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StarGrid: A new Palm OS strategy game

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1. alejoar ◴[] No.45655915[source]
I used to play around with my dad's already old by then Palm (can't remember the model) in the early 2000's.

This game reminded me of Space War

https://palmdb.net/app/space-war

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2. nick_ ◴[] No.45657748[source]
Space War was great! Briefly in high school a few of my friends and I all had Palm OS devices.

I taught myself to crack palm apps and games, and with Space War I modified the strength of my ship. The IR multiplayer had no validation of parameters so I pranked my friends in an IR multiplayer match by one-shotting them all and zooming across the whole map in one turn! Great times.

3. capitain ◴[] No.45658702[source]
I think I mentioned it in an earlier blog post, Space War was actually the big inspiration to make this game hex-tile based. Happy to see I'm not the only one that remembers that game! (found it: https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-05-06-2025...)