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.....