old os with games

dmcm_90

Hey does any one rember an os with loads of games and the name

nucker

Not quite sure what you are asking, but there is ubuntu, a popular linux distro that has loads of games on it

dmcm_90

nucker wrote: »

Not quite sure what you are asking, but there is ubuntu, a popular linux distro that has loads of games on it

Its not ubuntu. This os was out in the 90*s

Duggy747

Can you elaborate a bit more on that, there were a few machines that came out with games in the 90's

dmcm_90

Duggy747 wrote: »

Can you elaborate a bit more on that, there were a few machines that came out with games in the 90's

Its not windows 98 , 2000 or xp
ALL I REMBER IT HAD A PIPE GAME AND AN OTHER OS HAD SOME KIND OF escape game

Commodore 64

Soundman

Commodore 64 was my first thought too, while trying to decipher the vagueness of the posts.

practice

"Commodore 64 was my first thought too"

Ah the memories come flooding back

Khannie

Amiga? Atari ST?

A fun guessing game! Will you know the name when you hear it?

stevenmu

dmcm_90 wrote: »

Its not windows 98 , 2000 or xp

Windows NT 4?
Windows 95?
Windows NT 3.51?
Windows 3.11?
Windows 3.0?

ALL I REMBER IT HAD A PIPE GAME AND AN OTHER OS HAD SOME KIND OF escape game

Ah, that sounds like Linux anyway, you can pipe and escape stuff all over the place in that. Not sure I'd really call it a game though.

petes

Sounds like a pipe game anyway

Could be anything really!!

yoyo

stevenmu wrote: »

Windows NT 4?
Windows 95?
Windows NT 3.51?
Windows 3.11?
Windows 3.0?


Ah, that sounds like Linux anyway, you can pipe and escape stuff all over the place in that. Not sure I'd really call it a game though.

The pipe screensaver in Windows 95? Who remembers the 3D maze screensaver in 95/98? That actually lagged on my first computer lol :pac:

Nick

Khannie

yoyo wrote: »

The pipe screensaver in Windows 95? Who remembers the 3D maze screensaver in 95/98? That actually lagged on my first computer lol :pac:

Nick

I remember fondly the first time I saw hardware accelerated pipe screensaver. Nvidia Riva 128 with alpha opengl drivers. Four whopping megabytes of memory in it. It was a flippin' legendary graphics card.

OMG! DID YOU KNOW THE PIPE SCREENSAVER COULD BE THAT SMOOOOTH???????

*mind blown*

yoyo

Khannie wrote: »

I remember fondly the first time I saw hardware accelerated pipe screensaver. Nvidia Riva 128 with alpha opengl drivers. Four whopping megabytes of memory in it. It was a flippin' legendary graphics card.

OMG! DID YOU KNOW THE PIPE SCREENSAVER COULD BE THAT SMOOOOTH???????

*mind blown*

Ha! From memory think the machine I had was a Matrox Mystique video card and 4MB memory. Was an old Pentium 1 with a whopping 16MB RAM, not enough to play Age Of Empires 2 back then I remember! Annoyed me no end when I got the game and tried to play it (it required a minimum of 32MB RAM!).

Nick

nucker

It could of been a ZX Spectrum game

dmcm_90

yoyo wrote: »

The pipe screensaver in Windows 95? Who remembers the 3D maze screensaver in 95/98? That actually lagged on my first computer lol :pac:

Nick

Its not a screen saver. I think the game was called pipe mania. You had to lay pipe for tye liquid to run down a drain. The other game I cant think of but it was on a tower computer

maki

dmcm_90 wrote: »

Its not a screen saver. I think the game was called pipe mania. You had to lay pipe for tye liquid to run down a drain. The other game I cant think of but it was on a tower computer

Pipe Mania (AKA Pipe Dream) was part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack back in the early 90's. Is that what you're thinking of?
I had it on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, although I'm sure it still works (with a bit of compatibility tweaking perhaps) on a modern OS.

the_syco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpqzX6iW7qk

I'm thinking that he had a machine with 3.1 on it, and a custom GUI. There was lots of custom GUI's (that ran within DOS), as 3.1 was still seen as sh|te, and I'm thinking the other game was part of the GUI.

maki wrote: »

Pipe Mania (AKA Pipe Dream) was part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack back in the early 90's. Is that what you're thinking of?
I had it on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, although I'm sure it still works (with a bit of compatibility tweaking perhaps) on a modern OS.

Look up a DOSBox; it allows you to play the old games on a new machine.

dmcm_90

the_syco wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpqzX6iW7qk

I'm thinking that he had a machine with 3.1 on it, and a custom GUI. There was lots of custom GUI's (that ran within DOS), as 3.1 was still seen as sh|te, and I'm thinking the other game was part of the GUI.


Look up a DOSBox; it allows you to play the old games on a new machine.

will do thanks

yoyo

dmcm_90 wrote: »

Its not a screen saver. I think the game was called pipe mania. You had to lay pipe for tye liquid to run down a drain. The other game I cant think of but it was on a tower computer

Sorry, that was just me going off topic, I know I should know better :pac:

Skerries

Banned for 1 week

Overheal

Pipe Dream.. I remember seeing a version on some old PCs in the childrens section of the library. I suppose it could have been Commodore, but it was probably windows based. Or it could have been IBM. Gah. So hard to tell. I didn't use them all that much.