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philo

On 02/05/2016 12:06 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:28:02 -0600, philo wrote:

Last night I was going through some *old* paperwork and on the back of a
report found a very simple program I wrote in Qbasic.
Did a drive search and found a backup from a 386 I had worked on a long
time ago and it had my program on it along with a few games.
I mainly use Linux now but installed DosBox to see if the stuff would run.
It did!
Played Nibbles a few times just for laughs and enjoyed it.
I am not a gamer and never played anything newer than Tetris.

You did good ! I would have bet against it.
Brought-to-mind my first pc - Tandy 386 -
and how proud I was after upgrading the memory and
adding a math co-processor. Old fav games included
Lemmings, Sokoban, and a few of the Sierra ones
.. Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest ..
My archives consist of saving the hard drives from all
the old pc's ... doubt I could retrieve much from them
now, even if I wanted to ..
John T.

You'd be surprised. I have a number of ancient hard drives, some as
small as 100 megs and they are still good.

Had I not been able to run my old DOS programs in an emulator, I still
have a small collections of old machines ...and other than a dead CMOS
battery probably still work.

Funny thing from what I've seen of the new computer games, they are
basically just the old ones with a lot of graphics and audio.

A friend of mine (yep old timer like me) spends tons of money so he can
have the best hardware to play all the new games.

He fully admits that he likes to do nothing but waste time.