An IRC inspired thread Anyone with old stories from "Back In The Day", perhaps the feeling when you built your first rig, first posted on a tech forum and got called a n00b etc. Let the posting begin
having a 286 with a turbo button and loading programs off 5 1/4 floppy discs. also the fact that the os was an amstrad one, not even dos that was bleeding edge
Remeber me first build like it was yesterday. Delivery was 3 days late, as citylink left it outside the wrong house. Anways, got the phonecall at college that it had arrived, was too scared to touch the cpu so got someone else to install it. Was stunned by the speed games ran at (648*480 low details) but compared to the old P200 Unreal Tourny played like a dream. 1.33ghz thunderbird, 128mb PC133, 40GB WD, Jetway 830CF, a real powerhouse, esp with the onboard graphics and 128mb ram! That was _only_ ~ 4 years ago too! Cost a massive 400 quid :O
43meg HDD the machine had a stonking 4meg of ram, so often i'd make a 1.44meg RAM drive when copying stuff for floppies.
Having to shove a knife and fork into the disk disk drive in my Amstrad PCW8256 to load the old green-and-black text based adventure games! Oh and two words: Monkey Island (on floppy!) OMG look at those graphics, and sound!
Win95. No more pissing about in DOS with drivers and what not or asking my brother to fix games. Windows would actully run games straight off - most of the time. The internet. I remember first visiting some games website and being so impressed that I wrote down the funky looking address (I guessed what it was) in the hope that I'd be able to visit the site again.
Some football manager sim on the Amiga 800 or something. Ohhhh and prince of persia the original. No saves and stupidly hard
Carmageddon on my first computer, it was an AMD K6 266mhz i think, but wait for it it had a KTX voodoo 2 graphics card with a whole 16mb of 3DFX goodness and the card cost me £120. And my first blue screen of death, didnt know what was happening so i turned the power off before I could even read the crap it was telling me,
The only amstrad game i remeber was Jetset Willy (or something like that) you had to pick up bottles of purple stuff and pour them down a toilet! that was pretty much my first recolection of playing a puter game. Used to spend most of my time playing indy heat on Amiga 500 you could run over the pit crew and they attuly died which was the coolest part, also renaming the drivers names to rude words and then having laughter fits when the computer came up with "Ben Dover is in the lead" kind of thing I was 8 btw EDIT: w00t found a java version - http://www.mjwilson.demon.co.uk/jsw.html Why oh why cant they make games this good anymore!
I still fondly remember playing Cave Quest on the Apple IIe back in the early 80's in text mode >> You're standing in a dimly lit hall. There are doors to the East and North. There is a table with a drawer to the West ** open drawer >> You open the drawer and see a silver key ** get key >> You now have the key >>You're standing in a dimly lit hall. There are doors to the East and North. There is a table with a drawer to the West ** open north door >> the door is locked ** use key >> use key on what? ** use key on north door >> You use the key on the north door. The door swings open to reveal a dark room ** enter dark room >> You enter the dark room. There is an open door to your South. and so on and so forth...
My adventures in overclocking "back in the day" are documented thanks to google: http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=zapwiz&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=wg
first computer i touched commodore 64... (not 64 bit you young'n's) first 100% pc compatable system was a 386 compaq thing my dad took from work running windows 3.1 woo onto a packard bell 133 P1.. upgraded to a P2 233mhz with MMX WOAH AMD 450mhz thing... AMD T.bird 1ghz Athlon XP 1800+ then onto 2500+ and todays current machine is teh shuttle with the 3500+ 64bit goodness
Playing pong on the Atari2600 and blitz on my first computer, a vic20 that was then upgraded to the comodore c16 +4. Those where the days, typing for hours on end in basic just to find that you had typed one wrong character somewhere in the middle of the several thousands of lines that you had just coded.
i remember when i first got my first pc.....it was a gatway2000(yes no typo)...they used to be called gateway2000 not gateway. it was a pentium 166mhz WITH MMX!!!!!! an 32meg ram then upgraded to 64(compared to the 16meg people were gettin) it had a onboard 2meg ati rage pro gfx card an 2.5gig hdd!! an it had a 17" monitor!!!! people were gettin 15" standard but i got a 17!!! oohhh an the all improtant 40x CDROM!!!! babeh!!!!!! the machie was great.....until pentium2 came out like a month later
