Jet Set Willy

Tuesday, September 23, 2003 by MadIce | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Computers are my hobby since 1979. In that period there was no trace of DOS and CP/M was ruling. The first home computers started to appear. Sinclair, Commodore, Amstrad, Acorn, Atari. Just to name a few. And how about "Jet Set Willy", "Pssst!" and "Attack of the Mutant Camels"?

Here are some links to help you visit memory lane:

http://www.the-underdogs.org/company.php?offset=0&id=167&sort=name
http://www.emuunlim.com
http://www.retro-games.co.uk/museum/museum.htm
http://www.arhs.net/related/emulator+games
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Emulators

You know what I really would like? "Jet Set Willy" that runs on my Nokia.

What was your favorite game back in those days?
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kona0197
Reply #21 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 7:54 AM
definitely 'non-standard'....


I take off my hat for you, you are the man.

MadIce
Reply #22 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 10:11 AM
Retro games are back again, because of the small memory avalible to Java games in cellular phones. This is what I think about it.

http://madice.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=234

Bangkokboy
Reply #23 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:00 PM
the first z80 assembler code i wrote was inserted into a canon video game. my code didn't work, i thought. then i discovered that my code was turning the cannonball pixels on and back off so fast that the human eye couldn't really see it. i was very young, inexperienced, and dumb in those days. ( at least back then i had an excuse!)

azdruid
Reply #24 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:25 PM
When I was 6, I had an IBM PS/2 Model 25 system. I think it ran at 4Mhz...oh yes, and it had 20MB of hard drive space, which was enormous in '87. Ahh, in those days my Dad messed it up and I had to reinstall the OS. Frankly, I don't think DOS will be stamped out totally for a while, because it is still darn stable. Has DOS ever "crashed" or given you a BSOD? Not here. I'm learning QBasic at school now, and it's like a flashback. Weird...



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joetheblow
Reply #25 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 1:39 PM
I totally forgot about Saturn. AND Neo Goe. (I always thought Noe Goe was a bad idea.. as a kid I never figured out why. still don't know)

paxx
Reply #26 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:24 PM

My first computer was a Coco (Tandy Color Computer). It came with a manual teaching Basic. So, my first program was something like this:

10 print "Hello"
20 goto 10

hehehe!


AMY BANE
Reply #27 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:18 PM
My first computer class taught us ASCII codes. It was crazy. Our first computers in school were Apples and we played this game where we ran a country and if we didn't give them enough "bread and circuses", they would revolt on us. There were no graphic, just text. My stars how the time goes by. Twenty or so years ago. I'm sure it wasn't that long ago

eieio
Reply #28 Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:30 PM
The first computer I got was a TI99/4A. 3.3Mhz processor (a real screamer!).
You could write programs to save on cassette tape and it also had a slot for game cartridges. This was one of my favorites



grayhaze
Reply #29 Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:23 AM
Neo Goe


That's NeoGeo joe.

I used to write ZX Spectrum games in my youth, a few of which are still kicking around somewhere online. I even wrote a paint program for making loading screens, but it was hardly a Photoshop beater.

EventHorizon
Reply #30 Thursday, September 25, 2003 10:41 AM
The 1st comp I ever use was an Apple IIc...Which was better than my elementary school's classroom macs at the time. (Apple I)
I wonder what the specs on that thing were...

bmetelsky
Reply #31 Thursday, September 25, 2003 6:08 PM
I had an Amstrad computer - I think it ran something called GEM which kind of looked like a combination of early windows and early apple.

eieio
Reply #32 Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:39 PM
#26 by paxx - 9/24/2003 5:24:40 PM My first computer was a Coco (Tandy Color Computer). It came with a manual teaching Basic. So, my first program was something like this:10 print "Hello"20 goto 10


Hey, paxx. I wrote that same program!

XX
Reply #33 Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:02 PM
Lol. I remember old DOS days too. C64 was before my time however.

try this: make sure not to incude the lines that have the ( ).

( start loop.bat file )
@echo off
Echo Echo Hello! >> hello.bat
Echo Echo How are you? >> hello.bat
echo @echo off > loop2.bat
type hello.bat > loop2.bat
echo loop >> loop2.bat
loop2
( end loop.bat )

You don't need to make hello.bat or loop2.bat the batch file will make it for you.

It will run very fast, and only way to stop it is via old shortcut to stop batch processing. Just hit ctrl-c and press y.

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