MicroWar :: Computer History Background
The game starts in 1984, when Apple released the first Macintosh.
At that time the micro-computer market was hold by Commodore's C64 and IBM PCs. Microsoft Windows 1.0 was not born...
MicroWar follow computer history year-per-year (level-per-level), here are the main even that was chosen for the game, in bold the Mac computer you can get during the game if you recover the corresponding processor bonus.
year-per-year history :: world market statistics :: main references
Year-per-year
1984
Apple : Macintosh 128k, Macintosh 512k (Motorola 68000), Apple IIc and Lisa 2
Apple : System 1.0
IBM : PC/AT
Tandy 1000 : best sellers IBM PC clone
Microsoft : MS-DOS 3.0
1st 3.5" floppy drive
1985
Microsoft : MS-DOS 3.1 and Windows 1.0
Commodore : Amiga 1000
GNU manifesto is published
1986
Apple : Mac Plus
Apple : System 2.0
Microsoft : MS-DOS 3.2
Atari : Atari ST
1987
Apple : Macintosh SE and Macintosh II (Motorola 68020)
Apple : System 5.0
Microsoft : MS-DOS 3.3 and Windows 2.0
IBM : PS/2 and OS/2
1988
Apple : System 6.0
Microsoft : MS-DOS 4.0
1989
Apple : Macintosh IICi (Motorola 68030)
1990
Microsoft : Windows 3.0
Godwin law is conceived
1991
Apple : Quadra 700 (Motorola 68040)
Apple : System 7.0 (Big Bang) and QuickTime 1.0
Microsoft : MS-DOS 5.0
TimBerners-Lee publish the WWW protocol
Linus Torvald released Linux
1992
Apple : System 7.1 (System 7 Pro)
Microsoft : Windows 3.1 (Janus)
1993
Apple : Newton
Microsoft : Windows 3.11 (Snowball), Windows NT and MS-DOS 6.0
NCSA released Mosaic browser
1994
Apple adopt PowerPC architecture
Apple : PowerMac 7500 (Motorola PowerPC 601)
IBM : OS/2 Warp
Netscape and Yahoo were created
Rasmus Lerdorf creates PHP
1995
Apple : System 7.5 (Mozart)
Microsoft : Windows 95 (Chicago)
Sun introduced Java
USB standard was created
1996
Apple : PowerMac 7600 (Motorola PowerPC 604)
Apple : MacOS 7.6 (Harmony)
Apple acquire NeXT
Macromedia released Flash 1.0
1997
Apple : PowerMac G3
Apple : MacOS 8.0 (Tempo)
IBM's Big Blue defeat the world chess champion player Garry Kasparov
1998
Apple : iMac Bondi (Motorola/IBM PowerPC 750, G3)
Apple : MacOS 8.5 (Allegro)
Microsoft : Windows 98 (Memphis)
Google was founded
1999
Apple : PowerMac G4
Apple :
MacOS 9.0 (Sonata)
Sun acquire StarOffice
2000
Apple : iMac Graphite (Motorola/IBM PowerPC 755, G3+)
Apple :
MacOS 9.1 (Fortissimo)
Microsoft : Windows ME and Windows 2000 (Memphis NT)
2001
Apple : iMac Flat Panel (Motorola/IBM PowerPC 7450, G4)
Apple : MacOS X 10.0 (Cheetah) and 10.1 (Puma)
Apple : iPod
Microsoft : Windows XP (Whistler)
2002
Apple : MacOS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
2003
Apple : iMac G5 (Motorola/IBM PowerPC 970, G5)
Apple : MacOS X 10.3 (Panther)
Mozilla Foundation started
2004
Microsoft : Windows XP Media Center (eHome)
2005
Apple : MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Firefox 1.0 was released
YouTube is introduced
Adobe acquire Macromedia
2006
Apple : iMac 20" (Intel Core 2 Duo T7600, Merom)
Microsoft : Windows Vista (Longhorn)
Blu-Ray is introduced
GIF standard becomes free
2007
Apple : iMac Aluminium (Intel Core 2 Duo T7700, Peryn)
Apple : MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Apple : iPhone
2008
Apple : MacPro
2009
Apple : iMac Aluminium (Intel Core 2 Duo T9550)
Apple : MacOS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Microsoft : Windows 7 (Blackcomb/Vienna)
World market statistics
Market Share (%) |
PC (MS-DOS/Windows) |
Macintosh |
Atari |
Commodore |
1984 |
31,6 |
5,9 |
3,2 |
39,5 |
1985 |
48,9 |
2,6 |
2,0 |
34,4 |
1986 |
55,8 |
4,2 |
2,2 |
30,0 |
1987 |
64,7 |
6,0 |
4,3 |
19,6 |
1988 |
79,3 |
6,0 |
2,3 |
11,0 |
1989 |
83,5 |
5,2 |
1,4 |
8,8 |
1990 |
84,2 |
6,5 |
1,5 |
7,2 |
1991 |
76,8 |
11,2 |
1,6 |
9,8 |
1992 |
84,1 |
11,5 |
0,7 |
3,2 |
1993 |
88,2 |
10,5 |
0,2 |
1,0 |
1994 |
90,6 |
9,3 |
0,2 |
|
1995 |
90,9 |
9,0 |
0,1 |
|
1996 |
94,9 |
5,1 |
||
1997 |
96,5 |
3,5 |
||
1998 |
97,3 |
2,7 |
||
1999 |
97,2 |
2,7 |
||
2000 |
97,5 |
2,8 |
||
2001 |
97,7 |
2,5 |
||
2002 |
97,9 |
2,3 |
||
2003 |
93,1 |
2,0 |
||
2004 |
96,0 |
3,0 |
||
2005 |
95,0 |
3,5 |
||
2006 |
94,0 |
4,2 |
||
2007 |
93,0 |
6,0 |
||
2008 |
91,5 |
7,5 |
||
2009 |