Yeah, you posted it a few hours before I did (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839928), and neither got voted up (and, mysteriously, mine was not detected as a dupe inside a very short time window, as it seems like it should happen).

I'm going to blame the first part on us being in Europe and most of the HN crowd living in US timezones :)

There are some esoteric rules about what qualities for a merge and what doesn't. Sadly, I can never remember them

We really had fun reading this. Great games: firepower emerald mines, crystal hammer and dungeonaster.

My friend had the 512 fast ram upgrade, and later a Lucas accelerator.