retrotastic...

[Pete C]

I had a Spectrum 48k, then when that died a Spectrum +3... yeah, the one with the built in floppy drive



Bit pointless as all my games were on cassettes

[30psi]

Daz would remember Jet Set Willy Or at least some sort of variant

[Stidi]

cpc 464, think ATV simulator was my favourite game

[Infinity]

I had a Spectrum 128k +2, my dad had an 8086, which was later replaced by a 286 laptop - that thing was the size of a suitcase We skipped the 386 and I went and got a 486 DX2 66, with 4MB of RAM and a S3 graphics card. Had a 340MB hard drive too. I wrote a massive Boot loader for managing the memory for my games/Windows/DOS. It even opened the CD drive and paused to load the CD. It then opened the second drive (duffer) to put my cup on I kept that machine for quite a while until I got my Pentium II 450 machine. That was a beast at the time. 512MB of RAM, a 16MB Riva TNT and a 12MB Voodoo 2 hooked up to a 19" CRT. Had a DVD drive and a 2x CD CDRW drive. Cost me the best part of £2500!!! Skipped to console gaming after that and have never been back.

[Cluck]

Harrier attack was awesome, played it all the time!!

Anyone remember Jet Set Willy? No, not a porno set in an airport, but a cool little platformer

I preferred Manic Miner myself . For some reason, I just didn't get on with Jet Set Willy . And to be honest, I preferred the Monty Mole games over both of these .

[Cluck]

I had a Spectrum 128k +2, my dad had an 8086, which was later replaced by a 286 laptop - that thing was the size of a suitcase We skipped the 386 and I went and got a 486 DX2 66, with 4MB of RAM and a S3 graphics card. Had a 340MB hard drive too. I wrote a massive Boot loader for managing the memory for my games/Windows/DOS. It even opened the CD drive and paused to load the CD. It then opened the second drive (duffer) to put my cup on I kept that machine for quite a while until I got my Pentium II 450 machine. That was a beast at the time. 512MB of RAM, a 16MB Riva TNT and a 12MB Voodoo 2 hooked up to a 19" CRT. Had a DVD drive and a 2x CD CDRW drive. Cost me the best part of £2500!!! Skipped to console gaming after that and have never been back.

EDIT : Ignore what I just replied with. It appears that I'm a 'tard. I've just seen there was a PII-450 . Learn something new every day . For anybody that didn't see before my edit, I may have implied that there was no PII-450 chip .

486DX2-66? Look at you with the deep pockets . When we started the company, we stuck with the DX-33 as the DX2-66 was twice the price at the time. I genuinely can't remember how much RAM we had but I suspect it would have been 4MB at the time. I'm trying to remember, but I think even by the time Windows '95 came out, 8MB cost £250. I just got 8GB for a customer and it cost me ~£70 - that's 3500 times cheaper. A 40MB drive, back in '93 cost us £120. £120 now gets me a 2TB drive, which equates to 50000 times cheaper .

[RAPID]

I still have a c64 up in the loft, along with every other one I have owned.
May check what's there later as I remember the c64, nes,snes, master system, mega drive and some atari but I can't remember which one.
Pretty sure there is a zx spectrum up there aswell.

[Ralz]

Pah, I had an Amstrad CPC 464, now that was badass

I have an Amstrad CPC at home, it is older than me!

[Ralz]

£120 now gets me a 2TB drive, which equates to 50000 times cheaper .

You can get 2TB drives for £60

[centurion]

I must be old. I had the one before the C64 the Vic 20( a massive 20k of memory) and the best game was perils of willy(soundtrack was stairway to heaven) which was what jet set willy was based on. Upgrade thru the C16/C64/Amiga500+/amiga1200/amigaA2000/A3000. Then built my first PC.

[Mike_S13]

Another game i fondly remember is Citadel from the Acorn Electron, i was blown away by it.

Citadel was brilliant, It was huge and impossible..... but not as huge and impossible as Exile Games were hard back then, lol.

I've got CCS64 on my HTPC, it's great and you don't have to spend £300 for a bit of nost***ia.

http://www.ccs64.com/

Plenty of links on that page to download classic games like Bubble Bobble, Turrican, Dizzy, Pitfall and Boulderdash!

[Easy007]

I'm fairly certain i still have my C64 up in the loft with loads of games

[alanjuggler]

EDIT : Ignore what I just replied with. It appears that I'm a 'tard. I've just seen there was a PII-450 . Learn something new every day . For anybody that didn't see before my edit, I may have implied that there was no PII-450 chip .

486DX2-66? Look at you with the deep pockets . When we started the company, we stuck with the DX-33 as the DX2-66 was twice the price at the time. I genuinely can't remember how much RAM we had but I suspect it would have been 4MB at the time. I'm trying to remember, but I think even by the time Windows '95 came out, 8MB cost £250. I just got 8GB for a customer and it cost me ~£70 - that's 3500 times cheaper. A 40MB drive, back in '93 cost us £120. £120 now gets me a 2TB drive, which equates to 50000 times cheaper .

as it happens, we picked up a p2-450 on release day - £500 just for the chip (well, I say chip, bloody huge slot thing)

never bought an intel chip after that

[Cluck]

as it happens, we picked up a p2-450 on release day - £500 just for the chip (well, I say chip, bloody huge slot thing)

never bought an intel chip after that

Shocking isn't it. For a long while, it was taken as read that you paid £500 for the latest CPU from Intel. Thankfully some competition came along and brought the prices down to realistic levels . IIRC, a mate of mine paid £500 for his Pentium 200 only a couple of months before the MMX versions were released .

[Infinity]

EDIT : Ignore what I just replied with. It appears that I'm a 'tard. I've just seen there was a PII-450 . Learn something new every day . For anybody that didn't see before my edit, I may have implied that there was no PII-450 chip .

You are forgiven

486DX2-66? Look at you with the deep pockets . When we started the company, we stuck with the DX-33 as the DX2-66 was twice the price at the time. I genuinely can't remember how much RAM we had but I suspect it would have been 4MB at the time. I'm trying to remember, but I think even by the time Windows '95 came out, 8MB cost £250. I just got 8GB for a customer and it cost me ~£70 - that's 3500 times cheaper. A 40MB drive, back in '93 cost us £120. £120 now gets me a 2TB drive, which equates to 50000 times cheaper .

I was then envy of my friends - was awesome playing Doom II at 800x600 on it I eventually upped the RAM to 24MB. That was bloody expensive and once the CPU was overclocked to 75Mhz, it ran like a fooking rocket

[ToddS14A]

I had one of these bad boys as first computer

http://news.cnet.com/i/bto/20080102/Atari_2600.png

[sideways14a]

Shocking isn't it. For a long while, it was taken as read that you paid £500 for the latest CPU from Intel. Thankfully some competition came along and brought the prices down to realistic levels . IIRC, a mate of mine paid £500 for his Pentium 200 only a couple of months before the MMX versions were released .

Whilst some have said i am a fanboi (something completely retarded as all my current computers have intel chips) i have to say that AMD is heavily responsible for the powerful cpus we now have.

If its wasnt for AMD you would certainly not have a sandbridge cpu from intel, you would be lucky to have core2 performance.

Competition drives innovation and performance without it the PC world is fecked.
Your about to see it again in a few months

[Cluck]

Whilst some have said i am a fanboi (something completely retarded as all my current computers have intel chips) i have to say that AMD is heavily responsible for the powerful cpus we now have.

If its wasnt for AMD you would certainly not have a sandbridge cpu from intel, you would be lucky to have core2 performance.

Competition drives innovation and performance without it the PC world is fecked.
Your about to see it again in a few months

Sadly, competition also created the Cyrix processor. What an utter pile of toss that thing was .

[sideways14a]

Point taken.


Zips it

[Infinity]

Sadly, competition also created the Cyrix processor. What an utter pile of toss that thing was .

Awe, come on, that was the pinnacle of technology at the time