Comment Re:Do you remember when... (Score 3, Interesting) 561
Try Bard's Tale and the Ultima series (I remember being amazed at seeing my reflection when I stepped in front of a mirror in Ultima IV). I have no idea how much time we wasted with all of the olympic games. The diving competitions in Summer Games were turned into heated conversations on hot Sunday evenings at the Dairy Queen over Blizzards.
Don't leave out Skyfox (which I still think is better than F-15 Strike Eagle- I don't care what any Atari or C-64 zealot has to say) or Castle Wolfenstein (what was the german word for "freeze!" that you always heard before "kaput!").
Not to mention typing your homework in Bank Street Writer and printing it out on your OkiMate printer to impress the teacher.
I can remember thinking I was as cool as Mathew Broderick when I finished my first BASIC program and the users group thought it was good enough to put it on the next disk-of-the-month.
I work as a network admin/engineer now and computers don't mean shit to me anymore. I have to deal with Windows and OS/400 at work and I have a Macintosh at home. I haven't written a "program" in years because these things on my desk just don't hold my attention like the ][e in elementary and high-school.
The Apples were too expensive for me. My parents saved enough to buy me a TI (with my tape recorder hooked-up to save my programs) when I was in kindergarten and then an Atari ST later. All of my friends had ][e's and //c's. The //c was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. In my hometown there was no computer store but the television repair shop always had a ][e and a //c in the front window for sale. I can remember stopping everyday on the way home from school and looking at the //c.
You could get a computer magazine(Byte?) once a month at the drug store and that would have code in it for a featured program. You'd sit and type it in line by line and then debug your typos.
Its probably nostalgia, but computer these days suck. They don't have alot of life in them. I understand that we're comparing apples to oranges here- the old bitty-boxes were produced mainly for the home hobbyist and all computers are built for business now.
I might be looking on ebay for a //c tonight. To this day I've never owned one...
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Don't leave out Skyfox (which I still think is better than F-15 Strike Eagle- I don't care what any Atari or C-64 zealot has to say) or Castle Wolfenstein (what was the german word for "freeze!" that you always heard before "kaput!").
Not to mention typing your homework in Bank Street Writer and printing it out on your OkiMate printer to impress the teacher.
I can remember thinking I was as cool as Mathew Broderick when I finished my first BASIC program and the users group thought it was good enough to put it on the next disk-of-the-month.
I work as a network admin/engineer now and computers don't mean shit to me anymore. I have to deal with Windows and OS/400 at work and I have a Macintosh at home. I haven't written a "program" in years because these things on my desk just don't hold my attention like the ][e in elementary and high-school.
The Apples were too expensive for me. My parents saved enough to buy me a TI (with my tape recorder hooked-up to save my programs) when I was in kindergarten and then an Atari ST later. All of my friends had ][e's and
You could get a computer magazine(Byte?) once a month at the drug store and that would have code in it for a featured program. You'd sit and type it in line by line and then debug your typos.
Its probably nostalgia, but computer these days suck. They don't have alot of life in them. I understand that we're comparing apples to oranges here- the old bitty-boxes were produced mainly for the home hobbyist and all computers are built for business now.
I might be looking on ebay for a
j0nh69atyahoodotcom
