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[–] [email protected] 134 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I use linux because, in the 90s, Redhat shipped with a Star Trek game. We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Linux because of compiz fusion cube desktop. We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We are not. When I want a cubic desktop environment I reach(ed) for BeOS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

and NeXT for the cubic computer itself

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, I hadn't thought of Tux Racer in ages. I think I need to play that again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Tux racer go b.....r......r........r

I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I'm 34)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been trying to remember but it hasn't come back to me. It was a 2D, top down, space battle game. Its possible it wasn't named after Star Trek, but you pilot a grey ship with a saucer section and nacelles to fire torpedoes and phasers at green bird of prey looking ships so...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No, but it was my gateway into Netrek.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Xtrek would be what pops to kind for me, possibly?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That all sounds very familiar. The one I played was full color but it must have either been a late version of Empire or something heavily "inspired" by it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.