whats your FAVORITE COMPUTER?

[leatherface]

AND I DON'T MEEN PENTIUM SUPER TWIN CAMSHAFT 5999MHZ TREBLE CORE ZILLOBOTS
i'd choose the commodore amiga A500
http://www.computercloset.org/Commodore_Amiga_500.jpg

[thembuzz]

tatung einstein

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Tatung_Einstein_System_2.jpg

[leatherface]

looks good.....i ain't ever heard ofit!

[thembuzz]

it was my first ever computer. we got it when i was about 6, and had to buy the software either by mail order, or from this weird, grimy little office unit in burnley

[leatherface]

checkkout the PET
http://images.derstandard.at/20020120/pet.jpg

[thembuzz]

that's wicked, that

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

or from this weird, grimy little office unit in burnley

that's the way it should be

[leatherface]

what did you choose ckperjwprp ?

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I chose bbc micro

[Spandex]

I chose C64.

I got a Commodore Pet. You can use it as a chair. Solid.

[leatherface]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to ckpqerjwrpwp again.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I've never been happier than sitting at my BBC B.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to leatherface again.

[julian]

Just one thing....

http://www.stairwaytohell.com/electron/scr/Elite-elk.gif


(bbc model-b)

[leatherface]

what computer did you pick julian?

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

Yes! Yes I Will Load A New Commander!

[julian]

what computer did you pick julian?

beeb...

: )

[julian]

graham (decadnids) even got his old bbc out for me last year for me to re-live elite on

(i cant admit to having gotten arrount to it yet, but its there in the shed waiting for that rainy day ; )

[love_tempo]

I'll have to go for the original IBM PC, my first computer, well my dad's anyway. proper accountant/engineer Dadcore with pens in it's pocket and it couldn't be uglier if it tried:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/IBM_PC_5150.jpg/275px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg

[V Knid esq]

Gotta be Amiga cos I made my first computer music on one.

[Rogue Molecule]

Atari ST. My 1987 model still works. Nuffsaid

[emef]

ya left the atari st off the list doh!!!
atari st + cubase = yaaaas!!!

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I would have probably voted ST. But Leatherface is out of touch.

[Jeniffer Mills]

http://www.spril.com/StealthForceBeta/images/HighExploration6.jpg

[AVX23]

Just one thing....

http://www.stairwaytohell.com/electron/scr/Elite-elk.gif


(bbc model-b)

Welcome to Lave muthafucka ;) Beeb all de way - tho , I always wanted a Master, it had all the extra ships an shit, as a result - I never did get to battle a fer-de lance :(

[FiST]

amiga for deluxe paint III, happy days.

[Spandex]

C64 version had fer-de-lance.. and the mission where you had to hunt the prototype "Constrictor" ship. Happy days.

[Loz]

I vote the Amiga 500+. My first proper computer I got from new. Before that I had an old Commodore Vic20, which I also loved.

Also, my mate has an original boxed copy of Elite which he kept from childhood, and then got it signed (seperately) by David Braben and Ian Bell. Geekcore.

[AVX23]

C64 version had fer-de-lance.. and the mission where you had to hunt the prototype "Constrictor" ship. Happy days.

wow - proper war tales them ;) gather round now children and hear how captain spandex valiently plugged white hot pixels into that big constrictor fucker. haha - ace, I used to read the bbc manual and weep at all of the extra content I was missing. the fer-de-lance was always so cool.

**edit - @ Loz - wow, where does he live :) heheh

[Spandex]

I can't find my manual.. still got "The Dark Wheel" tho ;)

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

AVX.. you've got spandex down to a tee there..

except it'll be stories of Quake he tell's his grandchildren you know..

"I used to be somebody, I could hear a man take red armour and put a rocket between his eyes from 200 paces... oh dear.. could you wipe grandads bottom sweetheart"

[emef]

my first computer was an acorn electron... i dont remember it being very good
so i voted zx spectrum

[Spandex]

@steev.. shutup or i'll tell some QuakeWorld stories

[AVX23]

haahaha :) nice

[Yer_Maw]

top ten amiga games.

http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/04/gallery_amiga0411

amiga all the way.

[Loz]

they missed Dune II, which I spent hours and hours and hours playing

the rest are all spot on, though

Syndicate was the first game I ever pirated - but only because my mum read about it and wouldn't let me buy it

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

apart from Shadow of the Beast, once you got over the graphics it was duff.

[big raff]

my first computer was the ZX81 with 16K expansion pack.
but i voted for the c64......

the amiga was wicked though. i remember when i first saw this game i nearly cried with happiness....
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[Orang Utan]

old rubbish computers - meh!

[Loz]

the amiga was wicked though. i remember when i first saw this game i nearly cried with happiness....

The guy has redone it for the PC, with improved graphics. I recently bought it again, it's dirt cheap and still a great game.

http://www.anotherworld.fr/anotherworld_uk/

[Yer_Maw]

i like playing cannon fodder through an emulator because you can save it whenever you want an actually get beyond the first few levels...

[nempsey]

i'm sure the speccy had a fer de lance in it?

[Laszlo]

Fuck..hours of elite sessions on the 64...watching tiny little wiggling pixels in the distance - getting excited.

[AVX23]

So what was eveyone's joystick of choice ? i had a quickshot 2 (we used to covet the turbo model but i couldn't afford one cos i spent all me pocketmoney on fags and blank tapes)

http://www.clive.nl/images/24226.jpg

[Yer_Maw]

fuck off

http://www.ko-gathering.com/wiki/images/7/72/Zipstick_super_pro.jpg

zipstick mate

[AVX23]

fuck off

http://www.ko-gathering.com/wiki/images/7/72/Zipstick_super_pro.jpg

zipstick mate


pah - that's all well and good for pacman !! but for flight aces, I'm afraid that didn't wash :) hehe

[Yer_Maw]

well you aint gonna score many goals in sensible soccer with that pile of pish.

[Spandex]

got thru quite a few quickshot 2s.. cos they had leaf switches.. used to fuck up all the time. then i got a competition pro with microswitches.. still works today.

http://www.ntrautanen.fi/computers/other/images/competition_pro_5000.jpg

I got a clear one. Lush

[mdk]

fuck off

http://www.ko-gathering.com/wiki/images/7/72/Zipstick_super_pro.jpg

zipstick mate

you know it. classic. quickshot 2 was leaf switched, zipstick had microswitches.

what kind of fool would take a joystick with leaf switches?

the only good thing about the quickshot 2 was that when playing daley thomspons decathlon you could hold it upside down and shake the handle really fast to get the running bits spot on. apart from that it was shit.

[mdk]

remember this :

http://retrogamescatalog.com/acatalog/020407-KonixSpeedking.jpg

my friend had one and the stick melted after a heavy session of hyper sports.

[AVX23]

yeah - it was actually mince, but it made u feel like a fighta pilot, and that was good at the time - I could never afford a swanky one.

z,x, *, ? was the ultimate control system tho really.

[Spandex]

On the plus side... got a lot of fun out of broken quickshotIIs ... I had a book somewhere where I'd written down all the wire colours and which memory locations were affected if you shorted them together :) Mainly we used it to build "alarms" and then invited people to step on our mat and say "look.. the computer knows you stepped on the mat". Happy days.

[thepigjockey]

Stop it I'm getting a stiff

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I had a Konix, rubbish.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

On the plus side... got a lot of fun out of broken quickshotIIs ... I had a book somewhere where I'd written down all the wire colours and which memory locations were affected if you shorted them together :) Mainly we used it to build "alarms" and then invited people to step on our mat and say "look.. the computer knows you stepped on the mat". Happy days.

yeah as long as it was you dad, and you dad was 2 metres from your computer :)

[Yer_Maw]

http://www.shoppingcentre.net/shop/competition-blue-sl6602tbe-speedlink-p-3996.html

competition pro usb. nice.

[FiST]

http://www.shoppingcentre.net/shop/competition-blue-sl6602tbe-speedlink-p-3996.html

competition pro usb. nice.

niceness, might have to get one for sensi soccer use, stopped playing that emulator version a while ago cos i was gonna wreck the keys on me laptop.

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

I'm getting memories coming back of accidentally pulling out the joystick interface from a speccy during intense games of Daley Thompson... dark

[Yer_Maw]

having an 'intense game of daily thompson' sounds well dodgy

[AVX23]

I'm getting memories coming back of accidentally pulling out the joystick interface from a speccy during intense games of Daley Thompson... dark

I was gonna say 'thompson rage', but then you might confuse that with another well known phenomena round here :)

[thepigjockey]

You lot better stop it RIGHT NOW or you'll have to pay for a new pair of trousers for me. Thanks.

[Spandex]

Daley knackered all my Quickshots. There's only so much waggling a leaf switch can take. We used to have to repair them with blutack until we had saved up enuff between us for a new one. We stopped playing it cos it got too expensive.

[Loz]

Daley knackered all my Quickshots.

what a cunt.. does he think just because he won some gold medals he can come round to your gaff and ruin all your toys? needs a fucking lesson in manners.

[thembuzz]

lol

[marcel]

i'd choose the commodore amiga A500
http://www.computercloset.org/Commodore_Amiga_500.jpg
yeah, the amiga 500 ate up the first half of my youth. I loved it.
could still starting to cry then I think of the fact that my parents made me sell it back then I got my first pc. damn them.

I had a second floppy drive and 1MB Ram(!). And, like, 200 Floppydisks full of games. Some of them legally bought even.

[AVX23]

You lot better stop it RIGHT NOW or you'll have to pay for a new pair of trousers for me. Thanks.

hahah - mek sexwee - u know u want to :)

[shuttlecart]

vic 20 was my first love

http://www.computercloset.org/Commodore_VIC-20_Box.jpg

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

we all know dad wasn't really doing his accounts, he was looking at 4 colour 128x128 porn.

[shuttlecart]

the first game i ever owned...space phreeks

http://www.uvlist.net/showtheimage.php?id=pre2006/39/galacticblitz_vic20.gif

[shuttlecart]

i forgot you could use it for personal improvement

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/screenshots/chuckie-egg1.gif

[Spandex]

we all know dad wasn't really doing his accounts, he was looking at 4 colour 128x128 porn.

i think you'll find that it was 16 colour. you're probably getting confused cos it's 4 bit. do you see?

[Loz]

i think you'll find that it was 16 colour. you're probably getting confused cos it's 4 bit. do you see?

Spandex is King of the Geeks

[wheezer]

my first computa - a definite love/hate relationship cause it didn't have isa expansion slots and no proper soundcard

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/ibm/ps1/My_IBM_PS1.jpg

[penciLneck]

amiga for deluxe paint III, happy days.

yup, I had dp4 for the animation and spent many an hour crafting fractal mayhem.

pretty special little box. for a long time the video toaster was the cutting edge in video post.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster

I went on to have a brief but passionate love affair with Newteks 3d package lightwave.

[soulcheck]

Scala was cool too.

[shuttlecart]

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[ckpqerjwrpwp]

i think you'll find that it was 16 colour. you're probably getting confused cos it's 4 bit. do you see?

You stick to specifcations, I'll stick to the aesthetics of early digital porn. You can see it going in easier with 4 colours.
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