Vintage Computer games

[filthycute]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
5) I wrote my first computer program when i was 9 ...10 print "hello" 20 goto 10 - my programs havn't got any better since :) I now have more than 10 computers - not all of them PC's (as Franck will be pleased to hear :) )

oh oh! i recognise this!!! :D

You don't happen to have a Spectrum 128k complete with original Dizzy do you? :wink:

filthycute x x

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by filthycute
oh oh! i recognise this!!! :D

You don't happen to have a Spectrum 128k complete with original Dizzy do you? :wink:

filthycute x x

I managed to upgrade from a Spectrum 48k to an Amiga - bit of a big step - so didnt ever have a 128. Never really liked the Dizzy games much either - jumping eggs were never my thing :). Anyway, Atic Atac is the best game ever :)

[TheTramp]

Ummm....FC.....

If you're desperate to play Spectrum games, you can always download a Spectrum Emulator (free from many sites on the internet), and you can then also download any of the spectrum games - http://www.spectrumarchive.freeserve.co.uk/ has over 800 games available (including Dizzy).

Steve

[Will]

I was a Spectrum addict during the 80's, and like DS, I upgraded to an Amiga. Atic Attack was a great game, but the king of all games has to be Sabre Wulf!!!!

[Jayne]

I was a Vic 20 kid - bonzo ruled!

Jayne
:nice:

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by Will
I was a Spectrum addict during the 80's, and like DS, I upgraded to an Amiga. Atic Attack was a great game, but the king of all games has to be Sabre Wulf!!!!

No it wasnt - and you cant spell Atic Atac ;)


best puzzle game ever - Logical by Rainbow Arts - i wish i still had a copy of it

btw i still have 2 amigas - new Amigas are coming out still..with G4 processors (www.amiga.com)

[Dreadful Scathe]

as this topic has mysteriously spawned a thread of its own..

who remembers these ground breaking games (in order of release)...

"combat" on the Atari VCS :)

maziacs. came out for the zx81 with 16k rampack and was re-released on the spectrum in colour - a classic

manic miner. amazing graphics for its time :)

ant attack - first 3d game ever and written by a guy who lived across the street from where Franck lives now :)

ANY game from "ultimate play the game" (sabre wulf, jetpac,jetman,psst.knightlore,alien 8,cookie,atic atac etc....)

barbarian (palace software) - 2 player fighting fun :)

civilization - birds eye view of the growth of civilization on the entire planet..ooh

half-life - 1st person shooter with intelligence and a proper plot (still not bettered after 5 years)

[TheTramp]

Sorry DS, have to disagree with you. Doom was the ground-breaker (or possibly even Castle Wolfenstein), not Half-life (which admittedly took the genre to a new level).

Civ was great, and I'm still playing Civ II - prefer it to all the subsequent games (Alpha Centauri, Civ Call to Power, Civ III etc.)

Steve

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by TheTramp
Sorry DS, have to disagree with you. Doom was the ground-breaker (or possibly even Castle Wolfenstein), not Half-life (which admittedly took the genre to a new level).

Civ was great, and I'm still playing Civ II - prefer it to all the subsequent games (Alpha Centauri, Civ Call to Power, Civ III etc.)

Steve

Yes, Castle wolfenstein was the first and it was groundbreaking in use of graphics and birth of the 1st person shooter genre - half life was also groundbreaking - it was plot driven but pushed the genre to a level which has only been copied and never bettered in 5 years.
So er..in actual fact..we agree on this if you think about it :) sorry i never mentioned CW before :).

[Claire]

THE GOOD OLD SPECTRUM!!!

ooooooo we were the first family in our street with a COLOUR computer...... and wow did we feel cool! :waycool:

Atic Atac was an excellent game although (sadly) i never got to complete it as the tape (remember loading games by tapes!!!) got ruined!

Ant Attack was even better (but how old does it looks now!!!) and I did manage to complete that one ... how i loved seeing the gold medal come up on the screen when it had finished... little reward for so much hard work though!

Recently saw a disc of lots of the old Spectrum games for PCs (although they don't run too well on "real computers" partly because they are actually too simple i.e. "up down" means that Manic Miner only jumps up and down rather than all the amazing moves that characters in games can do now and partly because i can't get used to only have a couple of buttons to press rather than having lots).

[Will]

DS

It is very astute of you to notice that Ant Attack was the 1st 3-D game. So many people bang on about Knight Lore and forget that Quicksilver got there first.

"Ultimate Play the Game" are still the Daddy when it comes to software houses though..... With Sabre Wulf being there greatest achievement :grin:

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by Claire
THE GOOD OLD SPECTRUM!!!

ooooooo we were the first family in our street with a COLOUR computer...... and wow did we feel cool! :waycool:



The Atari VCS was probably the 1st commercial colour computer (ok its a console but its a vague line nowadays) - it had 4 colours - yes 4 wooo.

If anyone wants a cd full of emulators and games for spectrum, sega megadrive, nintendo and some arcade games, let me know and ill burn you a copy. Nostalgia r00lz :)

btw any reason you posted twice Claire, thats actually quite difficult to do because of the auto-stop-from-posting-too-quick feature this forum system has. :)

[SwingSwingSwing]

...Manic Miner.

Thanks DS for that link. I spent quite a few hours last night trying out the Speccy emulator. It brought back quite a few memories....

I had an Atari VCS. It was great. I remember going to John Menzies to buy my first game. I had £30 (the most money I'd ever had in my hand at that age) and eventually plonked for Pac Man. But later I wish I'd bought Yar's Revenge.

Then I got a 48K Speccie. That was great. Penetrator, Horace Goes Skiing, Manic Miner, Jetpac, Knight Lore, The Hobbit.

Sold the speccie and bought a Amstrad CPC464 (after cancelling my order for a Sinclair QL). Did my first "real" programming on that machine. Graph drawing programs and the like. Some good games too. It had a cracking version of Gauntlet.

Sold that and bought an Atari ST. Wrote up several university projects on that.

From then on it was PCs.....

My favourite piece of "retro" software is MAME. Nothing beats playing your favourite arcade game (Robotron in my case) without having to have a pile of 10p pieces!


SwingSwingSwing

[PeterL]

http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=482

[SwingSwingSwing]

I might get one those!

It's just a shame that the standard Atari joystick was pants!


Did you see this item?
http://www.firebox.com/index.html?dir=firebox&action=product&pid=345

Tabletop Arcade Classics
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...

The 8 games are Space Invaders, Galaxians, Frogger, Pong, Pac Man, Kong, Snake and Breakout.

A snip at only £2795.95

SwingSwingSwing

[Lindsay]

Anyone heard of 'Odd Job Eddie'? That was my fave!

I have a CD called 'Speccy Classics' that I've never got round to looking at... Nice reminder to do so. The good old days- I remember that joystick!!! Oooer...

[Claire]

Dreadful Scathe


btw any reason you posted twice Claire, thats actually quite difficult to do because of the auto-stop-from-posting-too-quick feature this forum system has.

If you see how few times I have ever posted (even though I read the site often) you will understand that if I posted twice it was probably soley down to nerves and my fingers shaking on the return key :what:

Having not actually realised I had posted twice I am just pleased as it might add too my lowwwwwwww posting count :wink:

[Carla]

'Eddie' is a bit like manic minor but not as good...

[Dreadful Scathe]

for all things spectrum...try these

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/sgd.html

http://www.spectrumarchive.freeserve.co.uk/links.htm

aah those were the days :)

[bigdjiver]

Not that it matters much now, but one of my small claims to fame is that I invented / designed (whatever) the Kempston Joystick.

Hands up all those who had hours of pleasure because of me?

And all those that failed exams?

Hmm...

Where's delete? oops

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by bigdjiver
Not that it matters much now, but one of my small claims to fame is that I invented / designed (whatever) the Kempston Joystick.

I hated the Kempston Joystick too big - i had a programmable comcon joystick interface too and a slik stick joystick - the kempston interface had to be supported directly by the game!

Youre still famous though :)

[Will]

You definately are a celeb then. I was a Spectrum playing schoolkid. You didn't design it with withstanding Daley Thompsons Decathlon in mind though eh! :wink:

Was it true that you'd blow up your spectrum if you plugged or unplugged the joystick interface with the power turned on?:confused:

[bigdjiver]

I don't know about the blowing up the interface story. It is possible.
I don't know much about the Speccy. I was selling Video Genie then Dragon 32 computers. The Kempston Joystick was 2 1/2 hours work filling in a very slack wet Wednesday afternoon to design the interface, write the demo program and design the marketing strategy. That was the tricky bit. Why buy a joystick if no games were written to use it? Why program the games if nobody had a joystick? Catch 22.
The first few dozen Kempston Joysticks were miserable specimens from a bankrupt TV game manufacturer. From that poor beginning it became the standard for a while.
Like Ceroc itself. You can start out small, with a good idea. Really work at it and who knows where it ends?

[Will]

bigdjiver

Did you know that you're website (advertised in your profile) is currently down?