robthehermit
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Post by robthehermit on Sept 15, 2021 10:53:42 GMT
My first computer was a VIC-20.
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Post by One_Vurfed_Gwrx on Sept 15, 2021 11:41:36 GMT
My first computer was a VIC-20. Me too, came with a whopping 3K RAM expansion cartridge that nothing I owned used. Jelly Monsters was a better use of my cartridge port I do always remember Rockman on VIC-20 being a lot better than the crappy Spectrum version (which was platformy IIRC) |
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Post by Blackice on Sept 15, 2021 13:52:17 GMT
Hello from another RPS refugee! Seeing as we're sharing our first computers here, mine was an Acorn Electron, which was basically a cut-down BBC Micro. I got it when I was 12, and spent my formative years playing Mr Wiz, Repton and Elite on it.
After that I got an Atari ST, before moving onto a string of PCs, starting with a 486SX25.
I'll probably be lurking in the shadows here mostly, but maybe I'll post in the screenshot thread occasionally, that was my favourite thread on the RPS forums.
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Frog
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Post by Frog on Sept 15, 2021 14:04:27 GMT
We will coax you out from your lurking one day Mr Ice
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Post by stacks on Sept 15, 2021 16:45:55 GMT
Speaking of retro PC's does anyone remember Xtree gold or something like that. I had it on a donkeys old Amstrad I had as a kid. It was some form of early o/s or possibly just a registry organiser. As a kid it just allowed me to find the executables for my Sierra catalogue and sensible soccer!
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Post by Phattso on Sept 15, 2021 17:02:54 GMT
That and it’s ilk we’re just file explorers weren’t there? Let you see the whole directory tree without the command line. I seem to remember having a few.
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Post by imaginaryllamas on Sept 15, 2021 17:31:31 GMT
Hello from yet another RPS refugee! Quite frankly I don't remember what my first PC was, but I do remember that both Transport Tycoon and Roller Coaster Tycoon were a couple of my first PC games. I still replay them regularly (in OpenTTD and OpenRCT2 form).
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Post by stacks on Sept 15, 2021 17:52:46 GMT
That and it’s ilk we’re just file explorers weren’t there? Let you see the whole directory tree without the command line. I seem to remember having a few. Thanks, I'll go with that! I was about 8-10 when I first started on my Amstrad. So it's a vague memory at best. |
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Post by retro74 on Sept 15, 2021 19:21:45 GMT
Welcome to all the new members migrating over from RPS
I had an Acorn Electron too, I wanted a Spectrum but my Mum wanted us to get something “educational”
Eventually got my wish and we got a Speccy +3
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Post by LegendaryApe on Sept 15, 2021 19:33:17 GMT
Welcome RPS folks. We refer to ourselves as 'Fonties'. Must of us are imaginary
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 19:38:39 GMT
I'm very sure it's 'Fonters'. This could lead to a schism, and centuries of murderous civil war. But in the meantime, welcome all.
I also had a Vic-20, but spent every single minute I could playing Elite on my mates Speccy instead. My dad was really pleased with his investment.
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Post by spacein_vader on Sept 15, 2021 19:45:23 GMT
That and it’s ilk we’re just file explorers weren’t there? Let you see the whole directory tree without the command line. I seem to remember having a few. That's certainly my recollection of it. |
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Post by Matt A on Sept 15, 2021 19:50:19 GMT
Elite, what a game. Thargoids
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Immaterial
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Post by Immaterial on Sept 15, 2021 20:24:12 GMT
I'm very sure it's 'Fonters'. This could lead to a schism, and centuries of murderous civil war. But in the meantime, welcome all. It's pronounced 'Fonteurs', because we were once Euro. |
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Vortex
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Post by Vortex on Sept 15, 2021 20:25:55 GMT
I'm very sure it's 'Fonters'. This could lead to a schism, and centuries of murderous civil war. But in the meantime, welcome all. It's pronounced 'Fonteurs', because we were once Euro. No-one better create a 'national font' now we've stupidly brexited. I guess that daft racist who got binned at the start sort of tried. The twat. |
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Immaterial
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Post by Immaterial on Sept 15, 2021 20:33:56 GMT
Roger Reedpop?
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Post by jellyhead on Sept 15, 2021 20:59:02 GMT
I thought we were 'Funts'?
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Post by theguy on Sept 15, 2021 21:39:15 GMT
Welcome to the RPS crowd
Curious, how active was your forum before it was reedpopped?
Did most of you make it over?
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LTK
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Post by LTK on Sept 15, 2021 22:08:20 GMT
Welcome to the RPS crowd Curious, how active was your forum before it was reedpopped? Did most of you make it over? It's still there, October 1st is when it's getting 'popped. The site statistics should give you a good idea about how active it is: forum.rockpapershotgun.com/about |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 22:38:36 GMT
I've just been over on RPS reading the thread about coming here. It's really quite lovely  Don't know if any of you RPS types played Laser Squad Nemesis a very long time ago , but as soon as I win the Euro Lottery I'm giving Julian Gollop a pile of £££ to bring it back, sub free this time, so be ready |
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Post by rawhammered on Sept 15, 2021 22:54:44 GMT
Welcome to all the new members migrating over from RPS I had an Acorn Electron too, I wanted a Spectrum but my Mum wanted us to get something “educational” Eventually got my wish and we got a Speccy +3 Had exactly the same growing up. Elite on the old acorn, great times! |
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Tomo
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Post by Tomo on Sept 15, 2021 22:55:23 GMT
Welcome to the RPS crowd Curious, how active was your forum before it was reedpopped? Did most of you make it over? It's still there, October 1st is when it's getting 'popped. The site statistics should give you a good idea about how active it is: forum.rockpapershotgun.com/aboutSite stats?! Ffs, craigy gave you guys the platinum service! No wonder he never finished mobile view. |
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LTK
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Post by LTK on Sept 15, 2021 23:24:26 GMT
Site stats?! Ffs, craigy gave you guys the platinum service! No wonder he never finished mobile view. Nah, the forum itself got an overhaul in 2017, switching over to Discourse. The change was off-putting to a lot of people but the system definitely has a lot more modern conveniences. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2021 23:32:28 GMT
Only forum I ever bothered to visit was EG. When we moved here it was like going from 2d to 3d. And then because of closures and mentions I got to see what RPS and Resetera looked like, and realised how shit EG was.
Features and functions wise.
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Sept 16, 2021 2:21:10 GMT
did think it was a wee bit disingenuous when they shuttered the EG forums largely down to the shonky old code you folks put up with, totally ignoring the modern half decent system they had running next door @rps
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 16, 2021 2:52:54 GMT
did think it was a wee bit disingenuous when they shuttered the EG forums largely down to the shonky old code you folks put up with, totally ignoring the modern half decent system they had running next door @rps Though, to be fair, the transition to Discourse was far from smooth. I'm really missing it now though! (no offence to this lovely forum!) |
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minimatt
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Post by minimatt on Sept 16, 2021 3:04:59 GMT
aye, I remember *drama* but can't recall why
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Post by Bill in the rain on Sept 16, 2021 3:14:39 GMT
Mainly a bunch of technical issues with trying to port over all the posts and accounts from the old forum system. Which meant a lot of ongoing threads had messed up things like quotes and images at first, and a lot of people couldn't even log in for a while.
Combine that with a lot of people just not liking a change from something familiar to something unfamiliar and it just created a bunch of complaints and also lost a fair few users in the transition.
Which was a shame, as Discourse turned out to be pretty nice once you got used to it... and most of the issues were fixed within a week or so.
Oh, and there was the problem of it being eye-searingly white by default ;-)
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Post by dominalien on Sept 16, 2021 4:37:27 GMT
Craigy was working on new features all the time (he was on eg forum quite often), but little came of it and then he took away portable mode since “no one was using it” and then he brought it back but only for the main site and that was a pretty strong indication the forum was well apart from the rest.
EG is/was all custom code, though, no ready-made solution like Discourse. Reading through the RPS forum now I’m not sure I’m a fan of the one long page format, much prefer regular pages like this place has, though it looks very modern!
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Post by Hanimalle on Sept 16, 2021 7:27:46 GMT
Oh, and there was the problem of it being eye-searingly white by default ;-) So that's why my vision has been steadily declining for the last three years... Seriously though, as we get closer to October 1st, I'm starting to realize how much I'm actually going to miss that place. It really was lovely hanging around over there these past few years and it also was the last forum I visited daily. |
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