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[ricketyclik]

I had a housemate who played the original Civ, and I got on to Civ2 based on how much he seemed to enjoy it. It wasn't until I bought Call to Power and I was searching the net for difficulties I was having with it that I landed here. I hadn't even been aware that Civ2 had gone PBEM, my preferred format. I'm still playing CtP and Civ IV, both in PBEM.

Anyway, happy birthday Apolyton

[Dinner]

I got the original civ in very late 1991 or early 1992 because a friend of mine was a mule on a few dial up BBSes (remember those?). He would download cracked game files from one BBS then upload them on to other BBSes. He gave me a copy of civ 1 and told me he thought I would like that game. He was right.

[Giancarlo]

I admit my early games were more SimCity if anything. Civilization only lightly.

SimCity 2000! Now that's a classic!

[Lorizael]

Oh yeah, I played a lot of SimCity 2000 back in the day.

[Proteus_MST]

When I first played Civ I, it was still on an Amiga 500

[BeBMan]

Amiga was my 1st own computer too. Ohh the memories...

Of course back then some ppl had Atari stuff, and were considered teh archenemies. And it was clear that IBM compatible PCs would never make cool gaming machines.

Until they released Wing Commander IIRC

[Lorizael]

I think I first played Civ2 on a computer I nicknamed "The Cardboard Box" which, for some reason, I still own. It's a Pentium with a 16 MHz processor (33 MHz on turbo!). (I don't still use it. I'm just lugging around the CPU because, uh, I've got problems.)

[Broken_Erika]

I didn't know they made pentiums that slow, i thought 66MHz was the lowest.
Anyway, the time i played civ2 was when i was about 8 or 9 using my moms Pentium 100MHz, TBH, at the time i kinda preferred X-Wing 95.....

[Lorizael]

I didn't know they made pentiums that slow, i thought 66MHz was the lowest.

Huh, I think you're right and I'm misremembering. I think it was actually a 486.

[Proteus_MST]

My first PC was a 486 DX2-66 (i.e. 66 MHz)

I think they made the 386 with 33 MHz, so maybe it was one of those, Lorizael

[rah]

Yeah, there was a 386 33 machine.

[Lorizael]

It looks like there were 33 MHz 486 machines, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486

But now you all are making me doubt my personal computer personal history. Before that was a Mac LC II. And before that a Tandy 1000...

[Broken_Erika]

My parents had a Tandy 1000 SL/2 before the Pentium 100. Just a slight upgrade....
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/...sp?st=1&c=1218

[Garth Vader]

I had the Tandy 1000 too, then a 386 33. The 486 came out like a week after I got the 386 for only like $50 more, so that was a piss off.

[Proteus_MST]

Amiga was my 1st own computer too. Ohh the memories...

....

My very first one actually was the C-64 (at the beginning with a tape recorder (that also accepted normal audiotapes as storage mediums), later with a 5 1/4" disk drive) ...
and it got me my very first (albeit at this time shortlived) step into programming (procedural programming in Commodore Basic at this time ... where you still had to start every line of code with a unique line number and would use lots of gotos to jump between parts of the program)

I tried to display a pixel rocket and have it start straight upwards from the ground (via lots of peeks and pokes).
Well, what I got with my newborn programming skills was a pixel rocket that started diagonalky, then bounced at trhe upper rim of the screen, bounced diagonally back to the ground ... started again ... and so on., thereby moving from left to right through the screen ... and, when it disappeared at the right edge of the screen, it reappeared at the ledft edge again )

(but I have to admit that I used it way more for playing games than for doing productive work )