First post, by Gahhhrrrlic
I tried in vain to find an old computer game I used to play in school so I figured I'd change my tactics to just trying to figure out what type of machine I used to use back then and scouring the available games of the time.
I think it was about 1990 or so that I have the strongest memories of playing nostalgic games in the library of our school. The keyboards all had track balls and the computers had games like number munchers and mavis beacon. I am quite familiar with how windows 3.1 looks but I think the interface I'm failing to remember correctly was quite different than that. I want to say it had a poorer color depth? (16 color?) and definitely not DOS. I'm sorry I can't be more specific... My school was in Canada.
I'm trying to figure out what sort of OS I might have been using in elementary school during that year and to find the blasted game I remember with such fondness... the maze game with the black screen where you used to use the trackball to randomly pick a direction until you didn't hit a wall and exposed a new piece of the maze... the game where you got to pick between being a knight or a wizard, wielding a sword or a wand and would run into random things like dragons who would ask you math questions and stuff and if you guessed correctly you'd get gold and go back to the 2d black screen maze thing.
God it's so annoying to have these lingering memories but none of the important information with which to identify them.
So what were the computers and OS's that would have been commonly found in elementary school libraries in the late 80s/early 90s ?