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Had to add mine:

Was at school 1974. Data General running CPM and 4K of memory. No video here folks - everything came out on a teletype (paper rolls; not even perforated!!) and all my basic programs on paper tape with holes punched in it....

(I'm really not THAT old.... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by LemmyM:
Atari 520 ST..not bad for a 19 year old eh http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

well, technically it was my dad's, but i played the most games on it http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif
one of my Favorites was some space shoot 'm up...can't remember the name...

that thing must be old, i can't remember a time that we didn't have it...<hr></blockquote>


i've been looking through my old atari games and i found it, it's called Star Battles http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
i also found another one of my Favorites, Super Sprint (also known as Buggy Boy), but it wouldn't run for a while now http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif
then there was Time Bandit...a lot different games in one, very nicely done, oh Major Motion was fun to, sort of like an early Grand Theft Auto, it had a top-down view, the road would only go up, and you would have to try and push as many cars of the road as possible..yeah, Major Motion was a great game...

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Commodore 64!
I remember playing cricket while spy hunter loaded up on the tape deck. Ended up having two disk drives and some 500+ umm disks.
Then I sucumbed and got an Amiga. Way ahead of its time that little box. However it ended running nothing more than a terminal emulator so I could connect to the uni's unix servers and MUD.
Then one day I sold out and got a 486dx. Dumb machine.


Askan

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Honest to goodness Apple II with a 4 digit serial number. Still have it. Still works.

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Piece of crap.

Phoenix-D

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Apple II

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My first computer was an Atari 800 with the optional tape drive and Basic cartridge. My computer programmer father was the only one who wrote programs for it. An attempt to get me interested in programming I think, all for naught.

Us children played with the Atari 2600 he also bought us. Anybody remember having to use rubber bands to keep the switches from resetting when the springs wore out? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif It came with one cartridge, Battle I think was the name, and I was a goner.

My next real computer was a 386 with 4 megs of memory! The was for paper writing in college and ran DOS and Windows 3.0, the first program run on it was Wing Commander. Remember tweaking your config.sys and autoexec.bat to get enough free high memory?

Texfire

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Sinclair (from Xerox?). 1 KB of memory.

I tried to get it to play tic-tac-toe, but it ran out of memory after drawing the board on the screen.

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My first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Colour computer (4 colours?). I think it had 128k of memory. I remember using programs like CocoMax III and some stupid word processor that would allow you to type just 500 words and then run out of memory and you'd have to restart. It was fun, but it was sad because it was in the ninties...

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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by LemmyM:
i've been looking through my old atari games and i found it, it's called Star Battles http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif
...<hr></blockquote>

Star Battles for the Atari ST? I know the Intellivision cartridge by that name... what's Star Battles for the ST like?

PvK