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As this forum is named after Betamax...
I wonder how many of you ever actually used a Betamax VCR (I remember I did, noisy spring-loaded buttons FTW), or the even better, the Philips Video 2000 system (perfect still image).
But in this thread I would like to know about what the thread title says.

After using my brother's Scheidegger typing machine for a while, I was a proud owner of a Commodore 64. I liked the simple but often creatively designed games, and I programmed some funny shit in BASIC and assembler. I also made an NSFW futa game in SEUCK, I am glad I don't have it anymore :P
Some of the games I enjoyed were Spy Hunter, Space Taxi and Fort Apocalypse.

My first PC was a crappy Packard Bell 486SX. Half of its 160 MB hard drive was filled with crapware. Some games I enjoyed by then were Megarace, Simcity and Doom.

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I have NO IDEA what my first computer was, but I DO remember breaking it at age 2 by shoving three floppy disks into its drive cause I wanted to play all those games at once. I remember this because no one will let me live it down.



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I've had a Betamax system in the house way back then 'round the time we also had an MSX. My first computer experience that I still have memories of was our hackintosh (a Lisa modded to run Mac Classic software). My first self-owned system was an Epson HX-20.


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Windows motherfuckin' 95, baby.

God I had so many awesome DOS games I would play on that thing.

I can never remember the names of 98% of them, though. Except for Troy. That little green dragon that ran around BRIGHT FUCKING CYAN dungeons.

I have that lying around somewhere on my hard drive right now actually. I figured out the level data format too.

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My first experience with computers was probably when I was five. We had a computer than ran DOS and Windows 95. I remember being a very software-destructive hellion.

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Windows 95 for me. Mostly paint until a handful of floppy disk games popped up - Space Invaders, Galaxian and Charm II.

I almost want to play Charm II again - but I need to make a clone exe to read the old level files.


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I think we may have had Windows 3.1, but my first real experience were probably with the Mac OS 7 machines they had at my elementary school... (I do have vague memories of an Apple II in Kindergarten- this is was 1995, mind you :P) I remember I updated them to OS 8 and the computer people were stunned I could figure that out. :P

The first home machine I was allowed to use heavily had Windows 95, I remember having all sorts of games on that thing. :P (We had some "Game Empire" CD that had a ton of demos and what-not, I thought it was the best thing ever)

Also I was really fascinated by Lotus Organizer for some reason.


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Posted by Gywall
I almost want to play Charm II again - but I need to make a clone exe to read the old level files.
Can't you use DOSBox?

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Posted by Trelior
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I almost want to play Charm II again - but I need to make a clone exe to read the old level files.
Can't you use DOSBox?


No. It's a 16-bit windows exe. :/
Kinda unique - I know it was programmed in VB3 (due to a dll file)


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Posted by Gywall
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I almost want to play Charm II again - but I need to make a clone exe to read the old level files.
Can't you use DOSBox?


No. It's a 16-bit windows exe. :/
Kinda unique - I know it was programmed in VB3 (due to a dll file)
Then it should work on DOSBox, I got my old Windows 3.11 games working on it, even the ones that use WinG (prototype DirectX).
You will need the files on the original Windows 3.11 floppies and install it in DOSBox though (Google is your friend).

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Back when I was little my father had a Commodore 64. (and an Atari 400 for that matter) Basically I played with Commodore BASIC, and some of the arcade game clones.

After that went I started Kindergaten the school I went to had a pilot program that not only had Apple ][s but an actual Macintosh. The only one in the whole district. (the next year was different.. everyone that school had one) Used play those old MECC games like Oregon Trail, and Number Munchers. Soon after than I kind of ran the computer in my class room. :D (seemed to happen every year of my school too. I sended up being a lap tech in high school.)

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Posted by GreyMaria
God I had so many awesome DOS games I would play on that thing.

I can never remember the names of 98% of them, though.


I should ask, just in case someone remembers this time around.

Wasn't there one Boulder Dash clone with, like, a debug mode you accessed through the function keys, and... two different types of plasma that could expand at different rates?

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God I had so many awesome DOS games I would play on that thing.

I can never remember the names of 98% of them, though.


I should ask, just in case someone remembers this time around.

Wasn't there one Boulder Dash clone with, like, a debug mode you accessed through the function keys, and... two different types of plasma that could expand at different rates?
Only ones I know from that time are Supaplex and Trugg.
You might want to try Rocks & Diamonds, an open-source game that can emulate nearly every Boulder Dash/Sokoban game.

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The oldest I clearly remember was in 1991, playing some games on my uncle's Macintosh Plus (9" 512x342 black&white screen, MacOS 6, 1MB RAM, 40MB disk space) ... then I got a computer at home the next year (Macintosh LC II, 12" 512x384 16bit, MacOS 7.0.1, 4MB RAM, 75MB disk space) and learned with that :)

I didn't have a PC until 1997, but had limited experience with DOS, Windows 3.1 and 95 before that ... and now it's the opposite, I've been a Windows user for 14 years and barely touched MacOS since then :P

 
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A childhood friend of a father got a computer i messed with, it being a IBM PC compatible clone is all I remember honestly. And then there was the UNIX based computers at my dads work too.

My first PC was a Compaq Presario 486. It looks almost exactly similar to this image. To my own amusement, Compaq kept some typical things i saw with the 486 up until their end, such as the "read the manual" warning above the keybuttons. OS was Win 3.1 but we used Win95 for most of it's lifetime, I think I used it up until 2002'ish or so.

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My father owned a home PC, some kind of IBM, I never got to really play with it aside from some Sesame Street game on a floppy. After that, I encountered random Macintoshes in public school. And of course, Oregon Trail, no idea what system that was even on. Computers were always super removed from my early life for the most part, like the home computer wasn't really a common concept at all for me. The first windows system I had access to was Windows 3.1, and our first home computer was a Windows 95 box, no idea what the hell its specs were or anything, it wasn't really mine to play on, though I loved to putz around on it and type things up in Word, etc. After that, we finally got our own computer in 2000 or so and the Internet at home. But yeah, most of my early life, not much exposure to computers at all.

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