Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> >wrote:

Or you just look up the maps on the internet for those games.

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Not much of an option back in the early 80s. Even BBS wouldn't be much
help. Not that it wasn't possible, but the image files would probably
be too much to download for all but the most dedicated on a 2400baud
modem.

People were patient enough to download the games themselves from pirate
BBSes, so the maps would have been a quick download by comparison.
Rendered in ASCII they wouldn't take too long to download even at
300 baud.

That said I don't know how many BBSes back then actually had maps for
games available.  I don't remember downloading any, but I didn't need
to as I wrote programs to generate my own.

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