>Games we played... Spinnaker Software titles

Oh man, In Search of the Most Amazing Thing. The longest shaggy-dog story ever written for the Apple //e. :)

>enduringly popular one was called "Warlords II" and was a basic
>(written in BASIC, even) artillery game, with the variables being
>angle, power, prevailing wind and random terrain between the two
>gun-towers.

Sounds like a prototype of Scorched Earth.

And by 1990 we all had that one slightly twitchy friend who had an Amiga and would threaten to cut anyone who didn't acknowledge that it was superior to all others, right? Those of us who weren't that guy ourselves, anyway.

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