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Tobbin · 03-08-2001, 08:41 AM

God, this is all bringing back memories. First computer that I ever owned was the (TR)a(S)hy 80 Model I. It was upgraded from 4k of memory to 16k. I had this cool tape deck drive that took about a half an hour to load a 4k program. No disc drives and a 150baud modem. No k baud modem, just 150 baud. Well, I quickly outgrew this one and upgraded to a (TR)a(S)hy 80 Model IV. Oh, I was in heaven. I had a 20Meg harddrive on that one with 16k of memory and DUAL floppies. Both were 5 1/4". Gone were the half an hour load times (well, at first). It took between 5 and 10 minutes to load then. The display was monochrome, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. I could even go up to 320 x 200 resolution. Could go up to 80 characters x 24 characters on the display. Man, was that awesome or what. I could bank switch to get up to 640x480 in resolution, but it took an engineering degree to program for it (it used 2 separate areas in memory for the graphics). Oh yeah, those were the days. First game I ever played on there was frogger. First roleplaying game was Bard's Tale. First sci-fi game was StarFlight (I just got a 'cracked' copy of this, cause I thought it was such a cool game.) Actually, the game starflight is where I had the idea about the foreign thread. You see, they had alien races that spoke different languages. You have this comm officer, right? Well, she starts off not knowing anything. As you progress in the game, you can "buy" them skills. Skills start off at 50 (I think) and go up to 250. Well, when you talk to aliens and your skill is really low, the computer shows gibberish. As you get higher skills, this gibberish is translated to something you can understand. When you hit 250, you can always make it out. S'kind of how I feel the foreign thread could work if given time. At first, we are all 50's, but as we talk back and forth, we can raise that up to 250.

Anyways, it was a really cool game. My first REAL game though was Leisure Suit Larry. Anyone remember that game? ANYONE? LOL. I busted a gut on that one. I'll hold off more for later.

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Death Waits 4 U ALL

[This message has been edited by Tobbin (edited 03-08-2001).]

03-08-2001, 08:41 AM	#27
Tobbin Red Dragon Join Date: March 1, 2001 Location: Holiday, FL Age: 58 Posts: 1,507	God, this is all bringing back memories. First computer that I ever owned was the (TR)a(S)hy 80 Model I. It was upgraded from 4k of memory to 16k. I had this cool tape deck drive that took about a half an hour to load a 4k program. No disc drives and a 150baud modem. No k baud modem, just 150 baud. Well, I quickly outgrew this one and upgraded to a (TR)a(S)hy 80 Model IV. Oh, I was in heaven. I had a 20Meg harddrive on that one with 16k of memory and DUAL floppies. Both were 5 1/4". Gone were the half an hour load times (well, at first). It took between 5 and 10 minutes to load then. The display was monochrome, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. I could even go up to 320 x 200 resolution. Could go up to 80 characters x 24 characters on the display. Man, was that awesome or what. I could bank switch to get up to 640x480 in resolution, but it took an engineering degree to program for it (it used 2 separate areas in memory for the graphics). Oh yeah, those were the days. First game I ever played on there was frogger. First roleplaying game was Bard's Tale. First sci-fi game was StarFlight (I just got a 'cracked' copy of this, cause I thought it was such a cool game.) Actually, the game starflight is where I had the idea about the foreign thread. You see, they had alien races that spoke different languages. You have this comm officer, right? Well, she starts off not knowing anything. As you progress in the game, you can "buy" them skills. Skills start off at 50 (I think) and go up to 250. Well, when you talk to aliens and your skill is really low, the computer shows gibberish. As you get higher skills, this gibberish is translated to something you can understand. When you hit 250, you can always make it out. S'kind of how I feel the foreign thread could work if given time. At first, we are all 50's, but as we talk back and forth, we can raise that up to 250. Anyways, it was a really cool game. My first REAL game though was Leisure Suit Larry. Anyone remember that game? ANYONE? LOL. I busted a gut on that one. I'll hold off more for later. ------------------ Death Waits 4 U ALL [This message has been edited by Tobbin (edited 03-08-2001).]