Well, I got my first PC in '88 (still have the receipt!), so it couldn't have been much later. Maybe '90? I remember getting a Microsoft Mouse for Word 4.0 (again, DOS) and with it came a copy of Windows 2.0, which ran on top of DOS, and not well . Then came the shareware games, which led to the first Wolfenstein, Doom, etc. You could see how games were driving hardware in ways that nothing else we used computers for did. Seems primitive now; BBS's instead of internet, massive CRTs, driving up to Sunnyvale/Santa Clara for parts. I can still remember the day I went up to buy a Pentium 100 MHz and mobo for it. Now, I thought, this is the future.You sure it was 1989?
I was mainly commenting on the date that you said - Colony came out. I thought it was a few years later...oh well, my bad!Well, I got my first PC in '88 (still have the receipt!), so it couldn't have been much later. Maybe '90? I remember getting a Microsoft Mouse for Word 4.0 (again, DOS) and with it came a copy of Windows 2.0, which ran on top of DOS, and not well . Then came the shareware games, which led to the first Wolfenstein, Doom, etc. You could see how games were driving hardware in ways that nothing else we used computers for did. Seems primitive now; BBS's instead of internet, massive CRTs, driving up to Sunnyvale/Santa Clara for parts.
Shouldn't be too long before folks are posting about their colonoscopies and prostate exams.This thread is proving that we are getting old.
Shouldn't be too long before folks are posting about their colonoscopies and prostate exams.
Those are provided for free in Olds basement as part of the ATOT senior health plan.
It's a trap!Those are provided for free in Olds basement as part of the ATOT senior health plan.
Apple?
Microsoft? Early 1990's, Links386, Aces Over Europe, Doom
Linux?
Unix?
Commodore?
Other? 1981-83 Mattel Intellivision Baseball... addicted to that game. Worked at Jordan Marsh in RI at that time. We'd play the game as it was sold in the Appliances/TV dept.
Oh, if you need a refresher of what was going on since 1980:
I worked for IBM in the early 1970's, but the Office Products Div, not computers. (Selectric typewrites and copiers) in New Haven, CT. I have two classic IBM keyboards from early 80's.IBM XT in the early/mid 80s. Started with a few games from Spectrum Holobyte like PT-109, GATO, Falcon and others.
My first computer game was on a military mainframe in the late 70's. You were a sub, and estimated an angle to shoot a torpedo to hit a ship, and a dot matrix printer printed the shot. I next saw a computer game when Zork was first released on mainframes, but didn't get to play it then, but later got to know the co-author who also played Everquest (he went by "Vizco"). Another early game was Rogue, played on a DEC.
I have two practically brand new IBM KB's from that era... my buddies are so jealous. (I worked for IBM in early '70's in New Haven, but for the 'Office Products' division, not 'DP' as they called it then)Well i do remember playing ping pong on my dad's og IBM PC (8088) at his office.
I still think they made the best keyboards ever, and nothing still comes close to it 40yrs later.
But i think the first real PC gaming i played was probably on a Commodore.
I have two practically brand new IBM KB's from that era... my buddies are so jealous. (I worked for IBM in early '70's in New Haven, but for the 'Office Products' division, not 'DP' as they called it then)
its ironic, because we lost that style keyboard due to cost, and people saying they were too loud.
Yet fast forward, and all the best keyboards now are mechanical, yet they still can't make one on par with how IBM made them.
I even bought a massdrop one, and its still not up to the mechanical keyboard the IBM had.
Anyone that says today's keyboards are better then IBM's has never used an IBM.
Something about how good they feel when you press a key, and the hypnotic clicky sound it made... i remember falling asleep to it on the couch as my dad would be typing on it.