Dunno if anyone would be interested in this, but there's a radio station on the net that streams all the music from the Amiga, C64 etc days. If you've a Sonos system or similar, save the URL and play through that. That's what I do.
i just had a cargo cult menu system copied from a friend that had all the magic words to do whatever, ems, xms, etc
then later qemm was magic which helped with a lot of that
My first was a Packard Bell 486 (can't remember the exact model - all I can recall for sure is that it had a CD-ROM, 4MB RAM, and came with Win 3.1 and DOS). This was sometime around '92.
Man, the endless fucking around with DOS to get some games to run with only 4MB RAM - and boot disks - a lot of that stuff was over my head at the age of 8. Somehow I powered through it though.
There was something about the dial-up porn too that made it special...guess it was the reward at the end of a long wait!
And I'll never forget the day I was able to make the switch from dial-up to cable - probably the happiest moment of my life (I know, that's sad ). I went through countless spools of CD-R's for the first few years after that. I had to have it all!
I can never be free, because the shackles I wear can't be touched or be seen.
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Earliest memories I have were on those PCs that had no hard drive, so you had to keep swapping the disks in and out, old Sierra adventure games mostly.
My brain always remembers my first computer as a "Tandy 1000 RL", but I think that one had a hard drive. My friend however, did not.
I remember for some of the games, like Space Quest II, we ended up calling those "charge-per-minute" hint hotlines because one of the puzzles drove us absolutely insane...
First non-console game ever played: barbarian or winter games (cant remember which one) on my cousins c64 in monochrome (green)
First non-console game ever bought: Lemmings for the AMIGA 500
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
ooooh I remember FLAG on my spectrum
aaaaaand dizzy.
Gooood. My dad would travel the world being a translator and he brought me a spectrum
First thing I did was see what it could do and ended up playing dizzy for days.
Good old times, got my first PC like 17 years ago, it was 486DX2 (with turbo button ), win 3.11 and DOS. Since then i have been building PC´s myself, have had so many rigs that i dont even remember all of them. It was pain in the ass to run games with software mode when 3D accelerators came, 320x240 + Picture size "stamp", there was option to manually make screen render smaller with "-" button or so... It was so fucking nice when i got my first Voodoo card, insane difference compared to software mode
Guys what was that game called again where you was playing split screen against another player. And you could select either a tank or a helicopter and you had to destroy each others base till you found a flag?
Guys what was that game called again where you was playing split screen against another player. And you could select either a tank or a helicopter and you had to destroy each others base till you found a flag?
I had a 386, then moved to 486 with no hdd and a monochrome monitor, used playing on 1"44 disks..
learned about extended memory, config.sys and autoexec.bat at the age of 6-7
actually most of my motivation for learning computers came from trouble starting new games
I remember those - or at least very similar ones. But I always felt that the early 3D card demos were rather meh compared to the DOS demos of old - they lacked oomph and were generally just about showing off what a 3D card could do which at the time was amazing but now it's seriously dated. On the other hand, the better DOS demos still look great today with awesome music as a bonus.
I don't know man. Those videos amazed me back then and they still amaze me now. When you look at it we really haven't advanced much besides having higher resolution textures and higher resolution in general. It's amazing how much GLIDE was capable of given how stripped down it was from OpenGL, and how 'just enough as fast as possible' produced something so good looking.
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), win 3.11 and DOS. Since then i have been building PC´s myself, have had so many rigs that i dont even remember all of them. It was pain in the ass to run games with software mode when 3D accelerators came, 320x240 + Picture size "stamp", there was option to manually make screen render smaller with "-" button or so... It was so fucking nice when i got my first Voodoo card, insane difference compared to software mode 
Ive got several... and I still use them 
