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Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by pcblues »

No way! I played the original (too much) while doing computer science at uni in the early 1990s. My friends were either playing the Dune RTS or mmorpgs, depending on their leaning. A lot of the limited available computing power went into playtime in those days :)

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by manosyja »

reconnecting wrote: post #87
skirmish wrote: post #49

In my first job after graduation in a small company I was talking to the VP of engineering, and he mentioned offhand: "yeah, I wrote Scorch when I was in college". Mind blown.

Must be Wendell Hicken. https://www.whicken.com/

I played this game so much that I instantly recognised that name *G

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by felooboolooomba »

meshko wrote: post #2

for the 25th anniversary (approximately) I vibecoded what i wanted to do for years -- port of the original remake (yes) to JavaScript. Alive again.

Great work! People are not realizing to press "start". Possible to add audio notification and/or highlighting the button red when ready?

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by ourmandave »

jasonfarnon wrote: post #52
rhema wrote: post #27

9 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player. The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text. Now, I had my…

It would be a nice thread on here, to see what people's first hacks were, especially from that era when people were usually just alone and stumbling on these things.

Did anyone manage to cheat in Oregon Trail?

I imagine you could change the chances of mishaps, or start with $1M, or remove the limit of how many buffalo steaks you could bring back from a hunt.

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by ndr42 »

alterom wrote: post #25
kylemaxwell wrote: post #4

I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)

We played Tank Wars by Kenny Morse, it's from 1990 and preceded Scorched Earth: https://archive.org/details/TankWars_274 More unhinged fun IMO

I just want to let this Atari ST classic here: Ballerburg (1987) is massive fun.

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by microtonal »

rhema wrote: post #27

9 year old me got my first "hacking" experience out of this game. With the shareware version, you could not select the ultra tank that could shoot 3 bullets for a human, but you COULD if it were the computer player. The "hack": -start a game with a normal tank VS ultra computer player as p2. -save the game (as a file). -open the game file. -read the ASCII text and just flip which player has which text. Now, I had my…

Sounds familiar. As a kid I was bothered that I had to harvest spice or Tiberium (I forgot whether it was Dune 2 or Command & Conquer, but I think the latter).

So I figured out where in the binary save file credits were stored and wrote a small Pascal program that would give me the highest possible credits so that I could focus on base and unit building :).

Re: Scorched Earth 2000 – Web

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Post by meshko »

vunderba wrote: post #50
meshko wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yup, it was a java applet. Stopped working when Java in the browser died.

Neat. The website looks the same (in a good way) from when I remember it over a decade ago - are you the creator of the original java port from back then? https://web.archive.org/web/20140210122645/http://www.scorch...

yup, this is the original website. The domain kept auto-renewing I guess :)
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