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- - A blast from the past (https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=165850)

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

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.

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

:salute:

Good article Neal. Quite prescient.:salute:

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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens (Post 1329329)

Thanks, mate. :) Found another one... there must be dozens of these things stuck in odd corners on the old server...

:haha:

For me this one stood out...

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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

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:

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

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Originally Posted by stellaferox (Post 1329943)

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.

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Originally Posted by razark (Post 1330043)

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!:

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:

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?

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Originally Posted by Webster (Post 1330192)

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:

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Originally Posted by Webster (Post 1330192)

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: