I'm pretty sure that my father got us an Atari Pong, when I was a young kid. But, I remember almost nothing about it.
The first "video game" that I remember is Star Trek (https://github.com/RayKV423/Star-Trek-for-HP-2000 (https://github.com/RayKV423/Star-Trek-for-HP-2000))
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While my school did have one "glass teletype", most of the time, I played this on an old ASR-33 Teletype.
Spend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
I remember when good games came on a floppy disk. Really good games required two disks. These days, you're downloading 20+ GB of data per game (the games I play, anyway).
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
Well, actually that game was already loaded onto our school's computer. I never really thought about where it came from, but later on found that it was included in the Hewlett-Packard standard library for Time-Share BASIC (TSB.)
Quote from: Chris Savage on Dec 20, 2024, 11:58 AMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
I remember when good games came on a floppy disk. Really good games required two disks. These days, you're downloading 20+ GB of data per game (the games I play, anyway).
I got some like 120Gb...
Quote from: granz on Dec 20, 2024, 01:12 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
Well, actually that game was already loaded onto our school's computer. I never really thought about where it came from, but later on found that it was included in the Hewlett-Packard standard library for Time-Share BASIC (TSB.)
TIME SAVER!! lol
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
I once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
Ouch! That smarts - I don't remember you doing that. Apparently it was traumatic enough that you remember it.
The School of Hard Knocks has very high tuition, but very high success in graduates. ;D
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
I once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
Ouch... Imagine trying to type code in for something like Fallout 76... lol that'd be one SERIOUS rage quit!
My first was playing a text based game on Penn States server in one of the computer labs. My senior year I got access to the Electrical Engineering Computer Lab and was able to play Flight Simulator (Vector based) using a floppy drive and dos 3.3 in the other drive on a IBM PC with two disk drives and a CGA monitor. The lab did have a computer with one of the new EGA monitors released only to universities and a 5 MB hard drive. That was for for grad students use only. ...Those were the days.
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
Quote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 16, 2026, 03:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Dec 20, 2024, 11:36 AMSpend an hr typing, just to play a game. lol Thank God we DON'T do that anymore..... Would be there for a month and a half... lol
I once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
Ouch... Imagine trying to type code in for something like Fallout 76... lol that'd be one SERIOUS rage quit!
The games are hard enough already lol.
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 17, 2026, 10:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
I've only ever played Bedrock but after looking into for a while the next I play I'm probably play Java. I love Redstone and I keep seeing that Java is far better and will solve a lot of my headaches.
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 18, 2026, 07:59 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 17, 2026, 10:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
I've only ever played Bedrock but after looking into for a while the next I play I'm probably play Java. I love Redstone and I keep seeing that Java is far better and will solve a lot of my headaches.
I wanna learn redstone. I'm playing on a world on Java server right now making a theme park, one redstone ride made so far.
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 18, 2026, 11:20 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 18, 2026, 07:59 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 17, 2026, 10:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
I've only ever played Bedrock but after looking into for a while the next I play I'm probably play Java. I love Redstone and I keep seeing that Java is far better and will solve a lot of my headaches.
I wanna learn redstone. I'm playing on a world on Java server right now making a theme park, one redstone ride made so far.
I highly recommend Mumbo Jumbo on YouTube he is the Redstone guy for the Hermitcraft SMP server he has a lot of good Redstone tutorials. There's also Mattbatwings He do logical Redstone. He has tutorials for logical Redstone and he makes a lot of Minecraft computers.
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 19, 2026, 09:19 AMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 18, 2026, 11:20 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 18, 2026, 07:59 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 17, 2026, 10:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
I've only ever played Bedrock but after looking into for a while the next I play I'm probably play Java. I love Redstone and I keep seeing that Java is far better and will solve a lot of my headaches.
I wanna learn redstone. I'm playing on a world on Java server right now making a theme park, one redstone ride made so far.
I highly recommend Mumbo Jumbo on YouTube he is the Redstone guy for the Hermitcraft SMP server he has a lot of good Redstone tutorials. There's also Mattbatwings He do logical Redstone. He has tutorials for logical Redstone and he makes a lot of Minecraft computers.
I'll look up Mattbatwings. I've known of Mumbo for like 10-12 yrs now. I don't understand somestuff, like double piston extenders, I can make with a turorial, but designing from scratch, I can never get working.... I've even had issues with one a friend built on a long gone server, I copied 3 times, 4 sided base, and still had issues, not sure why, then again it was Bedrock and a world we're convinced Thanos visited with the Infinity Stones.... lol
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 20, 2026, 11:49 AMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 19, 2026, 09:19 AMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 18, 2026, 11:20 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 18, 2026, 07:59 PMQuote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 17, 2026, 10:38 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 16, 2026, 06:36 PMQuote from: Chris Savage on Jun 16, 2026, 05:00 PMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 10, 2026, 06:54 PMI once took a printed copy of Hammurabi I believe it was and hand typed it into GW Basic and it took me several hours to type it and after playing it a few times I went to load it and accidentally typed save instead of load and overwrote the code, I was very sad.
What games do you play these days? I'm pretty much playing World of Warcraft, exclusively these days.
It's been a while since I played any game's (talking months so super long). I've been playing a lot of Minecraft the last few years but I play a lot of other games too. I really love Halo the Bungie ones, I'm not a fan of 343 they suck at story lines. Legends of Zelda really sucks me in I per-ordered TOTK that's the only game I've ever done that. Those are my three favorites but I also like The Sims, Timber Born, Surviving Mars, Subnautica, Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Old School RuneScape, Luigi's Mansion, Jedi Fallen Order, Assassin's Creed, and a lot more.
I love Zelda! Do you play Java or Bedrock edition??
I've only ever played Bedrock but after looking into for a while the next I play I'm probably play Java. I love Redstone and I keep seeing that Java is far better and will solve a lot of my headaches.
I wanna learn redstone. I'm playing on a world on Java server right now making a theme park, one redstone ride made so far.
I highly recommend Mumbo Jumbo on YouTube he is the Redstone guy for the Hermitcraft SMP server he has a lot of good Redstone tutorials. There's also Mattbatwings He do logical Redstone. He has tutorials for logical Redstone and he makes a lot of Minecraft computers.
I'll look up Mattbatwings. I've known of Mumbo for like 10-12 yrs now. I don't understand somestuff, like double piston extenders, I can make with a turorial, but designing from scratch, I can never get working.... I've even had issues with one a friend built on a long gone server, I copied 3 times, 4 sided base, and still had issues, not sure why, then again it was Bedrock and a world we're convinced Thanos visited with the Infinity Stones.... lol
Yeah, that's the main reason I want to get Java. There's so much you can't do in Bedrock (or as I've heard it so affectionately called Bugrock lol) I've tried double piston extenders in Bugrock and I could never get it working among many other things. Mumbo pretty much only plays on Java.
Quote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 20, 2026, 12:28 PMYeah, that's the main reason I want to get Java. There's so much you can't do in Bedrock (or as I've heard it so affectionately called Bugrock lol) I've tried double piston extenders in Bugrock and I could never get it working among many other things. Mumbo pretty much only plays on Java.
Of course there's things on Bedrock that only is done there.... Such as bonemealing small flowers to get more flowers of the same kind...
Quote from: JKnightandKARR on Jun 21, 2026, 11:28 AMQuote from: Steelcitygamer8 on Jun 20, 2026, 12:28 PMYeah, that's the main reason I want to get Java. There's so much you can't do in Bedrock (or as I've heard it so affectionately called Bugrock lol) I've tried double piston extenders in Bugrock and I could never get it working among many other things. Mumbo pretty much only plays on Java.
Of course there's things on Bedrock that only is done there.... Such as bonemealing small flowers to get more flowers of the same kind...
Yeah, That's pretty annoying.