Nostalgia: What was the first PC you played games on?

Our first family computer was a 286 with a Hercules Monochrome screen. There were maybe 4 programs installed on it running in DOS. One of which was Family Ware which had a selection of games, a couple of them using ASCII graphics.

We then upgraded to a 486 with a colour screen which we had until 2003. I was so jealous of the other kids with their CD-ROM games!
 
Jaco Smit said:
Yup, my dad bought it to run his Quatro Pro Spreadsheets. He had a similar system in his office. Carried the files around on 1.44Mb stiffies. Think the PC has 8 filled slots of EDO RAM.
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Damn if only you still had those and they were also still working. Worth their weight in gold you know. There are still places with hard to decom legacy systems and the last time I had exposure to the market those modules were going for around R5k per 4MB EDO.
 
The first PC I played games on was a 286. My mom had one that she used Pastel on for bookkeeping. It had a orange and black screen and we had a floppy with games on that you had to put in when you wanted to play games. Floppy noises, hnnngggg

Our next PC was a Pentium 166MHz (also for my mom), but on this we could play Diablo & Quake; it was glorious.
 
Jaco Smit said:
Hey, forgot about the SoundBlaster!!! Nice one! Ever had to troubleshoot one before the internet became popular? You had to check jumpers, boot, change config files, reboot and test, keeping a note with settings tried. And quite possibly do this a few times until restoring the jumpers and config.sys and the sound magically works...
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I still have our sound blaster 16 in my cupboard...that thing is bigger than some of todays motherboards :p
 
Had a monochrome screen, really can't remember what it was. Kings quest, space quest and leisure suit Larry

First pc I bought for myself was a 166 with mmx, 2gb hard drive and 128meg ram.
I upgraded the graphics card to some 4 meg thing by creative Labs.

Riven, myst, Abe and others.
 
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kirplunk said:
Damn if only you still had those and they were also still working. Worth their weight in gold you know. There are still places with hard to decom legacy systems and the last time I had exposure to the market those modules were going for around R5k per 4MB EDO.
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Eina, nope. Think "lightning" fried it eventually before we got our first Pentium.
 
AstroTurf said:
Had a monochrome screen, really can't remember what it was. Kings quest, space quest and leisure suit Larry
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Chances are that it was an IBM, NEC, DEC or Olivetti. Most of these had a PC with a monochrome monitor and 8086, 8088, 80186 or 80286 processors from Intel. I found the IBMs were extremely common in SA and that solid metal case was quite a winner.

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Who remembers the P3 Katmai?

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Man this thing with 550mhz absolutely killed it back in the early 2000s

Especially when combined with :

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I actually still have a 3Dfx Voodoo 2 in a drawer somewhere...I think I got it to play Quake or something, but it sucked so I got a TNT2 instead with the PIII
 
Reavs said:
They were great combined with a DX4-100 but I ended up selling them to fund my TNT2.
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Dude, those TNT2s were absolutely legendary. My love affair with nVidia started there. I did dabble in the ATI Mach 64 and had some Radeon X something or another for a short period of time, but I quickly realized my mistake and went back to nVidia
 
PsychoFish said:
Dude, those TNT2s were absolutely legendary. My love affair with nVidia started there. I did dabble in the ATI Mach 64 and had some Radeon X something or another for a short period of time, but I quickly realized my mistake and went back to nVidia
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Everyone wanted one. Especially with the popularity of Q3 at the time. Had a Voodoo 3 at some point which just didn't cut it after messing around with the TNT2.

Damn, now i need to put together a 486 or even a P3.
 
Jaco Smit said:
My first GPU was a 16Mb 3DFx Bashee. Still have it, I think.
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Oh man if you got that while they were still being sold you had a solid damn card to play Quake at Uber res no?!

I had so much pride in my S3 SS Trio discreet card back in 1996... came from a trident video card and got use to the character and scrolling speed of Warcraft 1 still - which was really bad and crippled due to not enough beef on the max res 600x800 card. When I popped in the s3 it seemed all my games broke cause everything happened so damn fast.

And the smoother feeling the s3 gave in Hexen and Heretic was my maiden introduction to the world of game induced motion sickness :-)

Wonder what I would have though about my current R9 290X back in those days... only would have been in my dreams.
 
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