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Posted July 19, 2016
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Lesser: I remember my first PC had 200 MHz. I played The Settlers with it. 433 the next one and 700something the third one. This was the one I played Warcraft 3 with. I had space for 7 GB and was shocked when Dungeon Siege used more than 1 GB of that disk space (why it isn't on GOG yet!?).
square owns it nowadays thats why
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Lesser: was shocked when Dungeon Siege used more than 1 GB of that disk space (why it isn't on GOG yet!?).
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Cavalary: One word: Microsoft.
square
Post edited July 19, 2016 by snowkatt
Posted July 19, 2016
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Lesser: I remember my first PC had 200 MHz. I played The Settlers with it. 433 the next one and 700something the third one. This was the one I played Warcraft 3 with. I had space for 7 GB and was shocked when Dungeon Siege used more than 1 GB of that disk space (why it isn't on GOG yet!?).
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snowkatt: square owns it nowadays thats why
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Cavalary: One word: Microsoft.
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snowkatt: square
Oh... Then it's a tad odd, yes.
Posted July 19, 2016
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snowkatt: square owns it nowadays thats why

square
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Cavalary: Oh... Then it's a tad odd, yes.
is it ?
so far all square is interested in selling on here is the eidos catalogue
Posted July 19, 2016
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Cavalary: Oh... Then it's a tad odd, yes.
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snowkatt: is it ?
so far all square is interested in selling on here is the eidos catalogue
Think there are a few not in that? But then again I have no idea who owns what.
Posted July 19, 2016
Some old Compaq running Windows 98. It was a hand me down, and I got it in 2007.
Posted July 19, 2016
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hummer010: The first family computer was a TRS-80 Colour Computer 2. I spent hours picking away at that thing.
Same. I was beginning to think I was the oldest person here. Although we had no color, not sure if that was a different model or what.
Posted July 20, 2016
Which one was first? The first computer my parents got when I was a teenager? The first one that was in my exclusive use? The first one that was my very own in my very own flat where I lived alone?

Those three would be, in the same order as above:
-- A used 286 Intel processor PC. I cannot remember anything else except playing Lemmings on it :-) Just WHERE IS Lemmings SOLD nowadays by the way?!
-- An Intel 8086 or 8088 processored antiquity that noone else wanted to touch. Not good for much but it was the only computer available to me at the time. I played Falcon on it at a sloooooow pace.
-- A nice guy donated an Intel 386 (speed? DX? SX? cannot remember) with about 250MB HDD, enough RAM (back then) and an eye torturing monitor. Finally a computer that was useful for a lot of things with MS-DOS and a nice menu to start any of the more common programs from. (Thanks Mr. P for the menu! Sorry for pulling that ugly trick on you back then despite you being such a nice guy.)
Post edited July 20, 2016 by Themken
Posted July 20, 2016
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Themken: Just WHERE IS Lemmings SOLD nowadays by the way?!
Sold, not sure, but there is this. Plus some downloads on some (abandonware?) sites. And the Win8+ app (ew!). One for PlayStation too it seems.
Posted July 20, 2016
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Themken: Just WHERE IS Lemmings SOLD nowadays by the way?!
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Cavalary: Sold, not sure, but there is this. Plus some downloads on some (abandonware?) sites. And the Win8+ app (ew!). One for PlayStation too it seems.
I do not have any consoles. The MS app sounds legal so I guess I could upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 10 this week while their offer of a free upgrade is still standing. I try really hard to avoid piracy nowadays but am not paying hundreds of €/£ for a scratchy disk or unreadable diskettes of some game that is not for sale anywhere but some shady 2nd hand market. I have used that site you linked to to check out whether some old games I once liked still hold up well :-)
Posted July 20, 2016
My first computer was an Amiga 500 with 512 kb ram (later upgraded it to 1.5 mb ram), no harddrive and used a TV as monitor. First game I bought for it was either Syndicate or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, loved both of them and still do :)
Posted July 20, 2016
My first PC was second-hand, and given to us by my uncle. I can't remember the brand, but I remember you had to load the OS from a disk (5 1/2 inch floppy disk, no less!) every time you turned it on, that it ran WordPerfect (this was the main reason we had it), and that it had so little RAM it would crash if you typed too fast.
Posted July 20, 2016
If I remember right, my first computer was a 1997 hewlett packard. I remember the first thing I did was use this mspaint type of program (maybe it was mspaint, but I think it was a different program, I just can't remember the name of it) and start playing around with coloring and editing a Spiderman picture. I think for the first 3 or 4 days, that's all I used it for.

Then we got the internet. Man, what a thing discovering that for the first time. That's where's I learned about all these PC games I've been missing out on, and I went to Comp USA with my older brother to get Betrayal at Krondor and Mortal Kombat
Posted July 20, 2016
It all started with a C64 and a datasette.
After that an Amiga 500 followed by an Amiga 1200.
Then my first PC - a 486DX-50 based system with 4mb system ram, Oak display adaptor with 512kb - and a 128mb Seagate medalist harddrive. All hooked up to a no-name 14" svga monitor.
Posted July 20, 2016
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Cavalary: Sold, not sure, but there is this. Plus some downloads on some (abandonware?) sites. And the Win8+ app (ew!). One for PlayStation too it seems.
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Themken: I do not have any consoles. The MS app sounds legal so I guess I could upgrade my Windows 7 to Windows 10 this week while their offer of a free upgrade is still standing. I try really hard to avoid piracy nowadays but am not paying hundreds of €/£ for a scratchy disk or unreadable diskettes of some game that is not for sale anywhere but some shady 2nd hand market. I have used that site you linked to to check out whether some old games I once liked still hold up well :-)
If you buy an old Windows copy of Lemmings, you can import the levels into the SuperLemmini source port and be able to play the game with various fixes and improvements.

Superlemmini
Posted July 20, 2016
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tamablenebula: My first PC was second-hand, and given to us by my uncle. I can't remember the brand, but I remember you had to load the OS from a disk (5 1/2 inch floppy disk, no less!) every time you turned it on, that it ran WordPerfect (this was the main reason we had it), and that it had so little RAM it would crash if you typed too fast.
lol!
My dad got an Apple 2 in the 70s, but if you count my own first one, I think it was a 286 that ran Windows 3.1. I became a gamer for life when I played Doom (the first one) and then the gold box SSI games on it. Good times. It had a 250 mb hard drive, which seemed huge but worth it because that was the point at which drives cost $1 per megabyte, or less for bigger ones. That was back when Moore's Law was in effect and upgrades seemed necessary every two years.
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