Forum members divide - lighthearted

[Frank]

Hi parablax,

Welcome to the forum. your problem is assigning people here a letter to describe their category. That only gives 26 possibilities and there's more than that many types here.

The category I fall into is the one who started playing videogames by putting money into Pong arcade machines, and whose interest in gaming is kept going by a number of jaw-dropping events; I remember first seeing Galaxians swooping back to attack, BattleZone tanks moving in a 3D environment, going text questing with other online players, the first time I hit forward in DOOM, playing HALO with a surround sound system, wiggling my wiimote, playing Half Life 2 in glorious stereoscopic, and the latest is when Kerrash kindly let me try the Oculus Rift VR system during the Elite Meet.

 

[jan]

I belong to the " can buy any gadget for gaming" category, have option to play 24/7 even tho i moved out of my moms basement after i passed 30.

Soon i am 44 and stil the gaming bug have not left me.

I am so happy i had the chance to put the word soon in this post, ups i did it again.

 

[OillyRag]

Soon i am 44 and stil the gaming bug have not left me.

I am so happy i had the chance to put the word soon in this post, ups i did it again.

Erm .. Happy Birthday

 

[The Space Pirate]

I'm a console gamer who played Elite when it first came out on BBC.
Used to be a PC gamer but grew out of it.

Somehow that looks to me that you view PC gamers as children. So now you use a machine that can only play games.... as the man said, great reverse logic...

 

[Hellhawk666]

Hmm, i don't fit any of the categories. Old nerd who never stopped playing.

Started with computer games on the university Cyber mainframe in the early 70s before there were such things as screens (all output then was in print). Then built a DIY TRS80 for text adventures I wrote in BASIC. Later a ZX81, then later still an IBM PC. Many Windows, Apple and Unix machines followed. Somewhere along the way I started playing Elite, then later Frontier, along with a couple of hundred other solo games, up to the present. Started with MUDs in the early 90s, online isometric view games in the late 90s, and most recently online FPSs and MMOs for the last 10 years or so.

 

[Geraldine]

100% agree with you Steve, folks this is supposed to be a light hearted thread not a PC or Playstation bashing thread, not that I will allow such a thing anyway. So, I will tell you what I will do. If there is anymore of it in this thread I will move every post that makes reference to it into the PS4 thread, then move that entire thread back into the off topic section and if it continues in that thread, then guess what? Yes it gets locked and infractions get issued. Now I don't want to do any of that, so what happens next is entirely up to you folks.

Remember, this is a light hearted thread

 

[Geraldine]

Retroness Unleashed!

Now back on with the light hearted topic, I am very much a retro gamer as my pile of old Amigas, and even a couple of Atari STe's will testify to. So I guess that makes me a type A gamer. The only reason I got a PC at all in 2000 was because the motherboard failed in my heavily upgraded Amiga A4000. Since then I got that fixed though and it still rocks!

In my view, you have not truly experienced the former Elite games until you try playing them using the actual machine it was designed for. It really adds to the experience. Emulators are all well and good, but there is just *something* about using those old machines, that old electronics smell, the feel of those chunky keys, the (sometimes) angst of loading the thing up, it's all part of the experience.

 

[Asp Explorer]

What are those push switches installed on the ST case?

NMI? Cycle lock or maybe a oscillator swap toggle? Interesting

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

In my view, you have not truly experienced the former Elite games until you try playing them using the actual machine it was designed for

so that would be a BBC, right ?

 

[Memnoch]

I guess it would be, yes! :smilie:

But it was very good on the Amiga, and as I never played Elite on the Archimedes the Amiga versions was the best that I came across.

 

[Geraldine]

What are those push switches installed on the ST case?

NMI? Cycle lock or maybe a oscillator swap toggle? Interesting

The buttons are for selecting disk images contained on a 16 gig SDHC card, currently over 2000. The little screen above the buttons displays what image is selected. There is also an on screen display on boot up that allows the selection of disk images.

so that would be a BBC, right ?

Depends on what version of the game your talking about Liqua, for the BBC version then yes, a real BBC. Someone posted in an intro thread a while back with a beautiful BBC setup complete with monitor and disk drive. Wish I could find it.

 

[Seonid]

NMI? Cycle lock or maybe a oscillator swap toggle? Interesting

Soldered a PTM switch on my Spectrum to invoke NMI.
That was the one thing that annoyed me with the Spectrum ROM is that the NMI handler at 0x0066 was broken (used a JR NZ instead of the correct JR Z) which meant you had to shadow the ROM and fix the jump before you could use it, but the near 1K "spare" block towards the end of the ROM had plenty of room for your custom loader to "play" with stuff.

 

[OillyRag]

I had an ST, i loved that computer. mind you i played Elite on my Speccy, rubber keyboard n all. looking back i cant believe i got all the way to dangerous. i think in the long run it's the multiplayer evolving universe that will get me and others actually to elite this time round (hopefully)

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Depends on what version of the game your talking about Liqua, for the BBC version then yes, a real BBC. Someone posted in an intro thread a while back with a beautiful BBC setup complete with monitor and disk drive. Wish I could find it.

Ahh now I understand what you meant - when you said:

In my view, you have not truly experienced the former Elite games until you try playing them using the actual machine it was designed for.

you mean't the Amiga version of Elite is best played on an Amiga; BBC version played on a BBC; whereas I thought you meant that the ORIGINAL Elite was made on a BBC and all other versions were inferior .. in which case I agree

 

[Asp Explorer]

Soldered a PTM switch on my Spectrum to invoke NMI.
That was the one thing that annoyed me with the Spectrum ROM is that the NMI handler at 0x0066 was broken (used a JR NZ instead of the correct JR Z) which meant you had to shadow the ROM and fix the jump before you could use it, but the near 1K "spare" block towards the end of the ROM had plenty of room for your custom loader to "play" with stuff.

Got to be careful there Seonid. By mentioning secret controller press codes you'll get all the console kiddies trying to figure out how to wire switches to their hard drive ROM's and invoke the magical NMI god-mode that lets their PS4 play Kinect games.

We can't let the secret out!

 

[Noogillim]

Been playing games pre Beeb Elite and still do to this day how ever Elite was the first game I actually bought the computer to play it on after buying the game (cassette version of Elite).

Still play games to this day, and fortunately my work is a bit game like I look after Flight simulators so the big eyed child in me is very well catered for.

Looking forward very much to the Beta.


Not sure what category to plonk into though.

BK category - BIG KID

 

[jedt]

so that would be a BBC, right ?

no.... acorn electron. then ported to bbc

 

[trekman]

Probably A. Not really a gamer. The last proper game I played was probably Frontier: First Encounters. The only 'game' that I regularly play these days is something called Football Manager from Sports Interactive but its probably stretching things to call it a game.

 

[Geraldine]

The only 'game' that I regularly play these days is something called Football Manager from Sports Interactive but its probably stretching things to call it a game.

Oh I don't know about that trekman. Not that I play any football games on the PC or otherwise (cant understand the game at all you see :S), but aren't those "manager" games quite stats heavy? If so, that should put you in good stead for being a sharp trader in Elite!

 

[Zieman]

Probably A. Not really a gamer. The last proper game I played was probably Frontier: First Encounters. The only 'game' that I regularly play these days is something called Football Manager from Sports Interactive but its probably stretching things to call it a game.

OI! This one?:

Can be very addictive!