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Post by Emig5m on Mar 5, 2024 1:52:50 GMT -5
Tandy TRS-80 here. My friend had a Apple IIc (later on I had one too, buy strangely more towards the 90s just to play old games that I loved on the Apple like Legacy of the Ancients.)
My 80s went something like this...
Tandy TRS-80 Commodore 64
Commodore 128 Amiga 500 And believe it or not, I think that I got a Apple IIc after the Amiga just to play some old Apple games. The Amiga was the bomb though...the sound quality was so good for its time.
The Tandy TRS-80 I used to code games by hand from books and magazines believe it or not. And not only did it take forever but, for a long time I didn't have anything to backup to so when I powered it off, I lost my game and all of my work lol.
Notable computer games I remember from the 80s...
Conan: Hall of Volta (Apple IIc) Russki Duck (Apple IIc)
Silent Service (C64/128/Amiga)
Destroyer (C64/128) Gunship (C64/128)
Summer Games (C64/128)
Shadow of the Beast 1 & 2 (Amiga) Blood Money (Amiga) Echelon (Amiga)
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 5, 2024 2:55:28 GMT -5
It was an Acer Aspire something, had a 100mhz Pentium in it and 8 gigs of some kind of RAM. Wish I'd kept it.
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Post by Babel-17 on Mar 5, 2024 7:47:43 GMT -5
Compaq Presario with a Cyrix chip. AOL pre-installed and that was my internet until I saw I could just use a regular browser, then later install EarthLink and ditch AOL. It was also my first experience using a PC.
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 5, 2024 8:06:41 GMT -5
It was an Acer Aspire something, had a 100mhz Pentium in it and 8 gigs of some kind of RAM. Wish I'd kept it. Damn mine was also a Pentium 100 16 mega of RAM, and an 800 meg HD. If I wanted the full 450 meg install of Daggerfall took over half the drive lol I upgraded the RAM from 16 to 32 megs at a local shop. Came with free installation. I watched the guy install it and it was so easy to do I felt like a scrub letting him do it. Never let someone else install a computer part for me again. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 5, 2024 8:07:31 GMT -5
Also it was an AST, company went out of business like 6 months after I bought it. It became my siblings computer and died a few years later.
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 5, 2024 21:31:46 GMT -5
lol I just noticed I said "8 gigs" but I meant 8 megs. Been a while lol.
8 gigs of RAM in those days would've only been affordable for millionaires probably.
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 5, 2024 22:11:03 GMT -5
Damned I'm surrounded by n00bs!
You guys really missed out on the 80s fun? I always knew that I was cooler than you guys...  
Great...I'm surrounded by n00bs.... 
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 5, 2024 23:07:04 GMT -5
Damned I'm surrounded by n00bs!
You guys really missed out on the 80s fun? I always knew that I was cooler than you guys...
Great...I'm surrounded by n00bs....
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Mar 5, 2024 23:30:29 GMT -5
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993. 81. I watched my friends older brother play games like Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers get all the Girls in like 1991, and a few other weird old games that literally took like 15 minutes to load off of TAPE before that and the names I have no idea in the late 80s/early 1990s. Fun fact, there is a point in that game where you can make girls boobs bigger with spells lol. Anyway I didn't get a computer of my own till 1996. Even had my own phone line. |
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Post by Emig5m on Mar 5, 2024 23:30:56 GMT -5
Damned I'm surrounded by n00bs!
You guys really missed out on the 80s fun? I always knew that I was cooler than you guys...
Great...I'm surrounded by n00bs....
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993. I was five when you were born...  |
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Post by Coolverine on Mar 6, 2024 0:06:43 GMT -5
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993. I was five when you were born... My older brother is also from Gen-X, I probably wouldn't know as much as I do if it weren't for him. He's 10 years older, maybe 11. |
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Post by Cop on Mar 8, 2024 10:56:42 GMT -5
A 286 with MS-DOS. Can't remember any other specs. Was probably somewhere in the early '90s. Games on 3.5' floppy discs. Wolfenstein 3D with the bleeps from the PC speaker.
Have more memories of my next one, which was a 486AT33 with 4MB RAM, which I eventually had to double to be able to play Star Wars Dark Forces (it was worth it). Originally got it with a Gravis Ultrasound but swapped it for a Soundblaster with someone I knew because the Ultrasound wasn't supported well enough at the time. Another change that was worth it: He got a more expensive sound card, I got one that worked hassle-free so we both were satisfied...
Then a slew of Pentiums although I can't remember ever getting a 1. I believe I went straight to 2.
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Post by sj on Oct 25, 2024 9:31:09 GMT -5
The first computer I spent alot of time on, as a kid, was my best friend's Apple IIe. We'd play games on it for hours.
My older brother bought an Acer with a Pentium 486 and I played Quake on it. One of my cousins knew DOS programming and he hacked the system RAM, so that games would run better on it.
My first computer build had a AMD Athlon cpu and 3dfx Voodoo 5 gpu.
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Post by sj on Oct 25, 2024 9:38:14 GMT -5
I was five when you were born... My older brother is also from Gen-X, I probably wouldn't know as much as I do if it weren't for him. He's 10 years older, maybe 11. My two younger brothers weren't into PC. However, one of my nephews (when he was 8 or so) was into computer games and he asked for my help hacking Roblox. We researched it online and made whatever change he was looking for. By age 10, he already learned how to code. His father said he'd laugh like a mad scientist after successfully hacking (and probably cheating) in games. Now he's attending university for a degree in Computer Engineering. |
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Post by sj on Oct 25, 2024 9:51:39 GMT -5
I was born in 1982, didn't start getting into computers until 1992 or 1993. I was five when you were born... I believe Cop and I are a little older than you, maybe by 3 to 4 years. Also, Babel, who's probably the oldest person here who still sometimes pops in from time to time. Cop's a long lost relative, btw, whose father was fathered by my grandfather when he served in the European theater WWII. /joke |
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Post by sj on Oct 25, 2024 9:59:33 GMT -5
It's interesting that there's a niche genre of games that help people learn how to code. screeps.com/ |
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Post by ForRealTho on Oct 25, 2024 23:45:56 GMT -5
I have no clue what kind of computer it was, but in the way early 1990s or late 1980s when I was very young I had a friend who had a computer that loaded games off of tape, it took like 15 minutes for a game to load. It was ridiculous. I cannot remember what any of the games we played were called and barely what they look like. One was a top down RPG where people were like blobs of colors. Wasn't DOS/PC I don't think.
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Post by Cop on Oct 26, 2024 10:51:26 GMT -5
Cop's a long lost relative, btw, whose father was fathered by my grandfather when he served in the European theater WWII. /joke That's not that farfetched. Apparently my grandfather on my mother's side apparently wasn't her real father. It could be a Canadian soldier (they were already around in 1940, my mom was born in february of '41) |
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Post by Cop on Oct 26, 2024 10:52:43 GMT -5
I have no clue what kind of computer it was, but in the way early 1990s or late 1980s when I was very young I had a friend who had a computer that loaded games off of tape, it took like 15 minutes for a game to load. It was ridiculous. I cannot remember what any of the games we played were called and barely what they look like. One was a top down RPG where people were like blobs of colors. Wasn't DOS/PC I don't think. Sounds like a Commodore (64). I too have sat through games loading off tapes when being over at a friend's house. |
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