The Thread

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: Speedy


I challenge you to a game of HL2 aswell. Chicken? [:'(]

Bring it on Gib'lit

[Nikademus]

Is Diehl the one who claims that the kitchen is no good for parties due to the malaria effects?

only if acompanied by the words: "from what i heard....."
[:D]

[niceguy2005]

Nik, is this the original text based version of Zork? What OS deos it operate on?

[Mike Solli]

It works on just about everything. I tried it on XP. Just google Zork.

[Mike Solli]

Actually, I have the download with me. I'll send it to you if you'd like.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Nik, is this the original text based version of Zork? What OS deos it operate on?

It can run on a PC without an emulator as i purchased the Zork collection for PC (which included the CD-Rom "Return to Zork" (never played it more than a few screens in....pretty campy thin...but then during that time anything on CD/multi-media was "in" )

My "original" versions of Zork were for the Atari 400.


EDIT - check out home of the underdogs website...you can get it for free now i think


(god i'm OLD)

where's my walking stick?

[rtrapasso]

Any recommendations on DOS-emulators?? i have a few old games i'd like to try...

[fabertong]

ORIGINAL: Mynok

.joins monestry.............

Is that some kind of bank?

Being a penguin.....spelling is quite beyond me..........

[niceguy2005]

Mike, that would be great. I have been looking on google, but can only find the Win95 version so far.

Nik, I had it for the Atari 800. The Atari 400 was the one with the McDonald cash register style keyborad and only 16K of memory as I recall. The 800 had a whopping 64K. [8|]

[niceguy2005]

I would also be interested in a good recommendation. I have had some bad expereinces in the past with emmulators really mucking things up. I think I have an old version of Empire War Game of the Century for DOS. I would dearly love to play that game again.

[Mike Solli]

That might be the one I downloaded. It'll work fine.

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Any recommendations on DOS-emulators?? i have a few old games i'd like to try...

not off hand. I duel boot my older machine so it has Win98 and Xp. any old DOS resident games i have i play on that machine. I have emulators for the Apple IIe, and Atari800 and Atari 2600 console however

[Nikademus]

ORIGINAL: niceguy2005

Nik, I had it for the Atari 800. The Atari 400 was the one with the McDonald cash register style keyborad and only 16K of memory as I recall. The 800 had a whopping 64K. [8|]

Yes....I bought my 400 with 16K and a tape drive for files. (with a summer's worth of paper boy $$ [:D] )

later I upgraded it to a whopping 48K so i could really be smokin......(and get those SSI games!!!!!!)

later i saved up for a disk drive...what a technological marvel it was back then....those cute 5 1/4 floppies.....no bbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE for 15 minutes when the tape drive is loading.

then i bought an Atari 800......never did get to use that second cartridge slot. Had it for years...only recently tossed it. after 15 years, the disks finally started going bad [:D]

[rtrapasso]

Ahh.. i had an old S-100 bus computer called TANO Outpost II. Ugghh... it was an industrial computer (this back about 1978), but it would break at the drop of a hat. The home computer market was just getting started. i looked at an Apple, but they couldn't get the software to load, so i left the store...

i later upgraded to a TRS-80 model 3...[:D]

[Nikademus]

TRS?

yukko....my condolences....almost as bad as Timex Sinclair. [;)]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

TRS?

yukko....my condolences....almost as bad as Timex Sinclair. [;)]

Oh, not so bad as THAT!!

I had them (various ones, heavily modified) until the late 80's, then switched over to IBM-type systems. But my first hard drive was a 5 megabyte monster was for a TRS-80 model 4. It was an external drive about the size of a bread box. It was great!!

[Nikademus]

lol...when the first PC's came out, i took one look at that ugly bulky thing and its ugly computer games and said..."God, i'll never buy one of those

[:D]

[niceguy2005]

Our family's first home computer was from a company called the Digital Group back in '75, I think. They mailed you the boards, case and the chips and it was up to you to put it together. It took my dad until '76 to really get it running. My dad would soulder (spelling) the chips onto the bords and my mother would help him check it. It was a Z80 micro and had a CRT that looked more like an oscilliscope than a monitor. It had a number of adjustment knobs that had to be dialed in frequently to get the text to display properly. An interesting feature was that it originally had a duel tape deck (that you also had to be together) which could index multiple programs per tape, something I envied when I first got my Atari and had to load each program onto a different tape.

I remember my dad running diagnostics on the printer late at night as I was falling asleep. I used to hear BZZZZZZZZZZ chunk clunk as I went to sleep. To this day when I hear an old dot matrix printer it makes me sleepy. [>:]

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

lol...when the first PC's came out, i took one look at that ugly bulky thing and its ugly computer games and said..."God, i'll never buy one of those

[:D]

Yeah, the graphics were pretty hideous. I mainly used it for other stuff (word processing, etc.) though. Fun to play the text-based games on it, though.

Better than the Outpost II, though. I pretty much had to write most of my own software for that beast. I did find a few stupid games for S-100 bus, but most of them wouldn't work (sorry, no refunds!![:@]) So i thought the TRS-80 was marvelous by comparison.

[rtrapasso]

I remember my dad running diagnostics on the printer late at night as I was falling asleep. I used to hear BZZZZZZZZZZ chunk clunk as I went to sleep. To this day when I hear an old dot matrix printer it makes me sleepy.

oooh - dot matrix! You WERE fancy!!

First *serious* printer i had was an old IBM selectric literally the size of a desk (not counting some pieces of junk that broke after 2 days of use). Some semi-local guy had figured out a way to interface it. Later i upgraded to dot-matrix...