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mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
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I know that there are few here that are/were avid Morrowind fans...players...modders...

Well, it's now official.  I'm old...

My daughter has posted her first complete Morrowind mod tonight.

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  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    I've never played any of the Elder Scrolls games, but I know the feeling.  I felt the same way when my boys did similar things with games I played once upon a time!

  • ValandarValandar Posts: 1,417

    Just wait until Skywind is released - the entire story and game of Morrowind in Skyrim's engine.

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727

    Are you kidding?

    Resident Evil just turned 20 years old last month! One of the greatest inspirations in my creative life, 20 YEARS OLD!!!

    Just two weeks ago, I was having this same conversation. I was outside letting the dog do her business when all of a sudden I hear loud,  but very familiar music coming down the road towards the house. I couldnt help but crack up when I saw the UPS driver jammin in his truck to MC Hammers "You Cant Touch This"!!!

    Needless to say, we talked about how old we had become...

    ...old and salty frown

  • nelsonsmithnelsonsmith Posts: 1,337

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    edited June 2016
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    'You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.  There is a small mailbox here.'

    Morrowind is not my first...just my favorite.

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  • ArtisanSArtisanS Posts: 209
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Hmzzzzz, the Commodore 64 was my second computer........a Sharp PC1500 being the first one. That one could do linear regressions.....and plot the result! BTW, experimented with 3D on the 64. Their was a program that could join primitives and print the result on a matrix printer.

    https://www.c64-wiki.de/index.php/3D-Konstruktion_mit_GIGA-CAD_Plus_auf_dem_C64/C128

    By todays standards it looked so awfull that today I guess it would be called Art :-). And then Elite appeared......3D, sort of.

    https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Elite

    Greets, Ed.

  • BejaymacBejaymac Posts: 1,942

    Wait until you hit 50, then you can say you're getting old crying

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Bejaymac said:

    Wait until you hit 50, then you can say you're getting old crying

    Pffft,  not even the start of middle age. 

  • Oso3DOso3D Posts: 15,085
    edited June 2016

    I have happy childhood memories of my dad and brother and I gathered around the C64 trying to work out that darned Babel Fish.

    I also remember the first computer I owned outright, in college, which had 64 MB... of hard drive space. Partitioned into two drives because Windows couldn't handle more than 32 MB of addressing.

     

    And now you can get 1 GB in a USB drive smaller than your pinkie for a few bucks... if you can even find one. Heck, nowadays I find it difficult finding anything below 2 GB.

    My mother was a computer engineer going back to the 60s, so she started with cards and tape. What evolution over HER lifetime!

     

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  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,251
    edited June 2016
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Yep, they are. I had Pong.

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  • goose_chasegoose_chase Posts: 84

    "Dadrock". Dadrock?! Why you little snot nosed brats... get off of my lawn!

  • StratDragonStratDragon Posts: 3,273

    if you can understand this then, yeah, you're old.

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  • chickenmanchickenman Posts: 1,202
    Charlie Judge said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Yep, they are. I had Pong.

    We had Pong and that entertained us for hours.

    Then eventually we got a Tandy 1000 with a tape recorder attached for the programs to be uploaded from.

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335
    edited June 2016
    Charlie Judge said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Yep, they are. I had Pong.

    I not only owned Pong! (a Sears Tele-Pong system....I still have it.  Uses 6 D batteries, hooked up to a RF-Converter.).....I actually remember playing the ARCADE version.  Though it was "Pong!".....the exclamation mark was part of the name.

    But that wasn't my first.  ADVENT on a PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E.  Written in FORTRAN.  Ugh.  String processing in FORTRAN sucks.  If I never SEE another FORMAT statement, it'll be too soon.......

    My mother was a computer engineer going back to the 60s, so she started with cards and tape. What evolution over HER lifetime!

    _I_ used cards and magtapes!  Hollerith cards were cool.  They could double as weapons (single cards could be thrown with practice quite nastily, and a whole deck was as deadly as a brick) and were fun to confuse people with.  Magtapes were like heavy frisbees.....actually played frisbee with some back in the old data-center once......The SysOp was not amused......

     

     

    Want to feel really old?

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  • AtiAti Posts: 9,185
    ArtisanS said:

    And then Elite appeared......3D, sort of.

    I loved that! :) 

  • twitch99twitch99 Posts: 81

    Crap, Pong Arcade game came out when I was in college!!  Now I really feel old.  I was late to computers, first one was aX286 with 512KB RAM and a 40 MB HDD with 8 bit color graphics.  My grandkids cannot believe that TV was black and white when I was a kid!!

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603
    Bejaymac said:

    Wait until you hit 50, then you can say you're getting old crying

    Hit 50? I'm trying to remember 50

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    edited June 2016
    mjc1016 said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    'You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.  There is a small mailbox here.'

    Morrowind is not my first...just my favorite.

    You were just eaten by a Gru.

     

    First computer - 8088 (4MHz/8MHz Turbo Button), 2Mb RAM, 20Mb HDD, 5 1/4" Floppy drive, 5" CGA monitor.  Loved it!  Of course, that was back when computers were still fun....

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  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,455

    I recently upgraded the hard disk in my 3-D system, to a 2TB.  (The original 1TB was about 85% full, most of it my content.)  And it brought back memories....

    My very first hard disk was a Seagate ST225: 20MB, 5-1/4" Half Height.  Cost me (if I recall correctly) right at $200.  The drive I recently purchased was also a Seagate (don't recall the model number), but it's a 2TB, 2-1/2" SATA laptop drive.  Got it on sale at Fry's for $99.99.  One hundred thousand times the capacity, half the price.

    Science marches on.

  • evilded777evilded777 Posts: 2,482

    Zork was great... but I think I got you all beat with Scott Adams' Haunted House and Pyramid running on a Tandy with a cassette drive.

  • chrisschellchrisschell Posts: 267
    edited June 2016

    I'm there with you on feeling old. My first computer experience came on an Atari 400, and I learned computer programing on a Unysis/Icom system in grade 10 at school... When I started college they were all excited about their "state-of-the-art" computer labs, they'd just upgraded to the latest system (Windows 386's) with Windows 3.1 back when it was still operated by DOS prompt and had to be manually opened by typing the DOS exec comands rather than starting up with the machine like it does nowdays... lol

    I can still remember the Tandy COCO2 and having to use a massively thick (and possibly leathal) code book to program the games manually... shut the system off and the game was lost and you'd have to reprogram it all in the next time you wanted to play again....

    "10goto20"

    "20print "*******" goto30"

    "30goto10"

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  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Ah, I've got you beat!  My first game was Zork quickly followed by the original Load Runner game.  Both games played on someone else's computer, though, as my first computer was an Apple IIc which made me wish I had gotten a Commodore!

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899
    Knittingmommy said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Ah, I've got you beat!  My first game was Zork quickly followed by the original Load Runner game.  Both games played on someone else's computer, though, as my first computer was an Apple IIc which made me wish I had gotten a Commodore!

    I wanted a C64 so bad.  My brother had a Ti-80 that we programmed a 'shoot the Tie Fighters' game on.  Booting off tape... ah the good old days.

     

  • RadioactiveLilyRadioactiveLily Posts: 359

    When I tell younger people at work that I learned word processing in college using WordPerfect for DOS, they usually look at me like I'm from another planet.

  • Ken OBanionKen OBanion Posts: 1,455
    Lady Morana said:

    When I tell younger people at work that I learned word processing in college using WordPerfect for DOS, they usually look at me like I'm from another planet.

    Ah, yes, WordPerfect 4!  I installed that on so many machines....  Good times!

    (I still use WordPerfect -- WordPerfect 10, and hopelessly out of date...!)

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335
    edited June 2016

    Whippersnappers.

    I remember VisiCalc, WordStar, Adventure, and more.....Playing on TRS-80 Model-I's, Apple ][+ (48k), Commodore PETs, and MiniComputers (like the PDP-11/70 and PDP-8f machines where I toggled in RIM loaders to boot the OS from storage.....with toggle switches!)  Of course, I was pretty young then.....darn SysOps and Admins didn't want to believe a child could grasp something so complicated......

     

    I'd say I dated Ada Lovelace, but that might be pushing it....... wink

     

    Though the first computer I actuall OWNED was an Apple ][ GS.....wonderful machine, hamstrung by Apple because they didn't want it to outshine their new Mac II line.

     

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  • Peter WadePeter Wade Posts: 1,666
    timmins.william said:

    I have happy childhood memories of my dad and brother and I gathered around the C64 trying to work out that darned Babel Fish.

    I also remember the first computer I owned outright, in college, which had 64 MB... of hard drive space. Partitioned into two drives because Windows couldn't handle more than 32 MB of addressing.

     

    And now you can get 1 GB in a USB drive smaller than your pinkie for a few bucks... if you can even find one. Heck, nowadays I find it difficult finding anything below 2 GB.

    My mother was a computer engineer going back to the 60s, so she started with cards and tape. What evolution over HER lifetime!

     

    Yes, smaller capacities are hard to find now. A few months ago I bought a gadget that uses an SD card and it says maximum size 4GB. I had to go on a tour of shops to find anyone who had anything less than 8GB, I think the one I found was old stock they hadn't got rid of yet.

    And the device in question is a circuit board that plugs into a Sinclair Spectrum (yes, I still have one) and lets you load games from the SD card. No more waiting for tapes to load and fiddling with the volume control on your cassette deck when they don't, just press a button. And no more saving up to buy games either, you can download masses of them for free from the internet. But once you have pressed the button you're back to the authentic Spectrum experience (well almost, my Spectrum is modified for video output, no more wavery display and trying to tune the TV).

  • hphoenixhphoenix Posts: 1,335
    Peter Wade said:
    timmins.william said:

    I have happy childhood memories of my dad and brother and I gathered around the C64 trying to work out that darned Babel Fish.

    I also remember the first computer I owned outright, in college, which had 64 MB... of hard drive space. Partitioned into two drives because Windows couldn't handle more than 32 MB of addressing.

     

    And now you can get 1 GB in a USB drive smaller than your pinkie for a few bucks... if you can even find one. Heck, nowadays I find it difficult finding anything below 2 GB.

    My mother was a computer engineer going back to the 60s, so she started with cards and tape. What evolution over HER lifetime!

     

    Yes, smaller capacities are hard to find now. A few months ago I bought a gadget that uses an SD card and it says maximum size 4GB. I had to go on a tour of shops to find anyone who had anything less than 8GB, I think the one I found was old stock they hadn't got rid of yet.

    And the device in question is a circuit board that plugs into a Sinclair Spectrum (yes, I still have one) and lets you load games from the SD card. No more waiting for tapes to load and fiddling with the volume control on your cassette deck when they don't, just press a button. And no more saving up to buy games either, you can download masses of them for free from the internet. But once you have pressed the button you're back to the authentic Spectrum experience (well almost, my Spectrum is modified for video output, no more wavery display and trying to tune the TV).

    Larger SD Cards (not XD cards!) should still work, but you won't be able to see more than 4GB.  But even those (regular SD Cards, Not SDHC or SDXC cards....) are getting a lot harder to find.

     

  • nelsonsmithnelsonsmith Posts: 1,337
    edited June 2016
    Knittingmommy said:
    nelsonsmith said:

    You guys are youngsters.  One of my first computer games was Ultima III on a Commodore 64.

    Ah, I've got you beat!  My first game was Zork quickly followed by the original Load Runner game.  Both games played on someone else's computer, though, as my first computer was an Apple IIc which made me wish I had gotten a Commodore!
     

    I remember Zork, I just couldn't afford a computer at that  time.  I used to dream about owning a Trash 80 one day.  I had those Radio Shack catalogs taped to my wall the way other kids had the Sears Christmas catalog under their pillow.   This is one of the reasons I get such a laugh out of kids from this generation getting annoyed because a computer takes a minute to boot up.

    Just to think when I was in college a gigabyte hard drive was science fiction.  "What the heck would somebody do with a gigabyte of storage or processing power" *

    *Actual quote circa 1982.

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Lady Morana said:

    When I tell younger people at work that I learned word processing in college using WordPerfect for DOS, they usually look at me like I'm from another planet.

    I still have the disks...somewhere.

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