I need a new computer :(

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I think that's most of the major ones covered now.


COSIMO, you beat me to it - and exactly the same image haha
 
C64 was where it was at - happy days! I enjoyed the Speccy and Toshiba MSX for a while as well. The C64 had a massive back catalogue and the sound was epic.




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For the MSX my favourite game had to be Feud. There wasn't many others I played on it - Vampires Empire springs to mind for some reason.



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One of my eduring memories of our ZX 48k was the awesome artwork on the cover of the manuals. You put the two manuals together and they created this great picture by John Harris:

 
One of the things about my beloved Speccy I abhorred was this contraption that came with Elite. The Lenslok.

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Got even worse when my Mother threw it away thinking it was just an old piece of plastic.

Don't even get me started on being colour blind and wanting to play Jet Set Willy.

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I remember saving for a commodore Amiga 500 as a child. Finally saved enough and bought it, clung to it tightly on the bus ride home with my mother. Got off the bus and the handle on the case snapped and it dropped on the floor. . Had to wait a couple of weeks til they sorted it out and when I got it back keyboard was keying in hyroglyphics.

Place I bought it from were good and replaced it with the 500+ ah simple days of sensible soccer and champ manager.
 
gettothechopper said:
WTF

page 2 and no bbc micro

not real computer nerds after all them ... :p
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+1

I've still got my Beeb (Model B+), got it 2nd hand in 1986, but the Cub monitor went bang last year. I think it's the tripler that's gone as it shows a blurred image, almost illegible. So yeah, will have to find another Cub or Philips etc replacement. Unless anyone knows how I can hook the Beeb up to a standard VGA / DVI / HDMI monitor port?
 
Wow, great nostalgic thread!

I still remember the 'excitement' when my Dad took us around looking for our first computer! He skipped the ZX81 and went straight for a ZX Spectrum (Can't remember if it was the 16K or 48K) with Flight Sim being the first game we bought (from WHSmiths!), and getting Jet Set Willy for my birthday was a real treat!

I remember desperately wanting my father to get us an Elan Enterprise (Very sexy machine with a built in joystick!)..

We later sold it for a C64, then C128D, those where the days!
 
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vodkacokebloke said:
that Spectrum + had the worst keyboard of any machine ever - even a ww2 enigma was better to type on
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It was also the insane key-combo's while trying to program that really messed you up..

I remember my mate at school had a DKTRonics replacement case/keyboard for the spectrum that while a bit 'late' in it's life was bloody awesome!
 
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