What's your first computer and OS???

[woohoo]

Don't forget the 1-hour Prince of Persia!

[roberto_minosa]

Then we had an IBM compatible XT. The games i used to play on the PC was karateka and some flight simulator (F-117 na ata yun).

Mom played Karateka on lolo's IBM-compatible and I played Microprose F117 Stealth Fighter! I think the map on that game is set in Iraq...



If I'm correct, I played it on our Pentium MMX 200MHz via floppy and not on the 386DX.

[Macmon]

IBM Compatible Intel 8086 CPU with 640K memory using DOS 3.1

[oj88]

Mom played Karateka on lolo's IBM-compatible and I played Microprose F117 Stealth Fighter! I think the map on that game is set in Iraq...



If I'm correct, I played it on our Pentium MMX 200MHz via floppy and not on the 386DX.

Played that as well. Along with Flight Simulator 1, Jet, Strike Commander, Falcon 3.0, EF-2000, TFX... at least the ones I remembered. I still have the old CH Products Flightstick in storage.

Fun as they were, these things gave me bad grades in high school and college. :D

[ghosthunter]

Anyone remember playing Ultima III, IV and V?

[yaj]

galing! ito nga yun! haha! not sure though kung Iraq yung nasa map. pero Middle East yun for sure (more like Libya ata).

Some more games i could recall are :
1. load runner
2. millionware or is it millionaire (trivia game siya)
3. sputnik attack
4. maniac mansion

Some apps that i remember using
1. lotus 123
2. wordstar
3. printshop

Mom played Karateka on lolo's IBM-compatible and I played Microprose F117 Stealth Fighter! I think the map on that game is set in Iraq...



If I'm correct, I played it on our Pentium MMX 200MHz via floppy and not on the 386DX.

[roberto_minosa]

Mom also played Load Runner! Lolz! Maybe I inherited her gaming genes. We also used to print banners using BannerMania and Broderbund Print Shop Deluxe.

[flakez]

first gaming console ko yung nintendo family computer, tapos first pc is yung intel 486/windows 3.1. heheheh

[ghosthunter]

The first game I had to upgrade my PC for was Mechwarrior. It required EGA or VGA display to see the graphics well. Interestingly I was able to setup a twin display system using both the old and new video cards I got.

[Jun aka Pekto]

Mom played Karateka on lolo's IBM-compatible and I played Microprose F117 Stealth Fighter! I think the map on that game is set in Iraq...



If I'm correct, I played it on our Pentium MMX 200MHz via floppy and not on the 386DX.

Not that one. That came later. It's this one. I played this in glorious 16 colors and 5 fps on my Tandy 1000SX (8088 cpu).

[Jun aka Pekto]

The first pc game I bought with my own money. 16 colors and Tandy sound on my Tandy 1000SX.

Sierra's Gold Rush!

[Jun aka Pekto]

I remember Sublogic (not MS yet) Flight Simulator 2, Bruce Artwick's(maker of FS) Jet!, Star Flight, the original Spectrum Holobyte Falcon (cga and Tandy graphics)

[roberto_minosa]

Wow, MechWarrior. I used to play a demo of MechWarrior II on our Pentium MMX 200MHz, our second computer. It ran quite well on that system with only 16MB RAM and 1MB S3 Trio3D video card. It also had a QuickShot joystick, but I never got it to work with MechWarrior II. What a bummer.

Box Art:

[jjmd3_787]

Late bloomer ako pagdating sa computer (post-grad na ako nuon). I had my first PC in 2001, it was generic brand Pentium 3 800Ghz 10gig hard drive. Ambagal! From this point on did I learned that I was a natural with computers.

[safeorigin]

my first pc was a generic intel pc running on windows 95

[Jun aka Pekto]

Late bloomer ako pagdating sa computer (post-grad na ako nuon). I had my first PC in 2001, it was generic brand Pentium 3 800Ghz 10gig hard drive. Ambagal! From this point on did I learned that I was a natural with computers.

The P3-800 wasn't that bad in 2001. I still had a P3-733 during that year. But, it had the very first ATI Radeon (7200) and an NVidia TNT2 before that.

2001 was special. It was the year I transitioned back to AMD cpu's (Athlon XP 1700+) and Windows XP came out (Nov).

[dark_akatsuke24]

pwede bang palitan video graphics ng laptop?i hav my sony vaio,i bought it in US 1 yr ago,i want 2 change the video card(for games purposes)

nag asked na ako ng advice from sony,hindi daw nila papalitan for some reason,
Reason 1: di daw binili satin sa pinas ang laptop
Reason 2: wala silang unit na ganito dito sa pinas

nextime pag bumalik ng US HP nalang bibilhin ko,mura lang kasi dun,1000$ lang yung 4GHz,300Gb,higher version of nvidia g-force pero dito sa pinas almost 80k above pa...

[CVT]

A 386DX with my favorite all time game,- LodeRunner......Pang-competition......

8505:bat:

[Jun aka Pekto]

This is the Tandy 1000SX which was my first "IBM-compatible". Mine was virtually identical to this one:


http://www.cryan.com/pdf/Tandy1000.pdf

Specs (mine):
CPU: Intel 7.16Mhz 8088
RAM: 640k
Video: 16-color Tandy Graphics, 4-color CGA, monochrome
Sound: 3-channel Tandy audio
Storage: 2 x 360k 5 1/4" floppy drives, 20mb hard RLL hard drive card (ISA)
Ports: Joystick, printer, keyboard, light pen
OS: MS-DOS 3.2 and GW-BASIC

Besides MS-DOS, it had the Deskmate software:
http://toastytech.com/guis/deskmate.html

I got mine as a "bargain" for $1000 plus $500 for the 20mb hard drive

It was ok. At the time, many games supported Tandy Graphics:
Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter
Lucasarts Battlehawks 1942
Lucasarts Their Finest Hour
Sierra's Gold Rush, Black Cauldron, and Kings Quest
Origin's Ultima IV

[meledson]

OS was DOS 6. then Windows 3.0 -> 3.1 -> 3.2

The first computer that I brought was a 40Mhz AMD 386DX. I even brought an intel 80397 for it. 40MB HDD, 2Mb memory, 4x CDROM, 8-bit Soundblaster Pro, S3 2Dmax Video card. Originally wiith 14" paper white monitor, eventually upgraded to 14" VGA. Epson LX-?00 dot matrix printer.

During HS, I was able to use a PC, PCXT and PCXT turbo. With green monitors.

Games played before: wolfenstein, doom 1, doom 2, Hexen, xwing, xwing vs tie fighter, privateer, starcontrol, dune 1, dune 2, star craft, etc.