Nah, it’s all good!@Dannyalcatraz is going to have to change the title of this thread to "I had a question but then everyone started reminiscing about old computer games."
Nah, it’s all good!@Dannyalcatraz is going to have to change the title of this thread to "I had a question but then everyone started reminiscing about old computer games."
had a IIe but swapped it for a laser128 because it was more compact. I'd gotten it as a legacy device to play my old game disks, so I wasn't for caring about the hardware itself.IIc? You young generations, with your Cs and your Es and your GSs.
It's been downhill since they came out the +.
The TRS-80 was followed by a Coleco Adam, complete with tape drive. I played quite a bit of Buck Rogers: Planet of Zoom, Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr., and an "educational" game called Fraction Fever on that.
To this day I am shocked that anyone needs more than 2k of RAM.If you haven't used a cassette tape player as your data storage device, you haven't really lived, have you?
Truth be told, X-wing is still awesome!After that I moved on to my first gaming PC, back when including a sound card and a CD-ROM drive qualified it as a "Multimedia" PC. 486 processor, back when Pentiums were still the hyped next big thing. Magic Carpet and X-Wing Collectors CD-ROM were my first games, wow X-Wing was awesome at the time.
A new definition of TPK - Total Program Kill.I played that old IIe Star Trek game in BASIC where your ship was an “E”, the Klingons were “K”s, stars were asterisks and photon torpedoes were “#”s. I knew just enough to reprogram it so your phasers got MORE powerful the farther away the target.
And text games like Zork and Madventure.
Then came things like Wizardry & Ultima III.
When we got Macs to replace the Apple IIe, Bard’s Tale, Sim City, Sim Earth and those Forgotten Realms games got lots of play.
That last one was hilarious to me because I found a fatal bug. My party, which included a Magic-User/Thief, encountered a Spectre (in library, as I recall). She kept getting nailed as I battled it, but she survived. Then I noticed she had -300 levels or more. It was late, so I saved the game, thinking to figure it out later. The next day, the saved game would NOT reload properly. The few times it rebooted, it crashed within minutes. I tried resuming play from a prior save, but each time, the Spectre encounter ended the same way- the MU-Th in big negative levels, followed by a crash.
I restarted the game with an entirely different party, but by that time, I was too frustrated to continue. (A friend of mine who frequently visited from out of town would play the game when I had to go to class or do homework…and he eventually finished the game.)
I played that old BASIC game too, on a Philips P2000. My dad brought home a printout (dot matrix!) of the version he played at work and I spent a whole night typing it out. Never got it to work, though. Perhaps because of typos, or perhaps because my P2000 had 16kb, and the cutting-edge high-tech lab where he worked had 4Gb.I played that old IIe Star Trek game in BASIC where your ship was an “E”, the Klingons were “K”s, stars were asterisks and photon torpedoes were “#”s. I knew just enough to reprogram it so your phasers got MORE powerful the farther away the target.
30 or so years ago, a brilliant little meditative puzzle game called Heaven & Earth was released, first for PCs, then for Macs. It had 3 types of activities: Illusions (where you rearranged tiles on your screen to match the provided image), a pendulum you nudged to hit targets, and a mystic-themed card game.
I loved it, mostly for its card game. The other stuff was fun, but the card game was addictive…at least, for me. Alas, it’s not playable on Macs upgraded to anything post OS X. (Yeah, that goes back a ways.)
I was wondering, though, if anyone knew of an IOS app or that had a similar vibe. (Especially for the card game aspect.)
AAAAAANND while I’m at it…
Same questions go for the ancient computer games Broadsides, Moebius, Playmaker Football, Escape Velocity, and Abuse.
Thank you, Internet Angel!Here is the PC version
msdos heaven and earth 1992
and here is the Macintosh version. You need to click on the disk that says heaven and earth to get it to to work I imagine (didn't test it out, just looked it up to find it)
Heaven and Earth Macintosh version