Tetrium wrote:cdoublejj wrote:i'm 20 will be 21 this December... as of posting
(Sorry for straying off-topic a bit) Just curious 😉. How did you get into vintage computing? You were in your early teens back when 486's were being dumped on the streets (with me picking them up 😁 )
Actually if my memory serves me right (which it probably isn't) I remember using the apple II in kindergarten i remember a game where you made robots another one with a fire truck and i think one with cars and highways they were all or mostly educational. The games ran on the big 5.25 floppies. i remember our teacher telling us "not to touch the part in the oval slot" or something to that extent so we didn't get finger oils on the exposed part of the disk.
I actually went to daycare for a some time because both my parents worked and my mom wasn't off till at least 5. Had it no been for the director Randy Sharp I probably wouldn't be in to computers. The first machine they got was most likely a 486. it ran windows 3.11 and if memory servers my right we played a go kart game with animals
which i believe is wacky wheels.
They then got what i think had to of been a Pentium 3 machine judging by it's performance. It came with 98 and various demos among them Starcraft. I remember begging my mom to buy me Starcraft at Kmart
and talking one of the directors into letting me install it. My friends Marcus and Michael played it all the time. I remember other kids complaining about me/us hogging the computer. I remember one day playing Starcraft for HOURS it seemed, my teacher had me take a break for a little bit.
To this day i play some dos games but seems for only a few minutes at time as seem to die easy in bio menace or commander keen. although my blackjack smart phone came in handy a few months ago i played wolf 3d while on hold for tech support for at&t.
My current rig with 98SE is Toshiba laptop it has 900mhz 384mb and 16mb geforce2 go. I usually play games like MaxPayne or Vice City more than i do dos games, one big barrier is it tells me i have no ems memory manager so i can't run some games like castles II. It does do nice at games like Shadow Warrior and Blood cause the emulate like crap on dos box.
As far as consoles i mainly grew up on the rare Sega CDX then the N64. We also had an NES for a while.