Apple IIgs > Centris 660AV with TV tuner > original 233MHz imac > blue 350MHz imac > 700MHz G3 ibook > 1.2GHz G4 Mini
I loved playing games on the IIgs - like Flashback and Another World. I now have these for a SNES emulator. Even though they are simple, they are still among my favourite games ever.
eeeeeehhhh..... only vaguely... what was it again?
Awesome RPG game. You had a team of 6 people (using the term loosely since they could be all different races/classes). It was way ahead of its time IMO. You moved around the map as a single group and when you got in a battle it changed to a turn-based battle view.
Does anyone else think that if Uninvited, Shadowgate, Dejavu, etc were translated into modern technology that they would blow everything in the myst genre out the water? Man, I loved those games.
You know, Flounder, I think that about a lot of games. It's not just "good old days" memories either because sometimes I go back and play old games. They were focused on fun instead of on performance.
Ok, lets modify this: Include not just first computer, but also your age when the first mac was released in 1984!
I was: [4] years old, born in [1980]!
Born in 1978, so that would make me 6 in 1984. My first computer memory was actually of an old Atari computer that my Dad brought home one day. I think I remember it hooking up to our TV at the time (it wasn't the 2600, but some kind of Atari PC). I spent hours playing Zork "You are standing in an open field..." and some find of very, VERY primative flight simulator.
Speaking of the 2600, I found my old one out in our garage a couple of months ago. Fired it up and it still worked! There is something so simple and fun about those old games (plus the memories they drudge up) that make them so much better than most of the new stuff out there today. Hard to top Barnstorming or Combat.
After 20 years of exclusive Mac use I am seriously thinking about switching to Windows...
I am tired of constantly running into web sites/online services that don't work on OS X.
Which country do you live in? Which sites are you talking about?
Some don't let in non-IE-on-Windows even though they work fine on other platforms. Safari, OmniWeb, and others can "spoof" identity to get around that.
I would say that as a Mac user of 20 years, you would really regret switching to Windows, so for those particular services that really do require Windows, better to get a new Mac and use Boot Camp/Parallels/Crossover Mac. Crossover isn't available yet, but will be the cheapest option as you don't need Windows to use it.
Which country do you live in? Which sites are you talking about?
Some don't let in non-IE-on-Windows even though they work fine on other platforms. Safari, OmniWeb, and others can "spoof" identity to get around that.
I would say that as a Mac user of 20 years, you would really regret switching to Windows, so for those particular services that really do require Windows, better to get a new Mac and use Boot Camp/Parallels/Crossover Mac. Crossover isn't available yet, but will be the cheapest option as you don't need Windows to use it.
I agree completely. Take it from someone who already did the reverse switch: IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY, DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, lets modify this: Include not just first computer, but also your age when the first mac was released in 1984!
Born in 1982 so a whopping two years old when the first Mac was released. I remember my uncle had a Mac when I must've been about twelve or so, I remember finding it weird you had to manually eject the floppy disc from within the OS and there was only one mouse button!
First computer was an IBM 8086 with everything bar monitor and mouse as the keyboard. I remember booting DOS from a floppy disc and playing Fred's Backyard!
Then I got into consoles, next PC was a Pentium 60. I remember Magic Carpet played the Pentium logo if you had one.
Got my first Mac in August 2003...the iMac is very neat, but lately I regret not going for the 1.25G4 tower that was out at the time for upgradeability!
Got my first Mac in August 2003...the iMac is very neat, but lately I regret not going for the 1.25G4 tower that was out at the time for upgradeability!
Still, your Mac's no slouch...and I think it's still the most stylish personal computer ever.
After my father bought a Philips IBM clone in 1985, I was so chocked by the fact you had to use some stupid code to get things done, I decided never to use a computer in my life.
Never touched the thing.
In 1990 I started using Macs at the art academy were I studied graphic arts. First a SE, later on LCII, Centris, Quadra and Powermac 7100.
Got a job in 1995 in an almost Mac only environment and bought my first computer in 1997.
It was a Black One, Macintosh Performa 5400 AIO, 180Mhz PPC603e, 136MB ram, 1.6GB HD, 8 speed CDrom. It also included a tv-card.
All we had was a cardboard box with a picture of Hypercard stacks drawn on it.
We had to write our names in HyperText 500 times with the shoebo... errr... mouse before we could have supper. When I say supper, I mean a handful of cold binary bits that found on a spare 400K floppy. For desert, we polished the rollers of the shoebox... err... mouse with our tongues. We didn't have a phone so we had run to the nearest BBS to collect that ASCII porn, which we couldn't always see because we only had 128K of incompatible SIMMs.
But we called ourselves lucky to have a freaking Radius Pivot! Man, did we save time not scrolling.
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I loved playing games on the IIgs - like Flashback and Another World. I now have these for a SNES emulator. Even though they are simple, they are still among my favourite games ever.
Flashback==awesome!
Anyone remember Realmz? (Not available for the PC! Yahoo!)
eeeeeehhhh..... only vaguely... what was it again?
Awesome RPG game. You had a team of 6 people (using the term loosely since they could be all different races/classes). It was way ahead of its time IMO. You moved around the map as a single group and when you got in a battle it changed to a turn-based battle view.
hmmm... Moria, and its descendant Angband!
haha, those are real old-school....
You know, Flounder, I think that about a lot of games. It's not just "good old days" memories either because sometimes I go back and play old games. They were focused on fun instead of on performance.
Ok, lets modify this: Include not just first computer, but also your age when the first mac was released in 1984!
I was: [4] years old, born in [1980]!
Born in 1978, so that would make me 6 in 1984. My first computer memory was actually of an old Atari computer that my Dad brought home one day. I think I remember it hooking up to our TV at the time (it wasn't the 2600, but some kind of Atari PC). I spent hours playing Zork "You are standing in an open field..." and some find of very, VERY primative flight simulator.
Speaking of the 2600, I found my old one out in our garage a couple of months ago. Fired it up and it still worked! There is something so simple and fun about those old games (plus the memories they drudge up) that make them so much better than most of the new stuff out there today. Hard to top Barnstorming or Combat.
After 20 years of exclusive Mac use I am seriously thinking about switching to Windows...
I am tired of constantly running into web sites/online services that don't work on OS X.
Which country do you live in? Which sites are you talking about?
Some don't let in non-IE-on-Windows even though they work fine on other platforms. Safari, OmniWeb, and others can "spoof" identity to get around that.
I would say that as a Mac user of 20 years, you would really regret switching to Windows, so for those particular services that really do require Windows, better to get a new Mac and use Boot Camp/Parallels/Crossover Mac. Crossover isn't available yet, but will be the cheapest option as you don't need Windows to use it.
Which country do you live in? Which sites are you talking about?
Some don't let in non-IE-on-Windows even though they work fine on other platforms. Safari, OmniWeb, and others can "spoof" identity to get around that.
I would say that as a Mac user of 20 years, you would really regret switching to Windows, so for those particular services that really do require Windows, better to get a new Mac and use Boot Camp/Parallels/Crossover Mac. Crossover isn't available yet, but will be the cheapest option as you don't need Windows to use it.
I agree completely. Take it from someone who already did the reverse switch: IF YOU VALUE YOUR SANITY, DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, lets modify this: Include not just first computer, but also your age when the first mac was released in 1984!
Born in 1982 so a whopping two years old when the first Mac was released. I remember my uncle had a Mac when I must've been about twelve or so, I remember finding it weird you had to manually eject the floppy disc from within the OS and there was only one mouse button!
First computer was an IBM 8086 with everything bar monitor and mouse as the keyboard. I remember booting DOS from a floppy disc and playing Fred's Backyard!
Then I got into consoles, next PC was a Pentium 60. I remember Magic Carpet played the Pentium logo if you had one.
Got my first Mac in August 2003...the iMac is very neat, but lately I regret not going for the 1.25G4 tower that was out at the time for upgradeability!
*points to sig*
Got my first Mac in August 2003...the iMac is very neat, but lately I regret not going for the 1.25G4 tower that was out at the time for upgradeability!
Still, your Mac's no slouch...and I think it's still the most stylish personal computer ever.
Never touched the thing.
In 1990 I started using Macs at the art academy were I studied graphic arts. First a SE, later on LCII, Centris, Quadra and Powermac 7100.
Got a job in 1995 in an almost Mac only environment and bought my first computer in 1997.
It was a Black One, Macintosh Performa 5400 AIO, 180Mhz PPC603e, 136MB ram, 1.6GB HD, 8 speed CDrom. It also included a tv-card.
We had to write our names in HyperText 500 times with the shoebo... errr... mouse before we could have supper. When I say supper, I mean a handful of cold binary bits that found on a spare 400K floppy. For desert, we polished the rollers of the shoebox... err... mouse with our tongues. We didn't have a phone so we had run to the nearest BBS to collect that ASCII porn, which we couldn't always see because we only had 128K of incompatible SIMMs.
But we called ourselves lucky to have a freaking Radius Pivot! Man, did we save time not scrolling.
Mac Mini
1.42 GHz G4
512 MB RAM
80 GB HDD
Combo Drive
32 MB video card