Oolite Bulletins

Obviously regret doing it now but most of mine were part exchanged to upgrade to the next thing, although the Spectrum got swapped for some records, which in turn got swapped for CD's when they came out. Now of course I look back and want to give younger self a good slap.

This may be a bit of a cheek but I just did a search on Google and found a completely unrelated post I made on a Linux forum 15 years ago. With this in mind I'd like to list here the computers I was lucky enough to own (briefly in some cases) during the golden years of IT. I do this on the off chanc...

'Fraid not. I once tried to impress my friends by pointing out that a keyboard in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" was actually a Commodore Vic-20. Soon I had no friends and could dedicate my entire time to cataloging all such happenings...

For the sake of full disclosure i should also mention that I owned (in fact still own) and Texas Instruments TI/994A and Defender (on cartridge!!!) £45 from a shop going out of business. I also spend too much time identifying (and telling the increasingly numb Mrs. Davies about) the computers in the...

Ok, if we're going to get into this, how about the version of BattleZone released for the PC in the mid nineties? I'm beginning to understand where my youth disappeared and why I lived on jam on toast and pizza for most of my 20's.

Not that things have improved mark you.

Just found Oolite and am - after nearly 25 years - playing Elite again. Amazing effort from the developers and my eternal gratitude as I am old enough to know deep down that nothing has bettered the BBC Micro and Elite. Now, if you could just get started on JetPacs for the Spectrum and Revs+ for the...