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I guess there's no exact date or situation I remember it happening, since it was from very young age. Let's try to remember what we consider some kind of memorable moments with the computers.
First game I really got into with Amiga was Settlers and Lemmings. Alien Breed was also cool and Skidmarks later on.. I wonder what that game with that frog was, where it's torso would go upwards and crazy stuff, it got hit with the Nintendo/Sega rivalry I guess, since it was superior to Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario, but what can you do, consoles came up with their huge 8 bits and destroyed the Amiga gaming IMO. They still had way better games, but no one wanted 'a computer' since you could have this trendy console that wouldn't make you a nerd if you had one.
Amiga was superior with it's graphical abilities, especially sound world too. People made lots of music with Amigas.. if you had one, you prolly knew something about something. If you had some console POS, you prolly just knew nothing and fought against the other console having person Sega vs. Nintendo.
It was late 80s early 90s.. I'm glad to see all the console maniacs are still losers. They revealed their true skin at the age of 8. "What else do you want to do than play games? COmputers are stupid". No punk, computers are COOL. There's no limit what you can do with them, but consoles are limited to games. Not good enough reason? Fine. What ever, it's not like I wanted to associate with your lame butt anyway.
Me and my friend bought a tracker program from a computer magazine. We were excited as hell and it costed more than 10 euros at the time, so we kind of had to form a team to afford it. He took over 2 weeks to read the manual, because the tracker itself wasn't too easy to use the first time. We started gathering our sample archives while listening to small radio stations with 'electronic music' in them. Not really that electronic, but who cares. We were digging the whole techno robot thing. We wish we were Japanese or something, and better at English.
I can't remember the name of our 'team', but we never really made anything, except series of samples looping. Now that I think of it, I'd really like to hear them again, but they don't exist anymore. Then my friend totally left me because he got a PC. It was different breed of puters. His 386 was still inferior to my Amiga500 with boosted up memory.
I got my hands on Model 500, interestingly legendary stuff I didn't know its value then. These days it's one price posession. A coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
I was kind of following my friend with the whole computer thing so even though PCs at the time were inferior to Amigas when it came to games, music and demos, I wanted a PC too. When I first heard about PC that had exactly 100 MHz clock rate, I wanted it. I didn't know what it meant, but I knew it was something awesome. This would be 1994-95. My DX4 100MHz with 2 meg graphics card and soundblaster sound card.. 500 megs HD? Please.. it was the greatest.. 4Mb of RAM? Enough to take over the world with.
I also got a modem, and I was sensing a great feud between Amiga and PC scene. PC was catching up, it was only a matter of time when PC had the best demos. I was satisfied with my transition. In 94 I saw a demo that totally blew my mind.. Future Crew's Second Reality. It was perfect. And the music in it? OHHH.... Skaven was genius. I still think so.
The consoles are getting more and more popular at the time, but I knew where it truly was. At this time, people with computers and comp skills were all considered as nerds. I wanted to learn to program.. the ultimate step of not being normal. Don't ask why, ask what you can do with it. 95 I attended my first demo party.. Assembly. The final trap. X-Com, Doom, need I say more?
I had a computer magazine ordered and I was furiously waiting the next step, better 3D, better everything. Internet was starting to become more popular with the public, and naturally I had my own e-mail address. The first movie releases came with the vivo-format, it was crappy as hell, but at the time it was the only one. It was a true eye opener. My friend was a big part of the trading scene, and made succesful transition from BBS world to the internet and FTP world. Soon I was a member of a reasonably well known group as well with many many members. I had access to all the great BBS's still alive, and some new FTP sites. At the age of 15, that's huge, to ride the wave of new technology and new breaking things. The first good audio format also came... mp3.. I had noticed when you make wav file from say a track on CD, it takes too much space.. and it was only a matter of time when something that could compress the data better came along.. and it came soon enough. At the time though, no one outside computer circles really knew the capabilities of this new format and what it really meant. We were extatic about it and knew the internet would turn into huge archive of mp3s in no time, and it did happen fast.
blaablaablaa played more games, did more programming, blaablaa, wanted to be a hacker, didn't work out, well cracker.. blaablaablaa into Uni studying comp sci to become software engineer blaa blaa blaa made millions blaa blaa married a poor mexican bikini model and got a huge villa from Cali blaa blaa. Alea jacta est.
What about you?
I guess there's no exact date or situation I remember it happening, since it was from very young age. Let's try to remember what we consider some kind of memorable moments with the computers.
First game I really got into with Amiga was Settlers and Lemmings. Alien Breed was also cool and Skidmarks later on.. I wonder what that game with that frog was, where it's torso would go upwards and crazy stuff, it got hit with the Nintendo/Sega rivalry I guess, since it was superior to Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario, but what can you do, consoles came up with their huge 8 bits and destroyed the Amiga gaming IMO. They still had way better games, but no one wanted 'a computer' since you could have this trendy console that wouldn't make you a nerd if you had one.
Amiga was superior with it's graphical abilities, especially sound world too. People made lots of music with Amigas.. if you had one, you prolly knew something about something. If you had some console POS, you prolly just knew nothing and fought against the other console having person Sega vs. Nintendo.
It was late 80s early 90s.. I'm glad to see all the console maniacs are still losers. They revealed their true skin at the age of 8. "What else do you want to do than play games? COmputers are stupid". No punk, computers are COOL. There's no limit what you can do with them, but consoles are limited to games. Not good enough reason? Fine. What ever, it's not like I wanted to associate with your lame butt anyway.
Me and my friend bought a tracker program from a computer magazine. We were excited as hell and it costed more than 10 euros at the time, so we kind of had to form a team to afford it. He took over 2 weeks to read the manual, because the tracker itself wasn't too easy to use the first time. We started gathering our sample archives while listening to small radio stations with 'electronic music' in them. Not really that electronic, but who cares. We were digging the whole techno robot thing. We wish we were Japanese or something, and better at English.
I can't remember the name of our 'team', but we never really made anything, except series of samples looping. Now that I think of it, I'd really like to hear them again, but they don't exist anymore. Then my friend totally left me because he got a PC. It was different breed of puters. His 386 was still inferior to my Amiga500 with boosted up memory.
I got my hands on Model 500, interestingly legendary stuff I didn't know its value then. These days it's one price posession. A coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.
I was kind of following my friend with the whole computer thing so even though PCs at the time were inferior to Amigas when it came to games, music and demos, I wanted a PC too. When I first heard about PC that had exactly 100 MHz clock rate, I wanted it. I didn't know what it meant, but I knew it was something awesome. This would be 1994-95. My DX4 100MHz with 2 meg graphics card and soundblaster sound card.. 500 megs HD? Please.. it was the greatest.. 4Mb of RAM? Enough to take over the world with.
I also got a modem, and I was sensing a great feud between Amiga and PC scene. PC was catching up, it was only a matter of time when PC had the best demos. I was satisfied with my transition. In 94 I saw a demo that totally blew my mind.. Future Crew's Second Reality. It was perfect. And the music in it? OHHH.... Skaven was genius. I still think so.
The consoles are getting more and more popular at the time, but I knew where it truly was. At this time, people with computers and comp skills were all considered as nerds. I wanted to learn to program.. the ultimate step of not being normal. Don't ask why, ask what you can do with it. 95 I attended my first demo party.. Assembly. The final trap. X-Com, Doom, need I say more?
I had a computer magazine ordered and I was furiously waiting the next step, better 3D, better everything. Internet was starting to become more popular with the public, and naturally I had my own e-mail address. The first movie releases came with the vivo-format, it was crappy as hell, but at the time it was the only one. It was a true eye opener. My friend was a big part of the trading scene, and made succesful transition from BBS world to the internet and FTP world. Soon I was a member of a reasonably well known group as well with many many members. I had access to all the great BBS's still alive, and some new FTP sites. At the age of 15, that's huge, to ride the wave of new technology and new breaking things. The first good audio format also came... mp3.. I had noticed when you make wav file from say a track on CD, it takes too much space.. and it was only a matter of time when something that could compress the data better came along.. and it came soon enough. At the time though, no one outside computer circles really knew the capabilities of this new format and what it really meant. We were extatic about it and knew the internet would turn into huge archive of mp3s in no time, and it did happen fast.
blaablaablaa played more games, did more programming, blaablaa, wanted to be a hacker, didn't work out, well cracker.. blaablaablaa into Uni studying comp sci to become software engineer blaa blaa blaa made millions blaa blaa married a poor mexican bikini model and got a huge villa from Cali blaa blaa. Alea jacta est.
What about you?
Programs were stored on and inputed from audio cassettes.
.. mainframe computers 
naturally also US gov, military domains etc.. kind of cool to sometimes go through the logs and see who visited.. very interesting.
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