What do YOU do?

popeye · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject: newbie oldbie

Hi Jessi,

welcome to the forum. Laughing

Popeye

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Victor · Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject:

hi im mennojan, im almost 18 year, come from the netherlands (all the way up north).i study for stearman/captain for inland shipping. after that i wonna try it at sea. i called my nickname after the ship i sail on. a inland ship of 172 meter. we sail alot from Rotterdam (EMO) and Antwerpen (ABT) to Basel (switserland) and the moezel and saar (germany).

i have also a shipping family,
my grandfather had a own inland ship (60 meters i believe, and that was big in the 70's) and my other grandfather had a fishingboat in a little fishining village called harlingen. my uncle works as a diver for a salvage company. my brother works on a pushing boat voor Thyssen Group (maybe familar for the german people).

for those who are intrested in picture's over the 'victor': www.koppelverbandvictor.tk Cool

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drumillar · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: It's a big world out there???

I'm 34, Scottish, male and love this game.......

I'm currently stationed in Belgium at S.H.A.P.E. near Mons, but originally I'm from the ISLE OF SKYE of the west coast of the Highlands of Scotland. The most beautiful place in all the world.....

I used to play POC on an old C64 while stationed in Cyprus.....like a lot of us out there I played thinking it was free......Then one night here on duty I was bored and found the POC site......I bought a copy of the game and haven't looked back.....now have a platinum license.....on my PC here and at my girlfriends flat in Clydebank, (great shipbuilding history), where I regularly update the game..........

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DonRazzi · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:45 am Post subject:

Moin Moin!

As most people here I first met POC on the Amiga 500 back in the late eighties. Unfortunatly my mom didn't want me to have an own computer that time, so I had to play the game together with two of my schoolmates. When I first played the game, one of this old friends told me, his version had a virus on the Pre-Owned-Ship-Section, so you only could handle HighTech or LowCost-Vessels. I bought one of those Lowcost-Vessels, the that friend told me, that he only played a trick on me Confused

Thus rusty ship was quite fast with the fishes... Rolling Eyes

...

With the other friend I played POC for hours and nights then until more action-related games became more interesting for him and he erased the POC-Diskette for some new stuff Evil or Very Mad

while I was still paintig bulk-frighters in boring geographic lessons...

Three or four years later I bought my first own PC together with my grandma, and one of the first games I got was the classic POC which I played then for Hours together with my younger cousin. I really infected him with the virus - a few years younger than me and having installed WIN 95 on his first computer the only DOS-command he still knows is changing into the POC-directory and starting the game...

Well, comapared with the AMIGA-version the DOS-version was quite indiscussable caused by the bad graphics and the ugly PC-speaker-sound and soon there were better games on the market, but when I had to spend a few weeks between my social service and universitynearly a decade later, a friend (and also POC-enthusiastic) told me that POC had been declared freeware. I downloaded the game and... well, again I spent nights with that damn game... When I wanted to download the game again in 2003 I saw the new version and ordered my gold license and now I'm spending again nights and hours...

Well, whats more to tell about me? I grew up in a small village in the northwestern countryside of Germany (Ostfriesland) close to the river Ems and near to the Meyer shipyards in Papenburg. I often visited those docks with my father, gazing what new giant cruisers they built and manouvered seewards the small river. My grandpa himself owned a small repairing shipyard in Emden, which unfortunatly had to be sold off during the shipyard-chrisis in the mid eighties. Ever when we viseted my grandparents, he drove me through the harbour with his old Mercedes and showed me the cranes and the ships. A few years after he and my father died I moved to my grandma who still lives in Emden near the harbour to go to school there. Now I'm studying law at Munster and hope, I'll need not too much more semesters to get my first Exam.

Good freight, good night

DonRazzi

Pavlos · PoC Visitor Unlicensed Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

Hi

I'm Paul and I'm originally from Switzerland. Currently I'm working in Ireland (Dublin) for a year already and might stay here for another couple of months.
I'm 24 now and work for DHL Freight, former Danzas. I joined this company in 1996 in Switzerland and always stayed with them.
Unfortunatelly my function only has very little to do with ships, but still, I'm a fan of ships and ferries.
My father owned POC for DOS some 10 years back and I recently rediscovered this game trough these homepages. Now again, I'm addicted to it.

thats it for now.

regards
Paul

JMP Molegraaf · Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

Hi, I am Jan-Martin Molegraaf.. Born in Holland, not feeling dutch actually.. I am playing the game since i was 8 years old!

At the moment i am working on my thesis for my studies Naval Architecture in Delft. I have a project at the Germanischer Lloyd headoffice in Hamburg..

Would love to see #build your own ship# implementation in POC XXL

Ha det bra så lenge!
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Pieter · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 7:39 am Post subject: Who am I

I am Pieter Kraaima, 35 years married and father of a beutifull girl. Worked 10 years as a stearman on Rhine Vessels until I got this spine problem that did not went a way. Went back to school to learn for a real job Wink

and now I am a system engineer and programmer.

On board we used this copied version of POC (think it was a DOS game on diskette).. I loved it. Then after a hardware upgrade POC went to fast and I lost track of it..

Now I was surfing the net and looked for POC to see what happend with it.. Looking a few minutes at it and seen that it is ever greater then before I registerd for Platinum (now I can sleep at night again Wink

). The game is still an addiction. And now also prevents me from sleeping Smile

Nice forum btw..

Type and read you later,

Pieter

Henrik · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:18 am Post subject: Re: Who am I

Pieter · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 10:39 am Post subject: Re: Who am I

Henrik · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

If i should point one thing out which is really great about this place, then i must be that the developer of the original PoC - or at least one of them ( Rolf-Dieter Klein ) aka RDK is here quite a lot, where he answer questions and comment on our suggestions - so i'll bet you will have a great time here together with the rest of us Smile

Pieter · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

Well reading a lot already.. Updated all files and downloaded the boats from the website...

Waiting until my key gets registerd (or something like that) and then I can also try the small 3d harbor Smile

Think it's going to be late tonight (or early tomorow morning Wink

)

Don't know if Rolf-Dieter is reading this post but: Thumbs up!!!
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popeye · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: It's a big world out there???

rdklein · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:35 am Post subject:

Pieter · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:44 am Post subject:

I already have the right key's /registrations to unlock the small harbor Smile

Thank you for the response..

Love the game!
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