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....
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!
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.
I'm guessing you young uns wouldn't have been around then?
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There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one. - Joey Dunlop
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...
. “No pleasure is worth giving up for two more years in a rest home.” Kingsley Amis
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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