Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Charles Anthony
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote: > Hm. I played “air traffic controller” on Mac Plus for a while. Was there > an earlier screen-terminal version of that? Would be a completetly > different game without the mouse, but …? > There should be a UNIX curses

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Tapley, Mark
Hm. I played “air traffic controller” on Mac Plus for a while. Was there an earlier screen-terminal version of that? Would be a completetly different game without the mouse, but …? - Mark 210-522-6025 office

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:57:13PM -0500, Adrian Stoness wrote: > > Oils well Oil's Well is great on the C64. /P

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:37:33PM -0700, Zane Healy wrote: > > PDP-11: > Pac-Man (cool to see on a VT) > Where could I get a hold of this? /P

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2016-10-12 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 08:23:35AM -0500, Geoffrey Oltmans wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Adam Sampson wrote: > > > > > On the Amiga, our favourites included: Lemmings (two mice), Stunt Car > > Racer (serial link), Gravity Power, Blob Kombat, Space Taxi, XTreme > >

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > This discussion is stirring up so many old memories. > > I distinctively recall, back at the time that this was relevant, that the > (DOS) network game play was disrupting/saturating networks, because, if I > recall the article

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Jerry Kemp
supporting links, but not the original article from back in the day.

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread geneb
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote: This discussion is stirring up so many old memories. I distinctively recall, back at the time that this was relevant, that the (DOS) network game play was disrupting/saturating networks, because, if I recall the article correctly, the game was

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Jerry Kemp
This discussion is stirring up so many old memories. I distinctively recall, back at the time that this was relevant, that the (DOS) network game play was disrupting/saturating networks, because, if I recall the article correctly, the game was communicating with other nodes using broadcast

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > > > > As far as Doom, not long after I became a Sun employee in Mountain View > > in '94-95, we played Doom Arena, a networked, multiplayer version of Doom. > > > > I think you might be conflating 2 games here. > > Doom was *always* multiplayer and network aware. Doom 1.0 for DOS used > IPX

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread emanuel stiebler
On 2016-10-12 09:21, Eric Smith wrote: DEC PDP-10: MACRO-10 CP/M: Turbo Pascal (These are significantly more challenging than most of the other games that have been mentioned, but with more subjective scoring.) Good one ;-)

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-12 Thread Eric Smith
DEC PDP-10: MACRO-10 CP/M: Turbo Pascal (These are significantly more challenging than most of the other games that have been mentioned, but with more subjective scoring.)

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2016-10-12 Thread Jerry Kemp
For anyone interested in exploring some of this stuff further, I (first) found lots of dead links, but came up with this one with binaries for Sun, SGI and the original NeXT format. I still have a SparcStation 10 + a Leo/ZX frame buffer that I spent a lot

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Zane Healy
> On Oct 10, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Peter Corlett wrote: >> Find better games :) >> >> The theme of this list means that I should recommend some retro games and >> gaming systems... > > I am actively

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread ethan
It's not bad. I have it on an Indy, which is where I played it originally (wasting time at the Salk Institute as an undergrad -- we used the SGIs for visualization of X-ray crystallography). There is also a decent SGI port of Quake. When I worked at NASA they had a copy of Cave Quake. It could

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new > discoveries, I did not even know this port existed. It's not bad. I have it on an Indy, which is where I played it originally (wasting time at the Salk Institute as an undergrad -- we used the SGIs for visualization of

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread alex d
- Original Message - > From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.di...@gmail.com> > Subject: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]) [... snip ...] >and curses-based UNIX games, and would like to add more platforms. I'm > especially interested in an

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2016-10-11 Thread Adam Sampson
Liam Proven writes: >> As far as Doom, not long after I became a Sun employee in Mountain >> View in '94-95, we played Doom Arena, a networked, multiplayer >> version of Doom. > I think you might be conflating 2 games here. Nope: http://www.sirbooga.com/doomarena.html --

RE: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Dave Wade
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Liam > Proven > Sent: 11 October 2016 19:04 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Tw

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 October 2016 at 19:41, Alan Perry wrote: > > As far as Doom, not long after I became a Sun employee in Mountain View in > '94-95, we played Doom Arena, a networked, multiplayer version of Doom. I think you might be conflating 2 games here. Doom was *always*

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Alan Perry
> On Oct 11, 2016, at 09:24, Josh Dersch wrote: > >> On 10/11/16 9:06 AM, Charles Anthony wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, william degnan >> wrote: >> DOS PC: Doom >>> Last comment from me... >>> >>> I played SGI

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread ethan
As I understand it, the SGIs were the development platform for DOOM, and the PC version is the 'port'. -- Charles SGI was a development platform for Nintendo 64 console games. http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/my-complete-sgi-ultra64-dev-set-manual-scans-dev-software.45165/ -- Ethan

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Glen Slick
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, william degnan wrote: > Last comment from me... > > I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new > discoveries, I did not even know this port existed. > You can also play Doom on an HP / Agilent 16700 series

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Josh Dersch
On 10/11/16 9:06 AM, Charles Anthony wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, william degnan wrote: DOS PC: Doom Last comment from me... I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new discoveries, I did not even know this port existed.

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Charles Anthony
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 8:44 AM, william degnan wrote: > > > > > > DOS PC: Doom > > > > > Last comment from me... > > I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new > discoveries, I did not even know this port existed. > As I understand it, the

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread william degnan
> > > DOS PC: Doom > > Last comment from me... I played SGI Doom the other day for the first time. There are always new discoveries, I did not even know this port existed. There is always vintage console gaming at (what was once MARCH but is now) the VCFed club's holiday party each December.

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 10 October 2016 at 22:56, Ethan Dicks wrote: > I am actively seeking lists of favorite games on all platforms prior > to 1995. Classic 9" mono Mac: Crystal Quest CBM PET: The Valley BBC Micro: Elite ZX Spectrum: Jet-Pac, The Hobbit, the Strangler's Aural Quest Acorn

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2016-10-11 Thread Geoffrey Oltmans
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Adam Sampson wrote: > > On the Amiga, our favourites included: Lemmings (two mice), Stunt Car > Racer (serial link), Gravity Power, Blob Kombat, Space Taxi, XTreme > Racing, and Super Skidmarks (all two joysticks). On Unix machines, hunt >

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2016-10-11 Thread Adam Sampson
Ethan Dicks writes: > I am actively seeking lists of favorite games on all platforms prior > to 1995. If it's for a meetup, then I'm guessing some multiplayer games would go down well... On the Amiga, our favourites included: Lemmings (two mice), Stunt Car Racer (serial

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-11 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 04:56:40PM -0400, Ethan Dicks wrote: > hackerspace. I'm already bringing the hardware - to date, Commodore > PET, Commodore 64, Apple II, Atari 2600, PDP-8 (emulated for now), and > curses-based UNIX games, and would like to add more platforms. I'm certain you will be

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread william degnan
On Oct 10, 2016 7:43 PM, "Jason Howe" wrote: > > > > On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: > >> >> I am actively seeking lists of favorite games on all platforms I recently got a Pocket c.h.i.p and installed MAMe, VICE, etc onto it so I'd have just about any game I ever

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Jason Howe
On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Ethan Dicks wrote: I am actively seeking lists of favorite games on all platforms prior to 1995. ... If you've played anything in the past 3 years, I'd especially like to hear about it since that speaks to enjoyment and replayability. If you like it, someone here will

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Tapley, Mark
“Starfleet Orion” and “invasion Orion”. Hot-seat 2-player and solitaire, respectively, written for the TRS-80 in basic so should adapt to other “dumb” terminal displays reasonably easily. 2-d movement, enter orders then stand back to see how the turn plays out. You get to design your own

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Al Kossow
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743371 I was just wondering where that went. On 10/10/16 3:46 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:34 PM, dwight wrote: >> Surely someone can come up with a VideoBrain. > > I have heard of the VideoBrain,

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread Ethan Dicks
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:34 PM, dwight wrote: > Surely someone can come up with a VideoBrain. I have heard of the VideoBrain, but I have never seen one in person. Excellent suggestion should one turn up, though I doubt it would trigger much nostalgia in most attendees -

Re: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!])

2016-10-10 Thread dwight
ject: Gaming on old systems (was Re: Twiggys [was: Re: ka... ching!]) On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote: > Find better games :) > > The theme of this list means that I should recommend some retro games and > gaming systems... I am actively s