if i had listen i wouldnt have bought the game

[bkdamon]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Yeah, bl***y youngsters, don't know how lucky they are, mumble, mumble, cough, cough....

I say take their shiny new PCs away, and give them a Sinclair Spectrum, a cassette recorder, a blank tape, and a 1980s vintage computer gaming magazine. You want to play games? You've got to type it in first. Only 5 pages of badly-printed random characters to type in (and then the game turns out to be crap anyway ).

Can you imagine the whiners here turning up at a real RAF fighter squadron?

"I'm not flying that. Hurricanes are porked. I wanna Spitfire. And the graphics are rubbish - this airfield is all in black and white..."

You took me back! Pages of hexadecimal data until my eyes were bleeding... LOL but those games were fun because we EARNED them..LOL

[swiss]

Plus the stack of a dozen 3.5" disks next to you.
Of course you have to change disks at least every 30min of gameplay - and while they are loading the next level, you can take a leak, brew a cup of coffee, order pizza and write your X-mas cards.

Good old times.

[squidgyb]

Originally Posted by swiss

Plus the stack of a dozen 3.5" disks next to you.
Of course you have to change disks at least every 30min of gameplay - and while they are loading the next level, you can take a leak, brew a cup of coffee, order pizza and write your X-mas cards.

Good old times.

3.5"? Bloody youngsters...

In my day they were 5.25"



I'm certainly not that old, but my first computer experience was indeed typing 3-4 pages of basic into a ZX81 - with no tape - with one of those dodgy 16Kb RAM packs that if you wiggled it, it crashed. In the end the "game" was two solid blocks. One moved horizontally. The player moved the other one vertically to intercept the other one. Oh my days.

I must've been, what, 5 years old? Maybe 6?

[bkdamon]

Originally Posted by squidgyb

3.5"? Bloody youngsters...

In my day they were 5.25"

Remember the Tandy 8" floppies?

[AndyJWest]

[Heinz Laube]

15 years ago, we was proud to play games like this
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/ace-of-aces/


... 25 fps? lol i think it was 1-2 fps was normal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i-33SkPUFE

[Romanator21]

I grew up with this one. Oh, the horror.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXCmq...57538&index=18

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_-fG...eature=related

Insanely huge hit-boxes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM9_j...57538&index=15

[Anvilfolk]

Originally Posted by II./JG27_Winter

15 years ago, we was proud to play games like this
http://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/ace-of-aces/


... 25 fps? lol i think it was 1-2 fps was normal

To be honest, those clouds are looking pretty good!

[squidgyb]

Originally Posted by bkdamon

Remember the Tandy 8" floppies?

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

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Touché

We do have some awesome paperweights at work though - I believe they're 2MHz watercooled processors from back in the day. Must weigh a couple of kilos each.

[raaaid]

here tweaking everithing a litle more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JIu15_PNU4

by the way the sounds are amazing you can hear the engine valves sounding there