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Posted on 03/05/2005 11:51:13 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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That's the stuff...
"You see a corridor before you. What do you do?
"Go north"
"You go north. There is a door in front of you. What do you do?"
"Open door"
etc., etc., etc.
Yah. Okay.
Hamurabi was a game that I used to play as a little kid on my uncle's Heathkit 16k machine. Had to load it from cassette using a panasonic tape recorder. I have little memory of it beyond that. Perhaps this is a good thing.
It was a game that was a precursor to the "sim" type games now. You had to allocate resources to producing bread, and weapons. Then had to deal with internal uprisings and external threats. Not bad, really, for a game that would run off of a tape recorder. :-)
Yah... there were a few of those games. Good stuff, though.
Oh, sort of a "Civilization -3000" game?
I predict the next great "killer ap" will be a small-footprint, fast-running, bullet-proof OS that will replace Windows. It will be written by a small startup company made up of retro-programming geeks who write it in assembler code.
Well... far be it from me to wake the thread up.
I loved those games. I still play them on my Palm Pilot, rather than on a mainframe.
The first one of that type was called "Adventure". That was quickly followed by the Zork series. The fun part was when people got hold of the source code, and started expanding and enhancing the games.
The first "Adventure" game I played was written in Fortran. It read a data file that was basically a high-level language that described events, objects, and locations. Unfortunately, special events required hard-coding in the program when they exceeded the ability of the "macro language". It made cheating that much harder, but also more rewarding when you're trying to figure out how to earn those last two points.
Apparently, I take stoplights more seriously than some, and decline to bulldoze through stopped traffic fast enough for others.
Turning the truck's tailgate into One Big Giant Brake Light does not appear to be a viable option.
You're my sister's age.
Which ain't a bad thing.
The 70's began poorly and ended sadly. You missed nothing.
Sure we did. We built them out of Tinkertoys and Lincoln Logs. We tried to program them to do our homework for us, and that's all we wanted them for.
Games? Who wants to spend hundreds of dollars for something to play "Pong" on when you can do that for a quarter a go at the 7-11? You'd have to play, like, 10,000 games before it began to pay for itself.
Beep
Boo-oop
Bipbip
Khkhkhkh*
*For this one, just start saying "Chanukah" and continue starting.
A 25-post spam wouldn't be prudent. And I gots a bored meeting today.
So I will "retire" with my record. Which ain't bad....
1500,1600,1700,1800,1900,2000
You may consider retiring my jersey...
They have Hack for Palm Pilot?
Oooh...I want. If I ever get a Palm Pilot, that is.
Though...one of the reasons I like it is because I've played it for so long that I know all the keyboard commands without having to think. Couldn't really do that on a Palm Pilot.
But Nethack (slightly different from the original, but not much) is still my favorite game, and the only one I've ever played much.
We had a bunch of those text adventure games - all written in Basic, which made them easily editable. We'd go through and change descriptions of rooms or "monsters" to places/people we knew. Made it highly entertaining...
Good morning!
Today is the St. Patrick's Day concert (duh!) - at noon. Hope we're ready! I feel a little nervous about a few of the tunes, but I imagine we'll get through it OK. AND we get paid a little something, which I can promptly blow on things like nice writing paper and pretty ink...
And tonight we're playing at the pub, though that's a less formal deal. May be a crazy crowd tonight!
Happy St. Patricks Day, my harmonious friend! Is that a word?
Hey, have you looked into trad music groups in CO?
Just enough to know there's a session at the pub on Sunday nights. I want to check that out! And from there, I'll likely find others.
I've also heard about various bluegrass jams, which could be fun, too, though of course I'm more stuck on "tunes"...
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