OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Do viruses such as Denzuko and Brain ring a bell? my first pc was a ranger... AT286 with 1MB RAM (4 x 256K DRAM modules), 20MB HDD, 1x5.25" 1.2MB FDD, 1x3.5" 1.44MB FDD, 14" VGA Monitor, MS-DOS 5.0 OS. I paid $2,000 for it, scrimped and saved from my 1st job to pay for it. Later got Lotus 123 spreadsheet, Wordstar 5.0 wordprocessor. I became very good in writing autoexec.bat and config.sys to optimise the base 640K RAM to allow many games to be played, including the original Wing Commander game, because the games could not directly access the 384K of Extended memory (EMS). ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 As the games became more elaborate, they started running into packs of 5.25" or 3.5" disks. The later King's Quest games (just before the CD version) had at least 6 to 7 disks and required frequent swapping as you move into different scenes. But of course.. the Zork series... and also the Leisure Suit Larry series... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arowana1 1st Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Sounds like my first computer too, except mine had 2 x 5.25" floppy drives. I still remember playing Karateka on that thing... my bad. mine was 2 x 5.25" floppy ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 The one with the b****y bird. is the white karata guy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Single-density or double? my bad. mine was 2 x 5.25" floppy ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkingidiot 1st Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Do viruses such as Denzuko and Brain ring a bell? strangely, I was never really affected by viruses in the early days... even though much copying of software from Sim Lim. The first virus I ever encountered was the keypress virus, and that was after I bought a modem and was surfing the BBS's in those days. I first got an external 2400 baud v22.bis... ooh.. speed demon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Sounds like my first computer too, except mine had 2 x 5.25" floppy drives. I still remember playing Karateka on that thing... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmOm 5th Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 2,400! woohoo! Great for playing BBS games and chatting with the sysops. strangely, I was never really affected by viruses in the early days... even though much copying of software from Sim Lim. The first virus I ever encountered was the keypress virus, and that was after I bought a modem and was surfing the BBS's in those days. I first got an external 2400 baud v22.bis... ooh.. speed demon! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman888 Moderator June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 the first computer I got my hand on was an Apple :D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeshe Turbocharged June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 uop lorry loong time ago.....oni one still standing now is ranger....datamini, compro all uplorry wow.. ranger still around?? one point in time, IPC suppose to be the most popular, now gone also Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cracker 1st Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 The major local brands in the 90s were : datamini, aris, IPC, ranger, compro, sherry, there was also a taiwanese brand called multitech....which is the "forefather" of the current Acer brand. in fact, the first 4 companies used to have mega booth during PC show back then. IPC went to Point Of Sale (POS) biz before leaving the IT biz to go into property line. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poper 2nd Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 I like the ultima underworld... later on came the baddest of the lot: Castle Wolfenstein! And also Karate-ka Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poper 2nd Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Lode Runner too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poper 2nd Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 How many still remember CUBIC in Funan? The shop run by Sim Wong Foo, Creative Tech founder. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parkingidiot 1st Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 yeah.. cubic 99.. and those days Funan centre was a dark and dingy place, did not really like going there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poper 2nd Gear June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 Those days, you can walk in to most shop, open a s/w catalog and copy them in floppy disks Then one year, the gahmen announced s/w copyright to be enforced. So, the night before, there were long queues in many Funan shops as people made their last software copy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mazdaowner Moderator June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 2,400! woohoo! Great for playing BBS games and chatting with the sysops. Initial baud rate was 300, then, 1200, 2400, 3600, 9600, etc...SIA bbs was the in thing with online chatting. Was remote Sysop of a few bbs then. Good old days. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosaria Twincharged June 10, 2011 Share June 10, 2011 (edited) my first computer is an XT 640kb of RAM NO hard disk (back then, 20Mb is king and cost an arm and a leg) 2 x 3.5" floppy drive monochrome display 9-pin dot matrix printer You must be around my 'vintage'. XT like your config was when I was still in primary school. 4MHz clock speed!!! Later on got this "Turbo" button to increase to 8MHz and 16MHz (x386 days, later). I always wondered why don't they just hardwire this Turbo function... everyone wants more speed, right? "Green" monitor, and I'm not talking energy-saving! Colour option was 4-colour CGA (white, cyan, magenta, black). Only one 5.25" floppy disk (and they were really floppy, and really measured 5.25 inches!!) drive, and I remember having to code the autoexec.bat file to create a "RAM Disk" - a virtual drive sitting in the RAM - so that it could be used as a second disk drive and thus avoid tedious disk swapping when playing games! Edited June 10, 2011 by Sosaria ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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