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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I remember that screen.
What was the game?
Joystick?
I am not a gamer, is it available on the internet.
Best Apple II game ever, in all its monochrome green glory... “LoadRunner”
I am sure they still make joysticks.
I pre-date the Apple II in games. Remember Tank? No one could beat me in Tank, and they REALLY tried.
I’d say I felt bad about it, but I never have.
Great game. The game and I were one.
Only Doom came close for me. Tank just lives on.
When they were retired in 2011, the Space Shuttles still were using their original 80286 computers.
Atari?
Yeah. Forgot to mention that.
I figured it out.
Driving tracks is great fun, till you throw a track :)
My first computer was a TRS-80 MicroColorComputer.
Had to connect it to a tv (didn’t have a monitor).. if I wanted to save whatever I had thrown together from the weekly programming magazine back then, it had to be saved on a cassette tape (I remember it used to take 30 minutes to an hour to save a few kilobytes :p).
Can’t forget the 300 baud cradle modem :p
Acoustic coupler modem, just try to tell the mobile phone gen how that even worked. ;^) Reliance on the fact that almost everyohe had a TV was a brilliant idea home computer makers all followed, even the unsuccessful ones. I'm sure I've still got at least one RF modulator around here, uh, somewhere... I only had the pleasure of using a cassette deck to save and/or load on those Timex 1000's. :^)
I think there is still a operating Pong game in a local Pizza parlor here in Benderville
I know a guy that did that. He heard about computers and thought that would be a good job. After a few interviews, with no coding experience (he was into some other science) he went and bought a Commodore 64 and learned to program it. Then he took it apart and put it back together again. In the span of a few weeks iirc.
Then he interviewed at Microsoft. “Oh yeah. I can do software AND hardware.”
They hired him. 25 years later he retired at a young age with a bunch of money.
Like this?
It is from the 1983 movie WarGames.
I figured as much. It always told me I didn’t have the manual dexterity to pick the lock (implying someone else did). I let the thief take it one time and never found him again!
Thanks for the memories! This has been a fun thread.
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