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Tau Cabalander Retirement Retreat Working Stiffs 3319	Posted - 2014.03.27 00:58:00 - [61] - Quote I have a C64-in-a-joystick that I bought many years back for about $12. It is basically a C64 implemented in a single ASIC. It has about 20 or so built-in games. I only wanted Impossible Mission... "Another visitor! Come! Stay a while! Stay Forever!!" One of the earliest speech synths. I never played Elite. I used to create electronic projects for the C64. My RAM Expansion Unit (REU) mod was the most popular. My online name at the time was Recursion. I think I paid >$1000 for 2 MB of RAM. My 2400 BPS modem was about $800. EDIT: And I was on the Quantum Link (Q-Link) service, and I really hated Club Caribe (I sucked at it).
Jonah Gravenstein Machiavellian Space Bastards 17560	Posted - 2014.03.27 01:08:00 - [62] - Quote Loving the old platform snobbery ZX Spectrum 16k rubber beermat, BBC 'B's at school, Amiga 500, then onto a 386/66 with a turbo button. The Lobsters wrote: C-64. ***** please! I first played it on my mate's Acorn Electron. Then Santa gave me a Spectrum 48k. I then got an Acorn Archimedes where Elite had shaded sides! Then a dos based PC where I played Frontier. I still have that box set. Spawn in Cobra-Sell Cobra-Buy Asp Explorer-Buy 50mw Pulse laser-PWN Then Wing Commander came, I found my old box this christmas. I'm thinking of getting the ship blueprint posters framed. Then Conflict Freespace, great game. Then several years outdoors enjoying sex, drugs and loud music until my renal system failed. ....and back indoors where I came across Eve. Are you me? Less the renal system problems and still having the WC stuff you just described the last 30 years of my life Psychotic Monk for CSM 9.-áWould you like to more? Be sure to vote in the CSM 9 elections, they are your voice at CCP
ebies NEW EDEN DIRECTIVE 0	Posted - 2014.03.27 01:24:00 - [63] - Quote Jonah Gravenstein wrote: Loving the old platform snobbery ZX Spectrum 16k rubber beermat, BBC 'B's at school, Amiga 500, then onto a 386/66 with a turbo button. The Lobsters wrote: C-64. ***** please! I first played it on my mate's Acorn Electron. Then Santa gave me a Spectrum 48k. I then got an Acorn Archimedes where Elite had shaded sides! Then a dos based PC where I played Frontier. I still have that box set. Spawn in Cobra-Sell Cobra-Buy Asp Explorer-Buy 50mw Pulse laser-PWN Then Wing Commander came, I found my old box this christmas. I'm thinking of getting the ship blueprint posters framed. Then Conflict Freespace, great game. Then several years outdoors enjoying sex, drugs and loud music until my renal system failed. ....and back indoors where I came across Eve. Are you me? change a few details and you just described the last 30 years of my life see? can't even trust your own alt in eve
ashley Eoner 300	Posted - 2014.03.27 02:31:00 - [64] - Quote Frankly it's more of a downgraded from Elite II to eve..
JVLP Dark Nexxus S I L E N T. 10	Posted - 2014.03.27 02:39:00 - [65] - Quote Atari 800XL Elite checking in. I liked having to spin into the station hangar entrance to actually dock. And missiles where OP in the Cobra Mk III.
Tavin Aikisen Revenent Defence Corperation Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive 250	Posted - 2014.03.27 02:52:00 - [66] - Quote First introduced to Frontier: Elite 2 back in the mid 90's. Absolutely loved it. It reminded me of what I enjoyed with Privateer with a more dynamics and larger scope and freedom. I quickly looked into Elite and First Encounters and loved them to. There is no denying it was the same familiar aspects of EVE that attracted me. Looking forward to Elite: Dangerous too. :) Remember this. Trust your eyes, you will kill each other. Trust your veins, you can all go home. -Cold Wind
Bertrand Butler Cras es Noster 270	Posted - 2014.03.27 03:14:00 - [67] - Quote First played Elite on an Amstrad CPC 6128. Moved to Frontier on an Amiga 500, and finally FFE on a 486 DX4@100. Still Remember some nasty systems like Riedquat or Phekda. Looking forward to E:D...C:
Pew Terror Green Associates TITANS. 189	Posted - 2014.03.27 03:38:00 - [68] - Quote Tippia wrote: Harrison Tato wrote: Pew Terror wrote: ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine. LOL wannabe Amiga. Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. Fact: Amiga had better hardware, but Atari had smarter programmers. See 16color horizontal scrolling and how the sound chip was made into something amazing out of trash. Thats the only reason the games ran about equally on both platforms. True story: When my grandfather wanted to make a book we tried to get him into a modern PC (this was 5 years ago, but he couldnt do word). Set up Signum on teh old ST for him and he made professional typesetting for his book like a pro. Also: It years for the pc to get the STs out of the studio. Atari vs Amiga vs C64 = the god of "console wars"
Harrison Tato Barringtons Research The Star harvesters of indeterminate Tenacity 42	Posted - 2014.03.27 03:51:00 - [69] - Quote Tippia wrote: Harrison Tato wrote: Pew Terror wrote: ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine. LOL wannabe Amiga. Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. I bet you don't get invited to parties much.
Muestereate Minions LLC 229	Posted - 2014.03.27 05:00:00 - [70] - Quote Pew Terror wrote: Tippia wrote: Harrison Tato wrote: Pew Terror wrote: ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine. LOL wannabe Amiga. Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. Fact: Amiga had better hardware, but Atari had smarter programmers. See 16color horizontal scrolling and how the sound chip was made into something amazing out of trash. Thats the only reason the games ran about equally on both platforms. True story: When my grandfather wanted to make a book we tried to get him into a modern PC (this was 5 years ago, but he couldnt do word). Set up Signum on teh old ST for him and he made professional typesetting for his book like a pro. Also: It years for the pc to get the STs out of the studio. Atari vs Amiga vs C64 = the god of "console wars" I'm still much better with Word Perfect than word. I really can't remember my c64 wordprocessor. I'm sure I had one because I remember borrowing the club daisy ywheel printer loaner to pound out resumes for my dad for high tech foreign ball bearing manufacturers. What were the c64 word processors? My minds failing me. My real joy was scoring a copy of the PAL assembler though. Had to go to a big conference to get it. Blew out retreads on the 65 Ford Galaxy to get there. Pulled PAL out of there and the machine code to half track index those floppies.

Harrison Tato Barringtons Research The Star harvesters of indeterminate Tenacity 42	Posted - 2014.03.27 05:36:00 - [71] - Quote Muestereate wrote: Pew Terror wrote: Tippia wrote: Harrison Tato wrote: Pew Terror wrote: ST1024 son, accept no substitutes! C64 were for people who couldnt afford a real machine. LOL wannabe Amiga. Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. Fact: Amiga had better hardware, but Atari had smarter programmers. See 16color horizontal scrolling and how the sound chip was made into something amazing out of trash. Thats the only reason the games ran about equally on both platforms. True story: When my grandfather wanted to make a book we tried to get him into a modern PC (this was 5 years ago, but he couldnt do word). Set up Signum on teh old ST for him and he made professional typesetting for his book like a pro. Also: It years for the pc to get the STs out of the studio. Atari vs Amiga vs C64 = the god of "console wars" I'm still much better with Word Perfect than word. I really can't remember my c64 wordprocessor. I'm sure I had one because I remember borrowing the club daisy ywheel printer loaner to pound out resumes for my dad for high tech foreign ball bearing manufacturers. What were the c64 word processors? My minds failing me. My real joy was scoring a copy of the PAL assembler though. Had to go to a big conference to get it. Blew out retreads on the 65 Ford Galaxy to get there. Pulled PAL out of there and the machine code to half track index those floppies. I am pretty sure I had Wordstar on the C-64 and later the GEOS word processor.
Bruce Kemp Suddenly taken over 106	Posted - 2014.03.27 13:49:00 - [72] - Quote Played Elite on spectrum and C64, played Elite 2 on Amiga, Subbed to play eve as soon as i had a pc to play. circa: 2004, oh happy days.
Tippia Sunshine and Lollipops 20287	Posted - 2014.03.27 14:48:00 - [73] - Quote Harrison Tato wrote: Tippia wrote: Oh how fun it was in the early '90s to see the Amiga owners laughs turn into frowns when PCs started outdoing them on the video front, and how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. I bet you don't get invited to parties much. Pff. You just had to keep an eye out on the BBSes for the inviteros, and upload the signup.txt and and transfer the cash before all spots were taken. GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥ Get a good start: Newbie skill plan 2.1.
Ramona McCandless The McCandless Clan Turing Tested 2649	Posted - 2014.03.27 15:03:00 - [74] - Quote Tippia wrote: how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. I just upgraded my 1040STE to a 4mb and I have my Midi Controller in the post, and currently rocking Cubase. When did this happen? Oh because of FALCON * Vote MTU For CSM * "They feel the need to cover their ears and eyes in horror at your very presence." - Pontianak Sythaeryn Omnis nomiom nom nom nomi
Nyjil Lizaru Aideron Robotics 23	Posted - 2014.03.27 15:13:00 - [75] - Quote Elite (on C64) ...years go by... Master of Orion (on w/e) ...years go by... EVE!
Pew Terror Green Associates TITANS. 193	Posted - 2014.03.27 15:55:00 - [76] - Quote Ramona McCandless wrote: Tippia wrote: how ST owners despaired as they no longer held MIDI supremacy. I just upgraded my 1040STE to a 4mb and I have my Midi Controller in the post, and currently rocking Cubase. When did this happen? Oh because of FALCON I AM SO JELLY RIGHT NOW! I always wanted a falcon... I went ST1024->Mega STE->TT030
Ramona McCandless The McCandless Clan Turing Tested 2651	Posted - 2014.03.27 15:59:00 - [77] - Quote Pew Terror wrote: I AM SO JELLY RIGHT NOW! I always wanted a falcon... I went ST1024->Mega STE->TT030 Id still like a TT someday. Loved how they looked, so minimalist and all The Amigos can have their big Commodore cake and I have to say the A600 is a very cute machine, but Im afraid Im Atari 4 Evah * Vote MTU For CSM * "They feel the need to cover their ears and eyes in horror at your very presence." - Pontianak Sythaeryn "Facebook would never tolerate that behaviour we are talking about" - Big Lynx
Mr Epeen It's All About Me 4604	Posted - 2014.03.29 03:16:00 - [78] - Quote I remember me and a buddy coding an Asteroids type game on an Apple II. I was so confused by Basic as the only language I knew at the time was FORTRAN (that dates me). Mr Epeen There are 86,400 seconds in a day. You just saved one of them by typing 'u' instead of 'you'.-á Congratulations, dumbass!
Karl Jerr Herzack Unit 11	Posted - 2014.03.29 03:49:00 - [79] - Quote Played so much on my Amstrad 464 and later on my Amiga with Frontier: Elite 2. Waiting patiently for E:D
Rhatar Khurin Happy Asteroid Ltd 564	Posted - 2014.03.29 04:59:00 - [80] - Quote I played the C64 5 1/4" Elite first then Elite+ on the Amiga. Followed by Frontier. Jint Hikaru wrote: Spectrum then Amiga. Played Elite, then Elite Frontier. Still have the original box, instructions, galaxy map and game disk for frontier (and a disk with my saved game on). One day i will find a good emulator and boot that up again. WIN UAE Is a good amiga emulator http://www.winuae.net/

Vyktor Abyss The Abyss Corporation Abyss Alliance 469	Posted - 2014.03.29 10:36:00 - [81] - Quote Elite on a friends BBC Micro here... Vic 20, Atari console (Remember Joust etc?) , 48k then ZX Spectrum, friends Amstrad, friends C64, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga (Elite 2 - Frontier!) , Pentium 386 to PC. Add in a game cube and thats it. Happy memories.... I'm such a geek.
Kalrissia Golden Talon Industries Total Justification 39	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:27:00 - [82] - Quote First game I ever really played was Elite on the good old squishy Spectrum 48k. The lenslok protection was a real eye squinter but worth getting past to see the sights of Lave, Estionbi and Orgetibe. Wish I still had the computer, game AND a tape with my old saves on it. That would really be a trippy blast continuing a save from when I was much much younger. Oh well. Memorieeeeeees *sniffle.
Little Dragon Khamez Guardians of the Underworld White Mountain Coalition 1208	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:29:00 - [83] - Quote Kalrissia wrote: First game I ever really played was Elite on the good old squishy Spectrum 48k. The lenslok protection was a real eye squinter but worth getting past to see the sights of Lave, Estionbi and Orgetibe. Wish I still had the computer, game AND a tape with my old saves on it. That would really be a trippy blast continuing a save from when I was much much younger. Oh well. Memorieeeeeees *sniffle. I've still got the tape with my saves on it. Looking forward to Elite Dangerous! Dumbing down of Eve Online will result in it's destruction...
nim TsuNim Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 1	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:30:00 - [84] - Quote Holy smokes. Elite. Still have the box set in the loft. I was a BBC Model B micro fanboi back in the day and spent many isolated hours on that game. My first machine was a Video Genie E3003 which was a TRS-80 clone. You want to hear sad? This is sad. The Video Genie had no sound card; I used to write HEX bytes into the machine's memory and pick up the change in emitted radio frequencies on a nearby radio. Got the thing to play Happy Birthday to my mum. Also wrote a space sim called Mega Hunter on that machine. Full game in 16K. Ahh the pleasures of spending hours trying to find an extra few bytes here and there. Also, the first wordprocessor I ever bought was for the BBC Micro. To install it I had to pop the case and plug in the Word processor chip. Software engineers were men back then. Also no friends.
Malcanis Vanishing Point. The Initiative. 14796	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:31:00 - [85] - Quote Kalrissia wrote: First game I ever really played was Elite on the good old squishy Spectrum 48k. The lenslok protection was a real eye squinter but worth getting past to see the sights of Lave, Estionbi and Orgetibe. Wish I still had the computer, game AND a tape with my old saves on it. That would really be a trippy blast continuing a save from when I was much much younger. Oh well. Memorieeeeeees *sniffle. Man I remember when I found out how to actually set up a trade route, all setting up a cycle between not just two but 4 or 5 or 6 systems to optimise the credits/m^3. I felt so proud of myself (Hey I was only about 12) 1 Kings 12:11
Kalrissia Golden Talon Industries Total Justification 39	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:32:00 - [86] - Quote Ooooh you lucky person. Also, anyone remember the novella 'The Dark Wheel' by Robort Holdstock ( who is no longer with us sadly ). Read that and tell me it doesn't inspire you to 'undock'
nim TsuNim Deep Core Mining Inc. Caldari State 1	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:33:00 - [87] - Quote Read that book too. My God, might still have it.
Brewlar Kuvakei Adeptio Gloriae 256	Posted - 2014.03.29 11:37:00 - [88] - Quote I hail from Freelancer but I am simply passing through on my way to the Star Citizen MMO.
PDP11 Burroughs B6700 3	Posted - 2014.05.02 07:02:00 - [89] - Quote Lunar Lander on a DEC GT40 then onto Star Trader for me as I had a copy of 'What to do after you hit return'. My sequence for personal computers at home was Nat Semi SC/MP then SC/MP II, Motorola 6800D2 Kit, PDP-11/10 (PTS and CAPS11), PDP-11/34M (RSX-11M), Microbee PC85 (ROM), VAX-11/750 (VMS), PC Clone (8086), 80386SX Clone, VAXen (when one is not enough), series of boring PCs.
Yim Sei Watchers of Tartarus 139	Posted - 2014.05.02 07:50:00 - [90] - Quote Had it on my trusty old Acorn Electron :D Still have it in the loft - might dig it out. Post with my main? This is my main - I just overtrain and overplay my alts.



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