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  • #76
    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)
    Ditto but I eventually upgraded to a 128
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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    • #77
      My dad left college to teach courses on microcomputers in the later 70s and then started work at an engineering firm in 79. The first computer that had at home that I was allowed me to use was an old 8086 (AT&T 6300). When it came out (and was expensive) we got a 486 DX 33 which is where I played Civ2 (I saved everything I got for many years instead of buying candy or fireworks and then bought a X3 CD player when they cost ~350, I bought the CD player and our first CD was Civ2).

      My dad worked 80+ hour weeks and in the 80s I generally only used computers on the rare evenings/weekends I visited him at work.

      JM
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      • #78
        Sounds like your Dad was some kind of RL equivalent to the Persons in the "Halt and Catch Fire"-Series

        A series I can recommend to everyone who experienced the computer world of the 1980s till early 1990s ... about some computer engineers who start a startup during this time. Very authentic ... very close to reality IMHO
        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
        Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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        • #79
          Originally posted by Proteus_MST View Post

          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) ...
          That was my 1st contact with home computers too - my older brother had one. We played those funny sports (winter olympics or so) games first, and many joysticks died...





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          • #80
            Ahhh tandys... My dad had a Tandy 1400LT. Yes a laptop. The LT model didn't have a hard drive and ran only off floppy disks.

            404 - File or directory not found.
            http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1197&st=3


            We still have it too and shockingly it still works fine.

            The one in the uploaded picture is not mine... Just an example.
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            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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            • #81
              Heh, my first programmable thingie was a Texas sr-52a at the danish version of high school (ok, they also had a Olivetti with magnetic cards - it could add, subtract and multiply but no division). It's a bit strange, I lived in the period with all those new relative cheap programmable thingies (sinclair, commodore etc) but never bought one. Why ? Simple - professionally I used bleeding edge equipment like Z80 CP/M (2 Mhz), 8086 CCP/-CDOS and x86 unixes - it didn't make much sense buying something hopelessly inadequate. My first personally owned PC was a 386 Compaq deskpro wich was a company written-off I bought cheap - three years later a 486 ditto. Hadn't been started the last 15 years but make a good footing of my current screen

              Games was Battle Isle x, and a number of others (that can't be played on win10) and then I stumbled over SMAX/C which finally led me to this strange place where I have been for 14 years .
              With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

              Steven Weinberg

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              • #82
                Just found out - Battle Isle is available at gog - if you like Xcom, you should try it

                Battle Isle Platinum (includes Incubation)
                https://www.gog.com/game/battle_isle_platinum
                Battle Isle Platinium is pure strategy combined with a compelling backstory. Consisting o
                With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                Steven Weinberg

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                • #83
                  Looking back... and now I'm looking at what 4K monitor to get for my computer... what a long way we've come.

                  The new Tomb Raider game really will shine with it.
                  For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                  • #84
                    Originally posted by BlackCat View Post
                    Just found out - Battle Isle is available at gog - if you like Xcom, you should try it

                    https://www.gog.com/game/battle_isle_platinum
                    Omg. I love GOG.

                    https://www.gog.com/game/disney_the_jungle_book - Another game I played on a vastly faster 486 than my Tandy lol.

                    And has anybody played Jill of the Jungle? Another classic. Xargon too was fun.

                    Download Jill of the Jungle | DOS Games Archive
                    https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/jill-of-the-jungle/
                    Lead the brave and beautiful Jill on a mystical journey through the jungle and the caves and dungeons below. This is a scrolling arcade/adventure gam...

                    For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                    • #85
                      I remember the Battle Isle series ... used to play it against a friend
                      (in Hotseat as it was use at that time)
                      Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
                      Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"

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                      • #86
                        Originally posted by Giancarlo View Post

                        Omg. I love GOG.
                        Unfortunately BI doesn't work
                        With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

                        Steven Weinberg

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                        • #87
                          For the old games you can often find them on abandonwear sites for free. Even if modern windows doesn't play them you can use dos box simulators. I remember playing the old SSI Gold Box 1st edition AD&D games via dos box. The problem was those really old games frpm the late 1980's ran at a fixed ratio to CPU clock speed so on a modern machine each AI controlled init moved so fast you could barely see them move.
                          Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                          • #88
                            I think there are some emulators that may solve the issue. I remember Kings Quest having this issue. There was an emulator out and plus there was a free re-release of the game.
                            For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                            • #89
                              sup Mobe. I am that Forumwarz dude that caused half the OT to leave in 2008 with my stupid shenanigans.

                              Who am I?
                              Order of the Fly

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                              • #90
                                He left.
                                Order of the Fly

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