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valdermar
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 Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:56 pm Post subject: What was the very first computer/console you owned? |
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Mine was this beast a Memotech MTX 512 my mum bought it for me when I was eight of an old man there was only one shop in the whole of england at the time that still supplied games for it. My favourite was one called karate king were you had to collect lanterns you cant even play that on the emulator sadly.
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SkydivinGirl
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My first console was an Atari 2600 and my first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2. 
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Biscuit
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I had a Commodore Plus/4 (hey quit laughing back there) - the poor thing gets too much grief. I was 6 and it looked cool - yes it does! - and I spent hours on end playing Oblido and Tutti Frutti. Oblido is still a great, and not so easy, game for time wasting. I'm sure I was too young to get the most out of it before moving on to an A500 a few years later. I'll bet it's in my mum's attic still, maybe I'll hit the power switch in another decade or so.
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A part of me has a hankering to get my hands on a TRS-80 just to play some of the original text adventures. Even better if I could hook it up to a dot matrix and print out game runs. Jeez, that sounds geeky. 
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motrucker
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The computer came first - a TI99/4A with the expansion box - dual floppies, RAM upgrade, etc..
Then came the Atari 5200. Strange trip from there to the C-64, C-128, and Amigas |
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Chuckles
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64 breadbox.
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Acid
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| C64 plus 4 for the first computer, slim Atari 2600 for console. |
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lifeschool
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| C64 breadbox (with grey function keys) |
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MIK UK
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Biscuit, you have backup so here goes!
My 1st machine was a Commodore Plus/4.
No one knows but...
I am the original web master of the sister site of Lemon64. Used to be called C16/Plus4 ClassiX but now known as Plus4 World @ plus4.com
I used to get along really well with Kim Lemon and both our sites were on emucamp at one time side by side and we'd both have FTP access to each others, I even helped a little on Lemon64 and we both got into making game maps from real screen shots with Kim working on Rick Dangerous. Good times.
The whole of C16/Plus4 ClassiX was made on my Amiga before Casbo joined!!! 
Over the many years I spent working on it my job was mostly done on the commercial gaming side and then the gauntlet was handed over to more web creative friends that could turn what I did into a full on database which you see now! Credit to them for keeping the flame alive. I did everything by hand back in the day and it took up more time than you can imagine almost to the point of being sacked at work...
But yeah the C16/Plus4 back in the day was a lot of fun and great memories were had with these machines with many a cheap game being a lot of fun and some hardcore even as game play ruled over GFX & SFX. Games like Tom Thumb would blow your mind and it was only 15K is size! The original creator of Lemmings Mike Daily started with a Plus/4 and need I say that Shaun Southern gave a lot of love to the C16 where such games like Trailblazer was released first! Shaun as you know went on to make the Lotus series.
Soon as I left school and got a job I bought a C64 and one of the 1st games I bought was Ghost'n Goblins - I had much catching up to do on. 
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Retroplay
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: What was the very first computer/console you owned? |
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| valdermar wrote: | | Mine was this beast a Memotech MTX 512 |
So did you ever manage to create Kelly LeBrock ? 
http://starringthecomputer.com/appearance.php?f=7&c=7
Btw my first was a C64, the brown breadbin.
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Predseda
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Beige breadbin. I loved it.
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woody.cool
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| I had two: a Commodore C16 and an Amstrad CPC 6128 |
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TurricanX
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My Amiga 500, which is in front of me right now
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Biscuit
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| MIK UK wrote: | | No one knows but... |
I was so pleased when I found that site. Out of interest, when did it start? Doing any of that stuff page by page must have taken forever. Another curious thing I noticed is the large number of Hungarians in the membership - what's that about?
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valdermar
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| Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: What was the very first computer/console you owned? |
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wow No I didnt sadly. |
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MIK UK
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| Biscuit wrote: | | MIK UK wrote: | | No one knows but... |
I was so pleased when I found that site. Out of interest, when did it start? Doing any of that stuff page by page must have taken forever. Another curious thing I noticed is the large number of Hungarians in the membership - what's that about? |
Started about 1998-ish, maybe before that even give or take a year. I had a little go at doing one page for a friend as he ran Elevate BBS for Amiga users as I just showed him the wonders of emulation on an Amiga. I had Magic64, Mame & CP4 on that page and then I got the internet bug and started making a site all about C16/plus4 games as their was nothing on the web dedicated to it at the time. I used my own service provider which had a 15meg limit per week for downloads and it didn't take long for the warning emails to come. That's when I begged emucamp for a home having seen Kim's awesome C64 site!
It was at first Amiga only, I was using Gold ED and Ibrowse, but my whole system was rolling with D-opus Magellan II so a simple SHIFT on a text or HTML file opened up Gold ED, a lot of copy and paste, (I forget the name but any text on screen I could copy straight into ED) and a double click on a html file to load it into Ibrowse. I used P-Paint & Photogenics all the time. My Amiga was faster to use than a PC back then for web work and CP4 was the most advanced Plus/4 emu for a good number of years and to think it was on Amiga! I used CP4 all the time and took all the screen shots from that. I had Tom Thumb running on an Amiga before anyone else did on PC and that was 'the' game for a long time people wanted to play, and there I was with perfect screen shots! 
But then the nightmare started, people with PC's could not view things properly with IE & a couple of other PC web browser had issues too. Really put a downer on the whole thing by now as emucamp was unhappy and all I was doing was making a fan site. I had no idea what I was doing so started to rip apart other peoples source code to get what I created to display not only on Amiga but on PC web browsers too. I'm not as cleaver as Kim's labour's of love! 
I managed to hold everything together by then and the ball was rolling once again. But yeah it took up a lot of time over the years and you can have too much of a good thing... I wanted to give something back for all the fun and enjoyment I had from the machines in the 80's and of course the new guys in town making the great emulators. I think I did that.
Yes it was like C16/Plus4 was all UK & Germany, but even some of the first C16/Plus4 emus came from Hungary for both PC & Amiga! The story is that in Hungary the Plus4 was a cheap machine and every school in the land had them, of course all the kids wanted one at home. The Plus/4 was BIG in Hungary and I never knew this until I got online! We were lucky to have BBC's at school but it didn't mean I wanted one other than to play Thrust, until it released on C16/Plus4.
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