1, 2, and Privateer FTW. Especially Privateer.
My first PC - circa ~2002 - what was yours?
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1, 2, and Privateer FTW. Especially Privateer.
Staples boxing day sale 1992: 486SLC33, was a Cyrix 386 with 486 instructions. Think that lasted not even a year before it got gutted for a 486dx266 at MemX when it was a 2 man operation. Ah the fun of configuring autoexec.bat and config.sys for various sound/cd-rom drivers xtended memory to work with various DOS games, all the better if it could still boot into win 3.1 with that config. Had that Mag Innovision 17" crt and a 14.4 modem for cruising the BBS's, with like 20hrs/mo for $30 or so.
tie fighter was the first space game I loved and yes Privateer was a great game my ship was just stupid small huge gun and huge engine lol then my Computer was stolen with all of my games when I was living near Uvic 1990s man was I bummed
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Speaking of gaming in the 486 days (and only slightly off topic) do you guys remember working on your autoexec.bat and config.sys files to make as much of that 640KB of conventional memory available to games as possible? It was a badge of honour when you got it tweaked just right! :haha:
I cannot recall what the system specifications for my first computer was, I just remember playing Dune (1992) on it the first year we had it.
Does wire wrapping an 8086 or a 6800k at college years later count if we're going vintage PCs?
Does wire wrapping an 8086 or a 6800k at college years later count if we're going vintage PCs?
My first stepdad got a computer when I was around 9 or 10 I think (aka around 1993) that was some kind of two color beige PC. I used it to make some character sheets for role-playing games and it had a dot matrix printer and I can't remember a damn thing else about it.
The first real computer that I can remember being mine would have been a Compaq Presario that ran Windows Tabworks 3.1. I don't remember the model, maybe a 4000 series, roughly looked like this;
I used Dos in it as much as anything as he bought a Sierra games pack that had 6 CDs that all ran 1 game;
While Caesar and Red Baron I mostly skipped, I loved GK and QFG IV (for some reason I could swear our set had King's Quest VI though).
Needless to say a teenage Adam thought the Leisure Suit Larry remake was f'ing hilarious. Not really knowing any better I let my ~7 year old sister watch me play it haha.
At the time that was really solid and got me into playing a lot of PC games. Then I got a copy of Civilization II to run on it and learned the terrible truth of 'just one more turn' :haha:
Oh Man, I remember those awesome game packs. I think I had that one, and also had the Lucas Arts one with Rebel Assault and the Indiana Jones Atlantis game. Fun times!
The first PC I purchased myself was a 1.4GHZ P4 with an ATI 9250SE GPU. That was the last Radeon I've ever owned... Did a couple upgrades over the years.
The first PC I built myself with components I chose was a Athlon 64 3200 and Abit NF4 SLI board, and dual 6600GT cards in SLI. Since then, the rest has been history!
Yeah, been there, done that... and since this was pre-WWW it wasn't as simple as finding a pre-made one (although you might get a decent one from a magazine)... you had to go with what was suggested in the programs' documentation (remember when software came with manuals???? ) and/or settings that came from config tweaking software.
Not only did you have to come up with the right commands/tweaks, the order those commands were listed in had to be played with as well.
One of my early "triumphs" in this vein was in getting an adlib card to play nice in the same machine as a Gravis Ultrasound. (IIRC that required a very specific physical install/remove as well as driver tweaks).
We've come a long way WRT hardware being plug and play and not having to worry about things like IRQ conflicts.
edit: This was back in the day when Norton's Utilities was a must-have software suite.
I remember setting up the original Doom for 3 players with null modem connections, all strung together with serial / parallel port cables, and awful batch files with really long DOS commands in them. But damned if it didn't work, and work well! 3 player LAN party, with no LAN. Good times!
Yeah some of the IRC conflicts = headaches, and hoops we had to jump through to get computers in the same room talking were crazy! It was always an interesting technical adventure but I wouldn't want to go back to it. Just hooking up and playing is a much better use of my time these days!
Edit: Gravis ultrasound... I had one of those! Man that was a sweet piece of kit then. That and eventually my 3DFx Voodoo card, but that came later IIRC.
Edit: Gravis ultrasound... I had one of those! Man that was a sweet piece of kit then. That and eventually my 3DFx Voodoo card, but that came later IIRC.
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