Posted on 02/18/2019 7:43:54 AM PST by BenLurkin
Pfaff restored the saved game of Adventureland, a text command game released for microcomputers by Scott Adams in 1978.
“This is tricky, because three decades later I can’t quite remember where I left off this round of Adventureland.”
Pfaff found floppy disks with several different games of the time including; Millionware, Neuromancer and Olympic Decathlon.
Besides finding games on the floppy disks, Pfaff came across saved copies of his high school assignments and a note from his late father.
“Just found this letter my dad typed to me in 1986, when I was 11 and at summer camp,” he tweeted. “My dad passed away almost exactly a year ago. It’s amazing to come across something so ‘ordinary’ from him.”
Pfaff showed off the vintage system to his own children and their reaction is what you’d expect from a generation that has moved on to an iPhone X.
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Beware the lurking grues!
“10 MB hard drive (”Are you kidding? What would we ever do with 10MB of storage! We could never fill that much! That would be a huge waste of money!”)”
I remember a similar conversation with a work mate about a 20 meg HD on an IBM around 87 or ‘88.
“It’ll take you 30 years to use all that space!”
I bought my son a TI-99/4A. It’s probably
laying around somewhere. Old things that
still work are a hobby of mine. As a matter
of fact, I am posting this from a slide rule.
I should plug it in and see if it still works, but I have a Tandy 1000 out there in storage. :)
Trying to code anything in the BASIC of the Timex (4K installed RAM) taught me the value of discipline, and the appeal of using machine language. :^)
-PJ
Before I started that computer up I would immediately coverup the camera and microphone.
Hell, yeah!
I’m not a programmer, I did take a course in Basic, way way back. Did fine on that, but at 71 I doubt I will look into another.
A number of years ago I looked at Python. It never quite took with me.
Ha!
Impossible Mission!! Loved it! “Stay Awhile ... Stay Forever!!”
I used to physically cringe when those robots would zap the guy, it was such a painful sound!
You had to let the thief (Pick-pocket?) steal the egg, he opened it and got out what was in it (key or jewel?) and then you had to find the thief and kill him to get it back.
Stay awhile! Stay FOREVER!!! Bwahahahaha!
Yeah, a lot of languages appear to have been created for the convenience of the creator[s] of the language. Or sometimes for fun.
Y’know, sometimes I worry about people...
Best of 2018: The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language
By Bob Reselman on December 24, 2018
https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/
I was rummaging around this Christmas in a box of old university stuff I left in my parents' basement. I came across a Sharp scientific calculator that I probably acquired around that time - maybe 1990-91. It was so old, I'd forgotten I even had it. Looks brand new, and the battery is still good.
Meanwhile, I'm still using my TI calculator that I bought in 1985 to do my taxes...
One of my favourites, too.
“Destroy him, my robots!”
I still have a TI 99 scientific calculator.
Well, this looks like a thread that I can ask a game question.
I have discovered that the old PONG game is availabel on line.
the mouse doesn’t do it.
Can someone recommend a mouse or controller that would work well with the game?
I always loved it and my first husband and I played it in the stores when it came out, but we were as poor as churchmice and never bought it, one of my many regrets.
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