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Originally Posted by Rogerwilco
Heh . . .. And I was a Sales Manager at the time I bought that Trash 80....
Sidekick wasn't like Norton commander,
Sidekick was the first TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program out there...
Simple stuff, calulator, address book, notepad...you hit some weird key combination to bring it up....but Wow...... Was that something...
Norton commander..... I've lived with that for years and years...the Grandaddy of all dos shells....
I'm using Total Commander now, but they use the exact same commands as NC.... I've still got it in storage, and would use it 'cept that old DOS 8 char file name max..... it'll truncate anything longer.....
What was the name(3) of some of the popular BBS software? For some reason, all I can recall is Fido...which was old when I got into it.... I had a BBS, BTW...
Remember those BBS "On line" games?
How about 300 Baud modems?
My first was a 1200 Baud, and man, that smoked!
Heh
Looking at your handle, do you have any software out there, either Retail, shareware or freeware that you've written?
I wrote a grand total of two Shareware programs, had a bit of response, but that was in the late 80's early 90's.....
a few dozen freeware bits, almost all savegame cheats......
Heh....Just flashed on....remember ZZT?
Rogerwilco and out
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I never actually ran a BBS, but I was very active in the local ones at the time. Made friends with the sysops, a couple of which I still talk to.
Contributed games I'd snagged from other BBSs, and drew come ANSI screens.
My first modem was also a 1200bps. Unfortunately my father bought it when 2400bps modems were already out, so I was still the "slowest on the block". I'd sometimes go to my friend's house to use his. My next modem was a USRobotics 14k external, which was a great improvement! But by that time I had found the Internet, and my time on BBSs was decreasing.
Looking back, I really wish I could go back to my XT with its 1200bps modem, and have a day of atl3x4dt! (For those that don't get it, that's a modem dial string, typed into a terminal.)
As far as ZZT, I never played it, though "ZZT" is a very familiar sequence of letters from back in the day. From a little googling, it looks like it was some sort of Rogue/WOW type game? Looks pretty neat! Think I might have to give it a real teardown.
Other than my Animator software, I never released anything of my own to the public, until recently. I decided to place my stuff out there because I became nostalgic about QB about a month ago, and wanted to contribute my old stuff to the QB community.
Oh, yes. Now I do remember Sidekick. I think I tried it once, but had problems with performance, or it didn't work, or something or other.
That was back in the late 80's-early 90's? I was a teen at that time, so software like that wasn't of real importance yet.
Edit:
Holy Bug Eyes Batman! SideKick for DOS is still being sold. The surprise here is that it still costs between $59 and $99??? Holy Mazoli! I'd figure that someone who could afford that price could also afford a newer computer that can run newer software to do the same stuff!