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Title: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: leeor_net on October 17, 2015, 08:57:36 PM

Came across these two in a thrift store outside of Cleveland, OH


(http://leeor.outpostuniverse.org/pics/OP1_Boxed.jpg)

(http://leeor.outpostuniverse.org/pics/OP2_Boxed.jpg)

Total together -- $10

Title: Re: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: Leviathan on October 17, 2015, 09:46:42 PM

OH MY GOD! Beautiful condition!

I bought Outpost 2 on eBay earlier this year.. will try and find and take a photo :)

Title: Re: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: leeor_net on October 17, 2015, 09:50:56 PM

I found a copy of Outpost 1 on eBay that's supposedly the DOS version. We'll see when it gets here.  :o

Title: Re: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: leeor_net on July 22, 2016, 02:55:07 PM

Just realized I haven't updated this.

The 'dos' version is just the Windows 3.1 version. Yay. I guess some publishers thought of Windows 3.1 as just a shell for DOS or whatever.

Title: Re: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: CK9 on July 23, 2016, 12:33:17 PM

Considering that windows was built off of "stolen" (it was a legal liscnce, but it's more fun to say stolen :p ) DOS framework...yes, it was basically a DOS shell at that time

Title: Re: Check out these beauties from a thrift store!
Post by: leeor_net on July 23, 2016, 02:31:48 PM

That is a myth that was disproven years ago: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-heart-of-dos/0