@f00l@Seeds My second monitor on my Apple ][plus was an Amdek 300A (amber) screen. Just different phosphors that produce different colors.
It was actually a minor downgrade; it could display the output of my 80 column text card (Videx Ultraterm) but the previous display was a GE color TV; only did the 40 columns but the games were all colorful until it died. Color monitors that supported 80 column displays were expensive back then!
@duodec@f00l I used all of the above except the TI-994A - my dad only recently parted with his Osborne II that had been gathering dust for over 30 years in his basement.
@duodec@f00l I just remember playing reader rabbit on an orange and black screen and loving it. It may or may not have been on a IBM personal computer AT (with a stack of utility disks) that I just found. I don’t think it’s really worth anything, but I hate to throw it away.
@duodec@f00l first computer i ever used was a timex sinclair that my mother gave my dad in 1980. My dad still had it and recently gave it to my husband. I learned to write games on a trs80 and a commodore 64 in 7th grade in the 80s. Oh my that was a long time ago.
@f00l@ivannabc I saved up for a year to buy my Apple ][+ with 48k (kilobytes) of RAM. It took another year before I could afford a floppy drive for it. I did a lot of programming on it but really used it more for gaming and remote access to the university systems. Before that I used to bum time on two friends’ computers, a Northstar S100 CP/M system and a CompuColor 2. The latter was a truly cool machine in its day.
I haven’t booted the Apple ][ in years (the later //GS still runs, I bring it up once a month to check). I don’t know if the floppies will still read or the diskette drive still work. I really should try it at some point.
The first such game that I played (ca. 1979) was called “Adventure”. Several of us at work played it, ahem during break time, and we developed a map of the terrain. I figured out how to hack my character to give him crazy strength and endurance, so I could pretty much go forever without dying and starting over. But then it got boring, so I quit. I really never got into any computer games after that.
I still have some of my New Zork Times issues from back then. They had to change their name because some disreputable rag in NYC threatened to sue them.
http://textadventures.co.uk/games/play/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_vq
https://classicreload.com/the-lost-treasures-of-infocom-volume-i.html
@thismyusername you are a living saint
Hooray, whoever wrote this poll remembered the Hitchhikers text adventure!
@lljk Tea and no tea.
@lljk “why am I putting a fish in my ear?! This game makes no sense…”
@lljk Yes, but not Leather Goddesses of Phobos. So will just have to settle for a thing your aunt gave you that you don’t know what it is.
Is that supposed to say
“No, I’m not old enough for that”?
/inventory
Uh-oh.
@f00l It is a monochrome screen using green phosphors and displays only 40 characters of text on a line.
@duodec
/image Osborne 1
/image TRS-80
I remember my first multi-color monitor well. Sony Trinitron, and was the coolest thing ever, or so I thought.
@duodec @f00l mine was a…
/image kaypro 4
@duodec @f00l @UncleVinny
I started with a
/image TI-994A
…and soon after an
/image IBM PCjr
@duodec @f00l What were the screens with just orange made with?
@f00l @Seeds My second monitor on my Apple ][plus was an Amdek 300A (amber) screen. Just different phosphors that produce different colors.
It was actually a minor downgrade; it could display the output of my 80 column text card (Videx Ultraterm) but the previous display was a GE color TV; only did the 40 columns but the games were all colorful until it died. Color monitors that supported 80 column displays were expensive back then!
@duodec @f00l I used all of the above except the TI-994A - my dad only recently parted with his Osborne II that had been gathering dust for over 30 years in his basement.
@duodec @f00l I just remember playing reader rabbit on an orange and black screen and loving it. It may or may not have been on a IBM personal computer AT (with a stack of utility disks) that I just found. I don’t think it’s really worth anything, but I hate to throw it away.
@duodec @f00l first computer i ever used was a timex sinclair that my mother gave my dad in 1980. My dad still had it and recently gave it to my husband. I learned to write games on a trs80 and a commodore 64 in 7th grade in the 80s. Oh my that was a long time ago.
@f00l @ivannabc I saved up for a year to buy my Apple ][+ with 48k (kilobytes) of RAM. It took another year before I could afford a floppy drive for it. I did a lot of programming on it but really used it more for gaming and remote access to the university systems. Before that I used to bum time on two friends’ computers, a Northstar S100 CP/M system and a CompuColor 2. The latter was a truly cool machine in its day.
I haven’t booted the Apple ][ in years (the later //GS still runs, I bring it up once a month to check). I don’t know if the floppies will still read or the diskette drive still work. I really should try it at some point.
Who are these kids who never heard of Zork?
@TheFLP I bet they are (shhhhh) millenials…
'Course ya do.
@awilkey No! Pour it in the plant!
The first such game that I played (ca. 1979) was called “Adventure”. Several of us at work played it, ahem during break time, and we developed a map of the terrain. I figured out how to hack my character to give him crazy strength and endurance, so I could pretty much go forever without dying and starting over. But then it got boring, so I quit. I really never got into any computer games after that.
@macromeh you are in a set of twisty passages, all the same!
Anybody who doesn’t know Zork should be eaten alive by a Grue.
@PocketBrain TBH, getting eaten by a grue kind of sucks, even if you’ve already died.
A HOLLOW VOICE SAYS CRETIN
Zork was included in a call of duty game a few years back
I still have some of my New Zork Times issues from back then. They had to change their name because some disreputable rag in NYC threatened to sue them.