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 Anyone got old version of Yankee Trader? 
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I just got back into BBSing and I'm looking for version 3.4, 3.5 of Yankee Trader (there may possibly be a bug in 3.6 so I want to downgrade).  Can put up 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.6 if anyone needs.  Hopefully I won't get too much flames for asking about this!


Sun Dec 17, 2006 7:04 pm
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Tradewars open discussions dude.
not yankee trader discussions.

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Please help me preserve an old piece of BBS history.


Sun Dec 17, 2006 8:39 pm
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Well, my searching only found what I assume is version 3.6, although I did find a nice site that holds text writings for many different games, is pretty kewl.

http://www.textfiles.com/

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The search timeframe is 8/1992 (v3.3) to 2/1994 (v3.6). I'm browsing through old shareware ROMS.


Sun Dec 17, 2006 9:34 pm
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Zentock wrote:
Tradewars open discussions dude.
not yankee trader discussions.



And I thought it was "An area with more relaxed rules in terms of OT posts and debate."

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ot does not mean other then tradewars.
it has to do with off topic posts.

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Zentock wrote:
ot does not mean other then tradewars.
it has to do with off topic posts.


all I can say is LOL.

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Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:30 pm
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Yankee Trader and Trade Wars share some history.  According to this, Alan Davenport, the author of Yankee Trader co-authored the TW1000 version of Trade Wars with Chris Sherrick before he branched off and created Yankee Trader.

http://www.eisonline.com/twhistory/
http://www.classic-games.com/tradewars/history.html
http://textfiles.com/rpg/iago


Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:44 pm
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Space Cowboy wrote:
Yankee Trader and Trade Wars do share some history.http://www.eisonline.com/twhistory/http://www.classi c-games.com/tradewars/history.htmlhttp://textfiles.com/rpg/i ago


Very true on the history and the history of the games is something I find interesting. I wish you luck in finding the version you are looking for. I found 3.2 and 3.6, but that was it.

And now the song "Space Cowboy" by Steve Miller is stuck in my head.

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No guarantees, but I will begin my search into my BBS archive. I know I've seen it, played it. Just not sure if I kept it. I enjoyed it though.

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Some people call me a Space Cowboy, some call me a gangster of love...

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Vulcan wrote:
Some people call me a Space Cowboy, some call me a gangster of love...


Lol Vulcan

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I just checked my BBS Door game files and my version of Yankee Trader is 3.0, and 3.6. I do not have v3.4 or 3.5. sorry about that.

I came across another one too. Outpost Trader. That's what started me out before I went to Yankee Trader, then to TradeWars.

Just another piece of history brought to you by Thrawn.

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Sad part is I threw out all my old 5 1/4" BBS disks a few months ago.  Who knew I'd run across SynchroNET 3 months later!


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