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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: myndreach]
#4401968 - 07/13/05 11:38 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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InsatiableThirst said: I had a C64. I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them. Those were the days.
Yep, I think it was Computer Games Magazine that had games you could type out over like 4-8 hours One mistake and it was all ruined lol...
lol I had a few game books where it was just pages and pages of code. All I remember was that the one I used the most was a blue book. It had all the cool games. haha
There's another game that I can't remember the name of. It's a trivia game that you have to pay for now but back then it was free. You played with two players and you got a screw that you could use to make your opponent answer the question if you didn't know it. The name is on the tip of my tongue and it's going to drive me crazy all night. If and when it comes to me, I'll post it.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4402614 - 07/14/05 07:05 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Having to write down web addresses to remember them.
Being so happy when I remembered a web address and got the right end to it off the top of my head (for instance typing "www.yahoo.com")
AOL actually being a neat and relevant program.
Endless games of Command and Conquer
Compuserve... what a strange service I never really understood.
This is going to get some bad looks but downloading pictures and watching and waiting as the pictures slowly loaded. I swear I was only interested in nature pics.
Local Web Community Programs. For instance it'd be like AOL but just for your town.
For computer memories, we had a c64 too but I didn't get on the internet until we got one of the very first pentium computers ever made. On the C64, it didn't have a hard drive and had to use floppy disks and you had to type the name of the program in you wanted to play. We that computer so long that the floppy disks for it actually wore out long before we ever got a new computer. I can remember bowling, Fun House and some game with Chuck Yeager where you had to type in some information about plane as a password that was in the guidebook, but we lost the guidebook and could never play again. I must've spent hours sitting at the computer as a five year old with several books about airplanes trying to somehow get into the program. Crazy.
For a time my biggest fantasy in life was to be able to have a computer that could play Falcon 3.0
Hmm... those are the ones off the top of my head.
By the way, is the game you're thinking of "You Don't Know Jack?"
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
#4402634 - 07/14/05 07:23 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I used to play Legend of the red dragon.. Oh but wait.. I now play Legend of the green dragon.
Back then, porn was also available on BBS's. And the quality was sublime.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: StrandedVoyager]
#4402671 - 07/14/05 07:56 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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PhatWhitey420 said: By the way, is the game you're thinking of "You Don't Know Jack?"
YES! That was it! I love that game!
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Fliquid]
#4402676 - 07/14/05 08:03 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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For those of you wondering what we're talking about, all of the computer magazines of the day used to carry pages and pages of this:
Yes, we really typed this stuff in. I'm telling you, hex listings are the reason ADD/ADHD wasn't common in those days. If you could manage to enter 30 pages of hex listings, there is nothing you can't endure.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: nookjohn]
#4402689 - 07/14/05 08:09 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I used to play this all the time:
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4402700 - 07/14/05 08:15 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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hahaha hunt the wumpus.
i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: Krishna]
#4402724 - 07/14/05 08:25 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Krishna said: hahaha hunt the wumpus.
i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.
Well.. because someday someone will come up to you and says something like:
F00 CCF F33 333 300 666 600 999 900 CCC C00 FFF F00 CC9 933 CC6 633 330 000 660 000 990 000 CC0 000 FF0 000 FF3 366 FF0
And then the secret code that the evil teacher (who actually was a martian spy) implanted in your feeble brain will automatically make you build the deathray.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4402730 - 07/14/05 08:27 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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myndreach said:
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InsatiableThirst said: I had a C64. I had to type in these games out of the program book before I could play them. Those were the days.
Yep, I think it was Computer Games Magazine that had games you could type out over like 4-8 hours One mistake and it was all ruined lol...
lol I had a few game books where it was just pages and pages of code. All I remember was that the one I used the most was a blue book. It had all the cool games. haha
There's another game that I can't remember the name of. It's a trivia game that you have to pay for now but back then it was free. You played with two players and you got a screw that you could use to make your opponent answer the question if you didn't know it. The name is on the tip of my tongue and it's going to drive me crazy all night. If and when it comes to me, I'll post it.
My fav c64 game of all time was Seven Cities of Gold. They still haven't made a game as amazing as that one, on ANY system. I still fire it up on my emulator sometimes.
I remember the game UTOPIA, that we typed up out of the magazine. It was one of the last ones we ever did, back in the late 80s. That game was so awesome. Two players, each controlled an island and you planted different crops and spent money on fishing boats and battleships and tried to make your island better than the other guys. There were moving weather patterns that affected crops, etc.
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Krishna said: hahaha hunt the wumpus.
i had a computer science teacher in highschool who made us learn how to do hex/binary/otherweirdassnumbersystems algebra... i still have no freaking clue why.
Yeah, I have a shirt that says...
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There are only 10 types of people in the world; those that understand binary, and those that don't
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: myndreach]
#4402799 - 07/14/05 09:00 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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The Seven Cities of Gold!! How could I forget! That game was the shit. That was where you were like.. Christopher Columbus and you had to go seek out new land, right?
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4402874 - 07/14/05 09:26 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Yeah you were an explorer for Spain and traveled west to discover the new world and explore it. That game was so HUGE.
Nothing beat having the game create a new random "new world" for you so you didn't know where you were exploring.
It took like 45 minutes back in the day, now on my emulator it's instant lol!
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: myndreach]
#4402892 - 07/14/05 09:30 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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I really miss that game. I should see if it's available nowadays.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4402951 - 07/14/05 09:48 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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it is if you get the emulator and then get the game
good site for more info
http://www.c64.com/
i just played cities of gold a couple weeks ago
http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=100099
hell they even just came out with a c64 emulator for PDAs!
another great game was paradroid http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=1136
and agent USA http://www.c64.com/detail.php?gameid=64
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: myndreach]
#4403000 - 07/14/05 10:00 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Oh right on! Thank you! I think I've found a new addiction. I put it in my favourites.
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: InsatiableThirst]
#4403168 - 07/14/05 10:52 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Does anybody remember the Gorilla bannana throwing game that was one of the demos in Q Basic?
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Re: You know you're an Internet Oldtimer when... [Re: trendal]
#4403188 - 07/14/05 10:57 AM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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... i used telnet to chat with colleges from other universities.
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