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    Quote Originally Posted by pete376403 View Post
    Adventur? Entirely text based, I played in on IBM NZs mainframe system. Usually got hopelessly lost in the "maze of little twisty passages, all alike" or maybe it was the "maze of little twisty passages, all different"
    Ooooooo Very Close, you're correct it's a Text Based game!
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    Colossal Cave Adventure?

    Should ask my vintage comp bubbies over at vcf,com or vogons.org. Vogons is more x86 orientated though. To a lot of them a P4 is vintage....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeeper View Post
    Commodore 64 with a tape drive was my first personal computer at home. Loading games from the tape was always hit and miss if the drive head was either dirty or slightly misaligned.

    At university, we used IBM 5150s. They were fun, but could easily be used as a personal heating device.
    Oh yeah, the tape drive...

    90mins or thereabouts to load Gauntlet only for it to fail in the last couple minutes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by onearmedbandit View Post
    Oh yeah, the tape drive...

    90mins or thereabouts to load Gauntlet only for it to fail in the last couple minutes.
    Late in the life of the C64, they developed something called turbo-load, which made the screen flash all kinds of weird colours while the program was loading off the tape. It speed up tape load times to the point where the same program loaded from tape loaded faster than the disk drive in some cases!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ View Post
    Late in the life of the C64, they developed something called turbo-load, which made the screen flash all kinds of weird colours while the program was loading off the tape. It speed up tape load times to the point where the same program loaded from tape loaded faster than the disk drive in some cases!
    Damn Wish I had had that. Modern tech eh.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonez View Post
    Colossal Cave Adventure?

    Should ask my vintage comp bubbies over at vcf,com or vogons.org. Vogons is more x86 orientated though. To a lot of them a P4 is vintage....
    Vogons ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by TheDemonLord View Post
    Vogons ...
    Lol' Generally a bunch of good cunts. The resident Mac nut has been put in his place. Some interesting shit they come up with. Originated as an emulator support site and PIs ups were the go. A few of us older chaps put that right though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BuzzardNZ View Post
    Late in the life of the C64, they developed something called turbo-load, which made the screen flash all kinds of weird colours while the program was loading off the tape. It speed up tape load times to the point where the same program loaded from tape loaded faster than the disk drive in some cases!
    Ah, the ol turbo buttons on the school PCs. Left them on all the time. Think it shortened their life, but they weren't ours
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    Fially got an area set up again for testing any old kit I get. Currently it has Super Socket 7 mobo with Pentium 166mmx, 128megs of ram, SiS vga card, Realtech network card, 2 port usb2 card and a 8gig ide harddrive with Xandros 3, alo early 2000 linux distro, loaded on it. Had to replace the 2032 cmos battery before everything behaved inself. Monitor is an lcd tv which takes standard ASUS laptop screens and has a large asortment of out put ports so I can test SAGA consols, old 8-bit systems and a lot more.
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    I'm guessing you young uns wouldn't have been around then?


    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/b...rnd/index.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    I'm guessing you young uns wouldn't have been around then?


    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/b...rnd/index.html
    I was two in 1960. How old were you pritch?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bonez View Post
    I was two in 1960. How old were you pritch?
    Dunno about Pritch but I was 12 in 1960.

    In the late 1980's, I cut my computer teeth on an Amiga 500 which we boosted to 1000 with a "wonderful and highly advanced" memory pack...I learned a lot from that Amiga. Like how to navigate around faulty start up procedures, (turns out there is indeed more than one way to skin a cat) spread sheets that didn't add up correctly (it's true, I did have one such...which got me into trouble with IRD eventually). And various other workarounds. Like not to share software if you want to avoid a virus infection. I still use some of that experience today.

    At present, on my latest machine, I am playing my way through all the old games I haven't played for ages. Like FEAR f'rinstance, and Doom and Quake etc etc etc. Beats reading books all the time.

    I'm sure looking forward to a beer in a pub in a week or three...
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    Quote Originally Posted by slofox View Post
    Dunno about Pritch but I was 12 in 1960
    I was old enough to have a motorbike licence.

    It was surprising to read that so much infrastructure in "the greatest nation on earth" is still based on such an antiquated system.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    I was old enough to have a motorbike licence.

    It was surprising to read that so much infrastructure in "the greatest nation on earth" is still based on such an antiquated system.
    Because it did what it was suppose to do... Most COBOL programmers are dead, retired or really don't give a shit. There's a few over at vcf.com

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    Turned out the SiS vidio card was flakey on my test. All good now though. Down load some stuff I normally use in linux from the Debian Sarge archives.

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