It's DOS, Jim, but not as we know it....
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captainsblogThirty-odd falls ago (as in 1978, not me tripping on the sidewalk), I signed up for a music theory course that had an ear-training component through a primordial interactive computer terminal, at Cornell and many other US uni's, known as PLATO. It never trained my ears for shite, but I sure did spend a lot of time down on the ground floor of Uris Hall, most of it playing thoroughly unauthorized computer games.
One of them got carried over in some form to the university mainframe, and then years later I found a PC version of it when I was finishing law school; some Geology Department friends of a friend, who I studied for the Bar with a good deal, had a copy of it on their ancient IBM clone.
And there my memory of it ended, until seven years ago this very month, when I found an actual copy of it, suitable to run in a Windows DOS-ish environment, with both an executable running the program itself and a Word file containing much in the way of instructions and help.
Since this month, apparently, is the 25th anniversary of Tetris, which I never played, I thought I'd provide some ubergeeky entertainment to any of you caring to share the totally non-GUI'y thrill of commanding the Enterprise and getting your ass kicked. Over and over and over again:
The proggie itself (executable, right off the now-external XP drive I downloaded it onto in 2002, with Vista amazingly able to run it in an ugly DOS window)
The Word file with help and other details.
I presume you'll tell me if you find this Trek nostalgia as goofy geeky fun as I do.
Just watch out for those gorram Tholians, kthnxbye.
One of them got carried over in some form to the university mainframe, and then years later I found a PC version of it when I was finishing law school; some Geology Department friends of a friend, who I studied for the Bar with a good deal, had a copy of it on their ancient IBM clone.
And there my memory of it ended, until seven years ago this very month, when I found an actual copy of it, suitable to run in a Windows DOS-ish environment, with both an executable running the program itself and a Word file containing much in the way of instructions and help.
Since this month, apparently, is the 25th anniversary of Tetris, which I never played, I thought I'd provide some ubergeeky entertainment to any of you caring to share the totally non-GUI'y thrill of commanding the Enterprise and getting your ass kicked. Over and over and over again:
The proggie itself (executable, right off the now-external XP drive I downloaded it onto in 2002, with Vista amazingly able to run it in an ugly DOS window)
The Word file with help and other details.
I presume you'll tell me if you find this Trek nostalgia as goofy geeky fun as I do.
Just watch out for those gorram Tholians, kthnxbye.
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Date: 2009-06-04 10:12 am (UTC)