Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Nig
By: Android8675 to Gryphon on Thu Mar 27 2014 10:17 am

Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Night Fights
By: Gryphon to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Mar 27 2014 07:57 am

Is it sad that I still have DOOM installed and play it from time to tim

e?

Along with Duke Nukem and Heretic?

My favorite gaming story of all time...

I grew up in Santa Cruz, CA. At the time I met this guy.. Todd Replogle, he started making these PC games and offered to bring me in to help him. Knowin

g

little of actual coding I declined, but helped him playtest a few of his earlier games including a 40-col ANSI game called Caves of Thor (played like Gauntlet or robotron), Dark Ages was a neat little side scroller game. Then

he

brought me his latest game, Duke Nukem. Thought it was cool. gave him some feedback and that was it. learned later that he was relocating to Austin and living off 50k per week in royalties. (that was before duke was finished)

Great guy, I kick myself in the patookus every time I think about it. Apogee

,

great little company, way ahead of it's time.

In other news, I'm hooked on the Diablo 3 expansion at the moment. EDamn tha

t

game is fun.

Awesome story.

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Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Nig
By: Khelair to Gryphon on Thu Mar 27 2014 11:34 pm

Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Night Fights
By: Gryphon to Poindexter Fortran on Thu Mar 27 2014 15:58:00

I suspect that as we get older, we will find that the things we did when

we

were in our teens and 20s will be the things we hold on to for the rest o

f

our lives. Those will be the times that we look back to as fond memories

.

There are many games that are out today that hold no interest for me.
The ones that have more and more realism are just less and less appealing

. I

like the 8bit graphics; to me those signify real games.

I am right there beside you on that one. :) Hell, if I can find myself another Atari 8-bit computer at some point here, I'm probably going to end u

p

writing some lame code on there and looking for all the old freeware, PD, an

d

warez I can find to burn up some time when I finally have enough. :)

-- Greetings, NSA, and best wishes

I was up in Seattle for the first time over New Years with my wife and 2 kids, and we popped into the computer museum there. I sat down in front of a trash 80 and coded up a stupid little program in BASIC. Nostalghia heaven.

Knight

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Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Nig
By: Knight to Khelair on Sun Apr 13 2014 05:39 am

I was up in Seattle for the first time over New Years with my wife and 2 kids, and we popped into the computer museum there. I sat down in front of a trash 80 and coded up a stupid little program in BASIC. Nostalghia heaven.

Wow, that sounds better than the CHM in Mountain View, CA. There, everything is touch-free. Their exhibits on BIG computers are incredible, but the home computer era section leaves something to be desired. Massive Apple influence and revisionism.

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Froggyme wrote to Knight <=-

Wow, that sounds better than the CHM in Mountain View, CA. There, everything is touch-free. Their exhibits on BIG computers are
incredible, but the home computer era section leaves something to be desired. Massive Apple influence and revisionism.

I noticed the lack of touch, but not the apple bias so much. I'll have to
go back and take a look again. I drive past it every day now.



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Re: Re: DoveNet Wednesday Nig
By: Froggyme to Knight on Sun May 11 2014 04:33 pm




Knight

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