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RE: Evolving through the ages....

SodIt the Hedgehog — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:30:22 GMT

My History:

Commodore 64. Highlights: International Football on a cartridge, and a conversion of Sega's 'Power Drift' on tape.

Sega Mega Drive. Highlights: Everything. Apart from the obvious stuff like Sonic, Jungle Strike, Street Fighter 2, Madden, NHL etc, there was also renting games for £2 from Select Video, playing stuff like James Pond II, Kid Chameleon, Streets of Rage, etc.

A Sega Saturn. Messed up a bit there. Highlights, however: Sega Rally, Worldwide Soccer, Manx TT. The first Tomb Raider was one of the better conversions too.

Roundabout this time I got my first PC too, a Pentium 166 MMX, with 16MB RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, a 16x CD-ROM drive (that mattered apparently) and 1MB S3 Trio graphics. I think it was about 2 weeks later they brought the Pentium 2 out? I kicked myself, but we didn't know anything about computers at the time so never mind. It later received a 4MB 3DFX Voodoo and a second 2.1GB hard drive anyway. Highlights: Championship Manager 97/98 to 99/00, Carmageddon, GTA, C&C Red Alert.

I also bought an N64 second-hand, with Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, ISS 64. Goldeneye was simply immense in multiplayer. I then got myself a second-hand PS1 and succumbed to the likes of Tony Hawk, ISS Pro Evolution 2 and Gran Turismo (the game that will forever seal my Sony loyalty? Probably).

And then in 2001 I got this 'beast', or at least at the time it was. A Pentium 4 1.7GHz with 512MB RAM, a 60GB hard drive and a 64MB GeForce 3. I have never used something that felt so powerful when you consider I'd gone from a P166. It's still actually pretty useful now even coming to the end of its lifespan, which is not something I could say about the 166 when it was being replaced. It'll run Pro Evolution Soccer 6 in decent enough detail and speed , but ToCA Race Driver 3 is a bit of a slideshow experience.

I've also owned a PS2, which I haven't even turned on for over a year now, but highlights on that are the obvious ones; Pro Evolution Soccer, the GTA series, Gran Turismo...

On a side note, I've only recently dabbled with overclocking. I've got a (inherited spare so not worth mentioning) P3 450 running at 504MHz by changing the FSB to 112! :D I'd have gone for 133 and 600MHz but the RAM's PC100, and the computer has about 3 months left with me before this one replaces it upstairs, and it goes somewhere else.

So there's my computing history...Can't say I knew what I was doing with the C64, I was only about 7/8, but otherwise I've probably been influenced as a console user as even now I don't tend to bother with 'traditional' PC games like FPS shooters. Give me a good Football Manager or Age of Empires instead!

RE: Evolving through the ages....

hansonlee — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:23:52 GMT

A piece of computing history none the less!

RE: Evolving through the ages....

vivadave69 — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:21:17 GMT

And i paid a whacking £400 for it and £30 for an extra controller plus a few games at 40 quid a pop....:w00t:

At the time the choice was, 3DO, Phillips CDi, and PS1....

And i picked the turkey lol....

Oh well....

Viva....;)

RE: Evolving through the ages....

Spedley — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:10:11 GMT

I looked up the 3DO. It has a 12.5Mhz ARM processor. My Acorn A3000 has a 4Mhz ARM Processor (although no FPU). I didn't realise that it was so 'pants'.

RE: Evolving through the ages....

vivadave69 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:43:38 GMT

I forgot to add the Dreamcast, bought it for coppers of a mate with games, have'nt got it any more :(

I loved the Sonic adventure 1 and 2 games the best, completed them both....

Viva....;)

RE: Evolving through the ages....

Spedley — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:39:09 GMT

The 3DO. I'd forgotton about that. It was one of those dream consoles which kept getting put back and back.

It used an ARM processors if I remember rightly. One of my favourites.

Evolving through the ages....

vivadave69 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:35:48 GMT

I'm sure i still have my old C64 and a Amiga 1200 in the shed somewhere, with lots of disc's(1200) and tapes (C64)....

Will have to dig them out....

I also have one of the failed Panasonic 3DO's still in original box with games and two pads, instructions too....

Just showing that i've evolved through the ages in computing....as follows....

ZX81 (with 16K ram pack!!)----Sinclair Spectrum 48K----C64----Amiga 500----Amiga 1200----and around 5 PC's....

Failed 3DO----PS one----PS two----PSP---- to be continued (maybe lol)

I think the Spectrum was a great computer at the time, bashing away at the keys playing Daley Thompsons Decathlon lol....

I could go on for ever....

Here's to the future....

Viva....;)