LibriumArcana.Games

This is a nostalgia thread where you can post (and comment on) screenshots of vintage software you were using.


Well, I'll start with what I considered the software 'triumvirate' in early 1990.


The good old WordStar. I didn't use it for long, though, since I quickly switched to ChiWriter.


Lotus 1-2-3. Of course, it was long before Excel.


Dbase III+. I was still a Junior Highschcool student at that time, and had no need for a database software. Still, having an address book on my PC was quite a blast at that time.


And now, the games.


Digger by Windmill Software. Would you believe once I spent all night long playing this one?


And this is what you called a game's "main screen" those days.


Microprose Soccer; my brother's favorite.


This is Accolade's Test Drive, played in 4-color CGA.


Jordan Mechner's Karateka. This is actually my first "long game" before I was introduced to the likes of Police Quest and Ultima 6. Just a note, Karateka does not have savegame feature.

Aw, I remember playing Digger when I was a kid.

I started playing this when I was three:

Ra wrote:Aw, I remember playing Digger when I was a kid.

Yup, kewl game, although keep listening to its soundtrack over and over again will eventually drive you nuts Too bad it ran too fast on my (then) AT 286 when 12Mhz speed was enabled. :sad:

(and yes, Ace. I said 12Mhz)




Anyway, like I said, the reason I didn't stay long with WordStar was because I quickly switched to ChiWriter, which, by the way, still ran fine in Windows 31 Command Prompt. IIRC it was actually the first DOS-based word processor with multipe fonts capability, as shown below.

Anyway, here's a screenshot of the good old Autodesk Animator. I wasn't really into graphic and animation, but a highschool buddy named Arga introduced me to this software. Now he was (and is still) a bigger geek than me; he already did video frame capturing in 1993 using an obscure piece of hardware named Video Commander.

Hee hee, Hebrew font LTR!!!

Bah. Both Test Drive and Karateka looked MUCH better in the CBM64 release (of course, during the days of 4-colour CGA, most of them did...)