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mary34d · 06-27-2004, 12:26 AM

OMG i was like 15 then and oregon trail was in. how do you tell people that they are soooo "analog" and they're not even playing video games on 95.

Ar3s · 06-27-2004, 01:31 AM

WiredGuy · 06-27-2004, 01:40 AM

I still have a windows 95 machine at the office that runs search engine scripts 24/7. Does the job so I don't touch it

WG

Babagirls · 06-27-2004, 01:57 AM

hahahaha i remember Oregan Trail. Thats the game back in school that turned me on to the whole computer world

i never did have WIN 95, but i do have WIN 98 on my desktop. best system ever, imho.

mary34d · 06-27-2004, 09:59 AM

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Originally posted by Babagirls
hahahaha i remember Oregan Trail. Thats the game back in school that turned me on to the whole computer world

i never did have WIN 95, but i do have WIN 98 on my desktop. best system ever, imho.

oregon trail turn me into one too. btw whatever happened to those floppy disk thingys?

Peaches · 06-27-2004, 10:00 AM

Some of us are old enough to remember when there WAS no Windows, only DOS.

My son grew up playing text RPG's

Jakke PNG · 06-27-2004, 10:02 AM

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Originally posted by Peaches
Some of us are old enough to remember when there WAS no Windows, only DOS. My son grew up playing text RPG's

Dos ruled. I hated editing config.sys and autoexec.bat to free enough memory to run dune2 and some other games WITH mouse support

Peaches · 06-27-2004, 10:07 AM

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Dos ruled. I hated editing config.sys and autoexec.bat to free enough memory to run dune2 and some other games WITH mouse support

It took me years to redo my learning on all the commands in DOS. For a LONG time whenever I zipped files, I went to the dos prompt instead of using WinZip

My very first computer was a PC Jr. but the first one I used for more than word processing was an 8088 with a dual floppy. I think it had 64K ram

I went to a 486 after that and thought I had hit the lottery

mary34d · 06-27-2004, 10:11 AM

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Originally posted by Peaches
It took me years to redo my learning on all the commands in DOS. For a LONG time whenever I zipped files, I went to the dos prompt instead of using WinZip

My very first computer was a PC Jr. but the first one I used for more than word processing was an 8088 with a dual floppy. I think it had 64K ram I went to a 486 after that and thought I had hit the lottery

a:/run

thumbsUP · 06-27-2004, 10:13 AM

Shit man I remember the old Black screen s with the green text. You know the old ass computers the schools had back then and the screen were burnt in to hell and back

Tom_PMs · 06-27-2004, 10:31 AM

I still have a nice stack of 5.25 inch floppies

*and* a pc with a drive that reads them.

baddog · 06-27-2004, 10:35 AM

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Originally posted by TeenGodFather
Dos ruled. I hated editing config.sys and autoexec.bat to free enough memory to run dune2 and some other games WITH mouse support

Mouse support? that was pretty high tech. No mice with my first 2 Apples

baddog · 06-27-2004, 10:38 AM

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Originally posted by Peaches

My very first computer was a PC Jr. but the first one I used for more than word processing was an 8088 with a dual floppy. I think it had 64K ram I went to a 486 after that and thought I had hit the lottery

again, very high-tech . . . no hard drive . . .dual floppy was an upgrade.

My first pc only had 4k of RAM . . . did not know you could get 64k with an 8088 . . .or was that the Commodore64?

Peaches · 06-27-2004, 10:42 AM

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Originally posted by baddog
again, very high-tech . . . no hard drive . . .dual floppy was an upgrade.

My first pc only had 4k of RAM . . . did not know you could get 64k with an 8088 . . .or was that the Commodore64?

I thought it was 64k ram, but I could be VERY wrong - it was a long time ago and you know how us old folks have memory problems

Yes, it DID have a hard drive, albeit a very small one. I remember using a friend's computer that just had the floppies to work off. I can't remember what the PC Jr. had. My Dad got it for free when he was with IBM before it was released to the general public. I just thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread because I could write letters w/o a correction ribbon or white out

cosis · 06-27-2004, 11:03 AM

shit I played Oregon Trail everyday on a MAC in high school library, game still owns

Tom_PMs · 06-27-2004, 11:06 AM

Yes you could get 64k of ram on an 8088 or 8086. Or on the NEC v-20 and v-30 upgrade chips (which were a teensy faster).
One of my old PC's had DOS in ROM also, which freed up a little bit and made it boot very fast.

Back then when you programmed you had to be efficient.

Elli · 06-27-2004, 11:09 AM

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Originally posted by cosis
shit I played Oregon Trail everyday on a MAC in high school library, game still owns

I know it! There is a "classic" version for sale on the internet somewhere that I found, but I seriously doubt it would be similar enough to the original. Our library had an Apple IIe.

cosis · 06-27-2004, 11:16 AM

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Originally posted by Elli
I know it! There is a "classic" version for sale on the internet somewhere that I found, but I seriously doubt it would be similar enough to the original. Our library had an Apple IIe.

LOL we had someone a little newer but we didn't have the internet yet

Elli · 06-27-2004, 11:18 AM

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LOL we had someone a little newer but we didn't have the internet yet

No no, Our school didnt' have the internet at the time. I mean a few weeks ago I went looking for the game and found it on the internet.

I also remember the "Logo" program that made you make small prorams to make a turtle draw a picture with his path. That was pretty lame. heheh

titmowse · 06-27-2004, 12:15 PM

I'm posting this from a Windows 95 laptop/dial-up right now.

I have broadband and Windows 98 on the desktop machine. Won't upgrade anytime soon. XP is the fucking devil.

ps: my win 95 software is still on 13 little floppies. i love them.

Sly_RJ · 06-27-2004, 12:19 PM

Have you guys played the newer version of the Oregon Trail? It's actually pretty cool. But yeh I remember the old school version plenty well. Everyone fought over who got to play it at recess.

The Yukon Trail is pretty fun, too. Never got into the Amazon Trail though.

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Tom_PMs Confirmed User Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 2,049	Yes you could get 64k of ram on an 8088 or 8086. Or on the NEC v-20 and v-30 upgrade chips (which were a teensy faster). One of my old PC's had DOS in ROM also, which freed up a little bit and made it boot very fast. Back then when you programmed you had to be efficient.