No More WotC StarWars...

[Swampy]

I will always prefer the Super NES, as it is the first console game system I had. Though of course I respect your preference for the Sega.

You Sega-loving loser. :twisted: :wink:

Gods I feel old. I had a ZX81.

 

[GamerDude]

Wow, a Sinclair ZX-81... the version that came pre-assembled.

My roommate in Tech School (USAD - Electronics Tech) left his behind in the room and told me I could have it... and after two weeks it blew-up. A computer repair tech in our D&D group took a look at it and turned out the idiot roommate had opened the case up and ran his fingers across the chips or something (the feet over the screws had been removed and glued back on).

Wasn't a bad system either... which is why I bought the Sinclair Color off of someone else.

 

[Jame Rowe]

I will always prefer the Super NES, as it is the first console game system I had. Though of course I respect your preference for the Sega.

You Sega-loving loser. :twisted: :wink:

Gods I feel old. I had a ZX81.

And now I feel young; I have no idea what a ZX81 is.

 

[Baron_Vulk_Morden]

I will always prefer the Super NES, as it is the first console game system I had. Though of course I respect your preference for the Sega.

You Sega-loving loser. :twisted: :wink:

Gods I feel old. I had a ZX81.

And now I feel young; I have no idea what a ZX81 is.

Don't feel too bad, I'm 42 and I don't remember that gadget.

 

[BP]

The ZX81 I think came as a kit - and later basically became the Timex Sinclair (1000?) IIRC - I 'think' that was the first computer I made a roleplaying aid on (for Traveller, of course) :?

 

[Sturn]

I had an Atari with Asteroids and Pac Man. I also had a Pong before that.

As far as computers, my first was an Apple IIe. "E" for enchanced because it had double the usual number of floppy drives and RAM - 128......K! (today no where close enough to open up a song, barely enough to open up a low quality picture).

A friend had a computer that included an actual cassette tape for a floppy drive. I don't recall what it was though. If someone said the name it might joggle my memory.

 

[AndrewW]

I had an Atari with Asteroids and Pac Man. I also had a Pong before that.

As far as computers, my first was an Apple IIe. "E" for enchanced because it had double the usual number of floppy drives and RAM - 128......K! (today no where close enough to open up a song, barely enough to open up a low quality picture).

A friend had a computer that included an actual cassette tape for a floppy drive. I don't recall what it was though. If someone said the name it might joggle my memory.

Had a Pong game myself. Well, the diskdrives on the Apple IIe where external and it could be configured with just 1, the 128k is an add on (extended 80-column card. Several computers had a floppy drive option. Commodore (Vic-20, C16, C64, C128), Atari's, Apple II series, etc... Still got a datacasette drive for the Commodore's sitting in the closet myself. First computer was a TI99/4A (Also with a cassette interface).

 

[Baron_Vulk_Morden]

The ZX81 I think came as a kit - and later basically became the Timex Sinclair (1000?) IIRC - I 'think' that was the first computer I made a roleplaying aid on (for Traveller, of course) :?

Okay, now THAT I remember.

Oddly enough, I had my first PC (a Radio Shack Tandy) LOOOONG before I had my first game console (a PSX model Playstation).

 

[Golan2072]

I'm feeling young reading this thread - my first computer (bought in 1992, when I was 10 years old) was a 386SX, 25MHz with (gasp!) 4MB of RAM (which the seller said was much more than anything necessary to use most programs, but my father insisted on 4MB and not just 1MB) and 120MB of hard-disk drive.

 

[Jame Rowe]

Maybe Mongoose should do a Star Wars Traveller conversion - just alter weapon damage, the tech scale and armor ratings and it's golden.

 

[Baron_Vulk_Morden]

That is IF they could afford the license. That's probably the biggest hurdle.

Even if they can not, that doesn't mean WE can't!

EDIT: Actually, given the books already out, you shouldn't even have to wrangle it THAT much, just decide if "blasters" are laser weapons or plasma weapons, and use the appropriate gadgets, lasers from MgT main book, or the PPG's from the Babylon 5 supplement.

Book 5: Psion already gave us the obviously Jedi-inspired "Mystic Order" career and the lightsaber, er, Psionic Energy Sword, after all.

Stormtroopers can be Army and Marines (ARC Troopers, anyone?) in full Combat Armor,
Mandalorians can be Bounty Hunters and Mercenaries from the Merc and Agent books dressed in Ceramic Alloy Carapace or Advanced Poly Carapace from the CSC book.

 

[AndrewW]

Book 5: Psion already gave us the obviously Jedi-inspired "Mystic Order" career and the lightsaber, er, Psionic Energy Sword, after all.

That's Book 4: Psion, Book 5 is Agent.

 

[Baron_Vulk_Morden]

Book 5: Psion already gave us the obviously Jedi-inspired "Mystic Order" career and the lightsaber, er, Psionic Energy Sword, after all.

That's Book 4: Psion, Book 5 is Agent.

Ooops. Sorry.

 

[tneva82]

Book 5: Psion already gave us the obviously Jedi-inspired "Mystic Order" career and the lightsaber, er, Psionic Energy Sword, after all.

Though thr Psionic Energy Sword isn't quite a match to lightsaber. Need to tweak it(like the rule requiring user to be psionic. Anybody can use light saber. Most just aren't that efficient with them...).

 

[DigitalMage]

The ZX81 I think came as a kit - and later basically became the Timex Sinclair (1000?) IIRC - I 'think' that was the first computer I made a roleplaying aid on (for Traveller, of course) :?

I had an ZX81 and it came assembled, I think I still have it in its box (with its 16k RAM pack extra!). BTW I am not quite 35 years old so its not that old

 

[AndrewW]

I had an ZX81 and it came assembled, I think I still have it in its box (with its 16k RAM pack extra!). BTW I am not quite 35 years old so its not that old

That's ok, I've got a 3k memory expansion cartridge sitting around.

 

[GamerDude]

The Sinclair ZX-80/81 came out 1982. I know because it was a hit with many of my friends in the technical fields at the US Air Force Tech School in Biloxi Mississippi then. The ZX-80 was a kit you assembled yourself (with soldering) and the ZX-81 was pre-assembled for you. So it's about 28 years ok.

Ol' Clive Sinclair, that crazy Brit, also came out with a color computer. Programming language worked the same as the ZX series, with commands for color, better animation/sprite collision etc. I owned one of those too. They even published a bunch of games for it, on cassette

 

[TravellerArt]

Ol' Clive Sinclair, that crazy Brit, also came out with a color computer. Programming language worked the same as the ZX series, with commands for color, better animation/sprite collision etc. I owned one of those too. They even published a bunch of games for it, on cassette

That was the Sinclair Spectrum, still have one gathering dust in my attic. I spent many hours playing Elite on it until the cassette tape stretched.
It had 16k of RAM - awesome.

 

[The Chef]

i had a cheeter rampack... made it to 48K!!!

 

[locarno24]

Though thr Psionic Energy Sword isn't quite a match to lightsaber. Need to tweak it(like the rule requiring user to be psionic. Anybody can use light saber. Most just aren't that efficient with them...).

A better equivalent is the Arc Light blade. It was specifically put in to add a light-saber-a-like to Traveller.....