colossal cave / Adventure

[n5gooner]

does anyone remember this game, I played it on CPM, DOS and Windows O/S. But who has compleated it?????

[zeitghost]

I think the DOS version I played had been written in FORTRAN.

At least it had reams of FORTRAN libraries in it when you read it with a hex editor...

[n5gooner]

I think the DOS version I played had been written in FORTRAN.

At least it had reams of FORTRAN libraries in it when you read it with a hex editor...

so you also tried to cheat, I did the same with Kings Quest 1

[n5gooner]

Never did me any good.

I don't play many games & that one palled quite quickly.

Liked Qbert & the Snake though.

It was written in IBM compiled basic with delay loops... great on an XT, just about playable on a 6MHz AT, and totally unplayable on anything later.

Run it on a machine today & everything happens so fast that you simply can't react.

Great fun.

6Mhz AT was the the IBM AT, did you ever replace the crystal with a 8 or 9 Mhz one to get it running faster, if you were lucky it would work.....them were the days....

[The Late, Great JC]

6Mhz AT was the the IBM AT, did you ever replace the crystal with a 8 or 9 Mhz one to get it running faster, if you were lucky it would work.....them were the days....

The joys of a 286...

Anyway, amongst the Scott Adams adventures I preferred "The Count"

[n5gooner]

Yup. The IBM AT with piggy back ram chips... a real bitch to find the dead one.

I think it had a whole megabyte of ram.

(Piggy back: there were two DIL ram chips soldered together and put into each DIL ram socket on the motherboard.

This was long long long before SILs, SIMMs, DIMMS etc.).

do you also use the expansion card, the 8 bit one, you could get some rather nifty software which told you which legs were not correctly seated, this thing took about 50x8 leg chips, and was a real bitch to populate.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Those were the days.... wipes tear from rheumy old eye... careful not to drop tear into keyboard or it'll be typing by itself for the rest of the day.

Aye ZG


But I do find nostalgia just aint what it used to be...

[Joe Bloggs]

With computing though nostalgia is indeed a strange beast, simply because how quickly the present, and future, becomes the past.

Sometimes its quite interesting how many things there are, in such a short period, that people are nostalgic about...

PS: Has anyone got a tissue...

[messiah]

I remember "Twin kingdom Valley" on the Commodore 64 / Acorn Electron back in the 80s .. wasn't this a spin off or copy of Collosus Caves.

Ah waving that big rod trying to get the bridge up accross the valley brings good memories.

So does 'The Hobbit' adventure game ... jump on Gandalf's back (ooer missus) to get out of the cellar that the goblins put you in.

Also there were other adventure games like Kentilla and one on the C64 called The Count were you had to assasinate Dracula pure class.

I used to work with the guys who did the Magnetic Scrolls games (and knew the founder) remember The Pawn and Guld of Theives on the Atari ST ?


yeah those were the days ...

[Lucifer Box]

It's probably about time to highlight this piece of retro gaming nostalgia again...

Hey Hey 16k

Work safe but turn your sound down if in an open plan office.