Please do not laugh but could you tell me what ...

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I love Hitchhikers Guide! Took me forever to get through. I still try to play it every once in awhile. I wanted a license plate that said "No Tea", too bad someone already has it.

I say woot all the time. I'm a nerd and I think it's funny.

 

[qruthie]

Ok, this is how old I am. Anyone remember text adventure: Enter house: light match. House burns down! I think it was a mansion game.

Cindy (Coriander)

Cindy, the game I've been talking about was called Adventure and took place in a system of caves. The info describing each part of the game was only text and the player issued text commands. Sounds a lot like your game.

I played another game like this called Civil War. The player was the South, the computer was North. The South was always outnumbered and had less money to buy food, buy weapons and pay the soldiers. The object was to divide up your money and plan your attack in each of the real Civil War battles so that the South would win the war. Sometimes that meant spending almost all of your money on weapons without giving your soldiers much food or salary. That would cause them to have poor morale but would allow them to win the battle with few casualties and few desertions.

When I was in an evil mood, I would split the money so that half went to food and the other half went to salaries and absolutely nothing went to weapons - morale would be amazingly high. Then I'd send my soldiers on a full frontal attack. Usually about 80% of the soldiers would desert me. The other 20% would be casualties. And I'd be sitting there laughing hysterically.

Did anyone else get hooked on Rogue, Hack and Moria? I have the source code for Hack provided you have a magtape drive and software that can restore VAX/VMS backup save sets. You'd probably need a VAX running VMS to play the game too since I ported the code from unix to VAX/VMS.

Yes, I'm a nerd and I'm proud of it!

qruthie (the 'q' is silent)

 

[SecretZetaSissy]

We Owned Other Team

 

[robinb]

Did anyone else get hooked on Rogue, Hack and Moria? I have the source code for Hack provided you have a magtape drive and software that can restore VAX/VMS backup save sets. You'd probably need a VAX running VMS to play the game too since I ported the code from unix to VAX/VMS.

Ah! Rogue . I loved Rogue. And I played it on a Vax PDP-1170 running Unix. In college. Yes, I *am* that old, LOL.

 

[Chedstro]

Oh yes, I remember Civil War! Another great text adventure I got truly bogged down on was "Deadline." I still have it, detective interviewing people to solve a mystery. Sadly the Apple II is dead.

Cindy (Coriander)

 

[MiakodaWDW]

There are a LOT of text adventures. I used to love them as a kid...I had a floppy disk (actually big and floppy...the old ones) for my COMMODORE 64!!!! The disk had like 4 games on it: Castle Quest, Atlantis Adventure, and some others I don't remember the names of.

You can still find and play games like this online. For anyone who is into Homestarrunner....you can play one on there! It's really funny of course, but a real game.
Peasant's Quest Preview: "Throw baby!" (if anyone knows what I'm talking about then "woot" to you! LOL!)

~Mia~

 

[blizzard]

There are a LOT of text adventures. I used to love them as a kid...I had a floppy disk (actually big and floppy...the old ones) for my COMMODORE 64!!!!
~Mia~

Oh please! We had a TRS-80 that wasn't advanced enough for floppy disks. We used a regular tape recorder to save and load games. The games almost always loaded with an error (grrr). There wasn't enough memory to hold the whole (text based) game of haunted house, so you had to load again half way through. I think there was something wrong with our game because you could only ever finish the first level. When it went to the second, you couldn't do anything.

"Sorry only one plugh per customer"

 

[MiakodaWDW]

I remember the tapes. We had those and cartridges before we were finally advanced enough to get the floppy drive! It was such a huge deal to us...I don't remember much about the cassettes, except there were certain numbers you had to wind it to, to get to the game. It was a pain and almost never worked.

But oh, the floppy drive finally came...."Load, 8, 1", and that was that. Those were the days!

Oh please! We had a TRS-80 that wasn't advanced enough for floppy disks. We used a regular tape recorder to save and load games. The games almost always loaded with an error (grrr). There wasn't enough memory to hold the whole (text based) game of haunted house, so you had to load again half way through. I think there was something wrong with our game because you could only ever finish the first level. When it went to the second, you couldn't do anything.

"Sorry only one plugh per customer"

 

[HarambeGuy]

Rofl!! I'd totally forgotten about that, Mike, and I grew up playing Doom and Hexen...


Of course, I also remember "Elf needs food badly!" and "Elf shot the food!" and that really ages me

How about "THAT was a heroic effort..."

 

[Belle1997]

Boy this thread took on a life of its own. From woot woot to comador 64 games. Wow anyways thanks for the info I now have the knowlege to feels less stupid about woot. If that can be hum woot and intelligent word. Ah maybe not we will just put it in the fun word category lol.

 

[CaptinJackSparrow]

I just have to say.....I really HATE the word WOOT. I first heard it on a Lucid Dreaming forum I belong to and had to ask what it meant. For some reason it really bugs me...I am bugged by acronyms like "rotfl" and "LOL" too, but I find myself saying LOL all the time anyway, I guess just because it's fast and easy, and b/c I can't say "hahaha" on VMK. But I refuse to use "rofl" or "woot" no matter what. ROTFL...I find it hard to beleive that someone can be rolling on the floor and still typing at the same time. It's just one of my silly pet peeves, like when people say "PIN number" and "ATM machine"....(those are my SERIOUS pet peeves.....arggggg).

~Mia~ (stepping off the soap box)

We must have been seperated at birth! Everytime I see it scroll up on the screen i just want to smash someones face in with a spade shovel, just to releive some tension, no one in paticular. I am just glad it hasn't caught on in the real world. I totally agree with you on the PIN number thing as well as the ATM machine. ya know what else i hate Federal Express started somthing called Fed Ex Express, Federal Express Express man that drives me bonkers. Wheres my shovel?

 

[MiakodaWDW]

We must have been seperated at birth! Everytime I see it scroll up on the screen i just want to smash someones face in with a spade shovel, just to releive some tension, no one in paticular. I am just glad it hasn't caught on in the real world. I totally agree with you on the PIN number thing as well as the ATM machine. ya know what else i hate Federal Express started somthing called Fed Ex Express, Federal Express Express man that drives me bonkers. Wheres my shovel?

Yay, that makes me very happy. Yes, Fed Ex Express irritates me also! ATM Machine is the worst though, especially when I see it one a printed sign or...gasp....find myself accidentally saying it. It's catching on like a disease! We must stop them before it's too late! Get your shovels!

~Mia~

 

[Makeminemusic]

Hehe... You are in a twisty maze of passages...

I spent many many hours very productively playing Colossal Caves )

Now, someone hand me my dentures and my walker. I need to go find a 300 baud modem and a BBS

ROFL! you guys are killing me! And yes I remember the text adventure games on my Commadore Vic-20.

 

[qruthie]

Yay, that makes me very happy. Yes, Fed Ex Express irritates me also! ATM Machine is the worst though, especially when I see it one a printed sign or...gasp....find myself accidentally saying it. It's catching on like a disease! We must stop them before it's too late! Get your shovels!

~Mia~

I don't mind woot, LOL, ROTFL, ROFL, ROTFLMAO, etc.. I do mind the "how r u 2 day" stuff. Nails on a chalkboard. It's really hard for me to use "brb" or "afk". Guess I'm an old fuddy duddy.

ATM Machine and PIN Number really annoy me so I yell at the tv when I hear them on there. The real killer for me is "2:00 AM in the morning." If I hear that on tv, I comment, "as opposed to 2:00 AM at night". And speaking of AM and PM stuff, don't use 12:00 AM and 12:00 PM. They are ambiguous. We have perfectly good words for 12:00 - noon and midnight. I do suggest venting your frustration by yelling at the tv, it keeps me from yelling at a real person and inventing a new trend such as ATM Machine Rage.

qruthie (the 'q' is silent)
Department of Redundancy Department

 

[MiakodaWDW]

Yes, qruthie, I totally forgot about "2 a.m. the morning". that is another HUGE pet peeve. Right there below ATM Machine and PIN number. I'm glad people agree with me here! I use brb and afk just b/c it is so much faster. My major annoyance with internet acronyms is is ROTFL, b/c like I said, I honestly doubt they are actually rolling on the floor. LMAO I can handle
Just say haha! Or even LOL! But there is no need for ROTFL. People just do not actually do that. I think I've seen maybe one person actually fall down and start rolling around from laughing so hard, and he was not at a computer at the time.

~Mia~


^^^but this little guy looks funny

 

[qruthie]

Yes, qruthie, I totally forgot about "2 a.m. the morning". that is another HUGE pet peeve. Right there below ATM Machine and PIN number. I'm glad people agree with me here! I use brb and afk just b/c it is so much faster. My major annoyance with internet acronyms is is ROTFL, b/c like I said, I honestly doubt they are actually rolling on the floor. LMAO I can handle
Just say haha! Or even LOL! But there is no need for ROTFL. People just do not actually do that. I think I've seen maybe one person actually fall down and start rolling around from laughing so hard, and he was not at a computer at the time.

~Mia~


^^^but this little guy looks funny

Well, you don't really know me and I have no way to prove this but I have fallen out of my chair due to laughing. It happened more than once when I used to work but I had so many chances because I was/am a computer geek (the professional title was Software Engineer). Some of the comments people put in their code are too hilarious and are generally not suited for repeating here. I worked with a guy who was soooo quiet and well-behaved. I was given part of his project to complete after he left the company. He had carefully documented the code but the funniest part was a note at the top of the file. It basically said he had worked on the code a lot and still couldn't get it to work and he didn't know why so he was giving up. But the language was much more colorful than that and was peppered with expletives. It was clear that he was pretty ticked off. I literally did fall out of my chair laughing at it!

I used to read something similar to a message board that was about customer service calls. Those stories just killed me. I'd be out of my chair and on the floor (trying to stifle my laughing so I wouldn't disturb the other cubicle drivers in my area). Here's a fairly benign example. A man called because he needed to have the cup holder on his pc replaced. The tech was obviously confused and had to try to figure out the real problem without laughing at the customer (the reps would put the person on hold to "take another call" when they absolutely couldn't help but laugh, this call was one of those...). What happened was the guy had been using his cd tray as a place to set his coffee cup!

Oh and I've actually finished typing while still on the floor. But strangely enough, I never typed ROTFL or ROFL from that position!


qruthie (the 'q' is silent)

 

[MiakodaWDW]

A man called because he needed to have the cup holder on his pc replaced. The tech was obviously confused and had to try to figure out the real problem without laughing at the customer (the reps would put the person on hold to "take another call" when they absolutely couldn't help but laugh, this call was one of those...). What happened was the guy had been using his cd tray as a place to set his coffee cup!

LOL. I have heard this story before. i don't know if it really happened to anyone or if it's just one of those stories that gets passed around, but I heard this anecdote a few times working AOL tech support. Let me tell you, and sorry to any AOL users on here, but AOL customers are about the dumbest people you could ever talk to (not counting the people on DIS that may use AOL...if you are intelligent enough to use a message board, you are way smarter than the average AOL user).

I used to keep a notebook log of all the stupid comments and questions I got, which other techs started passing around and writing in. One of the best was, this guy whose AOL software had been deleted off his computer, and he needed to re-install it. I asked him if he had his AOL installation disk. He said, "um, I don't know...is that the tall box with the blinking lights under my desk?" It took me a couple of seconds before I realized he was talking about his COMPUTER. I had to ask him to hold a moment while I LMAO (sorry, LMBO). And you would be amazed at how many people cannot find their start button. Even after I tell them "it's the button that says 'start' in the lower left corner of your computer". I have had many people who take 5 minutes to understand the concept of right clicking the mouse. Don't even ASK how hard it is to explain "control alt delete". One man got so frustrated trying to do this, that he said he is cancelling AOL and hung up. One man actually asked me how to make letters capital. I had to explain how to hold down the shift key while typing the letter ("wow, that is so neat! I never knew that!") My question is, who let these people own a computer?

I had to quit that job because it really made me depressed about the human race.

Ok WAY off topic here, but I just had to share that. I have many more AOL war stories, but I will stop now

~Mia~

 

[Captain Brain]

LMBO!

That is why our family has our own domain...

P.S.Tell more AOL stories they are way funny!

LOL. I have heard this story before. i don't know if it really happened to anyone or if it's just one of those stories that gets passed around, but I heard this anecdote a few times working AOL tech support. Let me tell you, and sorry to any AOL users on here, but AOL customers are about the dumbest people you could ever talk to (not counting the people on DIS that may use AOL...if you are intelligent enough to use a message board, you are way smarter than the average AOL user).

I used to keep a notebook log of all the stupid comments and questions I got, which other techs started passing around and writing in. One of the best was, this guy whose AOL software had been deleted off his computer, and he needed to re-install it. I asked him if he had his AOL installation disk. He said, "um, I don't know...is that the tall box with the blinking lights under my desk?" It took me a couple of seconds before I realized he was talking about his COMPUTER. I had to ask him to hold a moment while I LMAO (sorry, LMBO). And you would be amazed at how many people cannot find their start button. Even after I tell them "it's the button that says 'start' in the lower left corner of your computer". I have had many people who take 5 minutes to understand the concept of right clicking the mouse. Don't even ASK how hard it is to explain "control alt delete". One man got so frustrated trying to do this, that he said he is cancelling AOL and hung up. One man actually asked me how to make letters capital. I had to explain how to hold down the shift key while typing the letter ("wow, that is so neat! I never knew that!") My question is, who let these people own a computer?

I had to quit that job because it really made me depressed about the human race.

Ok WAY off topic here, but I just had to share that. I have many more AOL war stories, but I will stop now

~Mia~

 

[qruthie]

LOL. I have heard this story before. i don't know if it really happened to anyone or if it's just one of those stories that gets passed around, but I heard this anecdote a few times working AOL tech support.

I don't know, I believe it was entered by the person who took the call so I was reading the original. It was written in the first person but who really knows the truth? Not me...

Here's one I know is real:

A tech was sent to help a secretary restore the data on a double sided floppy disk. He checked out the floppy and there was nothing that could be recovered so he asked her if she had a copy of her floppy. She did. Hurray he thought, that is until she handed him a photocopy of the original floppy. He did give her SOME credit though, she had made a double sided photocopy since the disk was double sided.

Tech centers used to get a lot of calls from users whose terminals weren't working. (Terminals were around a loooong time before pcs, feel very young if you don't know what a terminal is.) The standard procedure for that call was to ask if the terminal was turned on. Usually turning the terminal on would fix the problem. If that wasn't the problem, then the rep would ask if the terminal was plugged in. Plugging in the terminal and turning it on usually took care of the rest of the cases. But one guy got a call from a woman where these questions didn't solve the problem. So he asked a bunch of questions eventually thinking to ask if the lights were on in the woman's office thinking that perhaps a circuit breaker had been tripped. The woman responded with, "No. We have a power outage in our building." I'm sure she was placed on hold while the guy composed himself and figured out a kind way to tell her why her terminal wasn't working.

I could go on and on and on...

qruthie (the 'q' is silent)

 

[MiakodaWDW]

OMG qruthie that is hilarious. I have so many stories, not just with Tech Support but I have worked in many call centers through the years, encountering multitudes of not-too-bright individuals.

Here's a great one. Six years ago I did tech support for one hour photo machines (the employees at CVS, Walgreens, etc. that worked in the lab would call if they were having issues with their photo machines). This is one my boyfriend at the time, who also worked there, told me he had. I thought he was kidding until I got the same call later on (hopefully from a different person!)

Caller: "My machine ain't workin."
Me: "Well, do you have an error message on the screen?"
Caller: "yeah, it says 'press enter'. what do I do?"
Me: (pushes the mute buttons and sighs loudly) "well, ma'am, you see that big green button next to the screen that says, 'enter'?"
Caller: "yes."
Me: "Well, I want you to go ahead and press that button for me."
Caller: "hey, it's working now!"
Me: "thank you for calling, have a nice day".

This is not a joke. I have a million of 'em.

~Mia~