The graphics kind of remind me of the car game STUNTS.
The Making of Stunt Island
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Re: The Making of Stunt Island
#12The graphics kind of remind me of the car game STUNTS. https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/stunts
It was pretty much the same style of play, too, only more elaborate, and with planes. Both were great games, really.
Re: The Making of Stunt Island
#13Still available on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/stunt_island I regret not getting into it back in the day as I was too busy with Flight Simulator 4 and all its expansions :)
I love the minimum hardware requirements they list on GOG. I suspect you can get away with a slightly less powerful machine
Re: The Making of Stunt Island
#14> And I had an extra hercules graphics card that allowed me to debug on a separate monochrome monitor.
For anyone wondering how that worked... Hercules graphics cards had their screen RAM in a different part of the memory map than CGA/EGA/VGA. So a bit of clever coding could get you 'dual screens' even at the DOS level.
There's a few YouTube videos showing ancient IBM XTs running with two simultaneous monitors - one CGA, and the other Monochrome.
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#15I can't remember why I bought this game (I was in the middle of high school at the time), but I logged hundreds of hours in this game. It's hard to appreciate games from a generation before you because you've developed a certain expectation of how games are supposed to look, features you've come to expect in every game, etc. But there was really nothing like this game at the time. 3D games barely existed (they were mostly flight sims, as this game nominally is), but it had so much more. You have to remember that this was before the web (actually one year after its creation), and most people weren't on the Internet. Some of us nerds were on BBSes, Compuserve, etc. But discovery of new games came from gaming magazines, friends, and just going to the game store and seeing what was on the shelves (which, as I think about it, is probably how I ended up with it. I probably thought it looked cool on the shelf).
I don't really have a point, but this article brought back some memories of that time.
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#16I can't remember why I bought this game (I was in the middle of high school at the time), but I logged hundreds of hours in this game. It's hard to appreciate games from a generation before you because you've developed a certain expectation of how games are supposed to look, features you've come to expect in every game, etc. But there was really nothing like this game at the time. 3D games barely existed (they were m…
If memory serves me This was an upgrade for me from Corncob 3D.
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#17> Disney put me in an apartment nearby from which I could walk to their offices, and I tended to get in in the afternoon and work long into the night. Corporate America is not my natural habitat and I think I was regarded with bemusement by most of the Disney employees. We were receiving no money from Disney during this period, and I couldn’t afford to eat, so I lived on whatever I could find in the office kitchen.
It seems odd that Disney was willing to provide housing, but unwilling to spend even a dime for this man to eat.
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#18> Disney put me in an apartment nearby from which I could walk to their offices, and I tended to get in in the afternoon and work long into the night. Corporate America is not my natural habitat and I think I was regarded with bemusement by most of the Disney employees. We were receiving no money from Disney during this period, and I couldn’t afford to eat, so I lived on whatever I could find in the office kitchen. I…
Could be bureaucratic categories he fell into
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#19> And I had an extra hercules graphics card that allowed me to debug on a separate monochrome monitor. For anyone wondering how that worked... Hercules graphics cards had their screen RAM in a different part of the memory map than CGA/EGA/VGA. So a bit of clever coding could get you 'dual screens' even at the DOS level. There's a few YouTube videos showing ancient IBM XTs running with two simultaneous monitors - one…
As it happens it was also possible (although not really practical :-) to run two VGA cards in the same machine. The secondary card was left uninitialised by the boot process (since it would have conflicted with the primary), but it was possible to download the ROM, call into the initialisation routine (thus firing up the card and making it the primary), and thereafter switch which card was the one currently mapped into the PC address space to control which display you were writing to.
Source: I managed to achieve it once, although only with a great deal of help from people on Usenet...
Re: The Making of Stunt Island
#20> And I had an extra hercules graphics card that allowed me to debug on a separate monochrome monitor. For anyone wondering how that worked... Hercules graphics cards had their screen RAM in a different part of the memory map than CGA/EGA/VGA. So a bit of clever coding could get you 'dual screens' even at the DOS level. There's a few YouTube videos showing ancient IBM XTs running with two simultaneous monitors - one…
I had/have dual MDA and CGA compatible video cards in my 8088 PC, and used it extensively for debugging. There were debuggers that would run well on MDA, while the program displayed on the graphics adapter. Additionally, I soldered a pushbutton switch to the NMI and ground on the CPU, and hitting that would break out of whatever might be locking the system and give control back to the debugger. For the 80s, it was a delightful setup.