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  • Tin Man
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    Tolimar There was only one true way to play Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord and that was on an Apple II.

    Long live the 6502!

    You are going to make me pull out my Apple and play Wizardry since War Supplies is AWOL.

    Life was good with a Blade Cuisinart!
    Last edited by Tin Man; 06-04-2022, 12:48 AM.

  • Tin Man
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    Tolimar Using the standard 8k DRAM meant installing 32 DIPs to upgrade a base 256kB to 512kB.



    Do not forget about the 20MB hard drives that were available at the time. Wait! Those were from the late 80s.

  • WarriorSeven
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    Ah yes ... Countless hours in the computer lab, pouring over printouts after waiting two hours for your low priority, peon level batch run to crush your ego with numerous WATFIV compiler errors (and that's Waterloo Fortran IV to all you young whippersnappers out there!).

    You learned in those days that the human body could live on nothing but caffeine and peanut butter crackers from the snack machine for 48 straight hours at a time with no sleep. Tables and tables of printouts strewn about the adjacent study room the size of a tennis court. On occasion, a student's head would cheat the exhaustion by using their run as a pillow, snores and drool bubbling from the corner of their mouth, all over their dot matrix printed masterpiece.

    Hygiene was not an issue in those times either ... you just knew you were among the human masses because you could smell everyone from a distance. Various odors permeating the room that numbed all senses other than those needed to focus on the task at hand: Find the fu#@ing error in your program so you could keypunch a card or two or three, send the pile through the reader, and cross your fingers while you wait again for yet ANOTHER batch run without errors. Your dorm bed, a shower, and a hot meal awaited you beyond this purgatory.

    And it was less important about correct results than one without compiler errors. It was a matter of priorities. Correcting a program for the right answer was reserved for another lost weekend.

    Ah yes ... a simpler time.

    Who said anything about easier?
    Last edited by WarriorSeven; 06-04-2022, 12:01 AM.

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  • Tolimar
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    HeHee… Let’s take the WayBack Machine forward a few more years: I remember putting more memory into that IBM dual floppy 5.25 inch drive computer. The chips came in this long plastic tube, and looked like little coffee tables, or tiny Legos with legs. My math may be off, but if you put in like 24 of those little coffee table chips, you boosted the memory to something like a whopping 512k! And those printouts you mentioned, I seem to remember stacks and stacks of them bound in those binders, green and blue, where you pulled out those thin, flexible metal rods, removed the top cover, added more printouts, and then put the cover back on and threaded those metal rods back through the holes at the top. And there were literally thousands of those binders in the Computer Center. What a time that was…

  • RockDoc
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    Originally posted by WarriorSeven View Post
    I lean forward in my chair and look intently out in space...

    And when a card needed replaced, all you had to do was to go over to a keypunch machine and just type up a new one. Yesser. Yesser.

    Another puff...I recline back in my chair to begin dozing off...

    Life was simpler then...
    I have a similar memory, but it also includes spending hours going through the printout to find where the error occurred that kept the program from running right, and then finding the appropriate card to replace. Simpler yes, easier ?? .

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  • Tolimar
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    I didn’t get into the gaming until c. 1990. I worked in a lab, so while experiments were cooking or between all the other stuff that has to get done in a research lab, we played Wizardry on PC. We all had our stacks of 3.5 inch “floppy” discs for all our saved games. We also got together with other labs to play real D&D, with the bazillion-sided dice, the little plastic monsters, and our little avatar figurines. Mine was a Wizard. It was one of those little metal ones. I painstakingly painted it with those enamel model paints that came in the tiny little bottles. He had a sky blue cloak and a long white beard. His name was, well, Tolimar. Sigh… Let’s see if WS is up…

  • Ozymandius
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    At our age, what else is there to do? I was just sharing my experience targeting photon torpedo attacks on Klingon warships on the old Star Trek mainframe program using a protractor with Tin Man. Those were the days! I would walk into the computer lab on a sunny afternoon, and walk out into the darkness wondering, "how long was I playing?"

  • Tolimar
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    Thanks, Travis. Will check it out. WS today?

  • Travis | Support Mgr.
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    You can find a lot of it at https://opengameart.org/.

  • Tolimar
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    OK, I didn’t want to show too much of my age, but when I took Computer Science in college, we did our homework on punchcards, which we then delivered to the football field size computer room (alright, a little exaggeration, but not much). Hehee…

    WarriorSeven, still chuckling over your post, what’s a couple o’ old geezers like us doing playing computer games anyway!? LOL.
    Last edited by Tolimar; 06-03-2022, 01:55 PM.

  • WarriorSeven
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    I recline back in my creaky rocking chair as I light up my corncob pipe, inhale, and blow out a few rings ...

    You know, back in the day, before there were any of these newfangled magnetic media thingamabobs, we used to have to load an entire operating system on the university's mainframe with punched cards! Yesser. Thousands of them cards, mind you. Thousands.

    Another puff of smoke leaves my lips as I continue to reminisce...

    As long as the card reader was clean and free of chads, you'd get a good load. Yessiree! Cardboard media was where it was at.

    I lean forward in my chair and look intently out in space...

    And when a card needed replaced, all you had to do was to go over to a keypunch machine and just type up a new one. Yesser. Yesser.

    Another puff...I recline back in my chair to begin dozing off...

    Life was simpler then...

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  • Tolimar
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    I would buy digital downloads of the Eternium background music, is it available?

    Please, no CDs or DVDs; does anything come with disc drives anymore!? LOL, I used to use a computer that had dual 5.25 inch floppy disc drives, no hard drive.
    Last edited by Tolimar; 06-03-2022, 10:39 AM.

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  • Tin Man
    started a topic Eternium Music - Latest Spotting

    Eternium Music - Latest Spotting

    At 42:46 into Nova S45E04 -- Great Escape at Dunkirk, the beat that is drilled into my head appeared in the episode.

    You never know when Eternium will strike.

    I will save Travis the time of having to write the disclaimer. Eternium uses royalty-free music that is available to anyone that wishes to use it. This is not the first time that I have unexpectedly encountered the music.
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