A blast from the past

[Onkel Neal]

Yeah, cleaning up some old files and came across this:
Subsims beyond 2000 (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/sim2000.html)

I had no clue how powerful home PCs would get, nor how utterly awesome subsims would become (even with the bugs). :D Written some time in 1998.

I use my deck gun whenever possible to conserve my dud torpedoes.

haha, that's me struggling to be witty :O:

[Nordmann]

Wow, really shows how far we've come, in a relatively short time. Who knows where we'll be in another ten years!

[floundericiousWA]

soon they'll have 1GHz computers with 128MB video cards, Neal! :O:

You were more right than wrong and that's really saying something!!! :salute:

[Onkel Neal]

Ha ha, thanks. You cannot imagine how happy I was when Silent Hunter II, even with its gimpy campaign, allowed me to look UP and DOWN on the bridge! :haha:

[Barso]

I know how you feel, I can still remember loving silent service on my commodore amiga and absolutely loving it.
It shows how far we have come.

[Sailor Steve]

I remember thinking in 1966 how cool it would be to have a Star Trek-type communicator. Captain Kirk, supposedly two hundred years in the future, would have killed-or-died for a modern cell phone just thirty years later.

In 1970 I predicted that someday we might have little cubes that would plug into a machine with music recorded electronically. I-pods? Who knew??

I hope I'm around to see (and still be young enough to enjoy) the next generation of flight, racing and sub sims!:yep:

[Barso]

If most of the publishers had it their way, god knows where subsims will go!
Thank goodness they keep them away from the consoles.

[DedEye]

Nice! :up:

[SteamWake]

That is an absolutly epic find ! :woot::yeah:

Your foresight was right on the mark.

Just wow... so glad that dident end up in the waste bin !

[Iron Budokan]

Loved it, thank you. :)

[AVGWarhawk]

And what sims they will be, with the power of 500 MHz computers and 64-bit 3D accelerator graphics cards driving them.


Ha ha, right on target. My very first computer was a Emachine Monster 550 gaming machine. These were the basic specs! I forget the RAM...probably 512MB if I was lucky. Janes Combat WWII Simulator started me off on that machine....Windows 98 OS it was. I remember the very first time I connected to the internet with the telephone jack. It had that strange noise it made when dialing and connecting. All of a sudden the world was mine! Good times...good times. :up:

[PaulH513]

5 years from now they might have little holes on your monitor to spray water on you when you when you get a water leak in your sub.

Now that's immersion!! :har::har:

[reaper7]

I know how you feel, I can still remember loving silent service on my commodore amiga and absolutely loving it.
It shows how far we have come.

used to play it on the Amiga... Just to hear the Ping effect in the music while game was loading. Ahh the good old days :O:

[rsvette12]

Great post :up::up:

Regards, Rich

[Nafod81]

In 2004 (I had just graduated) I continually commented that I wouldn't buy a house regardless of how low rates were because I believed they were ridiculously overpriced.

Had similar conversations 2005-2007.

I got laughed at many a time.....

[textide]

" in the year 2000"

I love this phrase. Haven't heard or read it in over ten years for obvious reasons.

Thanks for the cool blast from the past. We got most of the things you asked for in your list. How about a new list?!

[Onkel Neal]

" in the year 2000"

I love this phrase. Haven't heard or read it in over ten years for obvious reasons.

Thanks for the cool blast from the past. We got most of the things you asked for in your list. How about a new list?!


Thanks. Yeah, if Ubisoft Romania could patch SH5 up about 25%, we would be in heaven.

[mookiemookie]

Thanks. Yeah, if Ubisoft Romania could patch SH5 up about 25%, we would be in heaven.

A-MEN!

[robbo180265]

Brilliant find - really enjoyed reading it. Just shows how far we've come :up:

[Onkel Neal]

Thanks, mate. :) Found another one (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/topten.html)... there must be dozens of these things stuck in odd corners on the old server...

Top Ten List of Good Things About Subsims

6. Gameplay in a subsim lasts considerably longer than in most flight sims. I usually crash on take-off in Jane's F/18. My Type VII U-boat in Command Aces of the Deep takes 15 minutes just to get to sea.


:haha:

[Arclight]

Thanks Neal, helps put things back into perspective a bit. :)

[Safe-Keeper]

I used to joke when I was little that maybe some day in the future, floppy disks would be only a centimeter or two in size -- of course, I knew this'd be impossible, as they'd get lost way too easily:rotfl2:.

If only I knew that not only would get get this small, they'd also be able to store literally a thousand times more data than the 1.4 MB floppy I grew up with.

[coronas]

Thanks; I´m feeling twenty years youngest now.:)

:salute:

[TarJak]

Good article Neal. Quite prescient.:salute:

[John Channing]

Thanks, mate. :) Found another one (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/topten.html)... there must be dozens of these things stuck in odd corners on the old server...



:haha:


For me this one stood out...


The best submarine sims, although fun and stimulating, still have a ways to go before they can be considered truly real-life simulations. Ships need to be rendered in detailed 3D. WWII subsims should have fully-functional TDC and periscope range finding features for manual target plotting. And now that full-motion characters have found their way into games such as Half-Life, why can't a control room feature a dozen crewmen at their stations? They need only to move in place a little and turn their heads to simulate a submarine with people aboard, not an empty vessel.


I think that part of the problem with SH 5 is that a lot of people have no context. They have no concept of the above as something a lot of us could only dream about because a lot of them started with SH 3 and set that as the norm.

Great nostalgia, Boss.

JCC

[Red Heat]

Still today i wonder how it was possible to spend days after days playing sh1 in my pc...yes in did we made a long long ride! :hmmm:

[stellaferox]

Imagine then how it was with the first subsims like GATO or Periscope Up which had models which consisted of just a few lines!
Marc

[razark]

Imagine then how it was with the first subsims like GATO or Periscope Up which had models which consisted of just a few lines!
Marc

I would love to get my hands on GATO again. Just to remember what it was like.

I need to go visit my parents and dig out the PCJr, and find the GATO and Silent Service disks, and get rid of the kids for a few days.

[floundericiousWA]

I would love to get my hands on GATO again. Just to remember what it was like.

I need to go visit my parents and dig out the PCJr, and find the GATO and Silent Service disks, and get rid of the kids for a few days.

Be honest...! :D

I need to go visit my parents and dig out the PCJr, and find the GATO and Silent Service disks, and get rid of the kids for a few weeks. :arrgh!:

[daft]

Brings me back and gives a nostalgic smile to my face. Then I realize how old I've grown and how long I've been visiting Subsim.com and I get a bit scared. :o :wah:

[Webster]

NEAL'S SUBSIM ORIGINAL


i love it :yeah:


to be honest it might make a pretty good and entertaining electronic board game even today, but who plays board games anymore?

[AVGWarhawk]

NEAL'S SUBSIM ORIGINAL


i love it :yeah:


to be honest it might make a pretty good and entertaining electronic board game even today, but who plays board games anymore?

I do! Just last night me and my youngest daughter played chess....with real wooden pieces and board. :yeah:

[daft]

NEAL'S SUBSIM ORIGINAL


i love it :yeah:


to be honest it might make a pretty good and entertaining electronic board game even today, but who plays board games anymore?

Actually, at the age of 33 I'm about to embark on a glorious adventure in the latest edition of the pen-and-paper RPG Dungeon's & Dragon's. I even managed tor recruit 4 friends to play, so that'll really be a blast from the past. :rock: