rec.games.video.3do

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 4:56 am

Before the Interweb I used to use this newsgroup for 3DO stuff. Back in the day it was very active, we used to get transcripts of 3DO employees announcing stuff, and live chats they did and they used to post on there, Rick Reynolds of 3DO was pretty active on the group and we would chat about 3DO stuff -- anyone else use it?

Gir Draxa · Post by **Gir Draxa** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:26 am

yep read that many years ago.

Still go back on occasion and read some of the old postings. Here's a copy of one of the earliest ones I could find :

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Newsgroups: rec.games.video.3do
From: swe...@utdallas.edu ()
Date: 21 Dec 1993 16:47:27 GMT
Local: Tues, Dec 21 1993 9:47 am
Subject: 3DO for PC??

Welcome to the 3DO newsgroup!!!! I think this one will live long and
prosper

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Anyway, I read in the January issue of Computer Gaming World that the
makers of this awesome game system were going to produce a board that
would fit into a PC and would allow any 3DO games to be played on it!!
Does anyone know about this or read the article? If so, what do you
think? That would rule!

Later,

Frenzy
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Enjoy!

Drax

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:10 am

For those of you who don't know what we are whittering on about:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.game ... 28250&sa=N

Obviously, back-in-the-day, it wasn't presented with a HTML front end, it was either via a dedicated win32 client, your email client: Netscape, Outlook and Eudora used to support it, or my favourite... tch! and now I can't remember what the name of it was - but it used to be on Unix.

It's kind of interesting to see peoples anticipation of games that we today are not all that excited about. Every drop of info was poured over and deliberated.

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:42 am

heh i have never seen newsgroups in action, or even know how to use them, also i wouldnt pay to use them either, thats as far as i got when looking into them

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:46 am

Lemmi · Post by **Lemmi** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:21 am

3DOKid wrote:pay?

maybe im mixing this with something else?
am i mixing text groups with download groups? again i dont know the difference

i dont know much about newsgroups maybe im thinking of the ones you can download all kinds of crap from. or are they all the same? i havent looked into them for a couple of years
a friend told me he paid a set amount to use a newsgroup to download stuff for a month

i didnt start using the internet untill 2000 and i didnt touch a modern computer untill oct of 1999, then i spent 2 years playing Everquest, so really i didnt start doing other stuff on the internet untill late 2001

and the first forum i joined was Atariage

CrimsonGlory · Post by **CrimsonGlory** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 8:40 am

I woulda loved to be part of that whole newsgroup thing but I was waaaay to late in getting the internet.

They should close down THE WHOLE INTERNET apart from newsgroups haha

Remember comic book store guys newsgroup in Simpsons:
"alt.nerd.obsessive"

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:01 am

dark days those 'charging per Mb download'. Compuserve used to do that? Maybe I'm wrong.

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:07 am

CrimsonGlory wrote:I woulda loved to be part of that whole newsgroup thing but I was waaaay to late in getting the internet.

They should close down THE WHOLE INTERNET apart from newsgroups haha

Remember comic book store guys newsgroup in Simpsons:
"alt.nerd.obsessive"

Indeed they should. And you whipper-snappers should be forced to write your own UUencode/UUdecode programs. Pah! Let's see you download ISos on a 2400baud modem, on to an A500 with 20Mb external harddrive or an XT1512 with 2 x 5 1/4 floppies and no hardddrive, with only a COBOL compiler and a copy of Wordstar to keep you warm. pfft TEH KIDZ 2DAY. Don't know they're born with their megaterraWii360majigs.

CrimsonGlory · Post by **CrimsonGlory** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:23 am

3DOKid wrote:
Indeed they should. And you whipper-snappers should be forced to write your own UUencode/UUdecode programs. Pah! Let's see you download ISos on a 2400baud modem, on to an A500 with 20Mb external harddrive or an XT1512 with 2 x 5 1/4 floppies and no hardddrive, with only a COBOL compiler and a copy of Wordstar to keep you warm. pfft TEH KIDZ 2DAY. Don't know they're born with their megaterraWii360majigs.

What?

Post by **3DO Experience** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 12:29 pm

I have a computer in the other room with a 300 baud modem. And TWO 5 1/4 inch floppies.

Post by **3DOKid** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:13 pm

3DO Experience wrote:I have a computer in the other room with a 300 baud modem. And TWO 5 1/4 inch floppies.

Duel 5 1/4" floppies! You my friend are a show off. You could save your source code to one, and run the environment (pascal or Cobol) from the other. Coding heaven.

Post by **3DO Experience** » Thu Aug 02, 2007 5:32 pm

The Kaypro II, a laptop that would crush your loins if you ever put it on your lap. ahhhh the days of computer simplicity how I miss you.