Hello there!
I'm a newbie so I hope I'm not doing anything wrong here... Look, I've been browsing this site for almost a week and I really think you people are doing a fabulous thing... I'm really into oldies, I just got many of the games that I loved so much playing in my childhood. Thanks a lot, guys !
But I have a big problem:
As a small kid, my first contact with a computer was established through my dad's B&W Macintosh laptop and I remember in 1993 or so playing a game that I just found amazing: I think it was called "THE HO!" or something like that, I simply don't remember who created it (when the game started, there always appeared an annoying window telling the names of the 2 authors...) ; the game was about conquering a universe, you started off with a mother-planet and you had to invest resources into technological research, you had to build ships (there were mainly 4 types of them: explorer ships, battle ships, coloniser ships and sattelites for defending a planet) and it kind of lacked animation but I found it, as I said, really addictive. At the very beginning, the only planet you knew was your mother-planet and all the other planets were just some kind of discs with a question mark on them; as you explored them, the planets turned out to be either good for terraformation, not suitable for terraformation or -- as a voice said -- "Yuck!"
Well enough of it, I just wanted to know if any of you abw-gamers out there might happen to know what I'm talking about and I was wondering if you could tell me if somehow I might get this game - OR SOMETHING SIMILAR - and magically get it to work on WinXP
Thanks!
LLRNR