32 bits of goodness... and chewy memory management, meant you could swap programs in and out of memory with the right program. The Intel 386, originally released as the 80386 and later renamed i386, was the first x86 32-bit microprocessor designed by Intel. https://dayintechhistory.com/dith/october-17-1985-intel-80386dx-processor/ it was one of the most agreeable computers I ever used. used to run a database program, a word processor, and a spell checker, simultaneously (though single tasking) and could hot swap between them with a couple keystrokes, also had a buffer so I could cut and paste data between them. was very handy and all character based, so no mouse needed, just some hotkeys so you could keep your hands on the keyboard and your eyes on the screen. Very productive, everything since has been downhill, and just things to get in the way of doing anything but being interrupted or distracted. It seems computers are designed to distract us these days. I've been working on getting a Wordstar system working so I can go back to writing stories and novels. Need to work out the print to pdf options for DOS..
Wow LOL, that's crazy no need for the repeat button lol. This takes me back to winding tapes on my VHS days, nothing pissed you off more than getting a fold in film and having to wind the shit out. Then you had to rewind the damn thing by hand. Most of the time you tried to fix it you damaged it even more lol, eventually the tape was fucked.
Love the genre.. Big fan of Ron Gilbert and Tim Schaefer games.. Monkey Island was my fave p&c series. I surprisingly never played Maniac Mansion, but played Day of the Tentacle, its "sequel" and that was really well done and hilarious.
My first "graphical" game was Tic-Tac-Toe on an IBM /370 M168 Mainframe via Terminal ~1979 80x16 graphics Closed shop. No Original foto, sorry. Looked sth like this: Last edited: Dec 27, 2024
not completly lost but never ended it too in the no google no nothing time i remember the ice cold showers over the back when the old prof busted me again ...
Man when we got our first PC in 92, I took full advantage of the free Prodigy trial it came with haha. Used that for awhile (joined an Ultima group on there Im still a part of today) until they started charging hourly and that's around the time I learned about local BBS'es and got sucked into running one of those.. I would've never finished King's Quest V and VI without one, those hint books were expensive!
I was like have I been here yet? just like in Roger Rabbit lol I'd always go to places I've already been
That's how you learned all the fatalities in Mortal Kombat games lol EGM and Gamepro and they had some cheat magazines too
You are right! the best Cheat book I had was for the game Killer instinct and you could make the character Orchid show her boobs lol
