A blast from the past
 

Yeah, cleaning up some old files and came across this:
Subsims beyond 2000

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.

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

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

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:

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:

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.

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:

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

Nice! :up:

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 !

Loved it, thank you. :)

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:

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:

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:

Great post :up::up:

Regards, Rich

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.....

" 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.

A-MEN!

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

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

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