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Topic: Old PC game

Vital Stats

The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:

Most admires:

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates

Favorite website(s):

Game Spot

Favorite possession(s):

Nintendo system, Xbox, Apple Computer

Personality:

Wacky

Currently has on their coffee table:

Mac Today, PC World

Favorite Card Game(s):

Cheat

Favorite great leader(s):

Montezuma II

Interest(s):

Role Play Games, Computers

Favorite computer game(s):

PacMan, Doom, Space Invaders

Favorite online activity(s):

Finding warez

Favorite sportsperson(s):

Andre Agassi (tennis)

Favorite quote(s):

"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Expert Talk

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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

A World Wide Web site with more information on emulators is Some games written for old computer systems can be converted into files that can be read on a PC.
BSP tree culling allows games to run with a decent frame rate even on old PCs.
So even if a game seems well balanced and fun and equitable for your PCs, it may be sort of silly if the authors failed to take into account what NPCs, perhaps thousands of years old, may have been doing.

Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

And finally you can now also use real PC joysticks to play your old ST games with Hatari.
I have a old c64 at my room and play all the old games with a pc c64 emu, too.
It has been quite buggy in comparance of today but its really running several of my old games on the pc!

Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

To play these games you need an Apple II emulator program for your PC such as: There are also disk images and emulators for other old systems such as the Commodore C64 at the IF Archive.
However, for most of the old home computers of the 1980s, there are emulators available for PCs and Macs so that you can run the old game exactly as if your new machine was your old.
However some modern PCs have problems with the old AGT runtime interpreters that are bundled with the games in /games/agt and /pc.

User Talk

Comments from our users:

From:
american_idiot
2005-04-19 15:10:37

There was a game i used to play, and i believe it was called Bob. Basically, you got your own room, and decorated it how ever you wanted it. You had a password, and it was only yours. My aunt got me playing it when i was 11 or so, and that was 10 years ago. If you can tell me where i might be able to download the freeware, or find it to buy it, i'd appreciate it. Thanks

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