OT: How old are you ? - Page 34

Ruatha · #**331** January 8th, 2003, 10:35 PM

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Originally posted by Pooh Star:
Greetings...I am 38 years old and have been playing SEIV for only a short while,...so be gentle. I have been a sci-fi fan since watching Classic Trek reruns as a kid....I grew up on pac-man and space invaders (archade games for those of you who are too young to be familiar with them)...I am probably dating myself here but...oh well. Loved to play Battleship and games like stratego. In terms of computer games...I love Populas, Lemmings, The Sims and Alpha Centauri. (Not bad for a girl huh?)

In case you were wondering...I am learning the game so I can spend more time with my boyfriend who plays it thirty hours a week.

Which of you Gentleman are going to help me learn this game so I can beat my boyfriend at it?

Now, I have been lurking here for a few weeks...is it really safe to post here?

Pooh Star

A female, must have passed on to other games long ago, didn't answer my poll anyway

Ruatha · #**332** January 8th, 2003, 10:39 PM

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Originally posted by Ratqueen:
I'm 38, Swiss, and got hooked on strategy games when I bought my first computer, an Atari ST, about 15 years ago. I cannot spend a single day without devoting a few hours to gaming. My mother used to tell me I would grow out of playing games and listening to heavy metal music, but she was wrong: just got "worse"

Gotta go play...

Whoa, another one who didn't answe my poll (Digging further back)

capnq · #**333** January 8th, 2003, 11:08 PM

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Played board wargames since the 80's (Started with Tactics II?)

Boy, does that bring back memories. Tactics II was one of the first four wargames in my collection. (1914 was the first; I'm not sure what order I got the next three in.)

The first time I posted in this thread, I was 42. I'll be 44 at the end of this month.

Asmala · #**334** January 9th, 2003, 02:23 AM

I'm 17 years old. It seems here is quite a lot older people so I'm nearly kid compared to the others

I'm new player, got my SE4 only about month ago and I haven't yet played any game to the end. I have five PBW games going and only one has over 100 turns played so I don't have much experience. Perhaps I should have trained against computer a little before join PBW games but IMHO the games against computer aer very boring (I have started many games but none of them exceed 100 turns

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jprevott · #**335** January 9th, 2003, 04:10 AM

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Originally posted by atari_eric:

I taught myself how to program on the Atari 800 way back when I was 9. Been hooked on computers ever since, learning C in High School and recently enrolling in a Game Programming class at Palomar College.

My High School had one of the few computer labs in the city at the time. Learned basic and assembler on a PDP 8. With a paper tape reader and teletype terminal and a whopping 500k of core memory!

Lord Kodos' Evil Twin · #**336** January 9th, 2003, 05:05 AM

the age thing, mental or phyical.

Kamog · #**337** January 9th, 2003, 10:09 AM

The first computer I ever used was a Commodore pet. It had a small green monochrome screen and a tape drive. It took forever to load programs from the tape, but it was so cool! It came with some simple programs for word processing and math and so on, and it had a few cool games: Space Invaders, a racing game, a labyrinth monster game, and a mining game. You could write your own BASIC programs in it, too, but back then I didn't know how to program. (Much later, I first learned how to program in BASIC on the Apple IIE.)

Pablo · #**338** January 9th, 2003, 10:17 AM

I'm 25, used to work for a while as a network admin, now interpreter/translator. I live in Lithuania (that's in Europe at the Baltic sea

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Used to play fps games but now heavily addicted to SE4 (got it for almost a year now). First space game was Elite. So far no experience in Stars! or MOO. Looking forward to MOO3.
Maybe I'm fond of statistics or something... http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/who.htm

tbontob · #**339** January 9th, 2003, 10:40 AM

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Originally posted by Kamog:
The first computer I ever used was a Commodore pet. It had a small green monochrome screen and a tape drive. It took forever to load programs from the tape, but it was so cool! It came with some simple programs for word processing and math and so on, and it had a few cool games: Space Invaders, a racing game, a labyrinth monster game, and a mining game. You could write your own BASIC programs in it, too, but back then I didn't know how to program. (Much later, I first learned how to program in BASIC on the Apple IIE.)

My first computer was the Apple II+, purchased in the spring of 1981...yes 1981!

No drives at all, you saved your "stuff" to a common tape on tape recorder and loaded it from the tape recoder.

The keyboard only typed in capitals.

IIRC, it came in 16K, 32K and 48K memory. I splurged big time for the 48K. And later, I did an upgrade to 64K.

I made so many modifications to it, that it took years before I bought my first Macintosh.

And the original cost was more than the price of most personal computers today!

But it was a marvel! I too learned to program in "Applesoft basic" which is a modified form of Basic.

I also did some machine language programming. It was all done directly and by hand without any of the aids which are available today.

dogscoff · #**340** January 9th, 2003, 01:54 PM

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Maybe I'm fond of statistics or something... http://web.init.lt/~pablo/se4/who.htm

Pablo, have you seen The Encyclopedia Malfadorica demographics page? Perhaps you'd consider adding your data to that page in some reader-friendly format..?