It has been a while since I've seen a thread on this topic, and it always seems fun. So let's get a new one going, this time for Bedrock edition players.
I'm 50. Grew up playing PC games like Sim City and Mech-Warrior. When my kids started playing Minecraft ... well, I just couldn't resist.
I’m 46....I enjoy city sky lines, Tomb Raider (I enjoy the older ones better) Command and Conquer, Zelda, Splinter Cell... basically games where I can create or have to think things through....my wife and I have NBA 2K matches all the time.
If your interested please checkout my channel...I have a couple of creation you can check out
......great to see players my age, and enjoying Minecraft as well
It would be entertaining to play the original Sim City again. Sort of like playing Space Invaders or Defender again. LOL
@mgirish: nice hotel. You commented about building it with again with all of the new blocks available. It would certainly look different. You made that on the Xbox360 ... do you recall what year?
Some of the old games are available to play online at archive.org including a ms-dos version of simcity. But it is not the same experience playing these games now, as it was back then. I'd say these games are best left in the memory we have of them.
Just like the rest of you, I do agree Minecraft is not just a kids game, but can be played by all ages in a number of ways.
Some of the old games are available to play online at archive.org including a ms-dos version of simcity. But it is not the same experience playing these games now, as it was back then. I'd say these games are best left in the memory we have of them.
Just like the rest of you, I do agree Minecraft is not just a kids game, but can be played by all ages in a number of ways.
There are attempts to recreate the MSDOS experience on modern hardware, I'd ask that you check out an operating system called Dosbian, which is made for the Raspberry Pi computers. Provided that you have a keyboard and mouse and a low latency display to pair it with, you could in theory play MSDOS games as you did back then. I would at least give it a chance to see if it interests you if I were you, just my suggestion. Dosbian does perform MSDOS emulation but like it or not this is the future of retro gaming because vintage hardware is not only getting harder to purchase these days, it's also not very cost effective and the Raspberry Pi would be more energy efficient.
My hope is that Dosbian would eventually end up with support for the Vulkan drivers from Nvidia through Windows 95 or 98se, it's a slim chance but it is possible, you can play Quake 3 Arena on the Raspberry Pi 3 now which is a classic shooter that originally was designed for and ran on the 9x Microsoft operating systems. Just so everybody remembers, Windows 9x family OS's are actually just MSDOS with a fancy UI, the same core function is there.
It would be entertaining to play the original Sim City again. Sort of like playing Space Invaders or Defender again. LOL
@mgirish: nice hotel. You commented about building it with again with all of the new blocks available. It would certainly look different. You made that on the Xbox360 ... do you recall what year?
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42 here. Grew up with C64 and Amiga500. Still love the old games for their playability and lightness, in contrast to the huge gameworlds of today which I find less charming. Love graphic adventures and simple strategy games. Have become completely infatuated with Minecraft. Plays no other game currently.
Forty six here. I got my start with computers with a VIC-20 (the Commodore 64's little brother lol) then got the C64 then an 8088 PC and from there it was PCs only. I miss the days of DOS. I liked when moving a program from computer to computer was as simple as just copying one folder; no worries about data all over the place in the registry and filesystem, heh. I still use the command prompt all the time on my Windows 10 box. Text interfaces are still the most efficient way to manage systems IMO. I also miss the days when building a computer actually meant something; anyone can do it nowadays. I remember back in the day one had to even wire up power switches manually, four wires and if you get it wrong, you're gonna trip your breaker. I learned that one the hard way when I knocked the lights out in the shop I worked at cuz I didn't pay attention when wiring it lol. Remember when you had to configure a bunch of jumpers on the mobo to tell it what CPU and such? Multiport I/O cards, having to remember base addresses and IRQs?
What I really miss are BBSes. When I was a kid I ran a WWIV BBS on my 386-25. The 5.25" drive was the OS and BBS and the 3.5" was the file repository and the doors lol. I eventually upgraded to Renegade and a whopping 40 MB hard drive. I was ecstatic when I installed that and my suuuuper fast 486dx2-80, hehe.
To be fair, Age has got nothing to do with anything, Gaming is just entertainment and entertainment comes in many forms
Agreed. Another form of entertainment I get a lot of guff over because of my age is anime. I love anime, as one can guess from my av heh. Every time my buddy gives me grief over watching anime, I remind him he's a fan of Jersey Shore. At least MY choice of entertainment has an actual story and character development lol
I didn't give games like minecraft and fortnite a try for the longest time. Didn't have anything to do about 'kids' but I simply assumed they were overhyped games. Boy was I wrong, people enjoyed them for a good reason! Simcity, ha it's a shame they don't make the games like they used to. It's too bad indie developers have to tackle those difficult genres. I hope those publishers turn a new leaf some day soon. I revisited simcity 4 about 2 years ago and it still holds up quite well.
Forty six here. I got my start with computers with a VIC-20 (the Commodore 64's little brother lol) then got the C64 then an 8088 PC and from there it was PCs only. I miss the days of DOS. I liked when moving a program from computer to computer was as simple as just copying one folder; no worries about data all over the place in the registry and filesystem, heh. I still use the command prompt all the time on my Windows 10 box. Text interfaces are still the most efficient way to manage systems IMO. I also miss the days when building a computer actually meant something; anyone can do it nowadays. I remember back in the day one had to even wire up power switches manually, four wires and if you get it wrong, you're gonna trip your breaker. I learned that one the hard way when I knocked the lights out in the shop I worked at cuz I didn't pay attention when wiring it lol. Remember when you had to configure a bunch of jumpers on the mobo to tell it what CPU and such? Multiport I/O cards, having to remember base addresses and IRQs?
What I really miss are BBSes. When I was a kid I ran a WWIV BBS on my 386-25. The 5.25" drive was the OS and BBS and the 3.5" was the file repository and the doors lol. I eventually upgraded to Renegade and a whopping 40 MB hard drive. I was ecstatic when I installed that and my suuuuper fast 486dx2-80, hehe.
It's just age, they aren't asking where you live or anything
Agreed. Another form of entertainment I get a lot of guff over because of my age is anime. I love anime, as one can guess from my av heh. Every time my buddy gives me grief over watching anime, I remind him he's a fan of Jersey Shore. At least MY choice of entertainment has an actual story and character development lol
Linux Ubuntu is kind of like DOS, it has a command line interface and is basic, unless you enable the GUI.
the problem is not all versions of Minecraft will work with it, only Java.
It is strange that Minecraft bedrock edition won't work with Linux, Microsoft wouldn't lose any money from selling this game on that operating system apart from OS sales. But since Microsoft allowed Minecraft to be put on the Nintendo Switch and PS4 there is no justification there IMO.
Hopefully Microsoft will enable their app store on Ubuntu someday, because then Minecraft players can experience the efficiency of Linux and Minecraft bedrock edition at the same time, and people of almost any age could experience Minecraft to the full even on Linux.
An OS's purpose is to give people the basics to allow other software to work, nothing more.
Microsoft did start out like this, but over time they made their OS's bloated and forced junkware on people which wastes memory.
if all other OS's were like Ubuntu we wouldn't need to upgrade as often, because there wouldn't be as many processes hogging up system resources.
It has been a while since I've seen a thread on this topic, and it always seems fun. So let's get a new one going, this time for Bedrock edition players.
I'm 50. Grew up playing PC games like Sim City and Mech-Warrior. When my kids started playing Minecraft ... well, I just couldn't resist.
I don't want to give out my personal information about this but I do agree with what your thread says, Minecraft isn't just a kids game.
Off topic but what you said about Sim City. glad you remember it.
GOG also sells Sim City which if people are interested they can purchase it.
I’m 46....I enjoy city sky lines, Tomb Raider (I enjoy the older ones better) Command and Conquer, Zelda, Splinter Cell... basically games where I can create or have to think things through....my wife and I have NBA 2K matches all the time.
If your interested please checkout my channel...I have a couple of creation you can check out
......great to see players my age, and enjoying Minecraft as well
It would be entertaining to play the original Sim City again. Sort of like playing Space Invaders or Defender again. LOL
@mgirish: nice hotel. You commented about building it with again with all of the new blocks available. It would certainly look different. You made that on the Xbox360 ... do you recall what year?
Some of the old games are available to play online at archive.org including a ms-dos version of simcity. But it is not the same experience playing these games now, as it was back then. I'd say these games are best left in the memory we have of them.
Just like the rest of you, I do agree Minecraft is not just a kids game, but can be played by all ages in a number of ways.
There are attempts to recreate the MSDOS experience on modern hardware, I'd ask that you check out an operating system called Dosbian, which is made for the Raspberry Pi computers. Provided that you have a keyboard and mouse and a low latency display to pair it with, you could in theory play MSDOS games as you did back then. I would at least give it a chance to see if it interests you if I were you, just my suggestion. Dosbian does perform MSDOS emulation but like it or not this is the future of retro gaming because vintage hardware is not only getting harder to purchase these days, it's also not very cost effective and the Raspberry Pi would be more energy efficient.
My hope is that Dosbian would eventually end up with support for the Vulkan drivers from Nvidia through Windows 95 or 98se, it's a slim chance but it is possible, you can play Quake 3 Arena on the Raspberry Pi 3 now which is a classic shooter that originally was designed for and ran on the 9x Microsoft operating systems. Just so everybody remembers, Windows 9x family OS's are actually just MSDOS with a fancy UI, the same core function is there.
I believe I did that in 2010....thanks for the comment.
Thank you....I think I did that in 2010.
42 here. Grew up with C64 and Amiga500. Still love the old games for their playability and lightness, in contrast to the huge gameworlds of today which I find less charming. Love graphic adventures and simple strategy games. Have become completely infatuated with Minecraft. Plays no other game currently.
I know people of all ages play the game. I know one guy who is 65 who plays!
40 years of age! Mech warrior is an awesome game! I've played thousands of games over the years, Far too many to name.
To be fair, Age has got nothing to do with anything, Gaming is just entertainment and entertainment comes in many forms
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Curse PremiumForty six here. I got my start with computers with a VIC-20 (the Commodore 64's little brother lol) then got the C64 then an 8088 PC and from there it was PCs only. I miss the days of DOS. I liked when moving a program from computer to computer was as simple as just copying one folder; no worries about data all over the place in the registry and filesystem, heh. I still use the command prompt all the time on my Windows 10 box. Text interfaces are still the most efficient way to manage systems IMO. I also miss the days when building a computer actually meant something; anyone can do it nowadays. I remember back in the day one had to even wire up power switches manually, four wires and if you get it wrong, you're gonna trip your breaker. I learned that one the hard way when I knocked the lights out in the shop I worked at cuz I didn't pay attention when wiring it lol. Remember when you had to configure a bunch of jumpers on the mobo to tell it what CPU and such? Multiport I/O cards, having to remember base addresses and IRQs?
What I really miss are BBSes. When I was a kid I ran a WWIV BBS on my 386-25. The 5.25" drive was the OS and BBS and the 3.5" was the file repository and the doors lol. I eventually upgraded to Renegade and a whopping 40 MB hard drive. I was ecstatic when I installed that and my suuuuper fast 486dx2-80, hehe.
It's just age, they aren't asking where you live or anything
Agreed. Another form of entertainment I get a lot of guff over because of my age is anime. I love anime, as one can guess from my av heh. Every time my buddy gives me grief over watching anime, I remind him he's a fan of Jersey Shore. At least MY choice of entertainment has an actual story and character development lol
I didn't give games like minecraft and fortnite a try for the longest time. Didn't have anything to do about 'kids' but I simply assumed they were overhyped games. Boy was I wrong, people enjoyed them for a good reason! Simcity, ha it's a shame they don't make the games like they used to. It's too bad indie developers have to tackle those difficult genres. I hope those publishers turn a new leaf some day soon. I revisited simcity 4 about 2 years ago and it still holds up quite well.
Linux Ubuntu is kind of like DOS, it has a command line interface and is basic, unless you enable the GUI.
the problem is not all versions of Minecraft will work with it, only Java.
It is strange that Minecraft bedrock edition won't work with Linux, Microsoft wouldn't lose any money from selling this game on that operating system apart from OS sales. But since Microsoft allowed Minecraft to be put on the Nintendo Switch and PS4 there is no justification there IMO.
Hopefully Microsoft will enable their app store on Ubuntu someday, because then Minecraft players can experience the efficiency of Linux and Minecraft bedrock edition at the same time, and people of almost any age could experience Minecraft to the full even on Linux.
An OS's purpose is to give people the basics to allow other software to work, nothing more.
Microsoft did start out like this, but over time they made their OS's bloated and forced junkware on people which wastes memory.
if all other OS's were like Ubuntu we wouldn't need to upgrade as often, because there wouldn't be as many processes hogging up system resources.