Jasp
Bongabilla
+171|6632|The Outer Circle
Just curious to see how many of you owned one of these beasts!

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Ive still got mine now, but its amazing just how long you have to wait for tapes to load! Ive also got the twin-deck 5.25" Floppy drive too
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DoctorFruitloop
Level 13 Wrongdoer
+515|6516|Doncaster, UK
We had several at school when I was a kid, we were supposed to learn about computers using them but spent most of our time playing Elite!
Mogura
Member
+17|6332|EUROPE
what is that ?
Jasp
Bongabilla
+171|6632|The Outer Circle
I remember when my dad walked in from work one day with Elite under his arm, dont think I stoped for months! A game way ahead of its time... and addictive!

Ill have a search through later see what games ive got, loads i know!
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Entertayner
Member
+826|6540

Mogura wrote:

what is that ?
Penetrator
Certified Twat
+296|6478|Bournemouth, South England
ZX Spectrum > BBC Micro!
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6551|SE London

I used to have one.

Penetrator_01 wrote:

ZX Spectrum > BBC Micro!
That is so not true. The Spectrum was smaller and more powerful, yes, but the BBC was still infinitely better. It was so much more versatile and the Spectrum had that horrible shitty little keyboard with those nasty rubbery keys.

The BBC was great fun because of it's bigness. You could rip it apart and solder wires in there and having it controlling your lego robots and such like in a flash.

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aardfrith
Δ > x > ¥
+145|6762

TPM-J45P3R- wrote:

I remember when my dad walked in from work one day with Elite under his arm, dont think I stoped for months! A game way ahead of its time... and addictive!

Ill have a search through later see what games ive got, loads i know!
Did you have the tape version of Elite or the disk one?  The tape was a con - the instruction book even said half the features, e.g. military lasers, weren't available on tape.  What it didn't say was that you couldn't get beyond "Competent" rank, though.  I played it for 9 months on the tape and then got the disk version for Christmas.  Within two months I was Elite and had done the missions.

And did you read the novella that came with the game?  I think I've still got that at home, someplace safe.  I'll dig it out after work.
The Last Black Winegum
Mmmm! Winegums
+52|6575|Lancashire, UK
I had an Acorn Electron,   and played Elite!    Managed to get to Dangerous Ranking.... by jumping into Feudal and Anarchy systems and seeing how long I could last...    memories.... 
Bertster7
Confused Pothead
+1,101|6551|SE London

aardfrith wrote:

TPM-J45P3R- wrote:

I remember when my dad walked in from work one day with Elite under his arm, dont think I stoped for months! A game way ahead of its time... and addictive!

Ill have a search through later see what games ive got, loads i know!
Did you have the tape version of Elite or the disk one?  The tape was a con - the instruction book even said half the features, e.g. military lasers, weren't available on tape.  What it didn't say was that you couldn't get beyond "Competent" rank, though.  I played it for 9 months on the tape and then got the disk version for Christmas.  Within two months I was Elite and had done the missions.

And did you read the novella that came with the game?  I think I've still got that at home, someplace safe.  I'll dig it out after work.
None of my games (almost none) were official. I had a crate full of games on disk and another crate full of games on tape, very few were official. I very rarely played games on tape. I couldn't be bothered with the load times.

So many great classic games.

Revs
Chuckie Egg
Elite
Pengo
Castle Quest
Labyrinth
etc.
KylieTastic
Games, Girls, Guinness
+85|6422|Cambridge, UK

Aye, twas my 2nd PC. (yup had floppy, and a box of EPROMs for the main progs)

1st was the TRS-80 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80)

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