Dispelling A Myth.

Freefaller said:
I then got my hands on a 286 - 16mhz - 4mb RAM - 20mb HDD beast of a machine - didn't have any games for it though :(
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Should have knocked up a few of your own games in QBasic. :eek::cool:
 
I was overjoyed when my uncle generously gave me his ZX81 when he upgraded to the awesome ZX Spectrum. It only used to take about two attempts and 15 minutes to load a game, kids these days don't know what they are missing.

Ah, them were the days. :D
 
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AJUK said:
I was overjoyed when my uncle generously gave me his ZX84 when he upgraded to the awesome ZX Spectrum. It only used to take about two attempts and 15 minutes to load a game, kids these days don't know what they are missing.

Ah, them were the days. :D
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Nah, it was spending 4 hours typing code from a magazine on that rubber keyboard (glad i got the hard key upgrade :D) to find you missed a line, mis-typed a character or just good old fashioned lock-up, that was fun.
Bet I couldnt have bounced a C64 off the wall as many times as I did my Speccy or zx81 and still have it work.
 
I still got mine! with about 100 games too! :eek:

Oh, and i got about 2 years worth of Commodore Format magazines! the best magazine ever! still nothing to this day beats it! think they might be woth something? currently in the attic collecting dust
 
Castor said:
Ahh awsome machine, fond memories along side my speccy 48k which strangely had some design fault that meant it over heated, a cure was placing a glass of cold water on the top of it :D
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is this the first ever case of watercooling? :D
 
I think I missed the C64 era, my first knowlage of a computer was messing around on my mums mates BBC, and then a whole host of different acorns.
 
Ah the C64, what an awesome machine :D

I was bought one when I was 6 or 7 and I loved it. It was s/h from a family friend who'd just bought an Amiga 500 (POWWWWWWWWAHHHHHH!). It came with bags (literally) of games and two tape drives. Mine was the beige effort with the brown keys and the tape drives were white. I had a Quickfire joystick that sat in the palm of the left hand with a short red stick and a single red fire button on the side. It was an ergonomic masterpiece.

My favourite games that I can remember were one where you were a weird bouncing space ball thing, a game featuring Usagi Yojimbo which was totally awesome, Army Moves and something involving magic stuff (but I can't remember what it was exactly).

Brings back very fond memories of waiting 20 mins for a game to load and crash when it got to the title screen...... Those were the days.
 
robmiller said:
I always preferred the BBC Micro

We had ours in the loft until about 2 years ago when my mum threw it away
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Shame.

Me too, I'm thinking of perhaps a BBC Master from e-bay, could'nt afford one when I had my Beeb'B, one day I intend to own the whole Acorn range of machines, yes I am extremely sad!

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Acorn Atom

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Electron & BBC'B

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Master 128 / 512

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Archimedes.

I think, with a bit of luck, I'll get them all for under £50. :)
 
Von you are bringing a tear to a grown mans eye here.

1st Computer ZX81
2nd VIC20
3rd C64

I did turn to the dark side and dabbled with the BBC Model B (Galaga, now that was a way to do an all nighter :D ), Spectrum 128k & Amstrad 464 but pre PC it was Commodore all the way. Quickshot 2, 2 mates and Speedball 2. What more could you ask for ?
 
the older C64 had a better SID chip i seem to remember.

I had a commodore 128, i was so elite :p

first thing i did was shove it into 64k half the time!
 
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