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#1 Vintage Software Screenshot Gallery

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:59 am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Microprose Soccer; my brother's favorite.

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

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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. :shock:

#2

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 1:23 am
by Ra
Aw, I remember playing Digger when I was a kid. :grin:

#3

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:36 am
by Narsil
I started playing this when I was three:
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#4

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:01 am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Ra wrote:Aw, I remember playing Digger when I was a kid. :grin:
Yup, kewl game, although keep listening to its soundtrack over and over again will eventually drive you nuts :grin: Too bad it ran too fast on my (then) AT 286 when 12Mhz speed was enabled. :sad:

(and yes, Ace. I said 12Mhz) :wink:




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.

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#5

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:16 am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
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.

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#6

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 7:25 am
by Hashava
Hee hee, Hebrew font LTR!!!

#7

Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:16 am
by Batman
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...)