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Mine are:
Dogz and Catz :-)
Lotus Smartsuite 97 (especially Freehand)
Oh, and does anyone remember the '101 Dalmations' print studio that shipped with HP Inkjet printers?
:-)
WBF
:-)
It was the frontrunner in DTP in the early days. I think they were absorbed by Corel but too late, Photoshop 2.0 had already kicked it's patootie with superior CMYK CLUT's.
Also, still to this day, Duke Nukem. Trouble is finding a machine to run it on . . . .
Borland Pascal 7
PCBoard, Proboard, QuickBBS (and variants...),
Fidonet (talk about email when it was still safe!)
DoubleDOS, Desqview (how could you run a BBS without one of those?)
Civilization
CommandHQ (imho, first real good multiplayer RTS)
Oh, the good old days...
Lets not forget nostalgic hardware -- 2400 baud modems with MNP4 and MNP5, or the USR Courier HST 14.4k!
What's interesting is that before we got our own computer, the guys who ran the local Radio Shack used to let us use their computer for whatever. I didn't realize until later that it was because they wanted people to see that even kids can operate computers.
What about Civ2 (which I still play occassionally) and the upcomin Civ4 (Civ 3 sucks, barf).
After Questron came the Ultima series.
And for some reason still have these on my hard drive:
Turbo Basic version 1.0
Copyright (c) 1987 by
Borland International, Inc.
XTreePro (tm) Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1987
VTREE Charles Petzold, 1985 Requires DOS 2.0+
SLICE 1.3 - (c) 1989 Ziff Communications Co.
SNIPPER 1.2 (c) 1987 Ziff Communications Co.
PCSORT 1.0 (c) 1990 Ziff Communications Co.
The Norton Utilities, Advanced Edition 4.50, (C) Copr 1987-88, Peter Norton
PKZIP (R) FAST! Create/Update Utility Version 2.04e 01-25-93
BUSPERF -- PC Bus Performance Analyser
C) Copyright PC TECH Journal 1986
ATPERF -- PC Tech Journal AT Hardware Performance Test
Version 2.00, Copyright (c) 1986, 1987, Ziff Communications
GeorgeGG
Of course the best ever was defrag. I could spend hours watching that in dos on a 40 MB hard drive. Those were the days.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.[EAST] [E] [D] [DOWN] [SOUTH] [S] [NORTH] [N] [UP] [U] [WEST] [W]
c:\cd a:
a:\setup.exe
Or even install.exe
:-)
Ya, I would agree with that. I spent sooooooo many hours on Civ 2, that when civ 3 came out I went and paid full price for it. What a disapointment.
It makes you wonder how they could screw it up.
M.U.L.E was a great party game. The more impaired you got, the funnier it was to see somebody's MULE run away with time running out.
M.U.L.E was a great party game. The more impaired you got, the funnier it was to see somebody's MULE run away with time running out.
Yep, we used to play with "pub rules". If you lost your mule, you didn't get to imbibe until you managed to get back with your mule on a future turn. Tended to cut down on the wombat hunting.
WBF
Bear is so startled it runs off.
The Infocom engine only paid attention to the first three letters of a word. The programmer wanted "scream bear".
And I miss POKE and PEEK as well.
How to make sure a charcter was REALLY visible on screen?
1) Place the character on screen
2) PEEK into the associated position of the (text-)screen mememory
3) Compare if both is the same, if now
4) goto 1
Did you know that there is a whole trend in music dedicated to 8bit videogames and computers? It's called Micromusic and they actually get on stage with old Commodre 64's, Ataris etc...
[micromusic.net...]
and Artillery
Girls? ...What's a girl?
The richer kids had (ASCII-)printers. They charged for printouts of these ASCII-girls per meter....
And finally - Leisure Suit Larry! Did quite a lot for my education :-)
What about Lemmings?
NeoPaint? Sounds like a program I knew for the Amiga?
Would that be Deluxe Paint. I used to love that program!
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You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
[EAST] [E] [D] [DOWN] [SOUTH] [S] [NORTH] [N] [UP] [U] [WEST] [W]
You see a door.
>open door
The door is locked.
>hit door
The door is locked.
>find key
I don't see any key.
>examine room
There is nothing here.
>oh sod it!
Does anyone remember "paperboy"? the game where you had to ride the bike throwing papers into mail boxes?
what about "Hard driving" it was great in the arcade, but crap on the computers back then.
I also liked smart suit 97. I actualy still have it on cd, Is anyone still running it on xp?
Mack.
Thought it was dead or something :) Ah yes Lemmings was a load of fun, I think they released a christmas edition as well with snowmen and stuff :)
After that came the Commodore 64, which had that enormous keyboard where you could plug the tapes into the back of it. Used to enjoy Snoopy Run quite a lot!
Funny, I remember NeoPaint too. My brother and I used to create rather fantastic (?) mountainscapes with the mustache paintbrush tool. That was back in the Windows 3.1 days, where you had to start it from the command line and it came up instantly. That computer had a whopping 40MB hard drive!
