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Author : emabolo
27 February 2026, 9:56 pm
In August 1981, IBM announced a new personal computer at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. With 16K of RAM, a single floppy drive, and a starting price of $1,565, it was designed squarely for business users. The operating system — MS-DOS, which Microsoft had acquired from a small Seattle company for $50,000 just two weeks before the announcement — was a tool for accountants, not adventurers. Nobody in that hotel ballroom was thinking about games.
Read MoreAuthor : emabolo
22 December 2017, 8:30 am
When I first heard about Colonization, I thought: ok, so this is just like Civilization, but instead of the entire world, you only have America; instead of barbarians you have the Indians tribes; instead of the whole span of the history of humankind, you have no more than 358 years. You don’t have technological advancements or scientific research, so that you won’t discover robots or jets. Why should I play it? I was very wrong.
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