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edited February 2011 in Ten Forward
I have a Tandy 1000 with 14.4 Modem. Can I get the game on 1.4 disk and will it run ok on my Tandy;) Do you think I need a upgrade. It can run on DOS 2






Just want to lighten op the forums
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    JT_Marsh wrote:
    I have a Tandy 1000 with 14.4 Modem. Can I get the game on 1.4 disk and will it one ok on my Tandy;) Do you think I need a upgrade. It can run on DOS 2






    Just want to lighten op the forums

    What the frak is a floppy? :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Personally I am more a fan of 5.25" Floppies... Much easier to handle.. Sure they have less datastorage, but i find them more handy.

    tapes have their charm too.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    SYS 64738...... WOW can't believe i still remember that from my old C64.


    Edit: I remember when the Commodore 128 came out and the advert in my PC magazine had a man sitting in front of it and it looked like a hurricane was blowing out his screen. HAHA thats raw power!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Was going to say, I prefer 5.25" floppies, make this a priority please. Nothing like the sound of big ole floppies accessing. Make it so.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I have STO on punch-cards for your university mainframe. Just be careful about inserting cards 120,000-186,200
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Wow you guys need to get with the times, its all about zip drives now. :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    qbasic ftw!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    There really should be a DOS version :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Fenrir1536 wrote: »
    Wow you guys need to get with the times, its all about zip drives now. :p

    I stopped using zip drives ages ago when they came out with the button fly.


    Edit: It's okay to boo me. haha
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I found it!! At least in the 5 inch floppys
    http://imagesfromlight.com/star.jpg
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    JT_Marsh wrote:
    I found it!! At least in the 5 inch floppys
    http://imagesfromlight.com/star.jpg

    You win. haha
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Can I get the soundtrack on 8-track tapes?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Had this sales person at "bad buy" tell me about this new "tower" computer called...... a HP I think. It looked funny! You cant even put your monitor on top of it!! I told him thank you very much but I will stick with my Tandy 1000 with 14.4 modem. Darn kid I dont get what I said that made the whole store think It funny. I got into my Pinto and headed back to radio shack. Bought me a 28.8 modem Seems faster know. Radio Shacks the best! They dont laugh at me!

    The reason I asked about the floppys was because my Dos crashed trying to load Windows 3.0 I started downloading the game at launch. 2 days ago I finally got it downloaded. 14.4 modems with Prodgy dial up is so slow! Thats why I wanted to upgrade to the 28.8 modem. When the game was runing it took me 7 hours to get from the transporter room to the club. I hope once I re install the game I plan to set off for vulcan. I think it should take no more than a year to get there.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Jexsam wrote: »
    Can I get the soundtrack on 8-track tapes?

    I am sure it can be arranged, but I think the only way to get the 8 track player is to purchase a car with it still in it. Although that is still probably less then an Ipod.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I miss my Tandy now and playing the old Robocop sidescrolling game on it. The game came with 7 floppies. How times have changed!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I miss my Tandy now and playing the old Robocop sidescrolling game on it. The game came with 7 floppies. How times have changed!

    Oh yes... I still remember installing Windows 3.11 and Office (dont remember the ver), from Floppies... The peace and quiet of just sitting at your pc, listening to the drive going BZZ-BZZ-BZZ

    "Please insert the floppy labed 'Microsoft Windows 3.11 DIsk 24 of 52' into your floppy drive and press resume". (not sure about the number... but i have the entire set of floppies around here somewhere.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I still have an IBM Colt computer in my closet...7.2 mhz on turbo mode !!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Cryptiecop wrote:
    I still have an IBM Colt computer in my closet...7.2 mhz on turbo mode !!!

    OHHH... that's sweet... the smallest one (apart from my C64) is 12 MHz/33MHz.

    Do gameboys count?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    JT_Marsh wrote:
    I have a Tandy 1000 with 14.4 Modem. Can I get the game on 1.4 disk and will it run ok on my Tandy;) Do you think I need a upgrade. It can run on DOS 2






    Just want to lighten op the forums

    No, that's what they run the SERVERS on!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    anazonda wrote: »
    OHHH... that's sweet... the smallest one (apart from my C64) is 12 MHz/33MHz.

    Do gameboys count?

    Well a Iphone 4 has a 1 Ghz "1000 Mhz" in it;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    There are some Android phones running 1.2GHz processors. And the next gen phones will have up to 2GHz processors.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Cawah wrote:
    No, that's what they run the SERVERS on!

    No they run a 56K modem. Actually a rack of 10 so leave them alone!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Amiga 500 anyone?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I use an Abacus to calculate DPS stats. :p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Floppies....ah, the good ol' times ;)

    I'm a bit too young for punchcards, but I did experience 8 inch and 5 1/4 inch floppies.

    I still recall my first "real" home computer, a dull grey box with a 10 Mhz 80286, one full Megabyte of RAM and a 32 MB Hard Drive. I even managed to install (9 floppies or so...) and run Windows 3.1 on that one, although that was really cutting it close in terms of disk space -.-

    cheers,

    Zatea
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    I still have one of these:

    http://www.recycledgoods.com/product_images/d/951/13323_21__71610_zoom.jpg

    Rockin it oldschool :p

    PS:

    I hear this is what the runners up in the Ent-F contest are getting in lieu of the Alienware.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    anazonda wrote: »
    Oh yes... I still remember installing Windows 3.11 and Office (dont remember the ver), from Floppies... The peace and quiet of just sitting at your pc, listening to the drive going BZZ-BZZ-BZZ

    "Please insert the floppy labed 'Microsoft Windows 3.11 DIsk 24 of 52' into your floppy drive and press resume". (not sure about the number... but i have the entire set of floppies around here somewhere.

    Windows are what I look out of to see into the neighbor's yard. My Kaypro 10 came loaded with CPM, and it never, ever crashes. You should see STO in green!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    From what I can tell there is 14.6 gig of game. At least in the game folder. Now I am not a math person but on a 1.4 meg disk I came up that it would take 10,429 disk for this game. Star Trek: 25th Anniversary 1991 "my first pc game" took 8 disk. Not a slight against trek online but they had more voice. All of the voices from the orginal in fact;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    laserdisc.

    Y'all know we want vinyl-szied cds, right?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    My Tandy Color Computer does just fine for what I want to do.

    With 16K of RAM and a cassette drive, what more does anyone need?

    Now if only I could get a Color Television to hook it up to instead of the B&W one I am currently using, it would be amazing!
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