The X-Wing, TIE Fighter and XvT games were recently reissued on GOG.com.
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_tie_fighter_special_edition
What was the first computer game you played?
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The X-Wing, TIE Fighter and XvT games were recently reissued on GOG.com.
http://www.gog.com/game/star_wars_tie_fighter_special_edition
Over the years every now and then I searched a way to Tie Fighter, and even with emulators it was pretty much impossible on a modern computer. It is now available and playable on one of those good old gaming sights.
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I used to love road rash! That's how I discovered Soundgarden.
[video=youtube;zrzEXajZHS4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzEXajZHS4[/video]I found some old computer parts up in the loft, so I made a retro-gaming machine. Probably not the best but powerful enough to run dos games and some mid to late 90s titles.
Intel Celeron 667 Mhz. Socket 370.
Random asrock socket 370 board and 810 chipset with 3 PCI slots and 2 SDR SDRam slots supporting up to 512 Mb ram and PC133.
64 MB ram, but I ordered 2x 128MB ram from ebay for 3 euros each. So 256 MB should be more than enough.
I had a Geforce 2 MX200 AGP card, and an old soundblaster ISA card from another old PC, but since Im missing slots to use these cards I ordered an ATI Rage 128VR 32 MB PCI card for 10 bucks from ebay. While I am waiting for that card Im using the Intel GPU card that came with it, but it only has 2 MB vram, so it's a bit slow.
I also found a soundblaster Live! 24 bit card so I used that instead of my ISA card, but this forced me to use Windows 2000 instead of Windows 98 due to driver support.
So far it is working fine but due to my newer soundblaster card, I can't get audio from some dos games unless I use VDMS which emulates a soundblaster, or a Roland card. Problem with that is it slows down gameplay a bit on some games. I might have to look for an earlier model soundblaster card to fix this issue.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k5loqfjf5uycw0i/Background2.jpg?dl=0
Intel Celeron 667 Mhz. Socket 370.
Random asrock socket 370 board and 810 chipset with 3 PCI slots and 2 SDR SDRam slots supporting up to 512 Mb ram and PC133.
64 MB ram, but I ordered 2x 128MB ram from ebay for 3 euros each. So 256 MB should be more than enough.
I had a Geforce 2 MX200 AGP card, and an old soundblaster ISA card from another old PC, but since Im missing slots to use these cards I ordered an ATI Rage 128VR 32 MB PCI card for 10 bucks from ebay. While I am waiting for that card Im using the Intel GPU card that came with it, but it only has 2 MB vram, so it's a bit slow.
I also found a soundblaster Live! 24 bit card so I used that instead of my ISA card, but this forced me to use Windows 2000 instead of Windows 98 due to driver support.
So far it is working fine but due to my newer soundblaster card, I can't get audio from some dos games unless I use VDMS which emulates a soundblaster, or a Roland card. Problem with that is it slows down gameplay a bit on some games. I might have to look for an earlier model soundblaster card to fix this issue.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k5loqfjf5uycw0i/Background2.jpg?dl=0
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My first game was a flight sim. i bought the mac specifically so i could play it.
http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkYVSbodw4
Then there were programs in magazines written in Basic. All the lines were in the magazine and I had to type them into the computer, then debug, then run the program and save it to tape so I could play it later. My favorite was white cockpit gauges on a black screen with no outside graphics at all. It was run completely by imagination. the gauges all worked but you had to imagine where you were flying.
http://www.trs-80.org/t80-fs1/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkYVSbodw4
Then there were programs in magazines written in Basic. All the lines were in the magazine and I had to type them into the computer, then debug, then run the program and save it to tape so I could play it later. My favorite was white cockpit gauges on a black screen with no outside graphics at all. It was run completely by imagination. the gauges all worked but you had to imagine where you were flying.
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The very first game was Elite (on a new IBM^^ in 198x). But I was a child and it was much too difficult for me, so I played "Lapis Philosophorum" (a german text adventure) on a friends Atari 800. Soon the times changed and I got my own Commodore with ELITE and a lot of (Sid Meiers) MicroProse games. I think that was around 1990.
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Pong on a home console thing, Defender or space invaders on a C64 ,(cassette ,spend 1/2 an hour just loading the game).
Pong on a home console thing, Defender or space invaders on a C64 ,(cassette ,spend 1/2 an hour just loading the game
).