Favourite old computers?

vyseyboy

Commodore 64 all the way, although given the relics that people are talking about, it's relatively cutting edge.

A whopping 16 colours, 64k ram, and an awesome SID sound chip with 3 simultaneous voices, and 5 waveforms to choose!

I still use mine for the sound chip alone, but I had to build a new power supply for it

novice-saver

My favourite was the Amiga 500 because of "Rainbow Islands"..
"Manic Miner" on the Spectrum was good though...

I started with the ZX81 as a kit, with 1K, and got the "wobbly" 16k expansion.

Then the Spectrum - one of the first, with the "dead cockroach" hardware mod to make it work.

One of the above had a ROM bug which produced a funny maths error, which was eventually replaced.

The Spectrum ended up with microdrives, and that horrible printer.. and a button for freezing games so you could get them onto the microdrive.

The Amiga was a revelation -
"rock lobster" anyone??
How fat was your Agnes..??
pre-emptive multitasking....
guru meditation.....

Then I spent £1500 on a PC with a 75mHz pentium, no sound card, no CD drive.

God, it was terrible.

Swan_2

my first one was a 48K Speccy, but my favourite was my Amiga 1200 with hard drive

Teacher2301

Spectrums - rubber keys - now worth loads

My fav - C64

Red_Rose_Exile

Syntax Error Line 19

Yes, I remember typing lines of Basic , only to find the usual typo

Started off on a Speccie 128 in 1987, complete with microdrive and thermal printer (at a later date) with Elite was my fave game, before progressing to the Amiga 1200 later on.

A 486 and several Pentiums later, no longer writing software, and hardly ever doing hardware upgrades either.

Quaint1

Now, if you're going to talk about games, on the Speccy anything from Ultimate Play The Game in their prime was what you would find me playing with (especially Sabre Wulf and the,for the time, brilliant isometric 3D games. I was so inspired I even wrote my own pale imitation, in Sinclair Basic, and with the 3D doneby using User Defined Graphics - recoded characters! I actually submitted it to Your Sinclair, but they rejected it - it was too long really...)
On the Atari, I was a huge fan of "Sentinel".
I never really got into "Elite", and always got stuck in "The Hobbit", but my favourite games of all time are probably the classics from the ZX81 "3d Monster Maze" and "Labyrinth" by (I think) J.K.Greye Software.
Au Res.,
Paul (who does remember the Oric - it used to produce oval 'circles' as I recall? In return, does anyone remember the Jupiter Ace - a ZX81 shaped machine whose USP was that it was programmable using Forth rather than BASIC!)

Swan_2

Quaint1 wrote: »

Now, if you're going to talk about games, on the Speccy anything from Ultimate Play The Game in their prime was what you would find me playing with (especially Sabre Wulf and the,for the time, brilliant isometric 3D games. I was so inspired I even wrote my own pale imitation, in Sinclair Basic, and with the 3D doneby using User Defined Graphics - recoded characters! I actually submitted it to Your Sinclair, but they rejected it - it was too long really...)

oh the Ultimate games, I loved those Atic Atac & Knightlore were great too, but my all-time favourite was Head Over Heels, I'd love to play that one again
pity about your game, I'd have been first in the queue for a copy!

I'm still a sucker for isometric games & keep an old pc running W'98 so I can play Lucas Arts Pit Droids

isofa

Crazy Cars 2 on the CPC 6128 was very good, many a wasted evening with that (Outrun wasn't as good as on other platforms though if I remember), and the Winter Games was fantastic, had a load of flight sims too, my fave was a Apache gunship one, no doubt with very privative graphics!

How about the mostly textual adventure The Pawn? With the odd amazing single screen graphic, very satisfying to complete.

Everyone must remember the Gauntlet... hours and hours spent moving up the levels... great graphics and gameplay!