So how did you get into..

[Unspeakable Horror]

Long ago, around 1996, I was visting a friend and he showed me a new game his father found somewhere, Civilization II We could spend hours playing that game, it was amazing.
Then of course I wanted my own computer to play it too, I didn´t know anything about computers but I didn´t care, I wanted that game.
My first computer was a P133Mhz IIRC.

[:) Smiley]

My father worked for a tech company, so I started using computers about the time I was able to read. Started on a 286 with an EGA screen. Don't remember if there were any games on it, but it was fun to use regardless.

Once we got a 386 with Windows and SVGA it was great. This computer could run lots of games, including the original Civ.

[DanS]

In 1983, My dad bought a Commodore 64 because he didn't want his kids to miss out on the computer age. He has cursed himself ever since for that decision, because we all used the $1,500 computer to play games.

M.U.L.E. was worth it, though. And I did manage to learn BASIC and assembly.

Before that, my uncle had a CPM (Pet clone) computer that had a lot of great games, like the miner game. We also had an Atari 2600 which whetted our appetites.

[Pekka]

ahh Atari 2600.. my friend had one too.. classic stuff

These CS kids know nothing about the real things!!!!! Young punks.. Only acceptable path to.. acceptance is if you started from C64.. that's the most modern accepted.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by BlackCat
Isn't there approx 6 zeroes too much ?

Oops. You're right. Personal computers with a meg of memory were not even a dream yet. I meant 2-3 k of memory.

How quickly we forget how rudementary things were back then.

I remember at one point (years later) being very envious of my older brother. My computer was only 4 MHrtz. But he had one of the new computers with break-through technology that had 16 MHrtz. It was sooo fassssssst.

[BlackCat]

Yeah, I know the feeling - going from a Z80 to a 8086 was just incredible - it even had a 10 Mb harddisk and up to 1 Mb of ram

Those lazy bummers that call themselves programmers nowadays should be forced to get their programs to run effectively on such machines

[Koyaanisqatsi]

I started out with a TI-99 playing games and copying BASIC programs out of a magazine...I don't remember this real well though, I was young enough that I'm not really sure when it was. The first machine I do remember well was our Tandy 1000, which was cool until my best friend got 384k of RAM (I only had 256) and a hard drive...I got so annoyed swapping 5.25" floppies after that.

[Tattila the Hun]

Originally posted by BlackCat

Those lazy bummers that call themselves programmers nowadays should be forced to get their programs to run effectively on such machines

How do they say, "Quoted for Truth".

Original CIV had a weird bug on my 386. If I had sounds on (SB-compatible), the game run really slowly... Untill I took out an enemy unit with a catapult or some other "baroom" soundeffected unit.... Then it ran just fine.

[VetLegion]

Civ had a huge amount of bugs. Off the top of my head - the SuperTile

[Lawrence of Arabia]

never really got into computers. they are a tool for me, not a hobby or job.

[Snotty]

Spectrum 48k>128k> many consoles > 8086> 486 onward

Many thanks Dad!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I used to have a BBC, that is how I started...

You had your own television network? Impressive!

[Dauphin]

He had his own show too:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1993/gallery/blobby.shtml

[Provost Harrison]

Cheeky sod

[Chemical Ollie]

ABC80 in school. Then bla. bla. bla. and Pekka is so cooool. And then nothing. Nada. Hey, Pekka, tell us all about it, how you get so cool to become a DI in computer science ? (as you know, I'm a DI in Chemical Engineering). And drunk as hell = impossible to impress,,,