Microprose

[prime1]

Just out of interest why was the old post closed?


I found out from someone who works for infogram why microprose was dropped.

Apparently when they presented gp4, it was shit, full of bugs, and coudlnt run on any modern pc system, Infogram also felt they had run out of ideas as their next project was.. GP5 :/

Although thats somewhat rich coming from infrogram whos next releases/projects include :

unreal2, Unreal Tournament 2, Alone in the Dark 5, Driver 3 etc

 

[old.Jas]

It prolly got closed by the thread starter (kryt) as people started laying into him.

Interesting info you got there though...

 

[caLLous]

Originally posted by prime1
Apparently when they presented gp4, it was shit, full of bugs, and coudlnt run on any modern pc system

I think it had something to do with the poor security, the game was leaked 3 months before it hit the shops.

And it isn't/wasn't full of bugs, and I had no problem running it...

 

[Durzel]

F1GP has always needed a monsterous PC to run properly, back when F1GP2 came out even the fastest PC around at the time was unable to run it at the highest resolutions.

 

[caLLous]

Heh, I found an old PC Format the other day, and in it was a review for the original Nascar by Papyrus. They were disgusted about how poorly it performed on an average machine in those days, so they rigged up "the big guns". A P90.

 

[Sir Frizz]

I remember when a 286 was the machine to be had. I was about 6...

 

[xane]

shows how old I am, my first homebuild PC was a 286 8Mhz, hurredly upgraded to a 386DX 33Mhz with a massive 4MB RAM and 50MB HDD !!!

 

[*Kornholio*]

My first pc was a 4.77mhz (no turbo) with 512k ram & no hdd :/

 

[caLLous]

I think this thread has turned into a big retrospective love-in...

 

[xane]

Originally posted by caLLous
I think this thread has turned into a big retrospective love-in...

I remember the first retro-love-in on BW back in '99.

 

[Moving Target]

My old PC used to have a 'Turbo' button. Very quaint.

 

[*Kornholio*]

you were spoilt then

 

[Gumbo]

Didn't the Turbo button in fact slow it down so that older apps didn't run too fast, so you'd miss stuff, or something like that?

 

[whipped]

Mainly, a turbo button would turn on a light that said Turbo or, on real special occasions, PCs would have a turbo button that changed an LED readout from 33 to 66

Btw, my first PC was a P100. I missed out on the whole 486 days. In fact, that same P100 is now powering the router that is allowing me to post this.

 

[Moving Target]

Originally posted by whipped
on real special occasions, PCs would have a turbo button that changed an LED readout from 33 to 66

Mine had one of those. It looked really cool :/

 

[Sar]

My first self bought and owned PC was a PB P60, with an amazing 4mb of memory.

It cost me £200 to up that to 8mb back in those days (May 95), so think yourselves lucky nowadays you young whippersnappers.

 

[James-]

My first PC was a P166 32mb ram :>

 

[Lester]

My first computer was bought of a guy called Babbage, who said he didnt want it any more. I finally stopped using it when c.s. 0.5 came out as all the mustard gas got in the hard drive

 

[FatBusinessman]

Originally posted by Moving Target
My old PC used to have a 'Turbo' button. Very quaint.

One of the ones in my house still does

Although it doesn't actually do anything...

 

[nath]

486 DX2 33, 4mbs of ram.

My mate bought a 486 66, and I wanted to kill him :|

But then I got a dx4 100, and I laughed MAHAHAHA. Then all this pentium business took off, so I got a P233 with MMX!! it actually ran pod smoothly, omg so cool!














Jesus H. I'm a geek :/

 

[caLLous]

I don't even know what mhz my first 286 was... but I remember going up to a 486sx33 PB Force and being really jealous because a friend had a 486dx33 with a maths coprocessor.

 

[Daffeh]

omg i nearly forgot Microprose made Pirates!


uber uber game

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carry on with your off topic replies now

 

[Furr]

i had an Atari ST

 

[(Shovel)]

386 SX. No idea what clock speed, I was only 7. Erm, 2 MB of RAM and a 40 MB Hard Drive.

Favourite game on it was Wing Commander (1), followed by Microprose's F1GP (1).

Back on Microprose though.

It's my understanding that as well as Pirates, F1GP and Rollercoaster Tycoon, did they not also swallow up Team 17 some time ago and therefore have the Worms licence as well?

 

[nath]

Team 17 turned in to another company didn't they? Forget which.

 

[Summo]

Originally posted by James-
My first PC was a P166 32mb ram :>

Same here, 'cept mine had 16MB RAM and I overclocked it to a whopping 200MHz! That PC cost me in the region of £800 and I was paying Staples off for years afterwards.

I was a late convert to PCs having lived with my Acorn Electron and Amiga A500, which 0wned Atari ST. Rawk!

 

[James-]

Mine was an ex-display model from where my mum works, so she got staff discount on top of the knocked down price. Rah!

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Atari ST > Amiga

ATARIS ARE STILL USED MUAHAHAH VICTORY TO THE ATARI CAMP EVEN IF THE GAMES WERE BETTER ON THE AMIGA AND STUFF!

 

[PR.]

My First PC was a Viglen P100, 8mb ram, 1Gb HDD, 4x CDROM, Onboard sound. and it flew... in 1995

Still works 100% and is a very nice system...

Originally paid = £1560

Then another £100 for 8Mb EDO RAM

 

[bids]

Anyone remember the Amstrad PPC512 'portable' ?
My first 'proper' PC after a Spectrum - little LCD greenscreen, 4.77 Mhz 8088 and 10 Mb hard drive - ran Microprose Stealth Fighter a treat back in 1990