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_____Cait posted...

Sim Cooter

Wait what

Our first computer was a Commodore 64.

Inspiron 8100 laptop with Windows XP. First thing I bought when I moved on my own.

Can't believe I paid like $3k for that POS. Electronics were so much more expensive 20 years ago.

Shamino posted...

Tandy 1000 EX

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/1d540b31.jpg

8088 cpu running at 7.14 mhz. 5.25 inch floppy, 256k ram
Tandy graphics and sound

It was pure magic and bliss

Eventually we got a joystick (as seen in post 30)
second floppy drive (now i could leave in my dos disk!)
dot matrix printer
the monitor was color, .53 dot pitch

Here's a couple of games

https://youtu.be/sTS8ULJT1ZQ?si=gXjM3_twX6_mMuF_

https://youtu.be/3MpC9j2aRKQ?si=4NZtdAmoEw0gsORA

https://youtu.be/wAoG_QyOepA?si=InMzMZRsYPwc3lKO

_____Cait posted...

Sim Cooter

Sim WUT

CassandraCroft posted...

The first for me personally I think it was the Commodore Vic-20.

Oh hell ya!! Me too!!
It was a great ground level place to start.

Our familys next was the Commador 64.

Man......I actually forgot whether it was a gateway or a dell PC. Probably dell though.

All I remember is that my family got our first PC ever in 2000, right around the time period where desktop PCs was being easily affordable for most families in the states I think. It had a 3 gb HDD and came with a 56K dial-up service for prodigy internet.

I'll never forgot learning about what emulators, roms, and fan translation+patches were and setting all that up on it. I got the ZSNES emulator and had it running in DOS since our PC didn't quite have enough juice to have it running well outside of DOS, and my mind was blown playing translated games like rockman and forte (whaaaat? There was another super nintendo mega man game but this one has graphics kind of like mega man 8 on the PS1 what is this sorcery?! I can play as bass/or forte?!?!), tales of phantasia (this game has a vocal opening but its a super nintendo game?!), star ocean (lamdslamdl; its narrating the opening this is cool), gundam wing endless duel, final fantasy 5, bahamut lagoon etc. etc.

MrResetti posted...

Sim WUT

My guess is it was supposed to be

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/198651-simcopter

Victor VPC-II. An IBM XT clone with a 20MB hard drive and DOS 3.1.

Good memories of Xtree.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/31dc1427.jpg

No idea on specs, presumably a 386 or 486 based on the timing, ran DOS, had no mouse. Had three edutainment games, two actual games (Lemmings and Commander Keen 4), and a text editor. Couldn't really play Lemmings due to the lack of a mouse (it had keyboard controls but I didn't know them back then).

Was long gone - no idea where to - by the time I knew enough to be able to talk about specs etc.

I think it was a color screen Mac as my parents worked for the school district. It could play the Exile Escape from the Pit demo.

A desktop Aptiva. And then my father randomly installs Doom on it.

Dell computer in '96 with Windows 95 on it. 12GB HDD separated into 4 partitions.

coolcono posted...

I think it was a color screen Mac as my parents worked for the school district. It could play the Exile Escape from the Pit demo.

Play what?

Exile Escape from the Pit. Demo version.
https://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile/winexile.html

The first computer I encountered though would probably be a commodore 64 in kindergarten. I have no idea how we managed to work that thing.

A Philips computer with an 8086 processor, no idea about the RAM, CGA monitor and a whopping 20MB hard drive.

Did have somoe good games on it tho, original Prince of Persia, Test drive, The original Sim City (in black and white) and a super addictive game called Squeek where you are a pink blob that needs to turn blue squares pink by walking over them but turn back blue if you walk over them again and also monsters that change the color of the squares

I was like 6 or 7 when I was given one. It had Windows 95 I think.

Only got it because my parents got a new one for the family and thought I could use it for educational stuff and definitely not porn

honestly wish I saved the specs for it :(

Gateway 2000, circa 1991-2.

Ran Windows 3.1. Had a 3.5", 5.25", and a magnetic tape drive which was a nifty cartridge halfway between a VHS tape and a walkman cassette which was a way to back up everything.

I mostly used it to make "art" in MS paint and sometimes played Solitaire, but also played some games like Kings Quest, X Wing, and Gorillas, a turn based game that was basically Scorched Earth but instead of being tanks we were Apes throwing Bananas.

coolcono posted...

Exile Escape from the Pit. Demo version.
https://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile/winexile.html

Hmmm...That looks like something I played, but I can't place it. Maybe Magic Candle 2.

it was a 286 and it ran The Incredible Machine as well as a few other dos games, albeit not well.

i remember when we got a 486, it was a super upgrade.

my dad never had the money for computers. the ones he got were always old maintenance computers from his workplace that were being recycled/given away for free

It was a Gateway with a 10GB hard drive and 64KB of memory. It was basically my Rollercoaster Tycoon machine.

Had a couple of random Tandys in my childhood that I didn't really know how to do much with.

My first internet capable computer was a terrible eMachines with a 3gb hardrive. It sucked but I put a CD burner in it that worked sometimes, so I burned CDs for the cute girl in my civics class. She's my wife now. Thanks eMachines!

It was a Compaq with Windows 98. It probably cost $1000 back then and we had AOL. It froze every few hours and had to restart it >_>

It ran on DOS and had an 8 inch monitor.