Well, No Wonder This Game Rocks My Socks

[omorka]

Random amusing retrogamer trivia: The designer and co-author of StarCon II, Paul Reiche III, is also the co-desiger and co-author of Archon and Archon II, two of the best video games ever available for the Apple II.

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[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Archon I and II were a couple of my favorite games, way back when, and Star Control II rocked, too.

[shefsatyr.livejournal.com]

Man I loved all of those games.
An interesting side note to star con 2 is it had no internal clock. So the faster your computer the faster the game ran. We loaded it into a pentium machine a few years later and you couldn't even see the AI controlled ship, it was moving so fast. The avg battle lasted less than 2 seconds before he killed you.

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

I remember hearing about programs and unofficial add ons to slow down pentiums when playing the game because of that very problem.

[briareos.livejournal.com]

No need for that now, there's an open source port of the 3DO version!

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

I haven't played it, but I watched my brother play it for an hour or so, and it seems to be dead on. Loved that game, and Archon as well.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yup, kansas_dave and PB's brother's ex-roommate both turned me on to the port roughly simultaneously, and while it wouldn't play on my old machine - didn't like the older version of OSX, I think - it works quite happily on this one. :-)