Comments on: A Study of Operating System Games http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679 The Retrogaming and Retrocomputing Blogazine Tue, 22 May 2012 09:12:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: Daniel http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18543 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:38:56 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18543 Hey Benj. Great list! As soon as I saw DONKEY.BAS, I recognized it! Man, what memories. Fun stuff. And, oh, a coworker of mine is a cousin of yours or something. Dunno if Drew mentioned that yet, but I'd love to meet up with you sometime. Hey Benj. Great list!

As soon as I saw DONKEY.BAS, I recognized it! Man, what memories.

Fun stuff.

And, oh, a coworker of mine is a cousin of yours or something. Dunno if Drew mentioned that yet, but I'd love to meet up with you sometime.

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: BDD http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18523 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:53:02 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18523 Gorillas was a lot of fun to tweak. We made the bananas fly faster, cause bigger explosions, and at one point even made the bananas larger. Then we changed the graphics to poorly-drawn versions of Spiderman and Green Goblin (a la the Atari 2600 game) lobbing bombs at each other. I'm sure there were other things we did, but nevertheless a fun game with code available for tweaking... Gorillas was a lot of fun to tweak. We made the bananas fly faster, cause bigger explosions, and at one point even made the bananas larger. Then we changed the graphics to poorly-drawn versions of Spiderman and Green Goblin (a la the Atari 2600 game) lobbing bombs at each other. I'm sure there were other things we did, but nevertheless a fun game with code available for tweaking…

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: mnky9800n http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18513 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:35:25 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18513 I had a port of the Trek game for DOS as a kid. It was called EGA Trek. I would always name my captain Picard and my dad would always name his captain Kirk. Some how Kirk always had the high score. I was only five. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in playing a Trek game you can download it for free here: http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=73 I had a port of the Trek game for DOS as a kid. It was called EGA Trek. I would always name my captain Picard and my dad would always name his captain Kirk. Some how Kirk always had the high score. I was only five. Incidentally, if anyone is interested in playing a Trek game you can download it for free here:

http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=GameMuseum.Detail&id=73

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: Benj Edwards http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18497 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:00:57 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18497 Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm glad you liked it. The emacs games would have been cool to include, Kris. Sorry I couldn't put everything in my article. If I had included every OS pack-in game in history, the slideshow would have been hundreds of slides long. :) Thanks for the feedback guys. I'm glad you liked it.

The emacs games would have been cool to include, Kris. Sorry I couldn't put everything in my article. If I had included every OS pack-in game in history, the slideshow would have been hundreds of slides long. :)

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: Kris Browne http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18495 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 08:28:45 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18495 I'm surprised nobody mentioned the stable of games which are standard parts of emacs.... snake, tetris, doctor, dunnet, and more. I'm surprised nobody mentioned the stable of games which are standard parts of emacs…. snake, tetris, doctor, dunnet, and more.

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: Lost Chauncy http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18492 Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:50:08 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18492 Fun and Fascinating. To me (in answer to your question) it indicates two things: (1) That Windows tries very hard to do whatever the other guys is doing - first - bigger and better and (2) that consumers are still drawn to 'more is better.' Fun and Fascinating. To me (in answer to your question) it indicates two things: (1) That Windows tries very hard to do whatever the other guys is doing - first - bigger and better and (2) that consumers are still drawn to 'more is better.'

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: Christian http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18485 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:29:47 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18485 Excellent article! Oh the memories :) Excellent article! Oh the memories :)

]]> Comment on A Study of Operating System Games by: K4DSP http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18484 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:41:51 +0000 http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/679#comment-18484 Nice job, Benj. You made Slashdot too! Nice job, Benj. You made Slashdot too!

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