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Hi j0HNNY a1PHA!

Vic 20 x 2

That was the very first computer system I had ever had in the family, then we went with an IBM PC Clone called the Tandy 1000... very decent computer system but very bare bones and when I upgraded to 640k and a 50 MB hard drive I was stoked...

Cheers,
Bryan
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That was the very first computer system I had ever had
in the family, then we
went with an IBM PC Clone called the Tandy 1000... very
decent computer system
but very bare bones and when I upgraded to 640k and a 50
MB hard drive I was
stoked...

Tandy 1000 HX was my family's first computer, it got me hooked right away and I always loved it - I have a couple 1000 HX systems now that I picked up over the years, after giving away the original system in the 90s.

Back in the day I never upgraded past the stock 256 KB RAM and the 720 KB double density 3.5" disk drive, so it got to be a bit limiting until I finally upgraded to a 486 with 4 MB RAM and a 270 MB hard drive (a big jump!). These days I have the RAM maxed out at 640 KB and XT-IDE compactflash and Gotek etc - so much luxury! :)

Did you have the original Tandy 1000 model or one of the later models with a suffix?


Chris/akacastor

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Hi,
I don't have much old hardware anymore, but what I do have is an old pentium 4 system with 4 gigs of ram and a 40 gig hd.
It does have one serial port and one parallel port on the board.
I do not know if they have dos drivers for the onboard nic though.
It is one of the last Dell models with a 32 bit processor though.
It might be able to run windows 98 with the ability to run multiple dos boxes though.
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"Khronos" (21:2/153) <Khronos@f153.n2.z21.fidonet> wrote:

Hi,
I don't have much old hardware anymore, but what I do have is an old
pentium 4 system with 4 gigs of ram and a 40 gig hd. It does have one
serial port and one parallel port on the board. I do not know if they
have dos drivers for the onboard nic though. It is one of the last
Dell models with a 32 bit processor though. It might be able to run
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I bet Linux will have drivers for it, though you may have to find an
older version. They have the tendency to remove them from time to time.
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-=[ On 03-02-24 19:24, AKAcastor wrote to Argelian below: ]=-
-=[ Re: Re: What's in your retro closet? ]=-

Hi AKAcastor!

Did you have the original Tandy 1000 model or one of the later models
with a suffix?

I think it was a Tandy 1000 SX and that was the one I upgraded and used for some time then went out and did something similar to you and went with a 486 which was the system I used for BBS'ing and sysop'ing... now I use the Intel based Mac's as my daily driver at home as I don't really do much gaming and it does everything that I needed it to do.

Cheers,
Bryan
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I think it was a Tandy 1000 SX and that was the one I upgraded and used for some time then went out and did something similar to you
and went with a 486

384 KB stock on that Tandy 1000 SX, not much but I still would have been jealous from my 1000 HX with 256 KB! haha The sound was great on these Tandys though, I remember being surprised that friends' more powerful computers sounded so much worse in so many games. (until everyone got Adlib/Soundblasters)


Chris/akacastor

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-=[ On 03-04-24 18:12, AKAcastor wrote to Argelian below: ]=-
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Hi AKAcastor!

I think it was a Tandy 1000 SX and that was the one I upgraded and used for some time then went out and did something similar to you
and went with a 486

computers sounded so much worse in so many games. (until everyone got Adlib/Soundblasters)

According to what I was able to find via the interwebs, the Tandy 1000 sounds were slightly better than the IBM speaker sounds but ya, my sound card of choice was always SoundBlaster.... DrSBAITSO my friend! :grin:


Cheers,
Bryan
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According to what I was able to find via the interwebs,
the Tandy 1000 sounds
were slightly better than the IBM speaker sounds but ya, my sound card of choice was always SoundBlaster.... DrSBAITSO my friend! :grin:

That Tandy sound was enough to make Sierra games sound pretty good! I played a lot of Space Quest and King's Quest and Police Quest on my Tandy 1000HX.

Dr Sbaitso is so much cooler than ChatGPT could ever hope to be!


Chris/akacastor

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-=[ On 03-08-24 19:24, AKAcastor wrote to Argelian below: ]=-
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Hi AKAcastor!

That Tandy sound was enough to make Sierra games sound pretty good! I played a lot of Space Quest and King's Quest and Police Quest on my
Tandy 1000HX.

Dr Sbaitso is so much cooler than ChatGPT could ever hope to be!

Those Sierra On-Line games are a blast from the past... I played a couple of the King's Quest ones as well as Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry LOL! Manhunter too was pretty fun to play and I also remember purchasing/ordering hint books for those games too.

Cheers,
Bryan
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Those Sierra On-Line games are a blast from the past...
I played a couple of the King's Quest ones as well as Space Quest and A> Leisure Suit Larry LOL! Manhunter too was pretty fun to play and I also A> remember purchasing/ordering hint books for those games too.

I love the Sierra games so much! I have a collection of them, purchased mostly from eBay but some found locally. I was dumb enough to throw away the ones I bought as a kid, and then a couple decades later decided I absolutely needed to have them again. They're more expensive now than they used to be! At least, according to eBay listings.

There's a story that Leisure Suit Larry was the most pirated game ever, evidenced by Sierra selling more hint books than copies of the game.

Manhunter 2 I played a bit of - very cool game but I don't think I got too far as a kid. (never got the hint book) I like how it had such stylistic differences from the other Sierra games of that era.

Police Quest I remember playing along with a couple friends in school and spending weeks working our way through it figuring out how to phrase what we wanted to do so the game would accept it (or finally realizing we needed to do something else altogether). It was a ton of fun!


Chris/akacastor


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I specifically recall Police Quest games requiring you to have read the
manuals -which were procedural manuals and hintbooks in disguise. If you read them and played the game according to it, you had an easier time making progress and earning points. Sierra Games were also famous for killing you,
at least compared to Lucasarts adventure games.


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I specifically recall Police Quest games requiring you to have read the manuals -which were procedural manuals and hintbooks in
disguise. If you read
them and played the game according to it, you had an easier time making progress and earning points. Sierra Games were also
famous for killing you,
at least compared to Lucasarts adventure games.

Police Quest was ALL ABOUT following those procedures! And immediate DEATH if you ever strayed from proper procedure!

Started driving a car without doing the prescribed walk-around check? DEAD.

Handcuffed a prisoner with their hands in front of them instead of behind them? YOU DIE NOW.


Anyone interested in Sierra games might like to check out Space Quest Historian on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Spacequesthistorian

As the name implies, Space Quest is the main obsession, but all the Sierra games are covered. Scott Murphy even gifted him The First Copy of Space Quest (in factory shrinkwrap) which is quite a treasure!


Chris/akacastor

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What is a C=64 light fantastic?

I'm not a mister know it all, I just act like one.

I have a C=64 bought in 1984 and a C=64C.
Neither has been used for years, but they still look at me when I turn on the XP box.
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Re: What's in your retro closet?
By: Ed Vance to Bob Worm on Wed Mar 27 2024 21:53:44

Hi, Ed.

What is a C=64 light fantastic?

It was a package that Commodore release for Christmas 1989 which coupled one of the later model C64s with a light gun and a handful of games. I am struggling to remember which games actually worked with the light gun, there was definitely Robocop and some game that had a clay pigeon shooting level?

Anyway, that was *my* C64 experience :)

BobW
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Hello Bob,

30 Mar 24 10:47, you wrote to Ed Vance:

Re: What's in your retro closet?
By: Ed Vance to Bob Worm on Wed Mar 27 2024 21:53:44

Hi, Ed.

What is a C=64 light fantastic?

It was a package that Commodore release for Christmas 1989 which
coupled one of the later model C64s with a light gun and a handful of games. I am struggling to remember which games actually worked with
the light gun, there was definitely Robocop and some game that had a
clay pigeon shooting level?

i am pretty sure operation wolf worked with that :)
maybe "the train" as well

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