Not to mention editing Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to free up memory in dos just to get a game running.
Amstrad CPC464 anyone? Prior to MS-DOS and freeing the base memory, you had the Amstrad and the Spectrum. I hated the game "Predator" on tape. It took 10 minutes to load, you got killed in 30 seconds and you had to load 10 minutes again...
Aye, my first (computer, but not games machine, that was in the 70's) was a commodore 16, then I got the Amstrad CPC, green monitor mind. Had that for years, it's one of the few of my old systems that didn't survive I was just playing Rod Land on my Atari ST today, haven't played that for ages.
I don't remember the Commodore 16. I started on the Vic 20 and went to the Commodore 64 from there. Had to laugh about the tape loading of games. Definitely remember that misery. Even then it felt decidedly low tech.
My first computer was a Tandy 64. With no hard drive. Later we added a (really small) hard drive and a dot matrix printer. We thought we were high tech.
Yes, Tandy. Back when Radio Shack was an actual player. Never could warm up to those things but many, many people could.
I think they were OK for people who knew nothing about computers and were just getting their feet wet. We had ours about 2 years, and then I realized there was a lot more out there that really interested me. I didn't even want a computer at first, and I turned out to be the one in our family who fell in love.
Hello, another veteran of the gaming scene here (you weren't there man or maybe you were!). My first computer was the Acorn Electron, the budget version of the BBC-B really. I then moved onto the ZX Spectrum, ahh those halcyon colour-clashed times. It was always a playground battle as to which was the better computer, that or the big bread-bin sorry Commodore 64.
Haha... Battle of the computer clubs! I loved my C64, but remember being quite jealous of people with an Apple ][e. Even then, I could tell Apple was superior in terms of both quality and aesthetics. They just had that...it.
Ah Tandy, funny I was just trying to explain to the wife what Tandy was the other day. She's 10 years younger than me and definitely not so techy.
My first was a C64 in 1984 (ish). I used to compare with my friends Spectrum 48k. I was always grateful that my C64 didn't screech!! Burger Time was my first ever game.
Radio Shack (Tandy) TRS -80 came with 4 K that i upgraded to 16 K. Scott Adams Adventure games were great fun. Anything arcade like was just bad. First "good" computer was the IBM 8086 with 256 K on the MB. Ran DOS 1.0 The DS/DD 5 1/4 floppy ran about $600 as I recall. A 10 MB HD was prohibitively expensive for me (Who could ever use that much space? )
My brother and I shared a Commodore VIC 20, I think it was called. The VIC-20 (Germany: VC-20;[3] Japan: VIC-1001) is an 8-bit home computer which was sold by Commodore Business Machines. The VIC-20 was announced in 1980,[4] roughly three years after Commodore's first personal computer, the PET. The VIC-20 was the first computer of any description to sell one million units.[5]
My first computer was a commodore 64 and i played flight simulators on it. My first console was an atari, played a whole lot of pac-man jr on that. As for mobile? I remember playing a baldurs gate hack'n'slash on my razor phone heh and have owned pretty much every dedicated hand held gaming device ever made since the 80's
First console: Colecovision. Fave toys: Play-doh, any block-likes (Lego, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toy), crayons (well, not a toy, but still...), Barbie (I liked making clothes for her more than playing with her), and a pair of furry gloves I pretended were dogs p). Ooh, and our puppet stage and the papier-mâché puppets my sister and I made. Good times! And Spirograph. And pretty beads.I liked making things.
