...And we walked to school barefoot in the snow!

[Xaa]

Ten miles! Uphill! Both Ways!

Man, you kids today don't know how lucky you are. 24-bit, 16 million colors... Back in the old days, we had FOUR colors, and that was it! And we didn't have no damn "copy-paste" crap or photoshop or none of that! When we wanted to make a picture, we damn well poked in the data for the image pixel by pixel, like REAL men!



And they weren't no damn teeny tiny pixels like today, neither! Nossir, we had MANLY pixels, the size of your fist!

[ghastley]

When I started programming, you didn't have a screen, you printed your graphics out on a line printer, in one color - Henry Ford Black. And the memory on the machine was too small to run the compiler, so you programmed directly in machine code, one bit at a time on a bank of switches.

REAL "Real men" can't type! 8 - )

[Xaa]

ghastley said:

When I started programming, you didn't have a screen, you printed your graphics out on a line printer, in one color - Henry Ford Black. And the memory on the machine was too small to run the compiler, so you programmed directly in machine code, one bit at a time on a bank of switches.

REAL "Real men" can't type! 8 - )

Ten miles! Through the snow! Uphill! Both ways!

[charietto]

You forgot the hungry wolves howling ...

You know, when you speak like this, you remind me of my mother .

[Xaa]

charietto said:

You forgot the hungry wolves howling ...

You know, when you speak like this, you remind me of my mother .

Your mother programmed adventure games with Adventure Construction Set?

[charietto]

Not at all, I was speaking about the "Ten miles! Through the snow! Uphill! Both ways!" part !

[Kilarin]

Ok, ghastley has me beat. BUT, not by a whole lot.
I wrote my first computer games on a trs-80 model 1 level 1 with 4K of ram and text semi-graphics with a resolution of 128x48.
When I got my first 1200 baud modem, all my friends came over just to see it work. We could dial up a BBS and the screen actually filled up with text FASTER THAN YOU COULD READ IT!!!!! It was such an incredible leap over 300baud that we were all amazed.
As for multiplayer games? I remember when TradeWars was the ultimate in Multiplayer. You dialed up the BBS until you didn't get a busy signal, logged in. You were (usually) the only person on the BBS at the time. You took your 10 turns, logged out. Then checked in the next day to see what had happened.

So anyway, What brought on the "Adventure Construction Set" flashback Xaa?

[Xaa]

kilarin said:

Ok, ghastley has me beat. BUT, not by a whole lot.

Ghastley and I are from about the same time period, programming-wise. I started on a mini at our college, over thirty years ago.

So anyway, What brought on the "Adventure Construction Set" flashback Xaa?

I managed to get an IBM version of it going on my machine.

It's still fun, though now after some twenty years, it's apparent it's so limited I couldn't really tell the kind of stories I like to tell in it. =) I remember spending hours and hours of my evening time working on ACS on an old "Apple ][e." It was lots of fun making games and stories and graphics for it. The Apple was cutting edge for the time, really. Instead of 4 colors in the pallette, you had SIX! *stunned gasps from the audience*.

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