My grandfather was an early adopter of the IBM PC/XT, their early foray into the personal computing field inhabited largely by Apple and some others. I was 7 or 8 at the time, so I don't remember all the details, but it initially had an amber monochrome screen and only one 5 1/4" floppy drive, to which he later added a second. He also added a hard drive, likely a 10 megabyte one.
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| It looked very much like this, with a printer by its side. |
Together, we played what was my first adventure game. A shareware classic named Castle Adventure, written by a 14 year-old kid, although I hadn't noticed the typos and bad grammar at the time. I do plan to do a detailed post on this game -- and try to solve it with a fresh set of eyes 30+ years later. [Edit: I've since done this, for The Adventurer's Guild.]
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