"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > I've never heard of Colossal cave.
>
> AKA "Adventure", aka the first ever computer adventure-style game. (Was
> it the first game at all?)

No idea. First one I remember playing was Asteroids (On a Sharp computer)
sometime around 1984 or so.

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>> Well, two things:
>>
>> 1. It has 2x the spatial resolution in both directions. That doesn't
>> sound particularly earth-shattering, even on paper.
>>
>> 2. I saw two displays side-by-side in a shop. The one marked HD was
>> certainly clearer. But it didn't make me go "wow, that's AMAZING!"
>> Actually it just made me go "oh, OK, so it's 10% more crisp. And you
>> want HOW MANY thousand pounds for this one??"
> 
> Thousands of pounds? Maybe 5 years ago.

Or maybe they set the display up next to the most expensive equipment in 
the shop?

> I've played X-box games on both my old TV and the new LCD. The difference is
> exceptional. I couldn't even read half the text on the old TV. On the new,
> it's crystal clear.

I've tried connecting my laptop to a normal TV. *Everything* is unreadable!

But then, I sit about 2 feet away from my laptop's screen A TV is 
usually at least 12 feet away, if not more...

> Normal DVDs don't show so much difference, but there's still a very
> noticable difference in display quality. I watched the sceen with Gandalf
> and the Balrog of Moria on the new TV and it was sooo clear.

Oddly, whenever I watch DVDs on my PC, I'm astounded by how crappy the 
picture looks. Yet on a normal TV it looks perfectly OK. Weird... I 
guess the low-quality TV display hides more of the imperfections?

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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>
> I've tried connecting my laptop to a normal TV. *Everything* is
unreadable!

I connected my server to the new TV. Crystal clear, and that's with me
sitting over a meter away.

Here's to computing from the couch.

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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> 1. At the time, Doom was reputed to require insanely expensive high-end 
>> hardware to run usably.
> 
>   That would be a 486, yes. It worked in a 386, but 486 was recommended.

SX or DX? ;-)

>> 4. It was slow as hell!
> 
>   With current computers you could run Doom at 1600x1200 in the original
> software rendering mode without problems (assuming it would support those
> resolutions, which it doesn't, at least not without heavy modifications
> of the source code, AFAIK).

Impressive what 10 years of evolution can do, eh?

And yet, M$ Word is still as slow today as it was all those years ago... 
I guess some things never change. :-S

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"Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote in message
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> > "Nicolas Alvarez" <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote in
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> >
> >> I don't know anyone (personally, and in the same country as me) who is
> >> geeky enough to know about D&D anyway. So even if it sounded
interesting
> >> to me (which it doesn't), who would I play with?
> >
> > What country do you live in?
> > http://www.treasuretables.org/ways-to-find-rpg-players
>
> ...if I *was* interested, which I'm not...

You never know until you've tried..
(doing best salesperson impersonation)

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Gail Shaw wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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>> Gail Shaw wrote:
>>> I've never heard of Colossal cave.
>> AKA "Adventure", aka the first ever computer adventure-style game. (Was
>> it the first game at all?)
> 
> No idea. First one I remember playing was Asteroids (On a Sharp computer)
> sometime around 1984 or so.

Adventure was written in 1976, slightly before Apple went into business 
at all. The wiki article is actually pretty amusing. I have the source 
listing for Adventure 550 in Fortran. :-)

It's certainly the first largely-popular game, in much the same way that 
PONG was pretty much the first big video game.

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
> > I've never heard of Colossal cave. 

> AKA "Adventure", aka the first ever computer adventure-style game. (Was 
> it the first game at all?)

  Defining what is the "first computer game ever created" is a bit more
difficult than one might thing.

  Some argue that the first one was a tennis game someone programmed using
an analog oscilloscope as display in the 1950's.

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                                                          - Warp

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Gail Shaw wrote:

> You never know until you've tried..
> (doing best salesperson impersonation)

Hmm, and I'll bet you've met a lot of salepeople in your line of work 
too. ;-)

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"Orchid XP v7" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> Gail Shaw wrote:
>
> > You never know until you've tried..
> > (doing best salesperson impersonation)
>
> Hmm, and I'll bet you've met a lot of salepeople in your line of work
> too. ;-)

None if I can help it.

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>> Hmm, and I'll bet you've met a lot of salepeople in your line of work
>> too. ;-)
> 
> None if I can help it.

TELL ME YOUR SECRET!! >_<

I am *so* fed up of that Russian girl trying to sell me AV licenses...

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