I remember my early days of gaming - not my first computer but I think it may have been the Amiga A500 - I used the Konix Navigator joystick.
That thing gave me blisters.
That thing gave me blisters.
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I never experienced these computers - when the A500 came out, my focus had shifted to get the money together to train for my driver's license.
I had something similar to a computer a few years earlier, some C64/128 clone with magnetic tape storage, not really something to use for gaming... In fact, it wasn't useful for anything ecxept maybe for probably learning the absolute basics of basic programming.
My first gaming device was an SNES which I bought in 1993.
My first "computer" - not counting the er... stuff I used at school years before - was a monochrome Amstrad CPC464.
Obviously, over the years since then, things have advanced and what always impressed me, sometimes more than graphical prowess, is sound.
From blinky blink to full-on real instruments, voices and sound effects.
Aaanyway. I'm off to find Geidi Prime and Arrakis
Obviously, over the years since then, things have advanced and what always impressed me, sometimes more than graphical prowess, is sound.
From blinky blink to full-on real instruments, voices and sound effects.
Aaanyway. I'm off to find Geidi Prime and Arrakis
is that near Gauda Prime?
OK ,so Giedi Prime is, according to https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Giedi_Prime/XD, the third planet around 36 Ophiuchi B. In our universe, it looks like this:
Not even a settlement on this uninspiring HMC.
Right... Arrakis, here I come.
Not even a settlement on this uninspiring HMC.
Right... Arrakis, here I come.
I'm with you in that regard.
If someone would have told me back when I stumbled through the "possibilities" of that magnet tape driven computer that, one day, I would use my computer as my primary music player, I think I would have called the guys that give you an "I love myself" jacket...
Definitely a far more interesting trip than the one I have set sails for...OK ,so Giedi Prime is, according to https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Giedi_Prime/XD, the third planet around 36 Ophiuchi B. In our universe, it looks like this:
Not even a settlement on this uninspiring HMC.
Right... Arrakis, here I come.
But that's the difference between necessary trips and curiosity trips, I guess
No, I think it is the one right before Heidi Prime.
Welp, I tried. Arrakis is supposedly the third planet in Canopus. In our universe, Canopus has just two planets and no references to the Dune Canon.
I may nip to Caladan now...
After that, I may go and check out LV 426.
I may nip to Caladan now...
After that, I may go and check out LV 426.
Caladan is much prettier but, sadly, not landable: It's called "Raegan's Legacy" here; an ELW that has been terraformed.
My computers wentMy first "computer" - not counting the er... stuff I used at school years before - was a monochrome Amstrad CPC464.
Obviously, over the years since then, things have advanced and what always impressed me, sometimes more than graphical prowess, is sound.
From blinky blink to full-on real instruments, voices and sound effects.
Aaanyway. I'm off to find Geidi Prime and Arrakis
ZX80 second hand
ZX81 new
ZX Spectrum 48k where I first played Elite
Atari 520ST
Various PCs starting with 486s
HP 17” laptop via the government computer initiative
more PCs and laptops including an Aldi Medion tower that was very good for the price
Second hand Apple iMac where I started in ED
PC Specialist gaming laptop
Razor gaming laptop current machine.
No consoles owned and about the only one I can recall using was a very early Atari? A friend had that had Pong and maybe Breakout on it.
I must make a list of findable SF worlds or at least systems I would like to visit, after I finish this trip to see if Beowulf Schaefer (sp?) was right.
One day, probably not in Mondays U17 but one day.Caladan is much prettier but, sadly, not landable: It's called "Raegan's Legacy" here; an ELW that has been terraformed.
LV-426. Struggling to find this one. I'm sure it's in our universe somewhere...
I confess to owning a WiiU - MarioKart is fun when I have visitors but ten-pin bowling is my favourite. Their controller usage is brilliant in various sports (mind the furniture though).
Excluding the black and white ping pong / tennis game and old Atari console, the ZX Spectrum was my first computer. I taught myself programming in BASIC on it and played the original Elite game for a while. At the time I found it to be an exercise in watching white dots on the screen and doing nothing while in supercruise. It was boring so I didn't play for long.
Nothing, and I mean nothing on earth including thumb screws, inflicted the level of pain that this thing did:
Yep, I had one of those.
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Back then pretty much all sports games that included running were designed to cause RSI and break joysticks and keyboards.
I have flashbacks of playing
I just realised it was actually called Killer Gorilla and didn't have Mario ... was it a rip-off or something?
Killer Gorilla
Published by Micro Power Ltd. (Program Power), Superior/Acornsoft in 1988
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