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Posted December 19, 2008
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Pixleh: I guess I'll be the young one here, 14 years old ^_^ I've been gaming for about 10 good years now. I started off with PC games and my good old gameboy, Age of Empires (I'd loooooooooooove that to be on GOG) and Pokemon. Then I got a PS1 and was introduced to the majocal world of RPGs with Final Fantasy IX, which still remains my favourite games ever.

hey I started gaming at about 3 or 4. So it's been..what 30 years for me..almost.
BTW you can find the Age of Empires Gold collection for 10 bucks at most Wal marts. it's in the jewel case section with all the casual games. It has AOE 1 and 2 plus the expansions to each game.
Posted December 19, 2008
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Pixleh: I guess I'll be the young one here, 14 years old ^_^ I've been gaming for about 10 good years now. I started off with PC games and my good old gameboy, Age of Empires (I'd loooooooooooove that to be on GOG) and Pokemon. Then I got a PS1 and was introduced to the majocal world of RPGs with Final Fantasy IX, which still remains my favourite games ever.
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deejrandom: hey I started gaming at about 3 or 4. So it's been..what 30 years for me..almost.
BTW you can find the Age of Empires Gold collection for 10 bucks at most Wal marts. it's in the jewel case section with all the casual games. It has AOE 1 and 2 plus the expansions to each game.

We don't have Wall Mart in England =/
Posted December 19, 2008
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deejrandom: hey I started gaming at about 3 or 4. So it's been..what 30 years for me..almost.
BTW you can find the Age of Empires Gold collection for 10 bucks at most Wal marts. it's in the jewel case section with all the casual games. It has AOE 1 and 2 plus the expansions to each game.
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Pixleh: We don't have Wall Mart in England =/

Consider yourself lucky...
Posted December 19, 2008
Well I guess I'm in the older crowd at 42. Pretty much started with the old Apple II+ with Wizardy 1 and Ultima 3. Had an Atari 2600 as my first console. Still have my old msdos 6.2 floppies around somewhere too!
Darkhan
Posted December 19, 2008
Pretty much the only game that GOG (currently) has that I used to own originally is Freespace, but that is no indicator of my age at all.
The first PC I used was probably the Commodore 64. The first PC I actually owned was an old IBM PC/XT with dual 5.25 floppy drives. My first console was a Bentley Compuvision (basic Pong variation console) followed closely by the Atari 2600 (Sears clone). I just turned 37 last week.
Posted December 19, 2008
As far as age goes,who remembers "Don't Copy That Floppy!"?
Posted December 19, 2008
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JudasIscariot: As far as age goes,who remembers "Don't Copy That Floppy!"?

You mean this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4837609090332617729
Better quality version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
Post edited December 19, 2008 by cogadh
Posted December 19, 2008
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JudasIscariot: As far as age goes,who remembers "Don't Copy That Floppy!"?

heh I didn't know that you actually could buy retail games for a personal computer until the late 80's :P
I kid..but not by much.
Posted December 20, 2008
Hey fellow oldies, remember how PCs in the mid 80s used to be "X% IBM PC compatible"? I knew a guy who had an 80% PC compatible that ran at a blazing speed of 10mhz when you pressed the magic TURBO button. You could sit there and turn it on & off watching it flick between 8 & 10 and fooling yourself into thinking it made a difference.
Especially when half the software he had fell into the 20% incompatible bracket. Gaming on THOSE buggers was damn near impossible, lets just say there's one major advantage to a microsoft desktop monopoly, standardisation...
Posted December 20, 2008
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Aliasalpha: Hey fellow oldies, remember how PCs in the mid 80s used to be "X% IBM PC compatible"? I knew a guy who had an 80% PC compatible that ran at a blazing speed of 10mhz when you pressed the magic TURBO button. You could sit there and turn it on & off watching it flick between 8 & 10 and fooling yourself into thinking it made a difference.

Hehe, yeah, and remember wondering whether or not that new game coming out would support your sound card? And endless editing of config.sys and autoexec.bat, as well as fiddling with memmaker, in an attempt to squeeze an extra 2KB of ram out of your machine, so you could play Desert Strike? Boy, those were the days :-D
They made some brilliant games back then, but yay standardization!
Posted December 20, 2008
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Aliasalpha: Hey fellow oldies, remember how PCs in the mid 80s used to be "X% IBM PC compatible"? I knew a guy who had an 80% PC compatible that ran at a blazing speed of 10mhz when you pressed the magic TURBO button. You could sit there and turn it on & off watching it flick between 8 & 10 and fooling yourself into thinking it made a difference.
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Wishbone: Hehe, yeah, and remember wondering whether or not that new game coming out would support your sound card? And endless editing of config.sys and autoexec.bat, as well as fiddling with memmaker, in an attempt to squeeze an extra 2KB of ram out of your machine, so you could play Desert Strike? Boy, those were the days :-D
They made some brilliant games back then, but yay standardization!

Hell yes those were the days!
I remember when I got my copy of Doom 2 and spent three days fiddling with autoexec.bat and config.sys files and let's not forget the memmaker. I cursed like a sailor then but in a way I kind of miss that whole mucking about with the guts of the computer. Plus, that experience taught me a lot about MS-DOS commands and all. On the other hand, Doom 2 had nothing on trying to get some of the Ultimas to run (such as Ultima 6-8) because of their funky usage of the expanded memory and such.
Posted December 20, 2008
Ahh I was a master of the boot disc. The ultimas were my major victory (and a series I'd certainly buy as a big bundle on GOG, hint hint), I made an awesome boot disc that could run all of them, it was the first one I'd ever made with selection menus to show how much memory & what features I needed.
My one real failure was getting Falcon to run because it required I think 620K of base memory out of 640K and needed both sound & mouse drivers which were something like 2K too big for the remaining space & refused to run from high memory.
I'm a half decent programmer nowdays but I'd never have managed it if it weren't for writing & debugging stuff like this...
Post edited December 20, 2008 by Aliasalpha
Posted December 20, 2008
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Aliasalpha: Ahh I was a master of the boot disc. The ultimas were my major victory (and a series I'd certainly buy as a big bundle on GOG, hint hint), I made an awesome boot disc that could run all of them, it was the first one I'd ever made with selection menus to show how much memory & what features I needed.
My one real failure was getting Falcon to run because it required I think 620K of base memory out of 640K and needed both sound & mouse drivers which were something like 2K too big for the remaining space & refused to run from high memory.
I'm a half decent programmer nowdays but I'd never have managed it if it weren't for writing & debugging stuff like this...

I'm no programmer myself but I did learn how to work on the hardware side of PC's because of my need to have the old Daggerfall game run faster and thus I purchased a whopping Pentium 90 mhz processor along with a hefty 8mb ram stick and installed them myself.
Posted December 20, 2008
Wow 90MHz! That's blazing fast, puts my 486DX66 to shame. Why back in those days I had to go to someone else's place to play Fallout which I never actually owned until I got it from here.
There, back on topic!
Posted December 20, 2008
You know I didn't get into Doom when it came out...but did get in to duke Nukem 3D. (you know..the prequel to duke nukem forever...heh.) the PC I played it on was so slow...i swear it felt like we were playing a slide show half the time. But we persisted and continued to nag my friends dad until he got a better rig. Then the carnage really began!
Didn't play online though. Just didn't have good enough internet service at that time plus it was way to expensive where i lived. For me my pre late 90's online gaming came in the form of text based muds played in the computer lab of the local college...
But anyway...can't wait to get Abe's Oddysee off of here! WOO!
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