@cliffwade Mine's a photo of a beach in my home state on the day I took my dog to one of his first beaches. He ate way too much sand that day and caused some issues with expelling it a couple days later, but he had a blast.
@cliffwade Sand + stomachs = 🚫. But it's the same for him with grass, or leaves, or his own fur, or paper towels. He doesn't discriminate. Everything is his food.
I still play it regularly, and I still have a 4 page cheat sheet for the entire game that I designed back in 1985/1986 that many people in my high school used. While it's not the original copy from back then, it's very close.
@nico Very much so. I've used the name "Hawkwind" online since 1986 in various ways as it was once my online name everywhere. Not so much today. My Gmail is based on Hawkwind, and I own(nothing there now) SeerOfSouls.com which if you remember, Hawkwind, the Seer Of Souls, was a major character in Ultima IV.
@victor Awesome! I love hot air balloons. When I was a kid, I lived on 75 acres and we used to have a bunch of them land on our property. I can only remember the name of one, which you can look up, Rikki Tikki Tavi. The pins you will see online, I used to have a few as the owner gave them to me. I wish I still had at least one.
@cliffwade Mine is a logo of my demo crew, drawn in 1993, for a demo screen on the Atari ST that I coded that had different graphics each time you launched it.
@jbqueru Oh wow! That is awesome. I never owned an Atari ST, though I wish I would have. I had Atari consoles, and other consoles, but none of the computers and similar items back then, other than the ColecoVision Adam computer.
@cliffwade That was my 16-bit life (and arguably my transition into 32-bit as also had a Falcon 030). And I wrote about 100k lines of assembly code for it.
@jbqueru Very nice! Those were the good ole days for sure. I was on the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128 back in those days and for me that's where I really found my love of computing and technology. After that, I didn't own a computer until 1999 and I wish I had others in between those times to experience them.
@cliffwade C64 and C128 were interesting beasts, arguably a tiny bit weird. My 8-bit life was on an Amstrad CPC6128, but my coding for it was limited to BASIC.
@jbqueru Oh, the good ole Amstrad CPC6128. I didn't own one, but a friend of mine did. Definitely a bit different from the C64/128 stuff and yet another one I wish I would have had more time with. BASIC was something I coded a bit of, but that was where coding stopped for me unfortunately.
@cliffwade I didn't know it at the time, and those were coincidences, but there are some deep similarities between the CPC and the ST (in both strengths and weaknesses).
Fun thing, I'm back to coding for even older stuff now.
@jbqueru I've read similar things that they had a lot of similarities. Again, I really wish I would have experienced those platforms I feel I missed out on a lot of great stuff.
Oh really? That's interesting to hear. Are you doing it in your own time or is this something work related?
@cliffwade Also you work at Nova Launcher? The best thing in Android! I love it! The wallpaper thing I do I always use Nova Launcher to add suitable icons. The endless customization is so great.
@cliffwade When I was younger, I was so jealous of folks that had computers to play this on. I was so stoked when I finally got it for the NES. Great game.
@benpocalypse Such a great game to play back in the Commodore 64 days. I got it right after release. I had never played or even heard of Ultima until my best friend at the time got it on release date from his mom. I instantly fell in love.
I bought it on release date for the NES as well and beat it 50+ times on that platform alone.
@cliffwade Yes, that helped a lot. I think I should change mine to gaming, though. I never played Ultima (played it very briefly) but it's an important game, in the scheme of things
@cliffwade In some ways graphical fidelity isn't important to me, but in another there is only so far I'm prepared to regress.
I'm in a terrible rut where games are concerned, there is nothing I want to play or risk my steam credit buying.
I would say the 'ugliest' game I've considered playing of late is Dwarf Fortress.
Not always the case, though. FTL isn't a visually stunning game but it is a great game. Project Zomboid isn't a looker but I play that too. I guess we all have our limit.
@Strider I too feel like I'm in a rut where gaming is concerned and what I want to play.
Destiny, which I have 12,000+ hours into 1 and 2 is in a really bad place right now and it's just not fun anymore. Fortnite is well, just Fortnite. It's good and bad all at the same time.
To me, games don't have to look fabulous or the greatest if they play well or they are fun. To me, playability and having fun is what it's all about.
@cliffwade I used to love Counter-strike but I've not really played competitive shooters (with the exception of DayZ) for quite some time so that rules out fortnight. I've heard too many bad tales about Destiny to try them.
Here is my current wishlist. There is much on there which is a 'must buy'.
@Strider Lots of great games on that list, especially CyberPunk, which is easily in my top 10, and possibly in my top 5 of all time. Such a great, fun, beautiful game!
@cliffwade I've poured thousands of hours into several games so not sure which one to choose, Project Zomboid, Football Manager, Counter-strike, Half-life. The list goes on.
@Strider I hear you there. If it weren't for Ultima, I'm not sure what I'd choose. Likely something like Pac-Man, but Destiny 1 and 2 rank way up there, as does Fortnite and a few others.
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