1980's home computer....

Housey · 22 May 2013 at 23:18

Kelt said:
I bought an Atari 800XL just to play that game!
Absolutely epic in its day.

It was so good wasn't it! People were playing ZX81 games and you show up with something arcade standard. Unless you were of the era I think it will mean little but the first time I saw it I was taken a back hugely.

albert · 22 May 2013 at 23:18

Blown away by 3 channel sound back in the day. Even now i hum this theme tune at random times ...

SPG · 22 May 2013 at 23:36

Started off with a Vic 20 really, had a zx81 but broke it as the keyboard. Parents wouldnt let me have spectrum after that episode

mejinks · 22 May 2013 at 23:47

Pffft. Spectrum +2 with any of the Dizzy games:

Or Disco Dan

Neil79 · 22 May 2013 at 23:51

Any?

Dizzy 1 did not have in game music with the spectrum, it did with the Amstrad

There's a reason for this

Things change I've changed · 23 May 2013 at 00:01

Love dizzy, I still play it today in my PSP using emulated 'tape' roms, the roms actually load like the original tapes with the boarders flashing.

spankingtexan · 23 May 2013 at 08:53

My first experience with computers was puzzlement, my mate got a zx80 and when I first saw it I scratched my head, looked at him and said "what the **** you gonna do with that" when he told me it was £99 I thought he'd gone mad.

Some time after, can't remember the year now, my nephews got a second hand Acorn Electron for Christmas with several games. We hooked it up, put a cassette in the data recorder and pressed play, nothing happened, the cassette spools didn't turn.
Found out later you had to type "CHAIN" if I remember right and press enter to get the cassette working lol.

Well, after playing Snapper, Chuckie egg and elite I was hooked, my first computer was a speccy 128+2, also had a commodore 64, Atari 65xe, Amstrad 464 before moving on to Amiga.
Great times.

Electron snapper in all its glory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odQgjNsSzSQ

eatcustard · 23 May 2013 at 09:00

I started with a zx81 then, Spectrum 48k, then Atari, then Amiga

R.P.L · 23 May 2013 at 14:18

I started out with an Amiga 500. It's funny now reading the technical specs that people used to get all excited over

bitslice · 23 May 2013 at 14:31

Housey said:
Elan Enterprise. I have 1......

I have one too, they must be rare as hen's teeth

I've got a pile of other hardware too, but nowhere near the size of yours.

robfosters · 23 May 2013 at 14:38

My first computer. Who had one of these?

braveheart · 23 May 2013 at 14:40

I started with commodore vic 20 in 1980 then commdore 64 which has lots of great games and then amgia a500 with hard drive plugged on left side... great games ice spend lots of time... then sold in 1995 b4 i moved to windows 95 and now run w7 with my own built pc... it was good one in the 1980s with bbc model b, spectrum, commdore and others...

thedoc46 · 23 May 2013 at 15:12

Started with an Oric Atmos, which i quickly sold and bagged a Speccy 48k, then cos i couldn't afford a C64, i got an Atari 800XL instead. (on sale at Dixons if i remember) It had International Karate and Drop Zone, and therefore was the next best thing to the C64. From there bought a C64 and stayed there til the 16bit era, when i bought an Atari ST, then an Amiga 500. After those, went to consoles until the PC in the 90s, Pentium P60. After that, it was an upgrade every yr or other yr.

jsmoke · 23 May 2013 at 15:18

zx81 for me with the flat keys.

gillywibble · 23 May 2013 at 15:39

isonomicjedi said:
I remember my first zx81 spending hours typing in code .

Only for the RAM pack to fall out just before you finished.

Kosmiche · 23 May 2013 at 15:44

robfosters said:
My first computer. Who had one of these?

I wouldn't mind modding something like this to work as a pc keyboard, don't know if its possible but it would be a cool thing to do imo.

Building Candy · 23 May 2013 at 15:52

robfosters said:
My first computer. Who had one of these?

and mine

, some games loaded quicker than you could get the disk out the box, WEC le mans took 6 seconds to load.

Neil79 · 23 May 2013 at 16:16

^ Get an external CF reader that loads floppy/disk games from the cf

CircleFaust · 23 May 2013 at 16:22

my first, bought it second hand. the cassette player was a bit dodgy, didn't load all games.
don't think i had it too long

Resident · 23 May 2013 at 16:23

Wyrdo said:
Hah cool, don't remember that one. I had a couple of MSX's at the time, loved that computer!

Fellow MSX owner here

After that I had a Commodore Plus-4