which computer from PC museum ?

[honeybear]

Hi,

I am looking for an old pc. I have been playing with a first PC about in 1990-92 with a PC or macintosch that had prince of persia.

What I can remember it was not Windows 95, not 98, ... xp... It was something else. maybe a mac or otherthing. It was in UK.

I can remember that there was for waiting for the mouse cursor :
- either a sandclock (maybe blue)
- or a little guy thinking (maybe blue)

That's all I can remember. Would you know which os, machine?

thanks

[Dr. C]

Hi,

I am looking for an old pc. I have been playing with a first PC about in 1990-92 with a PC or macintosch that had prince of persia.

What I can remember it was not Windows 95, not 98, ... xp... It was something else. maybe a mac or otherthing. It was in UK.

I can remember that there was for waiting for the mouse cursor :
- either a sandclock (maybe blue)
- or a little guy thinking (maybe blue)

That's all I can remember. Would you know which os, machine?

thanks

From the era I would say Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 on top of MS DOS or PC DOS.

[peter d]

I had a PC around that time with the GEM Desktop. It was an Amstrad PC, the PC 1024 if I remember correctly.

[honeybear]

From the era I would say Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 on top of MS DOS or PC DOS.

I am sure that it was not windows 3.0. this I remember I would say.

[honeybear]

I had a PC around that time with the GEM Desktop. It was an Amstrad PC, the PC 1024 if I remember correctly.

what were the mouse cursors of this gem desktop and would it be possible that prince of persia worked on that?

[ARooster]

IBM's OS/2 2.0 came out about that time, didn't it?

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

From the era I would say Windows 3.0 or Windows 3.1 on top of MS DOS or PC DOS.

I think that you are correct if it was a Microsoft OS; such as DOS 3.0 or 3.1. If not:
Apple introduced System 7 in 1991.

[mips]

what were the mouse cursors of this gem desktop and would it be possible that prince of persia worked on that?

Have a look at all the platforms Prince of Persia ran on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game), now exclude all the consoles and you are left with:
FM Towns - Doubt it http://www.google.co.za/search?q=Towns+OS&hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=xPa&channel=cs&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=-ZuzTvrCJMPT4QTg9-zhAw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CA8Q_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=950&sei=%20_5uzTuaDEM344QSZiIjHAw#hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=3Pa&channel=cs&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%22Towns+OS%22&pbx=1&oq=%22Towns+OS%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=19986l21522l0l22345l2l2l0l0l0l0l968l968l6-1l1l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=462d9c6f07c00639&biw=1366&bih=950
Amiga - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaOS
Amstrad CPC - possible option http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager on the PC range
Atari ST - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager
Apple II - Apple IIGS only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS/OS

SAM Coupé - Skip, 8-bit SAM basic
Mac OS - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS
Sharp X68000 - Doubt it, http://www.google.co.za/search?q=SX-Windows&hl=en&client=ubuntu&hs=1Fa&channel=cs&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=kZmzTsbmOKj34QSCndTNAw&ved=0CEIQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=950&sei=%20npmzTq71AouP4gTG3bH7Aw
MS-DOS - Windows 3.0/1 on top of it
Commodore 64 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface
The Archimedes range of computers also comes to mind but I dunno if PoP was ever released for it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC_OS

I suspect you either had an Amiga or Atari ST around that time as they were the most popular in Europe.

[3rdalbum]

Although Prince of Persia came out on the Mac, the cursors you describe are definitely not Mac-standard. The Mac used a wristwatch or a spinning beachball to indicate that it was thinking.

[honeybear]

Although Prince of Persia came out on the Mac, the cursors you describe are definitely not Mac-standard. The Mac used a wristwatch or a spinning beachball to indicate that it was thinking.


THANKS would u have a picture o f this icon?


The Mac used a wristwatch or a spinning beachball to indicate that it was thinking.

[DoktorSeven]

I agree with the OS/2 guess. That sounds like it describes OS/2, and it could run DOS programs, which was one of the things Prince of Persia was released on.

[honeybear]

I agree with the OS/2 guess. That sounds like it describes OS/2, and it could run DOS programs, which was one of the things Prince of Persia was released on.

I have just found a screenshot, here, it looks kinda too modern for 1990, no?

[mips]

I have just found a screenshot, here, it looks kinda too modern for 1990, no?

No, OS/2 was way ahead of Windows 3 at the time.

[honeybear]

No, OS/2 was way ahead of Windows 3 at the time.


I am wondering if it was not something like this:
http://toastytech.com/guis/gem20desktop.png
But I am not so such because it looks out of colors ... and

since we had a cool cursor for the mouse..

+ with :
I can remember that there was for waiting for the mouse cursor :
- either a sandclock (maybe blue)
- or a little guy thinking (maybe blue)



I think that the cursor was a guy thinking on a blue seat. He had his head into one hand, and he had maybe a pink color

or

it was a sanclock that was moving to down. The sand was flowing down. I can remember that this sandclock remained very vertical and very still. Only the sand was going down. And the sandclock could have had a green or blue color.

I think on that Pc, there were also one encyclopedia, but I do not remember which one.

I have google the desktop, but the gemdos looks like too color-less and the os/2 too brand new and modern.

bizarre

[mips]

Only you will know, go have a look at all those links I posted above.

[honeybear]

Only you will know, go have a look at all those links I posted above.

I looked also here: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/empty

I went through them but it does not seems so much like this... I googled :

cursor mouse + gem desktop
and also OS/2
and also Mac and I could not find so much ...

[peter d]

what were the mouse cursors of this gem desktop and would it be possible that prince of persia worked on that?

Here is a picture of GEM. A bit basic - exactly as I remember it.

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[honeybear]

Here is a picture of GEM. A bit basic - exactly as I remember it.

206355

I am not sure

and the cursor mouse for busy: http://www.blogiseverything.com/files/pics/vista_aero_cursors.gif ?

[Phrea]

Chances are, you can find it here (http://www.operating-system.org/index.html).

[mips]

- either a sandclock (maybe blue)


RiscOS (3&4) had a blue hourglass & mouse cursor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhcCIM2mFCM

Go have a look at youtube videos for some of the operating systems I listed above, should be very easy to find what you are looking for.

Can you remember at all what the actual computer looked like? Was it a home pc or a school pc?

[honeybear]

RiscOS (3&4) had a blue hourglass & mouse cursor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhcCIM2mFCM

Go have a look at youtube videos for some of the operating systems I listed above, should be very easy to find what you are looking for.

Can you remember at all what the actual computer looked like? Was it a home pc or a school pc?

home pc,

white with a such a big screen already (I thought that it was a flat screen, but it cannot be possible) maybe 1024x768... ?

It is surely not RISC OS, although the maybe similar icon mouse, because I am sure that the taskbar was much smaller (either on top or bottom)

I wonder whether it was not on top of the screen (bit like mac). But it never looked like a mac, the box looked like a pc1512, flat...

thats strange that mouse cursors was so different. At that time, we had no internet, and I am sure that it was not themed to another mouse cursor (i.e. from cursors from internet)

[mips]

Ask your parents what it was as you can't seem to remember much.

[thenixedreport]

If you're mentioning plenty of colors, then perhaps it was using AmigaOS as that was one of the few at the time that had plenty of colors to the interface. The only question at this point would be which Amiga system it was that you had.

[mips]

If you're mentioning plenty of colors, then perhaps it was using AmigaOS as that was one of the few at the time that had plenty of colors to the interface. The only question at this point would be which Amiga system it was that you had.

AmigaOS always used a stopwatch icon as a busy mouse indicator and that was for versions 1.2-3.1 around the time he talks about.

Another thing I just thought of is BeOS but that used a white hourglass I think.