OT: Any One Remember - Page 2

Baron Munchausen · #11 October 10th, 2006, 04:34 PM

Hey, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 running at 8 mhz! Wow... and I bought a Sony V20 'clone' chip to make it go even faster.

I think I still have that V20 chip, or a spare, around here somewhere. The T1000 is long gone, though.

Devnullicus · #12 October 11th, 2006, 01:43 AM

Heh, TI-99/4A was my first computer. It had a CASSETTE drive and a whole 16K of RAM. Boy, I was stylin'

My first real program was a silly little dungeon crawl on that TI using a primitive BASIC.

Heh, I guess I just dated myself, huh

Ya know, I used to think I spent too much time on the computer, and especially playing games. I'm obsessed with games - always have been: computer games, board games, RPGs, you name it. Finally, I gave up trying to resist them and I got a job making games for a living. If you can't beat 'em...

That said, I do see my productivity at work going down for a while as I get into SE V. Now, if only I could get a damn copy of the real game instead of the demo. *sigh*

Renegade 13 · #13 October 11th, 2006, 02:16 AM

Man...you guys are old!!

My first computer was actually my parents, bought in '97 when I was 10 years old. 500 MHz I think, with a 2 GB hard drive and 16 (I think) megs of RAM.

Atrocities · #14 October 11th, 2006, 02:21 AM

Does any one remember the web browser based game called Planetarian or something like that?

StarShadow · #15 October 11th, 2006, 03:00 AM

I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

dogscoff · #16 October 11th, 2006, 06:30 AM

Sorry AT, never heard of it.

Now who remembers *this* old beauty?

http://www.cinemaware.com/browser/dotc/final.asp

Atrocities · #17 October 11th, 2006, 06:36 AM

Sorry, my browser won't install macroware software. It wants me to manually install it and well who the hell knows how to do that, certainly not me.

Ed Kolis · #18 October 11th, 2006, 09:35 AM

Quote:

StarShadow said:
I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

Tradewars?

Xrati · #19 October 11th, 2006, 11:25 AM

Right click on the title and 'save target' on your computer. Then just create a shortcut to it and set the properties to run under 95 or whatever works on your computer.

dogscoff · #20 October 11th, 2006, 11:47 AM

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Now who remembers *this* old beauty?

http://www.cinemaware.com/browser/dotc/final.asp

heheh. Just beat it, despite being massively outgunned by the AI. I'm sure the AI cheats. I won by using raids to gain cash/ deplete the enemy rather wasting troops than squabbling over territory. He had a maurauding army of over 700 troops (to my measly 100) but I just skipped right past them and took his home territory.

Ah, the memories though. You know I'd almost forgotten the steamy sex scenes in that game - I think they had a profound influence on my younger self.