Fortran: which led to
Basic: which led to Commodore 64
Which led to cartridges
Which led to floppy disks and FD player
Which led to IBM getting into the PC market
Which led to an unknown language and process becoming the standard,
Which led to all of us Amateurs being chocked out of the home computer market.
I am old enough to have seen the evolution of personal computers and gaming consoles.
I was 6 when I got my first gaming system, the Atari Pong, brand new in the box and only out for about a year at that point.
I was 15 when Windows 1 came out and haven't had to use DOS since.
So forgive me if I couldn't remember what direction the slash leans, I was 15 when I started smoking weed and have smoked a lot since then so some things that have no impact on my life today like the way a slash goes / or \ in DOS is not a priority in my memory bank lol
Technically maybe. But the IBM-PC ran on PC-DOS. It likely dwarfed MS-DOS in usage until the Compaqs and similar started coming on the market.
I worked on one of the original IBM PCs in 1982. Right out of college. No subdirectories! Everything in the root! My computer has a 5MB hard drive installed. It was state of the art!
But I discovered in high-school that windows 98 had no security around opening dos...which allowed me to place games on a couple shared network drives so I'd always have access.
Good times
They tried to blame the network crashing on my games... but my mom worked in tech so that was fun
My parents got me a brand new Texas Instruments computer when I was 9 and a subscription to some computer magazine that had programs in basic that you had to type out. Some of these were like pages long and were awesome when they worked. I remember a skiing game that was pretty cool. But the majority of times I would like type a 0 instead of O and hours and hours of time just wasted. Sigh.
People would try to start games from inside Windows when if first came out, but real gamers knew that Windows just slowed everything down just to get a GUI, so we exited windows (if we even installed it in the first place) and just used DOS.
I forget; was it Windows 95 that first offered game features like DirectX that made it worth while to run games within Windows?
I forget; was it Windows 95 that first offered game features like DirectX that made it worth while to run games within Windows?
Technically DX1 was available on 3.1 as part of the Windows Game SDK. That said, yes, Win95 was the first version to actually ship with it for consumers (starting with Win95 OSR2, which included DX2.0).
The release of DX9 was the big one though. Supported even on Win98 at time of release, and still to my knowledge supported on all subsequent Windows releases since then. DX9 is really when it became a game dev industry standard API.
DX 9 was basically the start of the modern graphics pipeline. It's when everything moved from a fixed set of APIs to shader programming for everything. DX 10, 11, and 12 are effectively just extensions on the same idea of DX 9.
Win95 was the first version of Windows with a flat memory model, greatly simplifying how programs (and thus games) could access memory. That and DirectX is what made Windows the premier gaming OS.
We did with the old Apple IIs. You'd slam a 5 1/4' floppy (like really floppy) disc in, turn on the computer, and then you could play Oregon trail or Pizza to go.
Used to boot early PC from floppy disc and use Pathminder Dos shell to actually see what you had. I switched early to motorola 68000 processor machines because of the GUI they had.
I can’t remember what it was, but my mom had a “portable” computer that was bulky, had like a 4” black and green screen and played a program off a floppy disk that was just a bumblebee going around in circles on the screen playing flight of the bumblebees lol
I remember when dos became white, that was nice, my 1st computer (well, my mom's for work as I was like 6) only had a weird orange colour. Tandy 3000 or something. It was epic at the time!
I'm sorry but I can't run a dot com file at the same time as a batch file because I always put the batch file in the part of the RAM specified by the dot com file it is required
I can literally hear the startup sound just by looking at this. That blue screen brings back so many memories of playing Minesweeper and MSN Messenger after school. Good times! 🎶💻
Me too…though I was playing around with it as a 6 year old. My first computer, that I built, was a Celeron running XP.
My first stocks were AMD just before the Athlon. If I’d held tight rather than selling early I probably could’ve paid off a big chunk of college with the $1000 my grandpa left for me to invest. Was a big chip nerd in my teens…
Ditto. Basic and Fortran were the first programing languages I learned. And we used to repair our boards. Bad capacitor? Remove it and solder on a new one. And those computers were insanely expensive. The ones my school purchased would have cost over $20,000 in today's dollars.
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u/Responsible-Exam-911 10h ago
I'm this old: