heh, spintronics are here - last time i saw that was back in uni, before that in master of orion 2 https://www.anandtech.com/print/14669/phisons-nextgen-essd-controllers-to-support-everspins-sttmram-caching Phison’s Next-Gen eSSD Controllers to Support Everspin’s STT-MRAM Caching

oh god, master of orion 2

it was no Stars!

stars! was a bit bone dry in presentation, and the battle system had really weird min-max things, and mass drivers were king

why battle in space when you can just lob chunks of your planets around

yep. I played that a lot. Even had a revival about 10 years ago.

People had to play on Windows VMs since current windows wouldn't run it

and then we used dropbox and ssh to sync files around

PBDB