Who do I thank for reviving this game? aka my childhood

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Who do I thank for reviving this game? aka my childhood

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I seriously want to buy the team a beer. Lmk how I can do this. Thanks
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You just want to make them drunk so that you can beat them in multiplayer. Don't you? :wink:
I don't know how many bugs is too many but that point is reached somewhere before however many in BotF is.
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I don't know about a beer, but there is a donation page to help with the costs of the website.

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Clogger wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2020 6:24 pm I seriously want to buy the team a beer. Lmk how I can do this. Thanks
Yeah thunderchereo is very active, competent and willing to help.

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for the record I quit drinking beer in my 20's and switch to rum and coke.

problem is I ran out and now have to go out and get more.....
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Beer, hmph, I don´t know... a long drink maybe? :grin:
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Though, if we share alcohol here, there might someday be at the AA-club a subsection for birth of the federation players. :grin: :grin: :grin:
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Hearing about how this is somebody's childhood makes me feel old. The closest to a 4X game from my childhood would be Utopia on the Intelivison. At least until I got Lords of Conquest in the early '90s.
Although those were not my favorites.
I preferred the Gold Box games, Bard's Tale, and eventually Final Fantasy. Although I also liked Strike Fleet.
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Civilization was my first touch with strategy games, in the early 90s. The first real games I played from tv in the late 80s (really big pixels they had) :smile: Botf came into picture around 2000, after military service.
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I liked Civilization II, I don't think I've ever played the original Civilization.
As for big pixels, nothing beats the Apple II's low-resolution graphics screen. Seriously, fire up any Apple II/II+/IIe/IIGS emulator, get into AppleSoft BASIC (hit <CONTROL>-<RESET> when it's trying to boot), type "GR", then "COLOR=C%" where C is a number from 0 to 15 (0 is black), and then type "PLOT X%,Y%" where X and Y are pixel locations from 0 to 39. You'll be shocked at how big those pixels are.
Then again, Intelivision graphics have fairly big pixels as well, but not as bad as the Apple II low-resolution graphics. I've never seen anything bigger.
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Who can I send a gift too? To thank for the game. Seriously, I want to offer my extreme thanks.
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@clogger

they do have a donate place :)


ps: to all - nice to to see its still active ! I'm downloading again :D
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Never thought I would be able to play this game again, Huge part of my teenage years. I still suck at it but thanks to everyone involved in this project.
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