What did you have before your first computer? - Page 5

Anubis · 21 December 2018, 12:58

I was into making models - mostly flaying kind, like gliders and airplanes.

Most of my older friends were into skydiving, so we've spend lots of time on Airport and in local aero-club.

I knew how to pack parachute and went through main sky diving training, but thanks to situation in first half of 90 never had an opportunity to jump out of plane.

That and tons of comic books and books.

DamienD · 21 December 2018, 14:13

I think you deserve one of these Anubis

Gordon · 21 December 2018, 14:19

This was my first, whizzkid computer. Had hue cards that plug and run a program like a maths or spelling etc.

Anubis · 21 December 2018, 16:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

I think you deserve one of these Anubis

Thank you DoubleD!!!

From someone who's owner of most 'prestigious' reward...

Leandro Jardim · 26 December 2018, 22:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mikerochip

For a little while now MAME emulates a fair few of these Tomy games pretty well. (I think in the UK they were also produced by Grandstand, and maybe a different colour, but mine was red, and Tomy)

If you run mame with the game name tcaveman you can have a look.
It also supports Tomy Tennis, Pacman, Tron and Scramble!

I love so much that MAME is emulating these and other LCD handheld games, too.

I hope that someday a team will create a new version of MAME with the machines of this era only. Specially if they simplify and get rid of that awkward game browser for some proper GUI for Windows like WinUAE always did since it's inception.

"Simpler is better." ®

DamienD · 26 December 2018, 22:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leandro Jardim

I love so much that MAME is emulating these and other LCD handheld games, too.

I don't

...they should have left MAME as it was for many, many years i.e: arcade games only; and not incorporated MESS stuff.

MAME stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation at the end of the day, not:

Poker machines.
Computers.
Consoles.
Handhelds.
whatever other categories are now mixed in.

MESS could have continued on separately, as it had also done for many years.

Gorf · 26 December 2018, 23:08

Normal toys and games. Nothing electronically.
I startet with a C64 and as soon as I experienced a A500 at a friends I needed one of these incredible machines.

Upgraded to a A3000 and this as my only computer during all the 90s into the next millennium ... stuffed to the max with 060+PPC, GFX, RAM...

Never had any console - not before and not after

Still don't like PCs and still hate Windows - but I have to work with them as IT specialist...
At home I use a Mac for IT development... before that I used Linux and BSD on the desktop, but that is banned to servers now..

I am still "spoiled" by my Amiga experience and still long for a system that gives control back to the user.

Foebane · 27 December 2018, 17:22

I think (I'm not certain) that I may have had a Speak & Spell before we got a Sinclair ZX81.

Shatterhand · 27 December 2018, 17:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by DamienD

I don't

...they should have left MAME as it was for many, many years i.e: arcade games only; and not incorporated MESS stuff.
...
MESS could have continued on separately, as it had also done for many years.

Not wanting to break into off-topic here.

But boy do I agree with you. All I want from Mame is arcade emulation. It's the only kind of emulation I do apart from using Winuae to program for Amiga.

Frontends now are a mess because of this, and complete romsets are completely bonkers.

davide78 · 29 December 2018, 10:27

I had an "electronic" battleship game

Other than that, only normal toys before my first computer, an Amstrad PC1640 xt clone. I was the only kid of my village with a PC: all my friends either had nothing or 8 bit micros. For the first years I had only a few PD and shareware games from a collection of floppies we bought from some magazine.

When I went to the high school everybody had a PC, and I finally was able to play real games with the magnificent 16 colors EGA graphics and PC speaker sound that my 8086 was capable of

From there I followed the PC route. I got my first real amiga few weeks ago.

Pyromania · 29 December 2018, 12:19

Before my fist computer I had an Atari 2600 also designed by Jay Miner. If you go back further than that I had a Chess set.

ScottJ85 · 02 January 2019, 03:09

The first computer my family ever owned was a 1MB Amiga 500, I would have been about six years old at the time. Later that year, my school finally took the plunge and bought computers, putting an Apple IIe in several classrooms. Having already been spoiled at home by the Amiga, the Apples seemed archaic by comparison.

Eventually we sold that Amiga, bought a second-hand Amiga 2000 off a friend, upgraded it with an 8MB RAM card, a A2090 hard disk controller, and ROM switcher. When my dad finally took the plunge and got a new PC in 1996, he gave me the old family Amiga, which was my main system for years and I used it to do my homework well into high school.

edit: sorry, misread the title of the thread. Before that, we had a Pong console of some kind, with a few built-in games played with paddles.

Retro_71 · 02 January 2019, 06:55

I played scramble on the Mircobee at school...

ScottJ85 · 03 January 2019, 11:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro_71

I played scramble on the Mircobee at school...

I saw one of those for sale at an op shop years ago, only ten bucks. I still regret not picking it up.

Retro_71 · 04 January 2019, 03:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by ScottJ85

I saw one of those for sale at an op shop years ago, only ten bucks. I still regret not picking it up.

Wow if only they were still that price, now you can't even find one for a few hundred.
Funny how some computers/consoles years ago you couldn't even pay people to take now fetch so much money... should have bought them when i had the chance

(even if it annoyed she who will remain nameless...

).

ScottJ85 · 04 January 2019, 05:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by Retro_71

Wow if only they were still that price, now you can't even find one for a few hundred.
Funny how some computers/consoles years ago you couldn't even pay people to take now fetch so much money... should have bought them when i had the chance

(even if it annoyed she who will remain nameless...

).

Yeah, from about 1995-2005 you could pick up all kinds of awesome retro hardware on the cheap, or even free. My father even knew someone, a work colleague, who threw out a perfectly functional A4000D because he finally took the plunge and got a PC. I just about cried when I heard about it

That said, I once rescued an Amstrad CPC6128 from the curbside hard rubbish in about 1998 or so, and just last year sold it to an Amstrad collector over in Melbourne's west. Didn't get the best price for it but he threw in an external Amiga floppy drive, and since I got the Amstrad for free in the first place, I'd call it a good deal.

DanScott · 04 January 2019, 15:08

Mr.Flibble · 05 January 2019, 00:27

I think at one point I had one of the LCD toys (A pinball one), but I already had computers by then.

Edit - Ah, yes, found it - Systema Pinball

wiser3 · 07 January 2022, 17:11

Cried until someone changed my diaper.

mkrleza · 07 January 2022, 20:49

Before my C64 in 1984, the only games (electronic) I played were arcades at fairs...

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21 December 2018, 12:58	#81
Anubis Retro Gamer Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Underworld Age: 51 Posts: 4,058	I was into making models - mostly flaying kind, like gliders and airplanes. Most of my older friends were into skydiving, so we've spend lots of time on Airport and in local aero-club. I knew how to pack parachute and went through main sky diving training, but thanks to situation in first half of 90 never had an opportunity to jump out of plane. That and tons of comic books and books.

21 December 2018, 14:13	#82
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	I think you deserve one of these Anubis

21 December 2018, 14:19	#83
Gordon Settler Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Serf City Posts: 1,760	This was my first, whizzkid computer. Had hue cards that plug and run a program like a maths or spelling etc.

26 December 2018, 23:08	#87
Gorf Registered User Join Date: May 2017 Location: Munich/Bavaria Posts: 2,294	Normal toys and games. Nothing electronically. I startet with a C64 and as soon as I experienced a A500 at a friends I needed one of these incredible machines. Upgraded to a A3000 and this as my only computer during all the 90s into the next millennium ... stuffed to the max with 060+PPC, GFX, RAM... Never had any console - not before and not after Still don't like PCs and still hate Windows - but I have to work with them as IT specialist... At home I use a Mac for IT development... before that I used Linux and BSD on the desktop, but that is banned to servers now.. I am still "spoiled" by my Amiga experience and still long for a system that gives control back to the user.

27 December 2018, 17:22	#88
Foebane Banned Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Cardiff, UK Age: 51 Posts: 2,871	I think (I'm not certain) that I may have had a Speak & Spell before we got a Sinclair ZX81.

29 December 2018, 10:27	#90
davide78 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2018 Location: Padova / Italy Posts: 36	I had an "electronic" battleship game Other than that, only normal toys before my first computer, an Amstrad PC1640 xt clone. I was the only kid of my village with a PC: all my friends either had nothing or 8 bit micros. For the first years I had only a few PD and shareware games from a collection of floppies we bought from some magazine. When I went to the high school everybody had a PC, and I finally was able to play real games with the magnificent 16 colors EGA graphics and PC speaker sound that my 8086 was capable of From there I followed the PC route. I got my first real amiga few weeks ago.

29 December 2018, 12:19	#91
Pyromania Moderator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 3,375	Before my fist computer I had an Atari 2600 also designed by Jay Miner. If you go back further than that I had a Chess set.

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ScottJ85 Registered User Join Date: Mar 2018 Location: Melbourne Posts: 32	The first computer my family ever owned was a 1MB Amiga 500, I would have been about six years old at the time. Later that year, my school finally took the plunge and bought computers, putting an Apple IIe in several classrooms. Having already been spoiled at home by the Amiga, the Apples seemed archaic by comparison. Eventually we sold that Amiga, bought a second-hand Amiga 2000 off a friend, upgraded it with an 8MB RAM card, a A2090 hard disk controller, and ROM switcher. When my dad finally took the plunge and got a new PC in 1996, he gave me the old family Amiga, which was my main system for years and I used it to do my homework well into high school. edit: sorry, misread the title of the thread. Before that, we had a Pong console of some kind, with a few built-in games played with paddles.

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