The ultimate gamer's PC

[Capmaster]

Try playing Half Life or Doom on this one. Check out the generous screen:



It's an Osborne luggable from around the 1980 timeframe. I was browsing my image archives and I came across this and a lot of other oldies. I had to share it here

[gitreel]

wow. I bet that was a real screamer back in it's day. cool

Unfortunately, now it is antiquated machine

[Capmaster]

wow. I bet that was a real screamer back in it's day. cool

Unfortunately, now it is antiquated machine

If you want a real laugh, google up "antique PC" or "PC museum" and stroll down memory lane. Some of the technical specs crack me up, like "256 bytes of RAM" A lot in their time, but laughable by today's standards.

I remember the original PC going for about $3500 Now you could buy a drop-dead kick-ass gamer's box with a modded case, neon lights, and overclocked with a refrigerated heatsink for that money. Well ....maybe not quite But those were also bought with 1980 dollars which are worth more than today's.

[flaninacupboard]

doom, maybe - at .1 FPS!

i remember a game called rise of the triad - you could shrink the screen size, and if you shrank it to smallest a message appears at the bottom "buy a 286!!"

[Capmaster]

doom, maybe - at .1 FPS!

i remember a game called rise of the triad - you could shrink the screen size, and if you shrank it to smallest a message appears at the bottom "buy a 286!!"

Those wacky code wranglers

I remember giving up trying to play the original Doom on my 386SX-25, but I could play Blake Stone OK. Then I got a 486-66 and Doom would fly. I was a happy camper then

[Guest]

Its about the same size as the cellphones of the day.

[flaninacupboard]

i plasyed doom on my 386 sx25, in low detail. mind you, i had SIX pci cards full of ram, AND a coprocessor!!

[Capmaster]

i plasyed doom on my 386 sx25, in low detail. mind you, i had SIX pci cards full of ram, AND a coprocessor!!

My framerate was so low, I'd turn to shoot a Kako Demon and by the time I could see where I was, my ass would be already flamed

[flaninacupboard]

you're telling me you didn't play the game SO MANY TIMES you knew exactly where every enemy was?

[Capmaster]

you're telling me you didn't play the game SO MANY TIMES you knew exactly where every enemy was?

Well ...yeah, but I don't readily admit that I was a total Doom geek

[tekkieman]

I'm pretty sure I still have my copy of Rise of the Triad!

[Capmaster]

I'm pretty sure I still have my copy of Rise of the Triad!

Another few years that one might actually go up in value as an antique 8)

[Cobra]

The first game I played was Midnight Resistance on the C64. It was really cool at the time - that was my first computer, too. The first proper computer game I played was Marathon on an old Apple LC475. It was pretty stunning at the time. That machine had something like 256kb VRAM, a 25MHz 68LC040 processor, 8MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive.

Still, it beat the snot out of my friend's PC. 8)

Cobra

[Capmaster]

The first game I played was Midnight Resistance on the C64. It was really cool at the time - that was my first computer, too. The first proper computer game I played was Marathon on an old Apple LC475. It was pretty stunning at the time. That machine had something like 256kb VRAM, a 25MHz 68LC040 processor, 8MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive.

Still, it beat the snot out of my friend's PC. 8)

Cobra

Having a machine like that was livin large back then. I remember how we used to envy the Apple owners because they got the coolest games before the PC did. Also the coolest apps, like Photoshop. I think I waited 3 years or so until Adobe came out with the PC version. In the meantime I was using the only one for a PC that had a cloning tool - Xerox made it and it only handled B&W images :P

[redwudz]

I remember my first computer, a VIC-20. Saved for months to buy it. Learned basic and wrote a couple of small programs. 5K cassette drive for storage. 16colors!; wow, much better than b+w. Got a 300Baud modem and logged onto a BBS porn site 2 whole states away. No graphics on the BBS site. Internet? What's that? Only took 10-15 minutes to download a JPG. Now I can download porn much faster.

[offline]

doom, maybe - at .1 FPS!

i remember a game called rise of the triad - you could shrink the screen size, and if you shrank it to smallest a message appears at the bottom "buy a 286!!"

I was playing ROTT late one Xmas eve when the usual
background music changed to jingle all the way WTF???
- I almost fell over backwards.

It was, of course, 12.01 xmas morning.
Bloody programers - caught me by suprise

[Capmaster]

I remember my first computer, a VIC-20. Saved for months to buy it. Learned basic and wrote a couple of small programs. 5K cassette drive for storage. 16colors!; wow, much better than b+w. Got a 300Baud modem and logged onto a BBS porn site 2 whole states away. No graphics on the BBS site. Internet? What's that? Only took 10-15 minutes to download a JPG. Now I can download porn much faster.

That was in the good old days when you didn't have to boil your downloads before using them

[Doramius]

A friends Tandy went all Y2K on him. He only kept it for word processing, but he played a few classic games on it. I forgot which since he hasn't used it since 2000.

[flaninacupboard]

haha, that's pretty cool.

now "easter eggs" in games are so widely advertised it's not a surprise anymore.