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which is the best/ do you like the most

ZX spectrum
4
17%
Amstrad cpc 464
0
No votes
commodore 64
15
63%
BBC micro
5
21%
 
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My favourite C64 games - exclusive of Elite (obviously)

Paradroid, Uridium, Sanxion, AlleyKat, Iridis Alpha, Way of the Exploding Fist, Rescue on Fractalus, World Games, Pole Position II, Phantoms of the Asteroid, Boulderdash, Beach head II...

are the ones that spring instantly to mind.

They're all up in the loft - I notice Boulderdash and Uridium are available on the Wii now...
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Everybody is laughing at my triple post, not answering my question. :oops:
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Everybody is laughing at my triple post, not answering my question. :oops:
Perhaps that has to do with you indirectly terming some of us who have already advanced beyond the biblical age of 30 as "ancient relics" :lol:
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Well people don't age on the same time scale as computers... an 8 year old laptop at my house is pretty much impossible to cope with. Then again, the same thing goes for eight year old people...
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Good point - so exactly what was state of the art 14 years ago?
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Pentium processors, java, and DVDs.

Ha.
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Pentium processors, java, and DVDs.

Ha.
DVDs came out in 1997. In 1995, the state of the art was.... the Netscape browser on Windows '95 running on a Pentium 120. :shock: :? :(
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1997, Quake II

Grab your gun and bring in the cat, boom boom boom... Multiplayer

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Pentium 133 mhz and S3 Virge + 3dfx voodoo card (4 mb Video ram)
32 or 16 mb of ram... and 1.6 gb Hard-Disk...

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133 mhz? Wow...

DVDs were invented in 1995, though
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Don't laugh - I've still got my HP 800CT laptop from that year. P133, 48MB memory, 1.4GB HD, 1MB video. Win 95B, 800x600x256 colours on one of the first proper TFT colour screens for a laptop.

It retailed for over US$5000, I had a friend who worked for HP and I got a beta tester discount and paid just over £1200.
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
My favourite C64 games - exclusive of Elite (obviously)

Paradroid, Uridium, Sanxion, AlleyKat, Iridis Alpha, Way of the Exploding Fist, Rescue on Fractalus, World Games, Pole Position II, Phantoms of the Asteroid, Boulderdash, Beach head II...

are the ones that spring instantly to mind.

They're all up in the loft - I notice Boulderdash and Uridium are available on the Wii now...
what about the two cybernoid games, and cyber warrior,

looking at it, all the games i like are on c64
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Don't laugh - I've still got my HP 800CT laptop from that year. P133, 48MB memory, 1.4GB HD, 1MB video. Win 95B, 800x600x256 colours on one of the first proper TFT colour screens for a laptop.
How can I laugh, DH? If I sit at my desk and turn to my left, I can see the 20MHz Wang 386SX that I've hung onto since 1992...

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haha, you need to turn a key to start it, like a car. :lol:

well, you probarbly dont, but its a funny thought
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JohnnyBoy wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Don't laugh - I've still got my HP 800CT laptop from that year. P133, 48MB memory, 1.4GB HD, 1MB video. Win 95B, 800x600x256 colours on one of the first proper TFT colour screens for a laptop.
How can I laugh, DH? If I sit at my desk and turn to my left, I can see the 20MHz Wang 386SX that I've hung onto since 1992...

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Good man! Is that a wisp of steam coming out the back of the box? :wink:

My sister still has my old Atari 2600 - mock wood effect machine - my wife bought me the Atari 2600 inside the joystick as a novelty christmas present last year. Amazing to play it again - so crude and yet so brilliant at the same time!
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