Well when I got on, the first 16 issues maybe 20 issues were on paul
henrichsons site now dead.
I downloaded them not because I knew what it was but because my
hacker friend told me to click it and read them.
I downloaded all issues and spent ages reading them.
I subscribed to the list at softcon and such.
Back then I still had dos so was able to play some of the old games.
I learned so much in the first few reads, things like infocom games
were right under my nose, when I was born, in 1982 infocom ruled gaming.
I had my first system in 1991 but never thought about gaming till I
got the net.
And I never thought about the net till my best friend and leader of
the hacker group I was with got it and started poking with code.
For a while up to 1998 in fact I was the only one with the net.
No one thought about that.
my dad and the rest of the family were skeptical about costs and
security, and my religious aunt and uncle are still suspicious but at
least they have it now.
I couldn't imagine a life with out the net now.
Yet, if I had never got friends when I did I wouldn't have even
thought about going online.
Back then school computers and such were for school and you were
trained with the basics.
I was always fiddling with the disk drive trying to get disks to read.
I still have a usb drive somewhere but all the disks are on my system.
from time to time I play interactive fiction and old dos games but as
everyone has gone 64 bit I don't play with dos much mainly because
I'd need a seperate machine to get it working or a desktop that could
run vms, my laptop can't manage it I have tried.
For ages I tried to get an old dos system but gave up eventually.
Windows is my life and for the most part its quite good for what it is.
I still think of the time before tablets and when you had to fiddle
and babysite the system daily.
Its not that bad.
At 10:27 a.m. 11/12/2014, you wrote:
I think that the first issue of Audyssey was on a 3.5-inch floppy
that, as you recall, weren't actually floppy. Along with the text
version of the magazine were a few games, and one of Jim's games was
on it. Offhand, I don't remember where I got the disk from, though,
and I think that the game may have been the winkit file from which you start.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A Brief Tribute; was: Pizza Delivery
Hi,
Yeah, I think I first discovered Jim's games around 96 or 97 as well.
Audyssey such as it was only had a couple of issues out, and I think
is how I discovered Jim's Dos games. In any case I have had countless
hours of fun playing Jim's games both for Dos and for Windows.
In fact, I have considered for along time of porting some of them to
Linux just so I'd be able to play them natively on Linux without
having to resort to Wine or similar means. I just haven't had the time
or the mental state of mind to take on such a project though.
Cheers!
On 12/10/14, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was earlier than that, I ran over jims stuff back when they came
out 1996 maybe 1997 was the first time I got a modem, I had it till
it broke and in 1998 I got another.
I stayed on dialup to 2001 when I got my first xp system and I was
playing his stuff before that though at that time that was some dos
games, and only a few self voicing titles.
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