(As for encoding, I used bladeenc originally, then lame, and now oggenc.)

cdparanoia, then later abcde, which uses cdparanoia.

• Desqview, swapping between GoldEd and the BBS watching the users playing LoRD and other games. And before that, scrambling to quit my game and get the BBS back up when I was using my 286 for gaming instead of leaving the BBS running.

• Those terrible, terrible CGA games that I played because for a couple years, I only had CGA and no EGA. The high pitched whine of the CGA monitor whenever I stood behind it.

• When I finally got OS/2, and could play Descent or Doom, while the BBS was handling a phone call in the background.

• Even older, printing out yet another Bill the Cat on my dot matrix printer.

• Typing in games from Compute Magazine into my Atari 130xe, but the checksum being wrong because I used abbreviated basic commands due to being a lazy typist.

• Getting killed by that darn Terminator in Zone 2 of LOD again…

• Going to my Uncle’s house to transfer all of Kings Quest 6 from 1.44mb to 1.2mb floppies.

The version that was in the Basic Computer Games book has been ported to various languages here: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/main/84_Super_Star_Trek