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In today part series on the history of the development of computer technology will address the development of games for the IBM PC microcomputers that instead of full-graphics modes use "only" modes text. Also we will talk about the game Tunneler, king crab buffet in which he was somewhat surprisingly also used in text mode.
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Already in describing the early history of the development of modern computer games (specifically, it was the third part of this series), we mentioned a few games that use graphics modes instead of only text modes. It was mainly the games that were either on the mainframe or minicomputer, ie, in such electronic devices to which users connect using a text terminal equipped king crab buffet with a keyboard and screen, respectively. only using teletype (keyboard king crab buffet + printer).
Figure 1: Teletype ASR-33, which was quite often used as a cheap and relatively good quality printer. Often this telex was also used to connect users to a mainframe or minicomputer, and was used for games such as Star Trek, Hammurabi, Lunar Lander (first text version) or Collosal Cave Adventure.
You should text interface games because, as no other way to see or at least verbally describe the game world, virtually nonexistent. Moreover, king crab buffet the vast majority of these games is limited to 96 standard ASCII characters, usually can not be set or character attributes and the games were turn-based (among other things due to the fact that they were running king crab buffet on systems with time-sharing machine). Even in those - in retrospect, a very humble king crab buffet circumstances - was established several important games in text mode, which quite substantially influenced the further development of games.
Figure 2: Many games designed to work with a text terminal or a telex they had to make do with only 96 ASCII characters, king crab buffet which were sometimes accompanied by the first 32 characters by different manufacturers terminal (i 127 characters differed much easier king crab buffet telexes extra show only capitals and not have lower case).
These include an interactive game Star Trek 1971 classic text message Collosal Cave Adventure of 1975, another text message from Adventureland 1978 Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1979/1980?) Or a game called Rogue of 1980 (the the so-called roguelike games - Rogue, king crab buffet Hack, NetHack, Dungeon Crawl, Angband, ADOM, etc. - will come back next time). On the eight-bit microcomputers king crab buffet was home while I use text mode also, but mostly (with some exceptions) had already king crab buffet programmers have much better means of displaying the game world - or a raster graphics. and sprites. The trend in mass use raster graphics resulted in the development of šestnáctibitových personal king crab buffet computers, such as the three most personal computers based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor ever text modes do not support - it was of course the Amiga, Atari ST and Apple Macintosh.
Completely different king crab buffet situation, however, prevailed on the IBM PC, because PC series microcomputers king crab buffet were used primarily for offices (eight-bit games were the domain of computers and, since 1984, microcomputers and microprocessors based on the Motorola 68000, demanding CAD systems on the other hand ran on powerful Unix workstations) and the because the first types of graphic cards for these computer support primarily text modes and to a much lesser priority modes and graphics. king crab buffet
IBM offered to host its first IBM PC graphics card either MDA (Monochrome Display Adapter), or alternatively king crab buffet CGA graphics card. It was even possible to have a single computer simultaneously installed both these cards because neither addresses the control registers - port or address-range video memory does not overlap king crab buffet with (for this reason, king crab buffet the MDA also used at the time were technically obsolete ). The production of both these types of graphics cards dating back to 1981. MDA graphics card from virtually all other video cards manufactured for IBM PC differed primarily in that it actually not allow rendering of raster graphics (use of the word "graphics card" is somewhat inaccurate) as supporting text-only mode 80 25 characters, which is sometimes still used for example at startup or in op