Thursday, April 8, 2004

Nostalgia Keeps Games Afloat. If you can't find a favorite old game, don't despair: Home of the Underdogs tries to keep classic computer games from premature death. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News] I couldn't pass up looking up some old PC favorites me and my Dad bought years ago in order to get some real use out of that damned expensive PC XT. We put a 10Mhz CPU in it and a 30MB hard drive and stuck an EGA monitor on it. We could barely get Gunship to run on it. Barely could get Flight Simulator to run on it. The Colony was very jumpy and unreliable. When he finally got a 286 motherboard things improved somewhat. It was a 286 16Mhz I believe with 1MB of RAM. Gunship was a little better but the EGA didn't really have enough memory to do anything great. It wasn't until Dad moved up to a 386 25Mhz DX that I could finally play Knights of the Sky. But it sucked really bad. Then I bought the Journeyman Project for him one Christmas. That thing had big problems with the video driver. It couldn't do video overlay very reliably. And it had problems jumping to new sections of the game. But I still have nostalgia for those days before Duke Nukem 3D. We were just trying to find something entertaining to do on those expensive toys before the Internet came to town. 10:26:23 PM    comment []