MicroWar 2.0

a space shooter in the computer industry

MicroWar :: Computer History Background

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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

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