), #GOG (download), or anywhere else! Shut down #Vivaldi, gone. Reboot, gone. The only option on Internet Archive is to save your progress and to keep the resultant terminal open.
    And I was looking forward to so much noodling...
    #retrogaming

  17. And now to #Starflight. Inasmuch as one can't save the saves I've been zipping around, reincarnating myself, and retaining information. 37 years ago I'd always end up hiding the the butt-crack on a nebula from the Gulek. Now it's time for crew and resource management. And to kill some Spemin.

  18. If #AI is such hot shit let’s see it speedrun #Starflight, a game released in 1987.
    #retrogaming

  19. Having a blast-from-the-past with #Starflight! Available for play in browser courtesy the #InternetArchive –you will not be disappointed
    #retrogaming.

  20. I've been longing for some #Oldschool entertainment recently but I'm the picky type when it comes to #Computergames - and so I was happy to re-discover #Starflight for the #Commodore64 - a game that was released when I had already switched to the #PC and only knew it from watching friends play it.

    There are a two more C64 titles I've got on the list: #SpaceRogue and #SentinelWorlds but for now it's my turn to try and boldly go where no one has gone before ...

  21. I've been longing for some #Oldschool entertainment recently but I'm the picky type when it comes to #Computergames - and so I was happy to re-discover #Starflight for the #Commodore64 - a game that was released when I had already switched to the #PC and only knew it from watching friends play it.

    There are a two more C64 titles I've got on the list: #SpaceRogue and #SentinelWorlds but for now it's my turn to try and boldly go where no one has gone before ...

  22. I've been longing for some #Oldschool entertainment recently but I'm the picky type when it comes to #Computergames - and so I was happy to re-discover #Starflight for the #Commodore64 - a game that was released when I had already switched to the #PC and only knew it from watching friends play it.

    There are a two more C64 titles I've got on the list: #SpaceRogue and #SentinelWorlds but for now it's my turn to try and boldly go where no one has gone before ...

  23. I've been longing for some #Oldschool entertainment recently but I'm the picky type when it comes to #Computergames - and so I was happy to re-discover #Starflight for the #Commodore64 - a game that was released when I had already switched to the #PC and only knew it from watching friends play it.

    There are a two more C64 titles I've got on the list: #SpaceRogue and #SentinelWorlds but for now it's my turn to try and boldly go where no one has gone before ...

  24. I've been longing for some #Oldschool entertainment recently but I'm the picky type when it comes to #Computergames - and so I was happy to re-discover #Starflight for the #Commodore64 - a game that was released when I had already switched to the #PC and only knew it from watching friends play it.

    There are a two more C64 titles I've got on the list: #SpaceRogue and #SentinelWorlds but for now it's my turn to try and boldly go where no one has gone before ...

  25. Bring back #Starflight & Balance of Power #BoP for #Linux! My patience has been eXhAUSteDDD

  26. Wait... Has anyone ever done a #SpeedRun of #StarFlight, or for that matter a slow run of #BalanceOfPower? If not, why not? #Retrogaming

  27. Wait... Has anyone ever done a #SpeedRun of #StarFlight, or for that matter a slow run of #BalanceOfPower? If not, why not? #Retrogaming

  28. Wait... Has anyone ever done a #SpeedRun of #StarFlight, or for that matter a slow run of #BalanceOfPower? If not, why not? #Retrogaming

  29. Wait... Has anyone ever done a #SpeedRun of #StarFlight, or for that matter a slow run of #BalanceOfPower? If not, why not? #Retrogaming

  30. Wait... Has anyone ever done a #SpeedRun of #StarFlight, or for that matter a slow run of #BalanceOfPower? If not, why not? #Retrogaming

  31. I played #Starflight until my eyes bled. Never could get Balance of Power running on my Victor VI, alas. Surprised these haven't been resurrected by the #retrogaming #retrocomputing community.

  32. Enjoyed listening to a @dosgameclub podcast about game, that I played and finished back in the day
    dosgameclub.com/starflight/

    Talking of that, the way game saving worked used a feature of some Forth implementations called persistence
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persiste
    Simplified coding, you could just dump state, later reload it and your program would go on, transparently.

  33. @theretrosven Ich nenne da mal #Starflight, was ich damals auf dem Amiga gezockt habe.

    Wir sind als frischgebackender Captain eines Raumschiffes unterwegs, neue Planeten zu erkunden und ein großes Geheimnis zu lüften.

    de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starflig

    #NerdKettenBrief #Gaming

  34. @Omega Ich würde sagen es hämgt vom Spiel ab. Als Faustformel: Je älter das Ursprungsspiel, desto eher würde mich ein Remaster oder gar Remake reizen.

    Beispielsweise würde ich sehr gerne ein modernes Remake von #Starflight oder #TheWitcher1 besitzen. 🥰

  35. My second experience with #RetroComputing was an illicit #VictorVI from #Sirius (Sirius Systems Technology). Modem hiss. #Zork. #StarFlight. #BalanceOfPower I lusted after, #ColdWar kid that I was, but alas! the fucking thing was a jury-rigged nightmare in order to be #IBMpcCompatible.. Those were the days... #LinuxStarFlight #LinuxBalanceOfPower prithee.

  36. My second experience with #RetroComputing was an illicit #VictorVI from #Sirius (Sirius Systems Technology). Modem hiss. #Zork. #StarFlight. #BalanceOfPower I lusted after, #ColdWar kid that I was, but alas! the fucking thing was a jury-rigged nightmare in order to be #IBMpcCompatible.. Those were the days... #LinuxStarFlight #LinuxBalanceOfPower prithee.

  37. My second experience with #RetroComputing was an illicit #VictorVI from #Sirius (Sirius Systems Technology). Modem hiss. #Zork. #StarFlight. #BalanceOfPower I lusted after, #ColdWar kid that I was, but alas! the fucking thing was a jury-rigged nightmare in order to be #IBMpcCompatible.. Those were the days... #LinuxStarFlight #LinuxBalanceOfPower prithee.

  38. My second experience with #RetroComputing was an illicit #VictorVI from #Sirius (Sirius Systems Technology). Modem hiss. #Zork. #StarFlight. #BalanceOfPower I lusted after, #ColdWar kid that I was, but alas! the fucking thing was a jury-rigged nightmare in order to be #IBMpcCompatible.. Those were the days... #LinuxStarFlight #LinuxBalanceOfPower prithee.