OT: Any One Remember

[Baron Munchausen]

Hey, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 running at 8 mhz! Wow... and I bought a Sony V20 'clone' chip to make it go even faster. I think I still have that V20 chip, or a spare, around here somewhere. The T1000 is long gone, though.

[Renegade 13]

Man...you guys are old!!

My first computer was actually my parents, bought in '97 when I was 10 years old. 500 MHz I think, with a 2 GB hard drive and 16 (I think) megs of RAM.

[Atrocities]

Does any one remember the web browser based game called Planetarian or something like that?

[StarShadow]

I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

[dogscoff]

Sorry AT, never heard of it.

Now who remembers *this* old beauty?

http://www.cinemaware.com/browser/dotc/final.asp

[Atrocities]

Sorry, my browser won't install macroware software. It wants me to manually install it and well who the hell knows how to do that, certainly not me.

[Kamog]

The first computer I used was a Commodore PET in my school classroom. It had a small, green monochrome monitor and a slow cassette tape drive. We thought it was really amazing and there was one guy in my class who knew how to write simple programs on it in BASIC, and I was totally impressed with his knowledge and skill. There were a few games for it that came on cassette tapes, and it included space invaders, a racing game and a maze game. The graphics were very blocky but I thought it was the greatest thing.

The second type of computer I ever used was a Commodore 64 which one of my friends had. We used to play games on it like Archon, Black Hawk, Temple of Apshai, Rambo, Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, etc. It had a big external 5.25" floppy drive, a color monitor, joystick and a modem (I don't know what speed).

The third type of computer I used was an Apple IIE in high school, on which I learned to program in BASIC in my very first computer science course. The BASIC back then had line numbers and we learned how to write messy spaghetti code that used a lot of GOTO commands. I used to stay late after school to learn and write little programs just for fun.

The fourth computer I used was a Macintosh 512E, which has 512K of RAM, also at school. I was so impressed with the Macintosh's graphical user interface and mouse! I learned to program in Turbo Pascal on those. This was back in 1988 or so.

When I finally had enough money to buy my own computer, I was attending university and my first computer was a Macintosh Powerbook 145. It had 4 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard drive, and a Motorola 68030 processor running at 25 MHz. I loved that Powerbook and I used it for many years. I later got a Powerbook 170 as well, but both powerbooks were stolen one day when by house got broken into. My next computer was a Pentium 233 with 96 MB RAM and 2 GB hard drive. When I first started playing SEIII, it was on that computer. I was still using that computer when I got SEIV, and the turns processed so slowly.

[Ed Kolis]

StarShadow said:
I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

Tradewars?

[Baron Munchausen]

StarShadow said:
I remember a fun space-based trader game on BBS's. Can't remember what it's called now, though.

Tradewars! (And then 'Tradewars 2000')

You had to seek out planets and/or build bases, develop your economy, research new technologies, build warships, and fight your enemies. I'd say it was the grandparent of all 4X computer games.

[StarShadow]

That was it, Tradewars! That was a great game. I've always thought it'd be really cool if there was a modern single-player version, no 3d though, 2d graphics at best, although I think it'd stll work with ASCII graphics.