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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 10:50 pm
by DaddyHoggy
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...
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:22 pm
by wackyman465
Everybody is laughing at my triple post, not answering my question.
Ancient Clerics
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:45 pm
by Lestradae
wackyman465 wrote:Everybody is laughing at my triple post, not answering my question.
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"
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:51 pm
by wackyman465
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...
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:09 am
by MKG
Good point - so exactly what was state of the art 14 years ago?
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:12 am
by wackyman465
Pentium processors, java, and DVDs.
Ha.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:14 am
by JohnnyBoy
wackyman465 wrote: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.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:43 am
by Frame
1997, Quake II
Grab your gun and bring in the cat, boom boom boom... Multiplayer
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...
Those where the days...
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:51 am
by wackyman465
133 mhz? Wow...
DVDs were invented in 1995, though
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:27 am
by DaddyHoggy
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:38 am
by 0235
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
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 11:30 am
by JohnnyBoy
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...
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:46 pm
by 0235
haha, you need to turn a key to start it, like a car.
well, you probarbly dont, but its a funny thought
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:53 pm
by DaddyHoggy
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...
Good man! Is that a wisp of steam coming out the back of the box?
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!
Posted: Fri Feb 13, 2009 12:58 pm
by Captain Hesperus
<childish humour>
He said wang.
teeheeheeheeheehee
</childish humour>
Captain Hesperus