All this talk about old computers on other blogs makes me want to take some time to reminisce on some simpler times!
Tell me what kind of computer did you used to develop games on/ work on? Before any upgrades or add ons(you can include that too). -Post the specs including the Brand, OS, Processor, Memory, Graphics, anything noteworthy or mentionable! -What games did you used to play (if any)?I will start IBM Aptiva 2165 Windows 95, Pentium MMX 200 256Kb L2 Cache on mobo, 64MB EDO ram, ATI Rage 1(integrated) 2MB, Not ATX, had a funny PCI/ISA riser board, counted graphics card memory as system memory in the start up check, max memory was 128MB would not accept 64MB EDO chips, had an SD Ram slot (never could find a chip that would work, even a 16MB) I used to play a lot the Jedi Knight / Dark forces series, X Wing never worked, Mario Time machine always played too fast, The Sims 1 and Galactic Battlegrounds(Age of Empires II basically) , Roller Coaster Tycoon, Freddy Fish, Putt Putt Saved the Zoo, etc etc
The first computer I ever got my hands on was a Pentium. Don't remember the specs; it had Win 98 on it, Freddy Fish/Putt Putt were the games I was 'supposed' to be playing, Warcraft 2 and Duke 3D were the games I was actually playing.
The first PC I ever developed anything on was a 486 that had a busted CD-ROM drive, and two working 3.5 inch floppy drives. Used to develop a few simple things in QBasic on there, as well as attempt to play Biomenace. The first PC I started doing serious development on was another Pentium. That's when I started with Pascal and C programming; games I played on that one include Midtown Madness, Age of Empires 1 & 2, Cossacks: European Wars, Quake 2, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and Redneck Rampage.This machine either had 32MB or 64MB of RAM, a 2MB SIS graphics card in the PCI slot, some Soundblaster card or other in the other, and a 6GB HDD that sounded like a turbine revving up. OS was Windows 98 SE, and I remember modifying autoexec.bat to display random (rude) messages to my brother before startup. Got into trouble for that :PEDIT: @Steven, 3D Movie Maker was one of those things I remember playing at a relative's house. Used to beg them for some time with it. :Phttp://www.notebookreview.com/news/hp-pavilion-zv6000-and-compaq-rt4000-revealed-pics/
The HP Pavillion ZV6000Z. Oh, the times we had together. So many ports. Such heft. I still miss it.Oh I love computer nostalgia!
My first PC-memory, is playing some version of Tetris, I think 1995. The familiy PC a while later was a Gateway with a Pentium 2, 64Mb RAM and 6 GB HDD. I played Midtown Madness, E-jays, AoE2, Actua Soccer and TOCA 2 on it, until we threw it out ~2002. :´(The first computer I started developing seriously on, I bought in 2007. An AMD Athlonx2, 1Gb DDR2, NVidia 8600GT w 256Mb GDDR3, 250GB HDD. Ran Crysis on medium if you weren't allergic to low framerates. Played a lot of orange box initially, especially Team Fortress 2.95, 98, xp, vista, 7, 8.
pentium II, pentium III, pentium IV, ….DDR2 was a big thingHonestly I wasn't into specs that much back then.. slow computers usually were the result of filling the 20 GB hard drive..98, ME, XP, 7, 8
I have a couple old computers with Windows 95 and 98 somewhere at home. I should go try and boot one up.
The first PC I used for development had Windows XP, about 70GB hard drive and decent amount of RAM (I cannot remember anything else). This was a decent computer about ten years ago, but it had issues with the graphics card.
Our family also had a lousy used Dell with Windows ME installed. I don't want to talk about that computer, so many bad memories about ME…But the first PC I used had Windows 98 and it was able to run games made for learning purposes (we didn't have any other PC games back then). For some reason I do not miss those gigantic monitors that made my eyes ache.My first computer (that I was able to call my own) was this dinky desktop by some company called 'emachines' and I ran the swaggiest configuration of integrated graphics with 2GB RAM and a 16GB hard drive. But I was on WinXP, so all was k.
ph33r mehThe first PC I could have called mine was I think originally my father's first PC. The motherboard had a port for the keyboard (one of those old black ones with the teardrop-shaped holes), and everything else (graphics, mouse, sound) had to be provided by expansion cards. It had a physical on/off switch, so whenever you shut down Windows you got this screen:
That brings back memories I'd totally forgotten. I think there was a PC at my parents' office with 95 Plus and all those crazy themes that I used to mess around with.
Also, now I finally know what My Briefcase was. Can you believe it was only phased out in Win 8?