Vic-20 here as well, followed closely by about 7 different C-64s. The great thing about the C-64s was that the floppy drive cost more than the keyboard/CPU.
MY GOD! The copy protection for some programs seemed like it was designed to destroy the disk drive. I had a great Activision basketball game that beat the hell out of my DD.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
It used cartridges on top of the keyboard for classic Atari gaming.
It also had a tape deck...which games hardly ever worked on....
It was a piece of crap...but it was my piece of crap .
Same here. Had fun times writing games in BASIC
LOL yeah took me 2 weeks to read the entire BASIC book I got along with it...and took me one week to write a basic program...it was a rocket...it was red..and it went WOOOSH...I felt so uber.....
Ah, the memories. AMIGA basic was awesome. I even did assembler on my TRS-80.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
In 1994 my family got a Packard Bell that had 1 gig of hardrive space and who knows how much ram.... I remember playing Jones in the Fast Lane and Scorched Earth on it.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Originally posted by jinxit The Atari 800xl It used cartridges on top of the keyboard for classic Atari gaming. It also had a tape deck...which games hardly ever worked on.... It was a piece of crap...but it was my piece of crap .
!!!!!!!
I had one of those until 5 years ago. I had taken about 15 trips to Radioshack to replace parts though and the laughs at "so....wanna play some atari?" and "no seriously..." and pulling out Qbert were not worth it.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. Went throught the programming book that came with it to make it verbalize all the swear words I typed in (that was pretty fun for a 7 year old).
1st - IBM PS/1 with 25Mhz CPU, 128 MB harddrive, 4MB RAM, 1 3.5 floppy, no CDROM drive, and Windows 3.1. Got into the DOS SHELL the first night and accidentally deleted something. I had to call IBM and they sent me about 20 recovery disks on floppy and I had to re-image. Later i bought a 2X speed CDROM for $250.00 and put Windows 95 on it.
2cd - Dell Dimension p200v with 200Mhz CPU, 800 MB drive, 16MB RAM. Put an ISA network card in it and was playing Quake 1 through TEN(Total Entertainment Network) for about 2 weeks, then I discovered Gamespy. Team Fortress came out and I was playing that 4+ hours a night. Then Ultima Online came out and was playing that like crazy.
added: notable games such as Betrayal at Krondor, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Might and Magic World of Xeen, Lands of Lore
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
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TRS80 here,
then C64,
Einherjar_LC says: WTB the true successor to UO or Asheron's Call pst!
Got my uncle's x86 with 12" monocrome screen in the late eighties. Could run Word Perfect and Norton Commander.
After that it was the 486 25mhz, 4mb memory, and the lovely turbo button
Commodore VIC-20 then C-64. I still have my Commodore 64 packed away in the garage.
Me too - except I had a TI-99/4a sandwiched in between.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
I went from an AMIGA to a W95 PC, and was very unimpressed.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
MY GOD! The copy protection for some programs seemed like it was designed to destroy the disk drive. I had a great Activision basketball game that beat the hell out of my DD.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Ah, the memories. AMIGA basic was awesome. I even did assembler on my TRS-80.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Just an AMIGA 500 for me. No Toaster, but I sure knew ABOUT it, because they used those to do the graphics for Babylon 5.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
In 1994 my family got a Packard Bell that had 1 gig of hardrive space and who knows how much ram.... I remember playing Jones in the Fast Lane and Scorched Earth on it.
AMEN to that. What a shame.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
Zenith around 1981, can't remember the model.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
Was it ever. What a great machine.
I STILL can't believe Microprose did Gunship on that hardware. Amazing.
"" Voice acting isn't an RPG element....it's just a production value." - grumpymel2
!!!!!!!
I had one of those until 5 years ago. I had taken about 15 trips to Radioshack to replace parts though and the laughs at "so....wanna play some atari?" and "no seriously..." and pulling out Qbert were not worth it.
"Never met a pack of humans that were any different. Look at the idiots that get elected every couple of years. You really consider those guys more mature than us? The only difference between us and them is, when they gank some noobs and take their stuff, the noobs actually die." - Madimorga
The 1st computer I owned was a Gateway with a 166 mhz Pentium with MMX Overclocked to 200 mhz back in 1998.
I built my own after that.
Tho I didn't own my own PC into 98, I played with computers before that in Electronic Class in high school from 92-94
Back then we had IBM DOS then upgraded to MS-DOS 3.1.
We had Windows 3.1 but we almost never used it...
They computers we had in that class were a Tandy 1000, some 386, and a Flagship 486 (with Turbo Button)
Just before I graduated in 94 we got a Pentium 90 mhz.
The games we played back high school were:
Doom
Wolfenstein
Wolfenstein Spear of Destiny
Conquest of Camelot
King's Quest 4
Scorched Earth
Stunts
Commander Keen
A Chuck Yeager Flight Sim
and Others..
Scorched Earth got played alot.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. Went throught the programming book that came with it to make it verbalize all the swear words I typed in (that was pretty fun for a 7 year old).
Apple IIe. Ah, memories of 'Wings of Fury' how I miss that game. Never could figure out how to sink the Battleships though.
Tandy 1000SX. I remember playing Space Quest on that thing, was freaking epic for its time.
Tandy 1000
My first PC was an IBM PC-JR. Loved the heck out of it!
Even had a copy of leisure suit larry in the land of the lound lizards....text version....
Commadore 64
It was epic!
Say hello, To the things you've left behind. They are more a part of your life now that you can't touch them.
My first computer was an abacus...
EDIT: Actually, I bought my first computer in 1978 -- an Apple II. I was 23 years old.
My First PC that I remember was an amiga... and I remember playing Dragons Lair on it.
1st - IBM PS/1 with 25Mhz CPU, 128 MB harddrive, 4MB RAM, 1 3.5 floppy, no CDROM drive, and Windows 3.1. Got into the DOS SHELL the first night and accidentally deleted something. I had to call IBM and they sent me about 20 recovery disks on floppy and I had to re-image. Later i bought a 2X speed CDROM for $250.00 and put Windows 95 on it.
2cd - Dell Dimension p200v with 200Mhz CPU, 800 MB drive, 16MB RAM. Put an ISA network card in it and was playing Quake 1 through TEN(Total Entertainment Network) for about 2 weeks, then I discovered Gamespy. Team Fortress came out and I was playing that 4+ hours a night. Then Ultima Online came out and was playing that like crazy.
added: notable games such as Betrayal at Krondor, Gabriel Knight, Leisure Suit Larry, and Might and Magic World of Xeen, Lands of Lore
Don't be terrorized! You're more likely to die of a car accident, drowning, fire, or murder! More people die every year from prescription drugs than terrorism LOL!
Don't remember if I posted in this thread or not. My first computer was an IBM x86 that had a turbo switch that made it behave like a 286.
I remember my father upgrading the ram to 640k, which was the DOS limit prior to Win95, after which DOS became irrelevant.
1985 Kaypro PC Intel 80286 @ 8 MHz, 256k memory, 2 5 1/2' floppy drives, no hardrive, monochrome monitor with Hercules graphics card.
Used to play text-adventure games on it, like... ZORK! Leather Goddesses of Phobos.
Later played allot of Sierra games on it, like Kings Quest series.