That help?
Deadlord39 wrote:I still have my TRS80, along with the cassettes it uses. I guess technically I've been dealing with computers for 30 years or so.
AdderMcOne wrote:My fondest computer memory was of a Commodore 16 and a little game called Jack Attack where you pushed and pulled boxes, squashing bouncing balls (all in 2D of course)
MShipley88 wrote:That computer did not have a screen. Instead, it printed out responses on a huge printer.
zhowar wrote:Had some fun playing one of the Apshai games (either Temple or Gateway) on a C64 (a friend's). Very D&D with primitive yet effective graphics and music. Multi-level dungeon with mobile critters like "Fungus", "Rabid Rat", "Mamba Snake" as well as "Vampire" etc.
Blackmoor wrote:I remember when this thread was focusing on the nine tourney mods up on Ebay!Ahh, those were the days
le Rahib wrote:zhowar wrote:Had some fun playing one of the Apshai games (either Temple or Gateway) on a C64 (a friend's). Very D&D with primitive yet effective graphics and music. Multi-level dungeon with mobile critters like "Fungus", "Rabid Rat", "Mamba Snake" as well as "Vampire" etc.Yes, Temple of Apshai , but on Apple II. I don't remember there was music. And I can't remember if I already knew what was a RPG or anything about D&D...
killjoy32 wrote:Blackmoor wrote:I remember when this thread was focusing on the nine tourney mods up on Ebay!Ahh, those were the days youre quite right jeff....SO....are they authentic or not?Al
Blackmoor wrote:Frank says they are, let the bidding war begin!!
MShipley88 wrote:Dude, how old are you?
MShipley88 wrote:The home computer market was taking off in the 80's, but computers were in their infancy. It is hard for guys who remember the end of the 80's to even start to comprehend how primitive things were at the start of the 80's.
MShipley88 wrote:Dear God...late into the 80's most schools were teaching "computer" by trying to get kids to type on the Apple II! There was no such thing as a "hard drive" until deep into the 80's
MShipley88 wrote:Almost no one in the private market was on any such thing as an "internet" until well into the 1990's.
MShipley88 wrote:You really have no idea how crappy these things were. You also have to realize how recently most computer technology developed. The computers of today are positively telepathic compared to the computers that TSR started with. There is just no comparison between 1980 and 1990. The gap is even larger when you compare 1990 to 2000! My God!