Computer Memories
20 July 2007, 12:45 PM
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SPEEDBALL 2 - official site
As for the originals, keep them as memories as i guarantee you'll be disappointed playing them
20 July 2007, 12:58 PM
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They're releasing the original Sensi soccer on Xbox Live sometime soon.
Dazza, I have AnotherWorld that you can play on the PC. Someones upscalled the textures so you can play it in SVGA!
Dazza, I have AnotherWorld that you can play on the PC. Someones upscalled the textures so you can play it in SVGA!
20 July 2007, 02:49 PM
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Mate of mine had one of these:
Way ahead of its time. My first experience of Donkey Kong. Loved the Smurfs game too. Sure he had a light gun game for it too, but can't find any record of it anywhere.
Way ahead of its time. My first experience of Donkey Kong. Loved the Smurfs game too. Sure he had a light gun game for it too, but can't find any record of it anywhere.
20 July 2007, 02:51 PM
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Spectrum 48k for me too then upgraded to the 128k which wasnt exactly much better 
I remember donkey kong and paperboy, bubble bobble too
happy days
I remember donkey kong and paperboy, bubble bobble too
happy days
20 July 2007, 03:52 PM
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my first console was one of these (one of my earliest childhood memories!)
Known in the USA as the Fairchild Channel F, and known over here in England as the Adman Grandstand in the late 70's
Known in the USA as the Fairchild Channel F, and known over here in England as the Adman Grandstand in the late 70's
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21 July 2007, 09:16 AM
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Remember the Amiga demos, Jesus on E's etc ?
First games with speech on the 64, Suicide Express, Tales of the Arabian Nights, a crap game I bought just for the gravelly speech and of course 'Ghostbusters, Ha Ha Ha'
I had a Spectrum and a c64 (did a lot of paper rounds) and could settle playground arguments, never did decide whether Monty Mole was best on the Spectrum or C64 though.
Revs was good, first car game that tried to give any impression of driving.
First games with speech on the 64, Suicide Express, Tales of the Arabian Nights, a crap game I bought just for the gravelly speech and of course 'Ghostbusters, Ha Ha Ha'
I had a Spectrum and a c64 (did a lot of paper rounds) and could settle playground arguments, never did decide whether Monty Mole was best on the Spectrum or C64 though.
Revs was good, first car game that tried to give any impression of driving.
21 July 2007, 11:39 AM
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My first was an Amstrad CPC 464 and loved it. Wicked game called harrier attack (harrier was a block of black pixels lol) that whole family was hooked on. Was cool that you could copy the tape games on your hifi. Was a pain when 2 games on one side of a tape though - had to fast forward and watch the tape counter.
My best upgrade experience was with a PC 486 dx2-50 4mb ram. I made the bold move to upgrade to 8mb ram which cost me a cool £125!
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My best upgrade experience was with a PC 486 dx2-50 4mb ram. I made the bold move to upgrade to 8mb ram which cost me a cool £125!
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21 July 2007, 11:57 AM
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One of the games I remember for The C64 was the 'Little Computer People'. The First 'Sims' type game. A mate of mine was lucky to have a 5 1/4 inch Floppy disk drive for his. And had flight sim games such as Apache and Stealth. Took less longer to load up than tape.
21 July 2007, 04:20 PM
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Yeah, Amiga CQ, Amiga Format, Amiga Power, CVG, Mean Machines.
God I wasted pocket money.
Still got them all too, plus all the demo disks!
My Amiga was also 1mb
God I wasted pocket money.
Still got them all too, plus all the demo disks!
My Amiga was also 1mb
21 July 2007, 07:30 PM
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ZX Spectrum 48k - first computer. Spent hours on it - Test Match, Horace series - even a free game with Weetabix - Weetabix Vs the Titchies!
I wrote programs for it, entered mag listings.
Neighbour got a Amiga 500 and I had to have one (That I eventually blew up by plugging a disk drive into the printer port. Ooops.
Luckily I had saved hard to buy an Amiga A1200 with 60mb hard drive. WOW! I wasted years playing Sensi Soccer. From begginging of 6th form until the end of Uni and beyond!
I wrote programs for it, entered mag listings.
Neighbour got a Amiga 500 and I had to have one (That I eventually blew up by plugging a disk drive into the printer port. Ooops.
Luckily I had saved hard to buy an Amiga A1200 with 60mb hard drive. WOW! I wasted years playing Sensi Soccer. From begginging of 6th form until the end of Uni and beyond!
21 July 2007, 07:47 PM
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First computer I played with was an IBM 370 mainframe as part of a school project in 1969
Programming on Fortan IV, on punched cards
21 July 2007, 07:49 PM
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21 July 2007, 07:55 PM
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Started with a ZX81, with 1k and got the 16k ram pack for Xmas 
3D Monster Maze was incredible given the machine it ran on
I moved on to a BBC Micro as they were teaching Computer Studies with them at school
What a nerd, but there was ELITE to enjoy. My mates had C64's (awful for programming, everything was 'POKE') and Speccy 48k's. Used to go to their's to play DT Decathlon and the awesome Back 2 School 
After leaving school I didn't bother for many years, ignoring the Sega/Nintendo wars, until I caved in and got a chipped PS1 to play snide games from the boot-sale
Always wanted a Mac though after doing several desktop publishing and image processing courses.
Now run a fleet of Mac's at w*rk, and some PITA PC's
Have a Mac at home (very old, slow and way past its retirement but still going strong) and am waiting to see what happens with the Mac Mini and Leopard before I upgrade soon.
Don't have the time for a PS2/3, XBOX or whatever now, but must admit, the Wii looks superb. More communal than the alone in the dark spotty wierdo gamer console. Might even be able to get the missuse playing on one.
and got the 16k ram pack for Xmas 3D Monster Maze was incredible given the machine it ran on I moved on to a BBC Micro as they were teaching Computer Studies with them at school
What a nerd, but there was ELITE to enjoy. My mates had C64's (awful for programming, everything was 'POKE') and Speccy 48k's. Used to go to their's to play DT Decathlon and the awesome Back 2 School After leaving school I didn't bother for many years, ignoring the Sega/Nintendo wars, until I caved in and got a chipped PS1 to play snide games from the boot-sale
Always wanted a Mac though after doing several desktop publishing and image processing courses.Now run a fleet of Mac's at w*rk, and some PITA PC's
Have a Mac at home (very old, slow and way past its retirement but still going strong) and am waiting to see what happens with the Mac Mini and Leopard before I upgrade soon.Don't have the time for a PS2/3, XBOX or whatever now, but must admit, the Wii looks superb. More communal than the alone in the dark spotty wierdo gamer console. Might even be able to get the missuse playing on one.
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21 July 2007, 08:10 PM
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Getting a teletext adapter for my BBC B and being able to download programs. Not that the programs were that cool looking back on it lol.
As mentioed by others, spent hours on Elite. (Downloading the EVE demo at the mo
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Getting an Archimedes computer. 1st one to have WYSIWYG if I recall correctly. I spent all my money buying hardware upgrades. (Shame ARM was sold on, hence ending its production)
Not bothering to do any course work for GCSE Computer studies, but writing 1 password protection program and getting a B grade overall. Get in! lol
Not using any computers for years, then trying to work out what the hell this internet business was about!
Not that the programs were that cool looking back on it lol.As mentioed by others, spent hours on Elite. (Downloading the EVE demo at the mo
)Getting an Archimedes computer. 1st one to have WYSIWYG if I recall correctly. I spent all my money buying hardware upgrades. (Shame ARM was sold on, hence ending its production)
Not bothering to do any course work for GCSE Computer studies, but writing 1 password protection program and getting a B grade overall. Get in! lol
Not using any computers for years, then trying to work out what the hell this internet business was about!
22 July 2007, 12:33 AM
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I believe the music for docking in elite was blue danube, was also used in 2001 a space odyssey
YouTube - Strauss - Blue danube waltz
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YouTube - Strauss - Blue danube waltz
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lmao
Getting some flashbacks here from that link
22 July 2007, 12:41 AM
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It's a long time back now, but weren't the ultimate baddies in Elite 'Thargoids' ? I recall octagonal ships with drones that whopped yo' @$$ from all directions. I used to save my game then head off into 'Witch Space' to up my kills
22 July 2007, 08:42 AM
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My first Videogame console The Philips Videopac G7000 (european name). Magnavox Odyssey² - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I even had the first release with the silver controler with a square hole for the eight direction stick. I was about 6 years old at the time. The next computer was the Comodore C64 but the light colored one (version update?). Great memories.
I even had the first release with the silver controler with a square hole for the eight direction stick.
I was about 6 years old at the time. The next computer was the Comodore C64 but the light colored one (version update?). Great memories.