Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Edward Franks
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:56 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: Weren't there any games you were obligated to pay for for the Altair? Because that would pretty much take the crown. Here's photos of MicroChess and Peter Jennings.

RE: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Hugh Falk
Great info. Rocket Pilot was the first "Hi-Res" game according to the site, but there were several from 77...hard to know which would be first. Still this is a good reference. Thanks! Hugh -Original Message- From: Edward Franks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003

RE: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Hugh Falk
Beats me...but even if there were, we're not talking about "video" games on the Altair...since there was no video output (at least not standard). And yes, you could argue that game of Altair Mastermind or Simon (just guessing) was the first PC game, it's not quite what we're looking for. I'd like

Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Edward Franks
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:56 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: Weren't there any games you were obligated to pay for for the Altair? Because that would pretty much take the crown. Fire in the Valley by Freiberger and Swaine mentions a backgammon game (pg 63, Collector's Edition hardcover),

Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Edward Franks
On Monday, February 10, 2003, at 11:30 PM, Hugh Falk wrote: The earliest copyright I have for a Scott Adam's Adventureland is 1980. Unless someone knows of an earlier one, that's definitely not the first. I'm guessing there is an earlier version out there. My December 1980 issue of Byte has

Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Jim Leonard
Weren't there any games you were obligated to pay for for the Altair? Because that would pretty much take the crown. -- Jim Leonard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])http://www.oldskool.org/ Want to help an ambitious games project? http://www.mobygames.com/ Or check out some trip

[SWCollect] Help Finding 5.25 inch external floppy

2003-02-10 Thread Stuart Feldhamer
I'm trying to find some kind of external 5.25 inch floppy drive to hook up to my laptop. A USB device would be preferable, but I would take a parallel port connection or just about anything else. I would like to be able to boot from the drive. I found a company called Micro Solutions that apparent

RE: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Hugh Falk
The earliest copyright I have for a Scott Adam's Adventureland is 1980. Unless someone knows of an earlier one, that's definitely not the first. I'm guessing there is an earlier version out there. Do you know what year Rocket Pilot was copyrighted? TRS-80 was released in August 1977 PET 2001 and

Re: [SWCollect] The first? -- Thread was King's Quest 1

2003-02-10 Thread Edward Franks
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 02:53 PM, Jim Leonard wrote: Hugh Falk wrote: I don't even know what the first commercial game would have been. The first game you had to pay for for a personal computer. For the Apple ][ [A] it looks like Rocket Pilot by Bob Bishop (of Apple-Vision fame

Re: [SWCollect] Greetings

2003-02-10 Thread Jim Leonard
John Romero wrote: > > I worked on it with my friend Lane Roathe. Lane did the 256-byte RWTS > routine (the low-level) and I did the high-level code that supported the > disk structure and API. There's an easter egg in there too. :) Here's > a link to it: http://hometown.aol.com/graemecree/info