For me it's Monster Truck Madness. On our first Windows 95 computer.

Our first hard-drive was a 200mb one, that fitted inside the A1200. If I remember correctly it was a birthday present. My dad partitioned it into four, and I was allowed a generous 100 megs. I even managed to install Workbench on two of the partitions so; We could both have our own OS/Desktop stuff without interfering with each other. Playing Monkey Island 2 on the hard-drive for the first time was pretty awesome, no more swapping 12 discs to play!reptor wrote:I remember I had a 120 MB hard disk drive. As some time passed and the games I had got bigger, I had to wipe out almost everything else to install just one game! Oh how funny it is to think about that now.
I was just reading Tanenbaum's OS book today and he said in the 'ancient days' computers only loaded a single process into main memory, so every program had to have device drivers (well, at least devices it plans to use) built-in.JustBoo wrote:Well, I just can't resist.nikki wrote:First hard disk I remember us having (maybe my dad or mom used some before, I don't remember) was 3 GB.
In 1987-88 (I believe) I was selling Seagate ST-225 (20 MegaByte) hard-drives for USD 399.00, and ST-238 (30MB) for around 599.00 as I recall. And that was without a controller card. It was MFM / RLL then. Motherboards in those days did not come with "integrated anything," you had to add it with a card. If you were smart, before you turned your computer off, you ran a utility that parked your hard-drives heads so it would not crash your HDD if you bumped or moved your computer. Ahhh, those were the good ol' / bad ol' days indeed.
My first hard drive was 20MB and cost $550au (got a discount from the normal $700au. It was the A590 (think that was the name) for the Amiga 500.I remember I had a 120 MB hard disk drive.
I never played Bedlam, but I did play the other Robert Arnstein text adventure game Raaka Tu.The game was a text-based "game" called Bedlam.
Don't forget Amiga Screens Kojack!Kojack wrote:Of course while pc users were using TSRs, amiga owners had true pre-emptive multitasking.
AmigaOS' microkernel design is interesting. Seems to have been popular among Multimedia guys.betajaen wrote:Don't forget Amiga Screens Kojack!Kojack wrote:Of course while pc users were using TSRs, amiga owners had true pre-emptive multitasking.
For those don't know, a Screen is a "desktop" with a resolution and colour depth. If you had multiple programs running, you could assign a program to a screen to run in a different size or colour depth than the others, and switch between them extremely quickly. The twist is that you can do split-screen and pull a screen down (like dragging a window vertically) to reveal the screen behind it regardless of the colour depth, resolution or other things.
PC hardware is yet to do such a thing.
Yeah, I think that was my second game. Came with Windows 95, right?twilight17 wrote:Does Chip's Challenge ring a bell?
Yep. Motherboards was named after B-52 songs and the chips were named after women. Paula, Gayle, Agnus, Denise and Lisa.JustBoo wrote:Didn't you guys call your computer chips "Betsy and Frank and Goober" and such? I guess history has proven the Amiga and its OS were ahead of its time. But then, why did it die so early? Because of those chip names?Oh, I think I remember, didn't a merger gone wrong happen or something?
Yep, the copper (graphics coprocessor) in the agnus chip could use a "copper list" to change various custom chip settings (like screen resolution, colour depth, palette, sprite pos, location in ram of the screen buffer, etc) when the raster beam of a monitor reaches a specific location on the screen. The copper list worked in parallel to the cpu, it was a finite state machine which ran inside the gfx chip.Don't forget Amiga Screens Kojack!
Later on they added the male chips Garry and Ramsey, but most were female (what else would you expect from a computer called Amiga, which is spanish for girlfriend).Yep. Motherboards was named after B-52 songs and the chips were named after women. Paula, Gayle, Agnus, Denise and Lisa.