A blast from the past

Onkel Neal · 03-22-10, 06:05 PM

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).

Written some time in 1998.

Quote:

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

haha, that's me struggling to be witty

Nordmann · 03-22-10, 06:07 PM

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

floundericiousWA · 03-22-10, 06:15 PM

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

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

Onkel Neal · 03-22-10, 06:17 PM

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!

03-22-10, 06:26 PM

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.

reaper7 · 03-22-10, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

Sailor Steve · 03-22-10, 06:29 PM

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!

03-22-10, 06:34 PM

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

Safe-Keeper · 03-23-10, 03:50 AM

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

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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 · 03-23-10, 04:17 AM

Thanks; I´m feeling twenty years youngest now.

TarJak · 03-23-10, 05:54 AM

Good article Neal. Quite prescient.

03-22-10, 06:07 PM	#2
Nordmann Commodore Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: England Posts: 628 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	Wow, really shows how far we've come, in a relatively short time. Who knows where we'll be in another ten years! __________________ "I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea." - H. G. Wells

03-22-10, 06:15 PM	#3
floundericiousWA Medic Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 164 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	soon they'll have 1GHz computers with 128MB video cards, Neal! You were more right than wrong and that's really saying something!!! __________________ C.O. - USS Tambor "Defending that which is sincerely good and perfectly divine; Triumphant over death, and chance, and time..."

03-22-10, 06:17 PM	#4
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	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! __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

03-22-10, 06:29 PM	#7
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	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! __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

03-23-10, 03:50 AM	#9
Safe-Keeper Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 3,234 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	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. 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. __________________ First Strike Mod tester. Hardcore sub skipper.

03-22-10, 06:26 PM	#5
Barso Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	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.

03-22-10, 06:34 PM	#8
Barso Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	If most of the publishers had it their way, god knows where subsims will go! Thank goodness they keep them away from the consoles.

03-23-10, 04:17 AM	#10
coronas Ace of the Deep Join Date: May 2005 Location: Asturias, España Posts: 1,168 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Thanks; I´m feeling twenty years youngest now. __________________

03-23-10, 05:54 AM	#11
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Good article Neal. Quite prescient.