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Ramrod · 06-06-2005, 14:58

Enjoy

greencreeper · 06-06-2005, 15:46

1982 - Sinclair ZX-Spectrum. My first 'puter. Games came on cassette and had to be "played" to load them. I remember one game, Ground Zero I think it was called, where you had to drop bombs on skyscrapers from a plane that flew lower and lower. If you didn't bomb the skyscrapers in time, you flew straight into them. Methinks this game would be frowned upon these days

I still have the Spectrum but it doesn't display anything on screen - video chip must have died.

Tricky · 06-06-2005, 15:58

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

1982 - Sinclair ZX-Spectrum. My first 'puter. Games came on cassette and had to be "played" to load them. I remember one game, Ground Zero I think it was called, where you had to drop bombs on skyscrapers from a plane that flew lower and lower. If you didn't bomb the skyscrapers in time, you flew straight into them. Methinks this game would be frowned upon these days

I still have the Spectrum but it doesn't display anything on screen - video chip must have died.

That game was originally called "Bomber" I believe on the Commodore VIC20 and I (yes me!) wrote a version for the gameboy!!!

Edit: Might have been called Blitz (play online here: http://plus4.emucamp.com/minus4j/b/blitz16.htm)

greencreeper · 06-06-2005, 16:04

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Originally Posted by Tricky

That game was originally called "Bomber" I believe on the Commodore VIC20 and I (yes me!) wrote a version for the gameboy!!!

That's it!

I can still remember the game sounds, and the little pilot landed his plane and did a victory roll. You could play the game until it crashed

Ah - happy days.

Graham M · 06-06-2005, 16:13

That made an interesting read, thankyou

Halcyon · 06-06-2005, 16:18

I remember that !!!
Ahhhhhh the good old days of basic gaming.

TheBlueRaja · 06-06-2005, 17:39

Holy schmoke - i actually had one of these...

http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html

Until a certain day when i accidentally destroyed it with a hammer, only it wasnt accidental and i really enjoyed it. True!

Good job it came from a car boot sale and cost feck all.

EDIT: It dosent have much about the greatest computer of all time ever though - the holiest of holies - the Amiga 500

06-06-2005, 17:41

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Originally Posted by Halcyon

I remember that !!!
Ahhhhhh the good old days of basic gaming.

a lot of the decent games on that machine were in fact Z80 assembly language and not basic

Angua · 06-06-2005, 17:51

I recognised a few we cleared out of the attic at school. Then again I can remember cards and paper tape.

06-06-2005, 17:55

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Originally Posted by gary_580

a lot of the decent games on that machine were in fact Z80 assembly language and not basic

lol - tell me about it, I used to spend hours typing in machine code listings from 'Crash' & 'Your Sinclair' - the listings often used to be scans of ZX printer output, really easy to confuse a b with a 6, for example or a B with an 8 in uppercase - oh the fun

**Paul** · 06-06-2005, 17:57

This was my first PC

http://oldcomputers.net/appleii.html

Stuart · 06-06-2005, 18:04

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Enjoy

Further to that, if you have some really obscure computer to look up, try
http://www.old-computers.com

Angua · 06-06-2005, 18:25

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Originally Posted by scastle

Further to that, if you have some really obscure computer to look up, try
http://www.old-computers.com

I saw they had a Fortune 32:16 (I taught myself to type on that) but no Amiga 500, ahhh fond memories of the wizzy colours on the art programme.

Chimaera · 06-06-2005, 18:32

Mmmm - I remember my ex had one of these but I wasn't allowed to play with it!

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Ramrod · 06-06-2005, 18:38

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Originally Posted by Chimaera

Mmmm - I remember my ex had one of these but I wasn't allowed to play with it!

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The Dragon was built around the Motorola MC6809E processor running at 0.89 MHz

......and I lusted after one