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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 9:06 am
by Arexack_Heretic
Cmdr. Maegil wrote:Color Graphics Adapter. It gave you crummy definition and 16 colours palette - but from those, you had to choose which four of them you were actually using... Some veeeeeery old ATMs still use them.
It came between the monochrome Hercules (think of the IBM logo, the letters made of horizontal lines and remember the green screens on movies from the '70s and '80s) and EGA (Enhanced Graphics Adapter, with much better definition and 256 colours) video boards.
Yeah! Thus spake a dinossaur...
haha, that was the hardware windows' 'paint' was optimised for (and never changed since).
My first PC had SVGA (VESA!), but still I had to contend with black horizontal bars interlaced on SimCity2000...By that time it was getting a bit ancient though.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:28 am
by Selezen
Damn you young whippersnappers (except TGHC)! I remember gaming when if you wanted graphics you had to draw them yourself!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:39 am
by TGHC
I can remember white toothpaste!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:41 am
by Selezen
Toothpaste? Hah! Luxury! We had to brush our teeth with rat tails and grit!
Oh, incidentally, that screenshot is ace. You know, the one at the start of this thread.
Once I get a working copy of Oolite installed again I must download that OXP.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:47 am
by TGHC
Don't start me off!
BTW what screenshot! Do you mean Griffs trading post!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:52 am
by Selezen
Dammit. Wrong thread. Ignore that last remark then.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:53 pm
by Captain Hesperus
Selezen wrote:Dammit. Wrong thread. Ignore that last remark then.
Senility.
It gets to us all in the end.
As does senility.
Among other things.
Where am I?
Captain Hesperus
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:12 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
-What happened in the year I was born?
-Please Sir, I cannot tell a lie... It was the BATTLE OF AGIN'-COURT.
If you can see one pun, you're a brainless newbie.
Two jokes, and you know your history.
But this is in fact a triple pun!... Are you old enough to ID from where the quote came from?
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:53 pm
by reills
As my father was with the group at IBM who developed the PC, we had some pre-PC computers floating around our house. Does anyone remember 7" floppies, no hard drive, and green screens?
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 2:57 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
7" floppies? You obviously never had to sort a box of mixed punched cards...
Fortunately their numbers were written with a pen, or else I'd never make it.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:00 pm
by reills
My high school computer lab was 3 Dec Terminal 100s and one Olivetti dasiywheel terminal. You wanted that one because you could save your program on punch-paper-tape. Saved the original "Star Trek" game that way.
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:14 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
So, we're basically a bunch of anachronisms.
I think I'll just go cry in that corner over there...
*EDIT*: Maybe this thread, from
this post down, should be moved to Outworld - under the title of "Old Farts"
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:25 pm
by reills
I am not a SPIDER!!!
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:32 pm
by Cmdr. Maegil
What are you doing in the ceiling, then? Not my fault, I hope...
Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:11 pm
by Gareth3377
Colour graphics - pah! They were a luxury in my day. I had no colour during my early Elite playing days (or the full ship set, or the suns or anything else really).
Am not an 'old fart' though - I've just turned 30. Hang on...