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Wow, I remember playing Spacewar on an IBM-XT, way back in the 80's. It was one of my favourite games back then, and if I recall correctly, the first 'multi pl
by cyberferret 9y ago
Wow, I remember playing Spacewar on an IBM-XT, way back in the 80's. It was one of my favourite games back then, and if I recall correctly, the first 'multi player' game I ever played with my friends (with two people sharing the same keyboard). Incredible fun, and I remember being amazed by the physics and smooth animation.
I cannot recall though, if the game actually worked on the old IBM monochrome monitors that did not have a Hercules graphics card. I seem to remember that the developers hacked it to run graphically by manually manipulating the dots at the hardware level?! I could be wrong though.
- hnzix 9y agoI played it on an XT with CGA, no Hercules and 512kb RAM. It looked really crispy and was in stark black and white.
- cyberferret 9y agoI do recall playing it on a CGA equipped machine later, but I distinctly remember my first experience of it being on the original green screen monochrome, and I was blown away. Wish I could remember if that machine had a Hercules graphics card in it, but I seem to remember someone saying that it didn't, and that the game was revolutionary because it went down to the display BIOS to manipulate the individual green pixels.