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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67441 12-15-2011 08:33 AM

AtomIcarus Wrote:

TRS-80 Color Computer 2 w/ cassette recorder here. My first modem was 300 baud. I'm also a Zork fan.

I still have ALL the old Infocom adventures, at some point they released them on CD's in a two-part set. Books, maps and all that jazz too.

Problem is, you need an emulator to run the darn things and I've never been able to deal with all that BS. I used to be a total nerdy geek and would eat this kinda stuff up for lunch... but not anymore.

I still long to play an Infocom adventure despite all the "Skyrim" graphical nirvana. Just something about your mind being a better graphical interface than any high definition monitor ever could be... like going to a movie and realizing you liked the novel way better...

**jahbulon**

a 28mhz huge piece of shit I stole from pizza hut when they purged... I worked there as a manager and the guy installing the new system was just throwing it away.. I was like "can i take that home" he was like.. "i dont see why not.." lol it had the last eight years of records on it for the carryout... addresses phone numbers and all for the customers who ordered.. I let it sit on my floor for a good two years till we actually got a good pc.. but for real my first pc had to be this piece of shit thing my dad brought me home one day back in 89.. was a keyboard that hooked up to a tv and recorded data on cassette tapes... doomed

i didnt realize how behind I was till like 95... S977

**AtomIcarus**

LoP Guest Wrote:

AtomIcarus Wrote:
TRS-80 Color Computer 2 w/ cassette recorder here. My first modem was 300 baud. I'm also a Zork fan.

I still have ALL the old Infocom adventures, at some point they released them on CD's in a two-part set. Books, maps and all that jazz too.

Problem is, you need an emulator to run the darn things and I've never been able to deal with all that BS. I used to be a total nerdy geek and would eat this kinda stuff up for lunch... but not anymore.

I still long to play an Infocom adventure despite all the "Skyrim" graphical nirvana. Just something about your mind being a better graphical interface than any high definition monitor ever could be... like going to a movie and realizing you liked the novel way better...

Go here and see if this works out for you.

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67441 12-15-2011 08:41 AM

AtomIcarus Wrote:

Go here and see if this works out for you.

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

Oh. My. God.

I fear an addiction re-emerging. chuckle

Thank you very very very much. Heartflowers

**AtomIcarus**

LoP Guest Wrote:

AtomIcarus Wrote:
Go here and see if this works out for you.

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

Oh. My. God.

I fear an addiction re-emerging.

Thank you very very very much.

You're welcome. I'm feeling an urge to play Enchanter again. Maybe I'll get re-addicted too.

**JH Unplugged**

jahbulon Wrote:

a 28mhz huge piece of shit I stole from pizza hut when they purged... I worked there as a manager and the guy installing the new system was just throwing it away.. I was like "can i take that home" he was like.. "i dont see why not.." lol it had the last eight years of records on it for the carryout... addresses phone numbers and all for the customers who ordered.. I let it sit on my floor for a good two years till we actually got a good pc.. but for real my first pc had to be this piece of shit thing my dad brought me home one day back in 89.. was a keyboard that hooked up to a tv and recorded data on cassette tapes... i didnt realize how behind I was till like 95...

I am not going to say ... but similar ... pre puter revolution fer me ... Cheers

**Mayor McCheese**

It was a Texas instruments. Can't remember the model. 16k of RAM I believe. I was around 5 or 6 when my father brought it home. Played hunt the whumpus on it.

**chainnova**

The first one i used was called a amstrad i think, my dads.
I played some online txt based fantasy game on it, my user names where coke and pepsi, cause they where heaps cool and stuff.
This is around the same time that i decided that eating soldering cord was a gateway to super powers.

My first official pc was a HP piece of shit, the less said about it the better. Tissue

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67441 12-15-2011 09:06 AM

Mayor McCheese Wrote:

It was a Texas instruments. Can't remember the model. 16k of RAM I believe. I was around 5 or 6 when my father brought it home. Played hunt the whumpus on it.

LOL Hunt the Wumpus. awesome Cheer

I always enjoyed playing Star Trek on a small DEC mainframe. No monitor of course... the game was played on a dot-matrix printer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(text_game)

**808hawk** · **808hawk** ∆ User ID: 63882 12-15-2011 09:53 AM **Posts: 2,399**

AtomIcarus Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
AtomIcarus Wrote:
Go here and see if this works out for you.

http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/

Oh. My. God.

I fear an addiction re-emerging.

Thank you very very very much.

You're welcome. I'm feeling an urge to play Enchanter again. Maybe I'll get re-addicted too.

Funny I was just thinking about a BBC micro game called 'elite' the other day and if there was version for pc. I used to play it for hours. It was a spaced based trading game with 3d line graphics, you had to costantly fight, dock at space stations and trade. It was a really open ended do what you like go where you like rpg.
Was it popular in the USA?

**808hawk** · **808hawk** ∆ User ID: 63882 12-15-2011 09:59 AM **Posts: 2,399**

Mayor McCheese Wrote:

It was a Texas instruments. Can't remember the model. 16k of RAM I believe. I was around 5 or 6 when my father brought it home. Played hunt the whumpus on it.

I believe that may have been a ti99/4a I had one, you pushed cartridgesin the front right hand side of it.

**spɹɐʍoɔ snoɯʎuouɐ**

followed by a c64 then an Amiga500 then a PC (386) which I upgraded to 486(66mhz) that used my first dial up in 1996

my first complete build was a AMD K6 in 1998
Cheers

**Clever Trevor** · (This post was last modified: 12-15-2011 11:26 AM by Clever Trevor.)

Atari 2600..... Lmao

Oh no, it's Trevor...... Jptdknpa

Did You Know?
Space Invaders for the 2600 was the first ever 'killer-app' videogame.

http://www.atariage.com/software_page.ht...areID=1306

After that it was the ZX80, dam I wish I had carried on writing games for that.....

**Spritely1**

I can't remember exactly...but it was in the mid 90's...bought it to run Flex-sign and a plotter for my sign shop.
At the time, it was a damn good computer..had to be to run the plotter and sign design program.
But I could not play games on it...and I had no internet.

When I bought it, was still with the wife.
She had some messed up notion that the Internet was EVIL..a thing created by Satan...LMAO gotta love those Church of God peeps!

I didn't get on the internet until 2000...when Ford gave all the employees computers..a nice HP sysytem.
My Dad gave it to me...and I finally got online, began the wonderful adventure that is the internet.

**seismic**

Radio Shack TRS-80 aka TRaSh-80. It had a cassette tape (and cassette player) for storage. Circa 1982.