archsan wrote:memsys wrote:I was born in the same year as commander keen 1 was released.
So i am probably one of the youngest members here rolling on the floor laughing .
You probably are! Please tell us your story -- do you happen to be playing with Apple IIs when you were a toddler like cdoublejj? beaming face with smiling eyes
Hmm, you've just necromanced a two-year old thread -- I was 25 when KAN started revealing people's ages here...
Well around 1999-2000 we got our first computer (after I nagged my parents into submission smiling face with horns). That computer was an IBM XT (with an EGA card and monitor!) that we got from friends . I played commander Keen dreams and dark ages episode 1 a LOT . I still have the system , sadly the screen is dead . I think it's the power converter(or whatever it is called) and I do not have the original keyboard.
About a year later we got an 486 from another family ,that had upgraded to something better .It had a HUGE amount of games on it... Until I took the drive out for the next computer and deleted most of them... I can still punch myself for doing that dizzy face. There where some pretty hard to find games on it , like the billy the kid game that was on episode 50 of ADG .
After about 1 to 1,5 years later we bought a Pentium 2 from yet another family. That computer was one evil piece of crap! It killed 2 CD drives and 2CD burners. It also had the habit of deleting the printer drivers out of nowhere and other nasty stuff. When it died in 2005-2006 we took it to a big computer shop . Some dude opened it up, made a comment about it being very old/weird (Motherboard was AT form factor), hooked it up nothing happens except the fans started turning and said it was broken beyond repair!
I was a bit sad because now we had no computer but mainly happy because that piece of shit was dead .So we HAD to get a new one.
So after the P2 died we went to the father of a colleague from my mom (who runs a 1 person computer company )and talked about what system we wanted , that ended being a Pentium4 (I wanted an Athlon 64) that my mother uses to this day.
After 6 months to a year I got a laptop for school ; thanks to a government program (my hand writing could easily be mistaken for Arabic/Egyptian hieroglyphs and the other kids wrote 4x faster) and when the P4 went out of order for a few months thanks to a royal fuckup on my and it became my main system even when the P4 was fixed.
2 years ago I bought my current main computer (another laptop because I need to take it with me twice a week) . It runs most games at medium-high at decent framerates. However I'm sick of annoying issues, drivers never being updated and the royal pain in the ass when you need to open it up. My next computer will be a normal desktop, sadly I don't have the cash to get one nor can I justify it if I had.
Some time when we had the P4 I started to collect old computers, because I was no longer able to play my favourite old games. Fixing the old 486 was out of the question due to barrel-battery-acid-leak-of-doom™. I recently finished that project LINK
Fun fact ; the guy who we bought the P4 from (and both laptops) gave me the case for my 486 build along with an 386 and a XT clone.
So that is the history of the (main) computers I have used. I had used a computer before we got one , but I can't really remember a lot. The first one was probably running win3.x when I was really young in school .All I can remember about it is that I made something with paint.