Fanpeople is drunk so lets do a giveaway.

[fanpeople]

So..... tell me about your first computer, stats, games you enjoyed etc.....

I will choose the one that makes me nostalgia the hardest ie, is closest to my experiences. That person can choose something from my classified to have for free. caveat emptor (probably used this phrase wrong), fanpeople is a cheap **** so he will be sending said item by cheapest means (bubble mailer as a letter). If you want better postage you can work something out later.

Note, my classified will be on freeze until this is done.

Note2, not sure if right place but cant be wrong cuz off topic.

Note3, see classified

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=83322.0

PS merry christmas or some **** like that.

[Halverson]

Happy drunken holidays!

[fanpeople]

Happy drunken holidays!

lol

NO WORK TILL THE 24TH JAN!!!!!

edit: Happy drunken hlidadt to you to!!!!!!

[ygor]

My first computer was a 15lb IBM laptop. Had it for years. It was a true warrior... till one night a homeless man broke into our slumlord apartment, stole our beer and took a piss all over it before leaving. He later returned to the scene of the crime and left a pair of his bloody jean shorts and a Bob Marley keychain as a token of his forgiveness. I'm sure we can all relate to this near biblical tale of total redemption.

[fanpeople]

My first computer was a 15lb IBM laptop. Had it for years. It was a true warrior... till one night a homeless man broke into our slumlord apartment, stole our beer and took a piss all over it before leaving. He later returned to the scene of the crime and left a pair of his bloody jean shorts and a Bob Marley keychain on our porch swing as a token of his forgiveness. I'm sure we can all relate to this near biblical tale of total redemption.
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Please tell me this is a real story?

[ygor]

Sad but true. Was heavy into making GIF stick death animation back then. Lost a lot of great stuff. rip

[LunarisDream]

(not interested in the giveaway but do have a story to tell)

A couple years back when Lunaris was little and in middle school, there was a website called InstantAction.com. Unlike the name implied, InstantAction was a place that touted a new PC gaming experience, claiming to provide high-fidelity games that can be played in your browser. The most popular game in its lineup was Fallen Empire: Legions, a Z-axis (read: jetpacks) shooter with Capture The Flag as its primary game mode. It is heavily inspired by the Tribes series. I had a blast playing it in middle school with the crappy family HP laptop and white Microsoft mouse, and every time I shot someone down in midair with a rocket was exhilarating. One could answer surveys and sign up for various external promotional services to earn in game currency, and I made up many fake personas to do so and purchase in-game cosmetics. It was great. I'm sure my neighbors got plenty of junk mail due to my misuse of their addresses, but also wondered why the junk mail were always to "Mr. Bob Dylans".

InstantAction eventually shut down, and the more dedicated community members took over the game, made the engine standalone, and hosted their own servers. Unfortunately, it never took off and is slowly but surely dying. It now operates under the name Legions: Overdrive, just a shadow of its former glory. Back when it was still hosted by IA, there was a player, one of the best, called SolarisDream. To me, the name was absolutely fantastic, and the guy was really, really nice. I wasn't too bad at the game myself, but was no way near the cream of the crop. So I made a new account called LunarisDream and trained my ass off. I hoped to form a duo team with the guy one day and crush the game together, but it never came to pass. He disappeared from the game near its end, and I kept the name because I dug it.

So that's the origin of LunarisDream's net name. Been using it ever since. If you're curious, my previous net name was NeonSolstice.

[DRAZAH]

I remember asking for years that all I wanted for Christmas was a new computer. It started off asking for **** like a $2000 Alienware but my parents were having none of that but they actually got me an eMachines. So my first computer ever was an eMachines and they brought me to bestbuy to pick out any computer game i want.. I decided on EverQuest2 and this was the very first mmorpg type game I have ever seen. I was super excited to bring it home to play only to find out that I needed to pay a monthly fee to play it (wtf is that ****). SOOO I end up doing yardwork to pay for the $15 bucks on my parents CC to get my month of gametime, so now I am crapping my pants because I had EQ2 sitting in its box (all 10+ CDs), fully installed on my computer, and just reading through the manual every night just figuring out what class I wanted to play (Conjurer, I thought that **** was awesome).

I fire up the game and get passed the login screen, I hear a few seconds of the opening music...my heart is pounding and then BLACK SCREEN.. GAME CRASH. I get that stupid video error saying there is not enough memory or some shaders bull**** so the game cant run. I tried about 5 other times, uninstalled the game completely and reinstalled (which took FOREVER with these 10+ CDs) only to have the same issue. Now this was before I was smart with computers and went straight to the EQ2 Chatroom to ask people. Young me being dumb with computers getting advice on that "Your PC needs a dedicated graphics card and more RAM" and im like "WTF IS RAM, DAD I NEED RAM". Sooo a few days pass where I basically beg my dad to do yardwork and take down all the christmas lights if we can go back to bestbuy and buy "RAM" and a "GRAPHICS CARD".. thankfully he agress (god bless his soul) and I remember buying some cheapo 1GB stick of RAM for like ****ing $60 bucks and a graphics card for $80. He was worried about me installing them into this brand new PC that probably costed them a few hundred dollars but I was determined to figure it out and play this ****ing game. So literally first try ever, I open the sidecase to my lame eMachines and "install" the RAM and GPU and feel like a total badass.

So after everything is in, I inspect it and think its all good. I put everything back and turn the PC back on to attempt with fingers crossed and me praying to whatever immortal being I needed to hoping this game would work. I launch the game, get logged in, I hear the music again but THIS time it plays through and I finally get to the opening cinematics. I don't know about you, but when EQ2 used to have that commercial with their opening cinematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3VamwcAlzs as a 13 year old nerd it was THEE coolest thing ever, and I was about to play it! I enjoyed that game so much it was unreal, it was all new, I put thousands of hours into that game.

^So basically that was my first true experience with computers and video games and will always be my first memory which I like to think is what started my life long interest in computers and gaming. Now present self (~12 years older from noob self above) got my degree in Computer Science and currently an IT Coordinator for a nationwide Non-profit and I still play video games everyday. Ill never forget that **** (all things aboved typed out on first try straight from memory and just thinking about it still gives me the chills. That opening music to EQ2 will never be forgotten.)

[ReverbSlush]

DRAZAH - that's a great story! I think troubleshooting computers has given me patience to tackle problems and figure **** out in other areas of my life (as well as at my job, which is also IT).

My computing started on a 386 Toshiba laptop with an orange screen running an MSDOS shell for the OS. I played many hours of Wing Commander and messed around with (I think it was) qbasic.  My dad was selling Borland C++ at the time, so I think he knew where to get a good deal on computers we normally would not be able to afford.

Later I upgraded to a desktop - Aptiva.  I was playing pitfall, cyberia... I remember my first FPS was wolfenstein 3d. At the time I thought it changed my life! haha.

[fanpeople]

I am liking these stories so far, I am sober now and want to finalise this but need a few more entries. Then I will tell you my experiences and the closest person, the guy that gives me a nostalgia boner wins.

[noisyturtle]

Intel 486 with a Diamond Viper v550 running Windows '93

1993 I believe was the year I got my first PC. At the time my big brother worked for Microsoft and was a bit of a tech guru, so he offered to help build my first PC and wound up spending a bit more than my mom wanted. I never really did use it for school as intended, this was before home computers really got integrated into education so no one expected typed book reports or whatever. Started with games like Jill Of The Jungle, Cosmo's Adventure, Captain Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Scorched Earth. The first year or so it wasn't connected to dial-up, but eventually my mom got a second line (back then you needed a phone line for every device) and it really couldn't have come at a worse time in my life. After that I spent the next 6 years locked in my room masturbating to excruciatingly slow pixilated '90s porn.

[rowdy]

My first computer had 16K RAM.

After a couple of years, I bought some RAM chips and soldered them piggyback over the on-board ones to double the RAM to 32K.

We knew how to optimise code back then, I can tell you!

One neat thing it had was exactly 1K display memory, so you could setup a picture somewhere in RAM and move it into display RAM with one assembly command.

And you lot have your AlienWares and your 486s and your IBM laptops ... luxury!!

[fanpeople]

Two more entries thAn we done.

[Badwrench]

My first computer gaming experience was on my families home 486.  I remember negging my mom to get me mechwarrior.  I loaded it up and was so happy that it actually worked.  It ran about 5 to 10 fps on the lowest settings but as I was little, I didn't care.  I played the crap out of it (my mom even surprised me a few weeks later with a flight stick thatwas compatable with it).  I also used the stick for Descent and Wing Commander.  So many long days sitting in our office with my moms stupid knee chair.  Good times. 

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[letsjigsrocks]

My first computer was a cool dont-know-what-this-flat desktop and dont-care-what-inside. I just want to play the pre-installed game. I don't that time if system unit should look like standing or on flat.  ) ) ) I remember that it was Fujitsu came from Japan garage,gave by my aunt. My aunt let me choose what I want if laptop or a desktop that time.

[rowdy]

My first "IBM compatible" was an NEC APC IV PowerMate 1 4C with a nice NEC mechanical keyboard with blue oval NEC switches.

I loved that keyboard, and honed my programming skillz on it.

At some stage I threw the whole lot out.

Years later I found a similar keyboard being used as a footrest by someone at work, and claimed it.

Then I searched the interwebs to find out whether there was a modern mechanical keyboard with a similar sound and feel.

That led me to Geekhack, and the rest is history.

Through Geekhack I was able to secure a couple of replacement switches (one had been kicked off while it was being used as a footrest).  The keyboard now works perfectly, even if it is still a bit yellowed.

[fanpeople]

Intel 486 with a Diamond Viper v550 running Windows '93

1993 I believe was the year I got my first PC. At the time my big brother worked for Microsoft and was a bit of a tech guru, so he offered to help build my first PC and wound up spending a bit more than my mom wanted. I never really did use it for school as intended, this was before home computers really got integrated into education so no one expected typed book reports or whatever. Started with games like Jill Of The Jungle, Cosmo's Adventure, Captain Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Scorched Earth. The first year or so it wasn't connected to dial-up, but eventually my mom got a second line (back then you needed a phone line for every device) and it really couldn't have come at a worse time in my life. After that I spent the next 6 years locked in my room masturbating to excruciatingly slow pixilated '90s porn.

This **** wins, (note been drinking again) my first computer was also a 486 yet it only had dos. Mine did not have internet. It was kill Christmas 2000 when my child brain decided that the millennium bug was going to kill anyway. So me and my friends smashed the **** out of it. I had a ****ing treasure trove of old ass games. Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest and a bunch of other 5 and a quarter tons of fun (probably had about 50 floppy's. I ****ing think I threw them out shortly after killing the 486. This is my lifes greatest regret. My uncle gave me the computer, it was his teenage years computer.

anyway you triggered my nostalgia with **** like DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D and slow ass porn so congratulations


Tell me which of my **** you want... ah ill ****ing pm you.

[noisyturtle]

Intel 486 with a Diamond Viper v550 running Windows '93

1993 I believe was the year I got my first PC. At the time my big brother worked for Microsoft and was a bit of a tech guru, so he offered to help build my first PC and wound up spending a bit more than my mom wanted. I never really did use it for school as intended, this was before home computers really got integrated into education so no one expected typed book reports or whatever. Started with games like Jill Of The Jungle, Cosmo's Adventure, Captain Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Scorched Earth. The first year or so it wasn't connected to dial-up, but eventually my mom got a second line (back then you needed a phone line for every device) and it really couldn't have come at a worse time in my life. After that I spent the next 6 years locked in my room masturbating to excruciatingly slow pixilated '90s porn.

This **** wins, (note been drinking again) my first computer was also a 486 yet it only had dos. Mine did not have internet. It was kill Christmas 2000 when my child brain decided that the millennium bug was going to kill anyway. So me and my friends smashed the **** out of it. I had a ****ing treasure trove of old ass games. Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest and a bunch of other 5 and a quarter tons of fun (probably had about 50 floppy's. I ****ing think I threw them out shortly after killing the 486. This is my lifes greatest regret. My uncle gave me the computer, it was his teenage years computer.

anyway you triggered my nostalgia with **** like DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D and slow ass porn so congratulations


Tell me which of my **** you want... ah ill ****ing pm you.

Woo coolio, I'll hit you up tonight!

[fanpeople]

My first computer gaming experience was on my families home 486.  I remember negging my mom to get me mechwarrior.  I loaded it up and was so happy that it actually worked.  It ran about 5 to 10 fps on the lowest settings but as I was little, I didn't care.  I played the crap out of it (my mom even surprised me a few weeks later with a flight stick thatwas compatable with it).  I also used the stick for Descent and Wing Commander.  So many long days sitting in our office with my moms stupid knee chair.  Good times. 

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Noisyturtle was kind enough to decline the win and **** the giveaway process up lol. I got to say that Badwrench would have to be the next closest so we have a new winner.......

How does it feel to win by default hahaha.

[Badwrench]

My first computer gaming experience was on my families home 486.  I remember negging my mom to get me mechwarrior.  I loaded it up and was so happy that it actually worked.  It ran about 5 to 10 fps on the lowest settings but as I was little, I didn't care.  I played the crap out of it (my mom even surprised me a few weeks later with a flight stick thatwas compatable with it).  I also used the stick for Descent and Wing Commander.  So many long days sitting in our office with my moms stupid knee chair.  Good times. 

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Noisyturtle was kind enough to decline the win and **** the giveaway process up lol. I got to say that Badwrench would have to be the next closest so we have a new winner.......

How does it feel to win by default hahaha.

Sweet!  A win is a win in my book.  Thank you buddy.  It was awesome to reminisce on those old games. 
Pm incoming. 

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[rowdy]

Congrats guys