Computer games

[Spoon]

So, I'm interested to see if I'm the only old fogie that likes to Minecraft?

What computer games do you like to play.

 

[Sidney]

War Thunder at the minute but I refuse to pay for upgrades so I'm getting my bottomed spank by Russian rich kids... 

 

[Spoon]

I used to play '7 days to Die' but I got bored of waiting for an update, so went back to Minecraft.  Not that I ever left Minecraft.

Not heard of War Thunder. I will have to check it out on YouTube.

 

[ProDave]

Not played them since the likes of Doom.

 

[OnOff]

Stopped playing games at Space Invaders.

Still want to get around to building a full size MAME arcade machine just for the woodworking / Hell of it.

 

[Spoon]

Stopped playing games at Space Invaders.

Still want to get around to building a full size MAME arcade machine just for the woodworking / Hell of it.

My brother-in-law build one of them, with a raspberry pi in it with lots of old games on it.

It looks really great and the kids love playing on it when we go round.

 

[OnOff]

My brother-in-law build one of them, with a raspberry pi in it with lots of old games on it.

It looks really great and the kids love playing on it when we go round.

The idea was for it to be a father and son/daughter project and thereafter something for SWMBO to complain about getting in the way!

 

[Spoon]

The idea was for it to be a father and son/daughter project and thereafter something for SWMBO to complain about getting in the way!

Sounds like a great project to do.

 

[kerching]

I gave up with the Binatone Tennis thing

then got reawakened in the 80s with the kids and Sonic

not bothered since....just awaiting grandaughters to latch onto something...luckily all 6 like fresh air more!

 

[Spoon]

I gave up with the Binatone Tennis thing

then got reawakened in the 80s with the kids and Sonic

not bothered since....just awaiting grandaughters to latch onto something...luckily all 6 like fresh air more!

I never did like Sonic. Not sure why, I just couldn't get into it.

1980's we had an Atari console. Thought it was brilliant.

 

[kerching]

I never did like Sonic. Not sure why, I just couldn't get into it.

1980's we had an Atari console. Thought it was brilliant.

Probably got one in the loft!

ive seen an Amiga kicking about somewhere

 

[Spoon]

Probably got one in the loft!

ive seen an Amiga kicking about somewhere

My Computer Studies teacher had a ZX80 (or ZX81, I forgot which) with a chess program for it.  He told us it took overnight for the computer to make it's move. 

 

[Rob.]

My Computer Studies teacher had a ZX80 (or ZX81, I forgot which) with a chess program for it.  He told us it took overnight for the computer to make it's move. 

I had to write a traffic light control program for a ZX80 for either my HND or degree, can't remember which now. 

The amount of times I nearly pulled my hair out at it showing compiler error, an giving no diagnostic information on where the error was. Could've just been a comma instead of semi-colon.

 

[Spoon]

I had to write a traffic light control program for a ZX80 for either my HND or degree, can't remember which now. 

The amount of times I nearly pulled my hair out at it showing compiler error, an giving no diagnostic information on where the error was. Could've just been a comma instead of semi-colon.

The language we were being taught was Basic in Computer Studies.  We had gridded paper and we had to write the program on this.  One character in each square. 

This was then send to the local polytechnic and they entered it into their computers. You then got the result back the next lesson. 

If you did a small mistake, like a character wrong, then your corrected that character and when waited for the program to be send to the poly again.

 

[Rob.]

The language we were being taught was Basic in Computer Studies.  We had gridded paper and we had to write the program on this.  One character in each square. 

This was then send to the local polytechnic and they entered it into their computers. You then got the result back the next lesson. 

If you did a small mistake, like a character wrong, then your corrected that character and when waited for the program to be send to the poly again.

I think, I will have a copy of the code somewhere at home. Might dig it out just out of curiosity. 

 

[kerching]

I remember having a Sinclair spectrum connected to a cassette player for programs

printed onto a silver thermal toilet roll!

early 70s at Uni........computer was housed in an external portacabin  , it was water cooled, punch card programmed and you had to book time a month in advance and ONLY if in your final year OR doing a Masters

 

[Spoon]

My first computer was a Dragon 32.  32K of memory...  I was sooo proud that I has so much memory.

It's still in the garage somewhere.  Not sure why I'm keeping it.

I had a printer plotter for mine.  Also printed off on a roll of paper.  Took ages to print off.  It was cheaper than other printers.  4 different coloured little pens.

The guy at the computer shop also took me to Dicksons to buy a cassette.  Had to be a special one, with a switch option for the volume. Made saving and loading of programs better.... Not 100% though.

 

[Tony S]

My first computer was a Commodore 64. Next came a 80286 with 2MB of memory!

Years rolled by and I built a 80486DX4 with two ancillary 80286 CPU’s. Two 32MB memory sticks cost £400 each, add to that the two ancillary CPU’s had 4MB each.

Now your phone has more computing power.

At work when we started to use Logicon 2 hard wired logic our first training project was traffic light control. Practical use on the works was kiln control, a simple change would take days to complete.

Our first PLC’s were Texas Instruments (later I found out they were rebadged Modicon 500 series). You needed the muscles of he-man to carry the programming unit.

 

[Rob.]

Now your phone has more computing power.

Modern phones have more computing power than the rocket that put man on the moon.

Hartmann and Braun control was what I started on, then moving to Siemens Step 5.

As you know our kiln setups were German in design.

 

[binky]

I've always liked the Total War series of games - basically it's a form of problem solving. I must have defeated the Roman empire at least 20 times by now, and have finaly decided to delete it from my PC and do something more useful wih my life  :^O .