Look what I found!

Dimehart · 13 Feb 2003, 19:46

Looks lika a manuscript for some crummy videogame...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html

13 Feb 2003, 20:02

Dimehart wrote:Looks lika a manuscript for some crummy videogame...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html

Actually, it's looks like some of the greatest text based computer games ever written, that's the point...

Yours, as always,

Chairman Bux
CEO Buxville
buxville@myheartland.co.uk

Andy TG · 14 Feb 2003, 01:01

Dimehart wrote:Looks lika a manuscript for some crummy videogame...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html

I think you can blame 80's text adventure company "Infocom" for the inspiration for that page!

BTW Infocom wrote the very difficult "hitch hikers guide to the galaxy" text adverture - Which 18 years later i still need to complete

cyn · 16 Feb 2003, 15:12

Wow, reading it reminded me of what it feels like when I was in one of my Panic attacks where you leave your body...reaches for bottle of peach pills...thanx...really...than

Thea · 16 Feb 2003, 17:03

AndyTheGoth wrote:
Dimehart wrote:Looks lika a manuscript for some crummy videogame...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html
I think you can blame 80's text adventure company "Infocom" for the inspiration for that page!

BTW Infocom wrote the very difficult "hitch hikers guide to the galaxy" text adverture - Which 18 years later i still need to complete

LOVE the HHGTTG game! ( http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html for anyone who wants to try) i keep getting stuck on powering up the inprobability drive with tea...
it is feinishly difficult. took me nearly a week to get out of the bedroom.
i've read the guide over and over and over since i was 9 and i stil can't win the bloody game

Andy TG · 16 Feb 2003, 21:49

d00mw0lf wrote:
AndyTheGoth wrote:
Dimehart wrote:Looks lika a manuscript for some crummy videogame...

http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/error404page.html
I think you can blame 80's text adventure company "Infocom" for the inspiration for that page!

BTW Infocom wrote the very difficult "hitch hikers guide to the galaxy" text adverture - Which 18 years later i still need to complete
LOVE the HHGTTG game! ( http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html for anyone who wants to try) i keep getting stuck on powering up the inprobability drive with tea...
it is feinishly difficult. took me nearly a week to get out of the bedroom.
i've read the guide over and over and over since i was 9 and i stil can't win the bloody game

Whoo Hooo - Another Douglas Adams fan - along with me and a couple of others on here! I have collected everything I can since 1981!

I do have the "solution" to the Hitch Hikers game - just let me know if you would like me to send it to you via PM

Justj0hn · 17 Feb 2003, 09:58

Holy Commodore 64 Batman......I just had a severe early 80's flashback of spending an inordinate amount of time trudging through Zork I and II....

J.j.......

Izzy HaveMercy · 17 Feb 2003, 21:19

I love that c64. Still have one y'know...

IZZY.

Justj0hn · 18 Feb 2003, 00:20

Izzy says:

"I love that c64. Still have one y'know..."

I literally spent 2 or 3 years with a lifeline hooked directly into the C64. In the late 80's we purchased the dual 64/128 which was an amazing computer then(at the time though the best terminal out there that was exceptional for mutimedia was the Amiga). Oh the memories.

j0hn.......

Andy TG · 18 Feb 2003, 00:31

Personally - I was a Spectrum Addict! - 48K (broke / snapped 3 of them!) 48K with expanded keyboard - 128K and then Spectrum + 128K - with built in tape deck - oh those were the days

I would spend hours (and I mean hours) playing Atic Atak, Sabre Wolf, H.E.R.O., Spy Hunter and Jet Pak! - Great days eh!

BTW - I heard that the space backgrounds and spacecraft on Babylon 5 were done on an Amiga 4000 - is that right?

nearmethexperience · 18 Feb 2003, 12:46

humm, my first computer (if you can call it that) was a vic20, the c64's baby brother (before the c64 was available). what a beast it was, 3.5k ram, basic (i loved basic!) operating system, tape drive where if a game crashed during loading you could simply rewind it to the last 'good' block and start again, and i bought a 16k upgrade pack (a tad smaller, but not much, than a video cassette!!) which cost more than a new head, probably.

then my parents wouldn't buy me any games to begin with, only books on how to write/program games (for a 9/10 year old, b*stards)...

now i'm a web designer, go figure

sam donut · 18 Feb 2003, 12:50

nearmethexperience wrote:humm, my first computer (if you can call it that) was a vic20

The first (computer) game I ever played was Rat Race on the Vic20! Ahhh!

nearmethexperience wrote: now i'm a web designer, go figure

And I work in the Games "Industry" (sorry)... they've got a lot to answer for them there vic20s!

pathedog · 18 Feb 2003, 13:24

Rat Race.....take me home

nearmethexperience · 18 Feb 2003, 13:35

didn't you get a tape with rat race on one side, and frogger on the other?Â¿?Â¿?

wow, takes me back!!!!

Justj0hn · 19 Feb 2003, 09:13

Vic 20! With that bastard data cassette attachment. Only game I ever played on it was Space Invaders.

j0hn.......

Lars Svensson · 19 Feb 2003, 10:49

The luvvly Vic 20 was my wonderful introduction to the world of computers too...and specifically that overwhelming feeling of 'What the f**k is going wrong with this b*stard thing - why isn't it WORKING!!!???' which I now feel on a daily basis due to line of work...

And that bl**dy cassette thing was the bane of my life for the Vic and the C64...I ended up having to prop it up at a specific angle on a pile of books with the aid of blue tac and sellotape to get this magical thing known as the 'azimuth alignment' correct...

So many hours of my youth were spent trying to get that right, and prob'ly explains a lot...

White Heat of Technology? Better to use smoke signals and bl**dy steam trains...

nearmethexperience · 19 Feb 2003, 12:56

Lars Svensson wrote:The luvvly Vic 20 was my wonderful introduction to the world of computers too...and specifically that overwhelming feeling of 'What the f**k is going wrong with this b*stard thing - why isn't it WORKING!!!???' which I now feel on a daily basis due to line of work...

And that bl**dy cassette thing was the bane of my life for the Vic and the C64...I ended up having to prop it up at a specific angle on a pile of books with the aid of blue tac and sellotape to get this magical thing known as the 'azimuth alignment' correct...

So many hours of my youth were spent trying to get that right, and prob'ly explains a lot...

White Heat of Technology? Better to use smoke signals and bl**dy steam trains...

strangely enough, my next 'pc' (smirks) amstrad 464, tape drive built into the keyboard and a colour monitor!!!! (might as well as been an early mac

) anyway, yeah, the first game my parents bought me for it was, drum roll, Southern bell - a steam train simulation on the london to brighton line!!!!! b*st*rds, i know where they live

Lars Svensson · 20 Feb 2003, 02:17

hem hem...

*hides copy of Microsoft Train Simulator*

Justj0hn · 20 Feb 2003, 03:50

A couple of years before obtaining the C64/128 we had the Adam computer which truly was a glorified Colecovision unit....and that too had cassettes(no wonder the company went bankrupt).....although they were loaded/read lightyears faster than the Vic20.

J.j.......