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Giants44 · 06-10-2020, 11:14 PM

quick old guy story in this topic since someone mentioned how much expectations play a part in all of this

So in the early 80s - I dont remember the exact game but I am 90% sure it was the first PC APBA - no graphics obviously and pre hard drive era so you would load the game off the A drive 5 1/4 disk and it would write the results to the B drive 5 1/4 (that is if you were cool enough to have two drives, but I digress)

so when we played the code for "hit" was obviously not stored in the very limited RAM and had to be read from the disk. So as you played you would know if your batter was out or not about 5 seconds before it displayed on screen because if he got it hit the very loud disk drive would spin and read. still fun to play, still cool that the game actually complied our stats. but the simulation was not exactly suspenseful other then waiting for the disk to spin. so for those few of us on here who come from that era OOTP is beyond our wildest expectations.

oh crap, wait when did I become "back in my day..." guy damnit

06-10-2020, 11:14 PM	#131
Giants44 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 2,408	quick old guy story in this topic since someone mentioned how much expectations play a part in all of this So in the early 80s - I dont remember the exact game but I am 90% sure it was the first PC APBA - no graphics obviously and pre hard drive era so you would load the game off the A drive 5 1/4 disk and it would write the results to the B drive 5 1/4 (that is if you were cool enough to have two drives, but I digress) so when we played the code for "hit" was obviously not stored in the very limited RAM and had to be read from the disk. So as you played you would know if your batter was out or not about 5 seconds before it displayed on screen because if he got it hit the very loud disk drive would spin and read. still fun to play, still cool that the game actually complied our stats. but the simulation was not exactly suspenseful other then waiting for the disk to spin. so for those few of us on here who come from that era OOTP is beyond our wildest expectations. oh crap, wait when did I become "back in my day..." guy damnit __________________ "In a text sim - Immersion is everything" -Me "Judge a man not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" -Martin Luther King "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." -Einstein "The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." -Muhammad Ali "Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything." -Toby Harrah