Computing, Gaming and Technology

[Shush]

We must have a hurrah for the old Atari in this thread

I didn't get one till 1991 when I moved in with someone and found it in their cupboard

Favourite game was called "River Raid". Galaxian was a regular play also. Space Invaders, Asteroids

Such fun 

[Master Ray]

Here's a link for my fellow Spectrum homeboys... peace out...   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0LgAlKXV0

[Shush]

peace on you to Raymond

[Heno]

there was a game for the atari computer that was out at the same time as the spectrum 48. it started with a grid that you had to pick a planet and then travel there to fight for control and then you could trade. loosely based on US foreign policy sort of

[Rusco]

I never had the Gyroscope.   

[Anna Woman von NRW]

Atari was for rich kids! Family friends had one and I used to like playing Missile Command.

I did have a ZX 81 and then an Acorn Electron: Donkey Kong, Defender, Scramble, Frogger and some space game I can't remember the name of but might be Elite (?). Then got bored and till last week nothing else - I think I'd be a good assassin in real life 

[Heno]

yeah, i got an atari off a mate and those games ring a bell including elite.


you can get emulators online that allow you to load the proms from the old arcade and console games and you can then play them on a pc

defender was a game i loved


i play as a ranger but try and develop sneak/stealth and Bow & Arrow in Skyrim. But I have companions which hang out with me so I can't do assassin type quests very easily. 

[Heno]

so it looks like our games are really back. Spectrum launch in April. going to take a trip down memory lane with one of these bad boys



Full article here: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/40182-retro-gamers-rejoice-zx/

[Pol]

Anyone else think that the good people at call of duty might be nma fans. The game is called ghosts the 1st level is brave new world n the next is no mans land.

[Heno]

sorry

better to keep one like this going. its like a history book


i accepted the windows 10 upgrade and it worked perfectly

i have yet to notice any differences

maybe i should have posted this in the "you know you are getting old when.........." thread

[Pol]

Still using windows xp here, though I hardly use my laptop

[lotus]

A look in a computer mag today - win 10 can wait - there is nothing better than win 7 for the functions I use on an old tower pc or 8.1 on my netbook, and starting time is slower, no better secure things (you have to install updates, if you don`t have the pro version), and I missed a manual how to install it without having a microsoft account

[Hughie]

Not played any for years.

Used to have a ZX Spectrum with all the usual games swaps and playground rivalries (a mate did actually have an Oric!).   Too many games to mention but I did used to like the simplistic yet frenzied nature of Halls of the Things.

Later it was SEGA Mega drive.  Sensible Soccer was my main game and we used to have a lunchtime league going at my place when I lived right opposite work for a time.  We all got very good at it.

I did own a PS1 but never really got into the more complicated footy games on there and later platforms.

The last games that I've spend time playing would be Age of Empires/Kings and Rome Total War but even these are probably 10 years ago now.

I did once complete Valhalla via a Spectrum emulator  with the full map, as it used to annoy me that I could never find all the artefacts.  I also downloaded Lords of Midnight to my phone but have never bothered with it again.

I've never really had the time to get into these massive multiplayer online gaming environments, maybe when I've retired!

[Master Ray]

Gotta agree with some folks here, my Windows version works perfectly, why upgrade?

Hughie, can you recommend a good, bug free Speccy emulator?

[Hughie]

Hughie, can you recommend a good, bug free Speccy emulator?

I can't remember which one it was but it seemed to work okay. I think the icon was a graphic of Clive Sinclair's head.  It might even have been called Clive or Klive.
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