@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.
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.
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
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…
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.
'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!
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.
A HOLLOW VOICE SAYS CRETIN
Zork was included in a call of duty game a few years back