Old DOS games poster

Quite amazing how all of these games can now be played all at once a thousand times over at the same time on a pc if you want to, amazing how powerful computers have become, also amazing how shite games of today are in comparison.
 
gamer16 said:
Quite amazing how all of these games can now be played all at once a thousand times over at the same time on a pc if you want to, amazing how powerful computers have become, also amazing how shite games of today are in comparison.
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Not to mention the sort of contortions programmers had to go through in those days to get the most out of PC speakers and EGA colour schemes - some of those games required serious skill and ingenuity.
 
Cray said:
Not to mention the sort of contortions programmers had to go through in those days to get the most out of PC speakers and EGA colour schemes - some of those games required serious skill and ingenuity.
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Yeah not the actual coding, but getting something sounding like something with a square wave 2 voice device. Then to get something looking like something using 4 colours with CGA, or maybe amazing with 16 colours EGA.
 
Cray said:
Not to mention the sort of contortions programmers had to go through in those days to get the most out of PC speakers and EGA colour schemes - some of those games required serious skill and ingenuity.
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True, and it really feels like they were out to make a game as best the game can be made, not only the developers but the companies, now, its just a cash grab and developer whipping.
 
Lupus said:
Yeah not the actual coding, but getting something sounding like something with a square wave 2 voice device. Then to get something looking like something using 4 colours with CGA, or maybe amazing with 16 colours EGA.
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Remember the first time I saw a VGA game, jaw dropping time, and then the first games with Ad Lib sound then Sound Blaster effects....too cool :D
 
The irony for me is that the poster is the size of around 4 stiffies.
 
Cray said:
Remember the first time I saw a VGA game, jaw dropping time, and then the first games with Ad Lib sound then Sound Blaster effects....too cool :D
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My stepdad knew some rich kid who lived out here in Rivonia, we drove to his house and in 1989 had a Roland MT-32, to hear music through that was like woo. Didn't even come close when a friend had an AWE32 a few years later, the MT-32 just was amazing.
I went through all the phases of gaming in the 80s, where consoles were actually superior for quite sometime, though simulators were cool on the PC. Then in 1992 when I was bought my own PC man things were awesome, Star Control 2 made me miss a few days of school :-). Then Dune II with the intro fully voiced, ooooh my.
 
Lupus said:
My stepdad knew some rich kid who lived out here in Rivonia, we drove to his house and in 1989 had a Roland MT-32, to hear music through that was like woo. Didn't even come close when a friend had an AWE32 a few years later, the MT-32 just was amazing.
I went through all the phases of gaming in the 80s, where consoles were actually superior for quite sometime, though simulators were cool on the PC. Then in 1992 when I was bought my own PC man things were awesome, Star Control 2 made me miss a few days of school :). Then Dune II with the intro fully voiced, ooooh my.
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Same here, I think Dune 2 was one of the first things I fired up with my new Sound Blaster (the one I did a paper route to be able to afford :X3:). That and listening to all the over the top Sound Blaster effects from Wolfenstein (Door opening)
 
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