[tom]

Gods apart to two, my hardgod is Jay Miner and the softgod is Oscar Cano.

[MetinSeven_com]

You toady! You probably want Oscar to tell you you'll get your Maxwell updates for free from now on.

[naxos]

ahhh.... GFA basic.... Atari sT.....

shit, now i cry for this good old days...

[MetinSeven_com]

GFA BASIC, yeah, I remember that too. The Atari ST ... There always was some sort of harmless war between Amiga and Atari ST owners. I always disliked games that came out for both Amiga and ST, because they were developed for the 68000 only and then easily ported to the Amiga, while the Amiga had superior custom hardware next to the 68000.

It's the same old story: the greed for money is the enemy of high quality product development.

Cheers,

Metin

[tom]

Yeah, custom chipset of the Amiga was revolutionary in computing history. Because we had then a very complete multimedia computer while others are playing 16 color Prince of Persia on their PCs. Even C64's sprite technology has beaten that years. For example I still have an A1200 and it has stereo sound, more than high color graphics and blitter, mini IDE inteface, PCMCIA port, video and direct RF out... and many many more on 1 mainboard. 15 years before when I was using Amiga's mouse with my friends they were trying to understand what the "mouse" is. We were having all the multimedia in one marvellous machine. The word "multimedia" was unknown and Amiga introduced it to the world.

[smeggy]

Yeah, that's kind of a weird idea, that the new generation is growing up building sentimental memories with ... Windows! Aaarrgghhh!!

Cheers,

Metin

Yeah, that is definately sad! True happy memories are made of cassette loaded boot screens on a TV. All those flickering colour bars... mmm mesmerising

[tom]

True happy memories are made of cassette loaded boot screens on a TV. All those flickering colour bars... mmm mesmerising

We were all roaming with a little screwdriver in the pocket... for the crystal adjustment u know... haha....and we all know the narrow the bands, the quality the transfer is... later I learned they are the loaded bytes' corresponding color values, amazing... I always wonder who found that entertainment while loading...hehheeh

[smeggy]

Hehe.
I wonder, was I the only one here who had a CP/M computer back in the early 80's?

[MetinSeven_com]

Nope, I had a Commodore 128, which had CP/M. But to be honest I never used it. Only used the C128 in BASIC V7.0 mode and the C64 mode for gaming, gaming and more gaming.

About those loader screens: hell yeah! Sometimes a decrunching stage took so long, it was almost like rendering.

[Jason Jacobs]

my first computer was a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. It was cartridge based. We bought it used from some guy. The only two cartridges that came with it were "Record Keeping" and "Personal Finance". The personal finance cart was used by the previous owner and was password protected. I cracked the password...I was only 9 years old...lol


We also had an Atari 2600. Among my favorite games were:
Yars Revenge
Pitfall
Pitfall II
Pac Man (of course)
Asteroids
Combat
Breakout
Stampede
Adventure!
Keystone Capers
The Empire Strikes Back
Midnight Magic
Raiders of the Lost Ark (absolute favorite)

In the late 80's I bought a Nintendo and never saw the sun that whole summer

In 1994 I got an Intel 486 - 33 MHz machine with 4 MB RAM and a 256MB Hard drive. That was my experience with ray tracing using POV-Ray. Then on to the first release of 3D Studio MAX.

I thought you guys might enjoy this
http://oldcomputers.net/

[smeggy]

don't forget my fave nostalgia site
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp

For all you devil worshiping freaks, check out the following
http://www.old-computers.com/history/de ... p?n=13&t=1

[Takumi Takahashi]

Guess I am a little too old to post anything but - Do-It-Yourself Z80 board kits + PET + TRS-80 (late 70's), followed by Apple II, then some old DEC which had CP/M ...

[MetinSeven_com]

don't forget my fave nostalgia site
http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp

Cool! This was my baby:



and subsequently this was even better:

[Steve Jepson]

What are those 2 slots on the front of the cpu for?

[MetinSeven_com]

Uhm, I assume this is a joke about the two 5.25 inch floppy disc drives at the front of my illustrated old PC? Or are you maybe 19 years old and does only an old fart like me know those things?

Cheerio,

Metin