Commodore, Atari and Sega pretty much stole my youth. Coming of age in the 1980s was just awesome. Although the graphics today look dated, they were awesome back then when PCs had 16 colours at best.

 

The Amiga 500 (my favourite computer of all time) was a stunning machine. You could just hook it up to any TV and stereo and have an amazing gaming experience (although I mostly used it to create music).

 

I looked up Atari 500 but the web says it was actually the Amiga. (My Bad) :blush:

 

Music like this?

 

I looked up Atari 500 but the web says it was actually the Amiga. (My Bad) :blush:

 

Music like this?

 

Yep, kinda like that. Here's one of my favourite artists of that era:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMqXaKWByos

I remember we were an Atari family when Coleco came out with ColecoVision....That one had superior graphics and had the licensing rights to Donkey Kong. When I was 11 years old that was a really big deal LOL

 

There was also Intellivision but that one didn't really have any cool games and the controllers weren't any good.

Nice tunes!

 

Correct me guys, but wasn't there a kinda war going on between Amiga and Atari users? You know, like Android and Apple phones now. Which one was cooler?

Nice tunes!

 

Correct me guys, but wasn't there a kinda war going on between Amiga and Atari users? You know, like Android and Apple phones now. Which one was cooler?

 

Sure was. As I've allready said, Amiga was my favourite, mostly because of the thriving music and demo scene (http://ada.untergrund.net/).

 

For games they were pretty equal. My favourite flight sim was F/A-18 Interceptor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F/A-18_Interceptor).

My favourite flight sim was F/A-18 Interceptor (http://en.wikipedia....-18_Interceptor).

:im Not Worthy: Back when Electronic Arts was.. art.

:im Not Worthy: Back when Electronic Arts was.. art.

 

True Dat

...and Microprose!

Psygnosis! You may burst in tears now. B)

 

Having Jeff Minter in the next cubicle, with his wonderful eccentricity (google him, if you don't know him!)

 

Jane

 

If you have to Google Jeff Minter you lose hipster points. . I'm seriously impressed that you knew the guy.

 

I wish I had kept the flightsim I coded for the Vic-20 in 1983. It wasn't very good but, hey, 3.5 kilobytes of RAM to work with!

 

I agree with the point above about computers being super exciting up until the 286/386/486 (overclock with the turbo button for a mighty 33MHz!), and then perhaps blurring a bit.

 

 

 

From Pentium on I barely remember each machine as they had less and less meaning for me. Everything up to the 80486 was really exciting for me.

 

 

Second that, but it might be an age thing as well...

 

I had the first Pentium, a 60MHz and remeber I got it replaced because of a calculation bug. That really started my love/hate relationship with computers. Come to think of it, after that Pentium I almost stopped gaming apart from FS. Although graphics continued to improve in games, playability seemed to fade away, but again, that might be an age thing.

Sure was. As I've allready said, Amiga was my favourite, mostly because of the thriving music and demo scene (http://ada.untergrund.net/).

 

For games they were pretty equal. My favourite flight sim was F/A-18 Interceptor (http://en.wikipedia....-18_Interceptor).

 

You sound like you're about my age. High school for me was 84-89 so I was right on the C64 and Amiga wave. I had them all and agree F/A-18 Interceptor on the Amgia was one of the best. It stole so many weekends (and homework time), as did Carrier Command and Defender of the Crown and those Infocom adventure games like Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Zork.

For the C64 my standout memories were Mission Impossible, Ghostbusters, Rambo, Commando, Jumpman, Choplifter, Fort Apocalypse and Raid on Bungling Bay.

C64 was slow as nails, and nintendo was better. Atari was okay just the thing wishbone connection to the tv to get it working was a pain. Played games on Atari the joysticks broke all the time but tank, and space invaders were pretty good, liked Coleco better thou. Christmas of 86 all I did that day was play duck hunt with my brothers it was awesome to get a gun to shoot at the screen hit ducks at the time. Got your little gyromite bot that was cool too. Atari bankrupt does not surprise me.

Ah, the Atari ST. The many, many hours spent playing Dungeon Master when I should have been studying . . .

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_%28video_game%29

 

There's a PC port still around, and it's eminently playable (if you like dungeon-crawls).

I still have my last 486 computer running DOS 3.1 in the basement. It did six years of 24/7 duty as my PCBoard powered "Candlenet Abbey BBS" platform...

 

...the other six 386 machines that ran the BBS via Lantastic having been scrapped after 12 years of yeoman duty.

 

What is amazing is that the thing still works! Before I abandoned landline services entirely, I kept it up and running. A few months ago, one of my old friends emailed me and inquired whether I still had a popular freeware utility program around, or knew where he could find it...

 

I dragged the old monster upstairs, got it running and found the program he wanted quickly enough, but then had to scratch my head trying to figure out how to get the .zip file from the 486 onto one of my networked computers...

 

...since not a single one had a 3.5" drive any longer! Another trip to the basement located another obsolete machine that still ran, had a 3.5" drive, and was (just barely) capable of being networked. Mission accomplished!

 

BTW, my very first "personal computer" was then then newfangled CBM DX64 with its massive 5" CGA color monitor. I only had two programs for it; my accounting package for my business, and flight simulator... :lol: