I remember playing Quake I on my birthday with my school friends. My brothers PC was hooked up to mine via IPX network and we played 1on1. I killed every last one of them As I had basically every machine from 8088, 286, 386 (both intel and amd), 486, pentium, AMD K2,... I don't even remember on which ones we played Quake I at that time :O
3D Combat simulation, real world physics apply like drowning and you don't survive for very long in lava...
I got all these computers because having a 10+ years older brother did not suck for those kind of things, that was for sure I got every machine that he didn't use any longer while he sold and bought new stuff regularly (he still has some comodore, schneider and atari ST somewhere on the basement)...
Porn over 56K.... I remember staying over at a friend when we were in our prime puberty phase. His parents were out of town and we hooked up the modem to the telephone line. We didn't hit any more than 14.4k and after using up all of AOL's free minutes we used some payed connections... Uh... I remember when he told me at the end of the month how his father ripped out the telephone cable out of the wall after receiving the bill And all that for some shitty porn vids in terrible resolution from persiankitty (or whatever that site was called )
T'was hard having 200€ bills for internet usage as a teenager... what was harder was the one that ended up being 500€. Had to get rid of my chipped PSX and all its games to be able to pay my dad back xD
T'was hard having 200€ bills for internet usage as a teenager... what was harder was the one that ended up being 500€. Had to get rid of my chipped PSX and all its games to be able to pay my dad back xD
downloaded windows 2000 with dial up. my mother killed me was almost the same price around 400-500 euros. man good times.
before that i just had a shitty p90 ibm pc. phantasmagoria and gabriel knight the beats within.
other then that i was a console kid, psx, n64, gameboy, dreamcast. im sorry
I remember switching from AOL to a tiny new ISP called EarthLink when I lived in San Francisco. I walked over to their office and was one of the first 100 subscribers. Stayed with them until I got DSL. I had a free account up until they were bought up.
I paid for a second phone line so I could stay dialed in 24/7. I remember downloading high quality gif porn that would take 3-4 days.
c64
then i think a 386
i remember the giant piles of floppies i had to carry around to copy games and shit
took three efforts i think until i got c&c red alert copied completely
i remember my first ever pirated game was wolf3d i copied off a youth club computer
it was the first proper 3d game i saw and my mind was blown
a month later they got doom and my mind was reblown
somebody there taught me the magic words of ARJ and that was it then
then RAR came along and it was like a miracle with how much better it was
then maybe biannual or so hardware updates
in 1998 one of the early 3dfx cards that still needed a 2d card
i remember the year from rainbow six being the game i demonstrated the difference of software vs hardware rendering to my dad who was amazed
then of course came thief which instantly became my favourite game franchise to this day
Amiga 600 was my very first computer. Upgraded it later for a Amiga 1200.
Men, i still remember how i sat in front of that grey machine, playing all those awesome games. Mainly replaying Dune 2 and most LucasArts adventures for several times.
After that i got some IBM PC for free as my "entry" to the PC world. Shortly after that i got a real PC. GPU was a Riva TNT or Voodoo Banshee. Whatever was released first back then.
And my first multiplayer game with that box was a bit Quake 2, then mostly UT1 on Assault mode. Man, those times!!
It also was the beginning of my internet adventures and several malwares and viruses and even more reinstalls of Win95/98. I think at some point i had to reinstall the whole OS on a weekly base.
i didn't have money for a pc i've spent 2,3 years in pubs playing,
played at my cousin home from time to time
i 've bought a Pentium , 686 or something
4/8mb video card,32/64sdram buying cds with pirated rip games, getting dial-up,going on the internet without knowing what to look for,high phone bills,witch i couldn't afford and the phone got cut good times
My strongest memory of the 90s was the fucking painful transfer of games from school to my house..... 3'11 disks i think... 1.44 mb...... pkzip.... pkunzip... sry crc error. fuck me, wont play wolfstein today.... I was late to the 90s i think.
I loved those days. Games were all fresh and new, when Snes emulation came i literally lost my social life.
Still remember all those cheats for doom and duke nukem lol
iddqd, idstuff, idclip, dnstuff, God damnit i loved my childhood
Then PC early 90s... No track of models/hardware since i usually had 2-3 at the same time and swapped hardware more often than i change underwear (which ofc could mean not often at all)
Still got many old retro computers but not many of my original ones.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
My parents didn't have a lot of money, so our computers were always a bit behind the times, I think.
I think I had my first computer, a C64, in 1988 or 89 (so I was 7 or 8 )
Most memorable games: Zorro and some Breakout clone (my parents even got special game'pads' for this game, they were more addicted to it than I was).
The next one was an Amiga 500, about 3 or 4 years later.
Most memorable game: Frontier: Elite 2. Played it literally until it broke (luckily I had made a second copy, it only took 1 disk )
The first 'modern' pc came around 1997, I think, with a Pentium II. No idea what its specs were (I only remember it had a 2GB hard drive, which was state of the art back then ). My dad was able to buy it through his work, I think it took 2 years to pay it off...
Had this pc for a looong time, until I finally had money of my own to buy my own, personal pc, that I didn't have to share. No more viruses because mom read her mails for 5 minutes.
So I remember those golden days vividly. My favorite games of that time were Commandos and No One Lives Forever. I didn't play Quake a whole lot (didn't have internet connection, nor were my friends interested in this kind of game).
I had my first computer in 96 I believe? With the first Red Alert
God this game was awesome. I remember when it was my birthday in 97 (98?), and I was able to afford both Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital.
I think I gamergasmed that month
Then came my first 56K, that I had to "choke" with a cushion during the night not to wake up people due to that fucking sound, so I could download porn gifs and have a wank or play The 4th Coming, and free MMORPG.
Fun times
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
My first was an amiga, only thing I remember from it was the "It came from the desert" game with the giant ants. I was 16 ish at the time? (around 1989-1990?).
My next one was a giveaway from a friend, a 'zenith data center' thing. Monochrome green screen that I found BBS's on. and I was hooked.
I remember when I upgraded from that zenith to a true 286, and my first sound card. I Actually called a friend, and played a game with voice acting in it, and was so excited "YEA! thats my computer, not the TV..voice coming from a game, its sweet!"
Then comes my 486, I ran a BBS for 3-4 years on it.
Where the DX in my name actually comes from, I was the sysop with 'Warlock' as my handle..and my BBS was called 'Dimension X'. so my interBBS mail handle was DX-Warlock and it stuck as everyone called me DXWarlock. I remember playing quake or heretic for hours on that 486, pissing off my BBS users because I was using the modem line for MP on it, and they couldn't dial in.
I also remember the first time I bought a 1gig harddrive. and was blown away going "I will NEVER fill this massive thing up!" it was the size of 2 CD drives, and actually took up 2 bay slots where drives go.
I cant remember exactly the order of my computers after that. But it involved my first 'true' video card a riva tnt, seeing Unreal in all its 3d glory on it, Id watch that flyby castle intro on loop and just be amazed.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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Who else was blown away by that 3d mark with matrix / max payne&satellite zoom to earth with landscape view ?
I watched that so many times!
Spoiler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Fze3RU-R4
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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edit: yep. That 3dmark was amazing. And it features car game made on max payne engine as I recall
I am almost 27. Does that count ?
Been there for duke 3d, quake, unreal, half-life. Waited ages for Half-life 2, doom3, stalker and call of cthulhu dcote.
Any Max payne? That game blown me away when it came out. Had to sell voodoo and get gforce 2 for it. It required so much ram to run (128mb)
edit: And yes, even tho I've been there for all 3d breakthroughs, invention of 3d accelerators and so on, xbox 360 amazed me back in 2005/2006.
Then it was back to pc few years later and oculus rift amazed me. Now that I had both of prototypes... I am no longer looking to vr even tho it was pretty amazing. I think it's just not there yet and wont be for long time. At least until its sweat/fogging free and wireless
3080 | ps5 pro
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i started with a MSX2 in 1986 ( SONY HITBIT ).
First PC was a AMD 486DX40 with amazing 16mb ram ( win3.1 didnt support more ) with a sound blaster AWE 32 and a double speed cd rom. all i did was play lucasarts games and doom the first year.
Dunno if anyone would be interested in this, but there's a radio station on the net that streams all the music from the Amiga, C64 etc days. If you've a Sonos system or similar, save the URL and play through that. That's what I do.
My earliest memories of the golden era are in the form of envy and desperation, because all the cool kids had some kind of awesome electronic machinery (C64 first, Amiga later) and for my parents it was both too costly and a waste of time (they still think that even today, at least they're consistent xD) and I would spend entire evenings at friends' houses like an addict refugee.
The drought ended in 1993ish, when my uncle convinced (I have no idea how he did it) my dad to contribute to buy me a proper computer (IBM as far as I remember) as a present for the holy communion (goddammit). Needless to say, that I was absolutely ecstatic...the first game that I played there was Doom, my mind was blown, so much fun was had.
From that point onwards I started saving for new builds/PC by myself, and eventually upgraded to the mighty Pentium+Voodoo combo, a genuine eye opener that definitively enslaved me. Then it's recent(ish) history, with the tradition of me buying new hardware typically every ~3-4 years (not too often, for the obvious reasons )
I remember that I was one of the first people in my area to have an internet connection (which is hilarious since now it's basically the opposite), the glorious 56k used to shamelessly pirate everything since my dad had a convention that granted him free additional hours, but as expected they still weren't enough for dem vintage nude pics...(@Pumpy: +1 )
Even got a ghetto business running for some time when I got ahold of a CD burner, the holy grail of that teenager era with mp3s and games . Good times xD
Even got a ghetto business running for some time when I got ahold of a CD burner, the holy grail of that teenager era with mp3s and games . Good times xD
Haha I had those years, I was the first to get a 1Mb connection of many people I knew, and most had 28.8/56k still.
The 'blazing fast 1Mb' modem looked like a big car speaker amp. It was big, metal, weighted like 5lbs and heatsink on one side.
I was the "I know a guy" guy that people came to to get cracked games and such from.
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-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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As I had basically every machine from 8088, 286, 386 (both intel and amd), 486, pentium, AMD K2,... I don't even remember on which ones we played Quake I at that time :O
I got every machine that he didn't use any longer while he sold and bought new stuff regularly (he still has some comodore, schneider and atari ST somewhere on the basement)...
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