I used to play "space lander" on my Texas Instruments TI99/4A which I had bought for my children. But it also had a LOGO interpreter, and you could write your programs and save them on a cassette. Then I bought a used AT&T Olivetti Unix PC, running Unix System V. It also had a LOGO interpreter and you could save your programs on a 300k floppy, much faster and bigger than the cassette. Then somebody gave me a 150 MB tape with GCC 1.xx from the Free Software Foundation and I transferred the tape on 300k DOS-formatted floppies on my office computer at Honeywell Information Systems Italy and compiled it. It took about a week on a 10 MHz 68010 Motorola processor with 2.5 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk.That computer is still working.
Tullio
No mention of the good ol' Acorn Atom or BBC Model B, with it's wordprocessing ROM chip (what was it called again)... Then there was also the Sinclair spectrum. Did those ones not do so well in the states then, lol?
I cut my teeth on a system known as the Spectravideo SV-318, but I graciously thank my father for having the foresight to buy an IBM 'compatible' 8088 @ 4.77Mhz (a whopping 8.0 Mhz when the turbo button was used), twin 5 1/4" floppy drives and a whopping 640k RAM. Anyone remember those excellent text adventure games (Adventure, Planetfall etc.) and Sierra's King's Quest, the first graphical adventure game I ever played, followed by Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest & Space Quest....memories...;-)
Anyone remember those excellent text adventure games (Adventure, Planetfall etc.) and Sierra's King's Quest, the first graphical adventure game I ever played, followed by Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest & Space Quest....memories...;-)
Anyone interested in old games needs to check out Home of the Underdogs. I know Planetfall and a modernized version of King's Quest 1 is available. Enjoy.
Anyone interested in old games needs to check out Home of the Underdogs. I know Planetfall and a modernized version of King's Quest 1 is available. Enjoy.
I played ADVENT and DUNGEO (predicessors to text Adventure and text Zork) on a PDP/11 starting around 1977-1978. I remember having fun running around those old mazes and having fun learning about the ability to program. Then came Eliza, which was supposed to be an intelligence program. Taking your answers and trying to give you advices, etc.
Things that should make those people playing these old games bring back memories:
XYZZY
You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike
You are in a maze of twisty little passages not alike
A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing
Then there was NetHack @ in the early/mid '80s. The dog was always annoying.
LOL. I considered posting this in the last word thread, but I couldn't possibly manage being stuck in a maze of twisty little passages all alike all weekend.
...It was from radio shack...I don't remember the model number...
Would it be the TRS-80?
I know we had two or 3 of those...But we also may have had a TI computer as well...Before we got the Radio Shack TRS-80's...I was incorrect in my timeline...It may have been 1978.
Then there was NetHack @ in the early/mid '80s. The dog was always annoying.
Nethack is still around, though there hasn't been a new version in a couple of years. I still quest fruitlessly for the amulet of Yendor every once in awhile. There is a graphical version too instead of the same o' @ and d and yes, the dog is still annoying most of the time.
I used to play "space lander"
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I used to play "space lander" on my Texas Instruments TI99/4A which I had bought for my children. But it also had a LOGO interpreter, and you could write your programs and save them on a cassette. Then I bought a used AT&T Olivetti Unix PC, running Unix System V. It also had a LOGO interpreter and you could save your programs on a 300k floppy, much faster and bigger than the cassette. Then somebody gave me a 150 MB tape with GCC 1.xx from the Free Software Foundation and I transferred the tape on 300k DOS-formatted floppies on my office computer at Honeywell Information Systems Italy and compiled it. It took about a week on a 10 MHz 68010 Motorola processor with 2.5 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk.That computer is still working.
Tullio
Thanks for the link Kathryn.
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Thanks for the link Kathryn. :)
No mention of the good ol' Acorn Atom or BBC Model B, with it's wordprocessing ROM chip (what was it called again)... Then there was also the Sinclair spectrum. Did those ones not do so well in the states then, lol?
I cut my teeth on a system known as the Spectravideo SV-318, but I graciously thank my father for having the foresight to buy an IBM 'compatible' 8088 @ 4.77Mhz (a whopping 8.0 Mhz when the turbo button was used), twin 5 1/4" floppy drives and a whopping 640k RAM. Anyone remember those excellent text adventure games (Adventure, Planetfall etc.) and Sierra's King's Quest, the first graphical adventure game I ever played, followed by Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest & Space Quest....memories...;-)
RE: Anyone remember those
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Anyone interested in old games needs to check out Home of the Underdogs. I know Planetfall and a modernized version of King's Quest 1 is available. Enjoy.
RE: ...It was from radio
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Would it be the TRS-80?
Dead men don't get the baby washed. HTH
RE: Anyone interested in
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ooh, lovely! This should be fun...
Ignore - wrong game - got
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Ignore - wrong game - got confused between Kings Quest and Search for the King
I played ADVENT and DUNGEO
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I played ADVENT and DUNGEO (predicessors to text Adventure and text Zork) on a PDP/11 starting around 1977-1978. I remember having fun running around those old mazes and having fun learning about the ability to program. Then came Eliza, which was supposed to be an intelligence program. Taking your answers and trying to give you advices, etc.
Things that should make those people playing these old games bring back memories:
XYZZY
You are in a maze of twisty little passages all alike
You are in a maze of twisty little passages not alike
A cheerful little bird is sitting here singing
Then there was NetHack @ in the early/mid '80s. The dog was always annoying.
RE: XYZZY LOL. I
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LOL. I considered posting this in the last word thread, but I couldn't possibly manage being stuck in a maze of twisty little passages all alike all weekend.
RE: RE: ...It was from
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I know we had two or 3 of those...But we also may have had a TI computer as well...Before we got the Radio Shack TRS-80's...I was incorrect in my timeline...It may have been 1978.
RE: Then there was NetHack
)
Nethack is still around, though there hasn't been a new version in a couple of years. I still quest fruitlessly for the amulet of Yendor every once in awhile. There is a graphical version too instead of the same o' @ and d and yes, the dog is still annoying most of the time.