HDD drive failure

[Crafty]

LOL! Just one post needed to get things off-topic, well sort of

Borland Sprint if you ask me. And Quatro Pro for spreadsheets

[Viagara]

Borland Sprint if you ask me. And Quatro Pro for spreadsheets

No, it was a package that offered Wordprocessing and spreadsheets in one package, not Wordperfect, Amipro, Sprint, Quatro Pro(around 1989)

Edit: After some searching, I think it was called Wordstar, but I did use a product called Multimate at some stage as well.

[frikkie]

No, it was a package that offered Wordprocessing and spreadsheets in one package, not Wordperfect, Amipro, Sprint, Quatro Pro(around 1989)

Edit: After some searching, I think it was called Wordstar, but I did use a product called Multimate at some stage as well.

Eish. Used both of those as well... Sigh. I'm getting old...

[GearSlave]

I think it was called Wordstar,

I remember that

[Prince]

- we should start a PC nostalgia thread here...

my first PC was a XT with a green monitor..stayed away from it until we got a philips CGA screen, which later became an EGA!!

-I mostly played Test Drive and all the Quest games..

-anybody remember the phix program to emulate your game environment??

[frikkie]

- we should start a PC nostalgia thread here...

I think we've got it here already!

my first PC was a XT with a green monitor..stayed away from it until we got a philips CGA screen, which later became an EGA!!

-I mostly played Test Drive and all the Quest games..

  I forgot about test Drive. How can I forget about Test Drive???

-anybody remember the phix program to emulate your game environment??

Yeah I do - can't remember how/why it was used though...

[Crafty]

I've got alley cat that I play at least once a day.
When I'm starting to read double lines of code, i will play a bit of alley cat, go and have a smoke, then start to code again 20 minutes later.

[Prince]

@frikkie - Test drive rocks man..I played the new HD version, the game has changed alot, but still very enjoyable!!

-think was to emulate different video modes.

[BigWoodenSpoon]

  First PC was ZX Spectrum 48k   and a collection of about 20 tapes worth of games

Nothing more fun than listening to screeching and watching snow-filled screen as your game loaded up.  

[GearSlave]

 ;Ds

[VALVAGLO]

 Sh1tstirrer,
I have still got my ZX Spectrum with the extra bytes in brand new condition.

[gavinbirss]

phix and klutz was used to emulate CGA (color shades) on Monochrome displays. The resolution of Hercules/Monochrome was actually higher than CGA and EGA(normal).