The_Reaper Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 " 28.8 dial up? You call that the Good ol' days? You little whippersnappers don't know nothin' about the good ol' days. When I was your age, all we had was seven computers in the whole world, five of them were in Nigeria, and they were connected by old loops of string. Instead of packets, you had to put a color coded ribbon on it and pull the string for 60 hours until the ribbon got to the other guy. Then he had to manually enter the data into his computer via punchcards and smoke signals, and we liked it that way! We didn't have no fancy 3D engines, or even 2D, all we had was 1 dimensional games, lines with broken spaces in between and you had to pretend the long ones were space cowboys and the short ones were mutant trolls. It took 84 hours of processing time to draw 1 pixel, and we liked it that way! You spoiled bratts and your instant messaging eDoom 7.0++ with real time anti-aliased bitmaps don't know nuthin about the good ol' days." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pob Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Ah okay Reaper calm down. Your right but what we did have was games with gameplay. This meant they where fun to play, too many games thesdays rely on fancy graphics and don't have alot of substance (there are of course plenty of exceptions), but in the old days a game had no gameplay it didn't sell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakkara Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Heh, I remember the old IBM machines! 32 kilobytes of RAM, THAT's what you had! And at least someone had some more brains at that time, since the thing had 64 interrupts instead of 16 PC's have! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 wow. lol well im afraid im not one of the "oldies" which in technology sense doesnt mean much as we advance incredibly fast every year. first PC i got was a 400mhz 32 MB RAM with a graphics card i cant even remember (probably an old voodoo). windows 95, ive never even TOUCHED msdos. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakkara Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 The first PC I had was a 12 mhz XT machine with 512kb of RAM and a 32mb harddrive! You were LUCKY to have a HD, a lot of people just had a floppy drive. And then I don't mean a 3.5 inch drive, no I mean those BIG drives where you put those big black things in. And if you HAD a 3.5 inch drive you used DD diskettes which could hold about 600kb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 I remember the good old days. My first computer was when I was 5. You loaded the OS up on a 5 1/4 inch floopy and the screen was blue with yellow letters. Advanced up to a 286 with a 10mb hdd and 412kb <something on the lines of that> thats where I encounter my first game. Wheel of Fortune. It was all pixelated and on a black screen with these cool little colors to symbolse the "flicky" things on the board. Next was a 486 DX/32. can't remember the specs but had all the Commander keen series <1,2,3,4,5,6 and dreams> Mario paint <i love that program, Wolf 3d <wasn't aloud to play that to violent>, chips challange and my all time favorite The Secret of Monkey Island :) Moved on from the 486 to a Pentium 100 and the a IBM PR 200 <clocked at 166. thats where the PR rarting of later AMDs comes from> which I had untill last september untill no; i have my beast knowen as Darkhelll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switch Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 The first PC I had was a 12 mhz XT machine with 512kb of RAM and a 32mb harddrive! You were LUCKY to have a HD, a lot of people just had a floppy drive. And then I don't mean a 3.5 inch drive, no I mean those BIG drives where you put those big black things in. And if you HAD a 3.5 inch drive you used DD diskettes which could hold about 600kb!whoa. and how long ago was this? :blink: HeLLL u too? am i the only one here who hasnt ever used an ancient computer?? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Reaper Posted August 21, 2003 Author Share Posted August 21, 2003 wow. lol well im afraid im not one of the "oldies" which in technology sense doesnt mean much as we advance incredibly fast every year. first PC i got was a 400mhz 32 MB RAM with a graphics card i cant even remember (probably an old voodoo). windows 95, ive never even TOUCHED msdos. :P Hah! My first computer had windows 3. (something) The first game i played was wolfenstein 3d! Now that a REAL GOOD game!! :D I remenber watching my brother play spectrum! You had to insert a sound cassete and the darn thing squeeked and bliped lowdly for half a hour to load the game!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakkara Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Here is some proof... I present to you... THE XT!I made it to the newspapers, that is where these pics come from. http://members.lycos.nl/shakkara/xt1.jpg http://members.lycos.nl/shakkara/xt2.jpg Hmm I just posted the links, the pics are rather big and if I size them down even more the quality really drops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeLLL Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 Ahh so cute :D One day she will make a fine geek :lol: :lol: :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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