Your First Computer
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I got my Commadore out the closet and set it up and started playing it, the game i chose to play was Dizzy Prince of the YolkFolk. The one thing that i found annoying (apart from the sound) was that...you couldnt save it! Also, no continues were granted. I did complete it tho, it took 2 hours. lol 
You have to give a golden nugget to the ferryman. On the boat you have to walk in the direction that the boat is going in or you'll far in the water and die.
heheh
the basic simplicity of some the games is attractive in itself.
heheh
the basic simplicity of some the games is attractive in itself.
The first console I ever had, played only pong, the table tennis game. If you left it on too long it would burn the phosphor on the tv screen. Wound up that you could see it even when the tv was playing and not the game. Oh ya, it was strickly black and white.
CounslerCoffee
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THis is going to sound awful... My first computer was a 486, I had managed to run Windows 95 on it. (really really slow...)
first game system was NES followed by a sega genesis a few years later. my first desktop was a pentium one with windows 95 on it
The first machine I used was the Commodore PET, http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/pet/ . The first one I owned was a Spectrum.
Thed, that is a really good link!
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-8 MB ram
-200 MB drive space
-win 3.1
-yea jezzball!!!
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Made by Texas Instraments, it Had several input options. Most common was a solid state cartridge, and it could do data audio cassettes and disks, too. Some games, like Tunnels of Doom(Loved it!) needed the cartridge and the cassette. The greatest thing was when we got a speech synthesizer that worked with some games.
We have two. both still work, though one has a broken ENTER key, and none of the joysticks work anymore.
Just about all of those early computers would let you program in basic, right? I know my brothers did.
Made by Texas Instraments, it Had several input options. Most common was a solid state cartridge, and it could do data audio cassettes and disks, too. Some games, like Tunnels of Doom(Loved it!) needed the cartridge and the cassette. The greatest thing was when we got a speech synthesizer that worked with some games.
We have two. both still work, though one has a broken ENTER key, and none of the joysticks work anymore.
Just about all of those early computers would let you program in basic, right? I know my brothers did.
I think that is what we had first too. I wanted a NES but my parents convinced me with the argument that you couldn't write a letter on a NES.
In the shop, I started to point out which games I wanted for our new computer on a Nintendo poster. I probably already knew about incompatibility, but it was a last desperate attempt.
On this computer, I had games such as "Alley Cat", "Shogun", "Buzz", "Paratrooper", "Janitor Joe" and "Digger".
Sometimes some games wouldn't work. There was no apparent reason for it. Sometimes the computer would brake down, and I now believe it was because of those games.
I also typed GW BASIC programs into that computer which I got from a book. The concept of the command "dim" was too complicated, I never got my head around it.
In my own programs, I also skipped all the commands that were labeled as "dangerous" by my book, cause the computer was also used by my parents.
My greatest achievement ever in computer programming was done by interpreting some code I read and with that basic material, I made a drawing program.
It was pretty advanced, it even had animation in it
The main commands were locate, input, print, inkey$ and cls. The trick (which I hadn't thought of myself) was to replace the coordinates in the locate command by x and y and then adjusting these values when the user entered commands.10 k$=inkey$
20 if k$="u" then x=x-1; goto 100
30 goto 10
100 locate (x,y); print "*character you chose to draw with*"
200 goto 10
the animation part was done by pagecopy and then switching between two screens
Well, the Commadore 64 had the most advanced soundcard of the times. Also, you could get a cartrage that plugged into the back that had extra memory in it, sorta like how Starfox for the SNES had a mem chip in it.
Also, some of my cassettes didnt work for no apparent reason either, it would take like 5mins to load then nothing happened so u had to choose another game. I liked how you could copy cassettes! it was great.
Also, some of my cassettes didnt work for no apparent reason either, it would take like 5mins to load then nothing happened so u had to choose another game. I liked how you could copy cassettes! it was great.
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