Yeah, I know. I really miss Blackmar's Dungeon. I have searched all over trying to find it but I can't even find it in an archive of old doors. It was a real simple hack and slash. I even started coding it once in a scripting language to use on a DOS based BBS but shut down the BBS after a while and never finished the code. Trade Wars used to get a lot of activity on my site.
Now this is really sad... I have a "newer" DOS based "Trek" game that we used to play on Intel test computer systems, before Apple, or personal computers period, were around. I still play it once in a while, just because... uuhh, I dunno!
remember Zork? another classic. hehe... I started using in 1984. I have been a nerd ever since. My first PC at home was a TRS80 CoCo2. I really wanted a c64 but for some reason my dad got the TRS80. I used that until I talked him into getting me an Amiga 500. Now that was an awesome computer that was way ahead of it's time... I still miss the Amiga.
I don't remember Zork. What about "Adventure"? "You are underground in a maze of dark, twisty, passages, leading in all directions"... or something like that. What is really sad is that I still have a 80386 system with a 80387 co-processor (and 4 meg of ram!) in my attic that I cannot bare to part with. Of course, I still have a National Semiconductor calculator that works great, that I actually use. Since we have thoroughly derailed this thread, what is a c64?
I've never heard of that one, although the Commodore 64 name is familiar. TI must mean Texas Instruments, and I'm guessing it must be a computer... I didn't know TI ever made a computer! Did it have a particular claim to fame?
O come on! You guy know the Atari 800 was the BOMB! :boom: I still can't believe my parents paid over $3000 for that thing! Zork was a great adventure. I never did finish that game... I wonder if the old Atari still works... :yield:
This thread is bringing back some good C64 and Atari memories! And makes me realize how lucky we where that anybody would have sex with us too? Man I was a gamer nerd. BZ
My friend had one of the first laptops-a compaq. weighed approx 30 pounds and the screen was green/greener. that was around 1984 as well.
My sister still plays our old Atari. It's like driving an old chevette without power brakes or power steering.
I had one of the Atari rigs too, it really was the bomb. Some great games existed for that machine. I used to love to play Silent Service, even though I was too young to really get the complexities of submarine warfare, especially WWII era subwarfare. I'd love to get a copy of that running on an emulator or something.
I've still got a full boat 130XE and an ST4. Use the ST4 for MIDI applications in my project studio. I've got IBM versions of ZORK, ZORK II, ZORK III and ZORK Zero. Along with Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxie, Planetfall, Stationfall, Ballyhoo, Suspended and a few more Text adventures. I used to write them using sTac on the Atari. Jim Walker, Curt Stanford and I built an Altair in 1975. We were working in the district computer lab at the time and had just removed the IBM 1070 and installed an Interdata 716 and Mod3&4 Minits system. Somewhere, I've got a copies of the code for Collasal Cave in Fortran and PL3. Still keep the XE around cause Mule was never ported to any other platform. I looked and I don't have anybackups of the doors off my old BBS. (The CJ&P BBS and SEVAC BBS {South East Valley Atari Connection}.) Love the show Code Monkeys,
I didn't come along until the 8086's. I do remember playing "Rouge" and "The Golden Wombat". And of course the first graphic flight sim I played, "Jet". From there I moved into the Sierra Classics. Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry... those were the days when games relied on story and fun rather than flashy graphics. Now I spend more money than I care to think about to play games with flashy graphics.
Had one of those Compaq "Box" laptops as well back in the day. I thought I was really moving up in the world when Toshiba released their "laptop" with the plasma red shades of red display with the fold up screen, instead of the fold down keyboard of the compaq.
Amiga 1000 for me I still have an Amiga 1000 system on the closet shelf. I haven't used it in years, but I can't bring myself to throw it out. I have a 2mb (!) memory card that plugs in the side. It's about the size of a laptop. Cutting edge technology for '85! I wish I could get some of those games for my pc. Before that I had a Commodore 64! To tie this back in to motorcycles, at the time I was riding a '78 Yamaha XS750 tourer. Cheers! Craig
If you, like me, like those old games, find a copy of. "The Lost Treasures of Infocom" It has 20 T.A. games. I got mine at a Borders Book Store. http://www.cs.uwo.ca/Infocom/ltoi.html http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=lost+treasures+of+infocom&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf
Altair... you should see the oldest on the forum thread! I played with an Apple Lisa (the huge thing before the mace) at my dad's office, before that I got on the county's mainframe to play adventure, an HP3000. Maybe that Apple "Think Different" applies to me? I saved more paper tape and Holrith (spelling?) cards than old computers or games.
I think I have a zip file of a lot of the old Amiga games. I played a little bit of Shadow of the Beast on an emulator. And this forum is anything goes! I moved the thread and changed it so we could switch to nerdspeak without fear of retribution!
