Comments on: Reviving the Past

By: Travis B

Travis B — Sun, 30 May 2010 04:48:47 +0000

I LOVED Missions of the Reliant! I played it when I was like 12 years old on some compilation CD of 100 or so kick ass mac games. I probably owe you some money too . Great job on the old game and props to Gwynne for reviving it. I’ll be one of the first to donate this time around.

By: Rubes

Rubes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:40:43 +0000

Cool to hear, thanks! Sounds like the port is coming along well…

By: Trey

Trey — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:34:35 +0000

Wow, only about 300 people registered? That makes me feel kinda special, since I was one of those people. This was in fact one of the very few pieces of shareware that I did register back in the day. I’m glad to hear that a new port of it is being developed; I just happened to think of this game this morning and missed it, which led me to find this thread. I hope the new version is ready soon!

By: gnome

gnome — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:32:02 +0000

I might not own a Mac, but I just love reading this aeon-spanning story. I’ll be following it too! Oh, and always wanted to read a story behind a shareware game that wasn’t Doom.

By: Gwynne Raskind

Gwynne Raskind — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:34:52 +0000

I would be willing to look into Windows and Linux ports once the OS X port is done, but one thing at a time.

By: Ruber Eaglenest

Ruber Eaglenest — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:21:50 +0000

The game looks nowadays wonderful! It seems it could stand a port and transform in a popular flash game, or Iphone app

I would like better if the new remake, could be portable to windows and linux. However it is a good idea to me.

Regards,

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:52:56 +0000

I remember playing Missions of the Reliant! I probably didn’t register since I was just a kid, so I guess I owe you some dinero!

I also played that Star Trek game obsessively at my neighbour’s place. It’s probably the first computer game I ever played. I remember the system too: a DECwriter II – really wide paper – with an acoustic modem dialed into the university mainframe. Man the amount of paper we went through on that thing!

I think I wrote my first program on it too:

10 PRINT “This is cool”
20 GOTO 10

Good times!