your favourite schoolboy toys

[whitechief]

Tycho said:

I had one of these:




Thanks mum and dad......

Me too, Quest anyone?

[Alex]

whitechief said:

Tycho said:

I had one of these:




Thanks mum and dad......

Me too, Quest anyone?

Ah, the Dragon 32. So named because it was capable of displaying 32 colours. Well, 32 shades of green and purple at least.

Edited by Alex on Thursday 4th December 00:22

[BigBen]

Alex said:

whitechief said:

Tycho said:

I had one of these:




Thanks mum and dad......

Me too, Quest anyone?

Ah, the Dragon 32. So named because it was capable of displaying 32 colours. Well, 32 shades of green and purple at least.

Edited by Alex on Thursday 4th December 00:22

Thats the 32 bit. The Dragon being because they were a Welsh company

[Alex]

Never actually had one of these, but friends did:



Never had one of these either, but I wanted one!



Or this:



But I DID have one of these:

[Alex]

BigBen said:

Alex said:

whitechief said:

Tycho said:

I had one of these:




Thanks mum and dad......

Me too, Quest anyone?

Ah, the Dragon 32. So named because it was capable of displaying 32 colours. Well, 32 shades of green and purple at least.

Edited by Alex on Thursday 4th December 00:22

Thats the 32 bit. The Dragon being because they were a Welsh company

It used an 8-bit 6809 CPU. The 32 was the KB.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

Alex said:

It used an 8-bit 6809 CPU. The 32 was the KB.

Always wondered who bought the Dragon 64.

It didn't appear to be worth the extra cash over the 32 - I know it was aimed at business use, but it was horribly limited in the same way the 32 was, compared with the competition.

[The Skunk]

benoli said:

ahh, the commodore 64.... remember the games that were on casettes and used to take about 45 minutes to load up?

[Tunku]

Alfa_75_Steve said:

Alex said:

It used an 8-bit 6809 CPU. The 32 was the KB.

Always wondered who bought the Dragon 64.

It didn't appear to be worth the extra cash over the 32 - I know it was aimed at business use, but it was horribly limited in the same way the 32 was, compared with the competition.

When I was a kid, a computer was a lass who went around counting. Electronics did not exist. Spinning tops and catapults did.

[BAHN-STORMA]

Alex said:

Never actually had one of these, but friends did:



Never had one of these either, but I wanted one!



Or this:



But I DID have one of these:

Remember mates Evels and p***ing around with Flightdecks... they promised soooo much!


Had a 'Tin Can Alley' and collar felt by rozzers on the Christmas day (I got it) on our driveway!!!

Luckily, in the good ol' days the old bill weren't armed! Otherwise, I would have been executed!

[whitechief]

The Skunk said:

benoli said:

ahh, the commodore 64.... remember the games that were on casettes and used to take about 45 minutes to load up?

Manic miner, Chuckie egg, Jet set Willy, Bomb Jack etc....

[B17NNS]

Pvapour said:

surprised nobody has posted this

Edited by Pvapour on Thursday 4th December 00:00

ooooh, i had one of those. it had faux teak sides.

[Shaw Tarse]

Alex said:

Never actually had one of these, but friends did:



Never had one of these either, but I wanted one!



Or this:



But I DID have one of these:

B'stard you owe me loads of Ebay pounds!

[The Skunk]

whitechief said:

The Skunk said:

benoli said:

ahh, the commodore 64.... remember the games that were on casettes and used to take about 45 minutes to load up?

Manic miner, Chuckie egg, Jet set Willy, Bomb Jack etc....

haha - Daley Thompson's Decathlon... I'm sure we snapped a few joysticks trying to do the hurdles and long jump.

[Dan7357]

PhantomHumper said:

Exact same Amiga that I had, loved it.

Still got mine in the loft..

[Mobsta]

BigBen said:

Olf said:

Cactussed said:

PhantomHumper said:

Exact same Amiga that I had, loved it.

Me too. Spent HOURS playing FA-18 Interceptor

Did you ever land on the enemy aircraft carrier?

Edited by Olf on Wednesday 3rd December 21:48

Which rather improbably refuelled you and replenished your weapons ! Never did sink the fking thing tho

Awesome game though
Here it is on the tube

[BAHN-STORMA]

PhantomHumper said:

Exact same Amiga that I had, loved it.

A true ICON... the next gen [600?] was even more compact...
Just a keyboard [Apple took note!}

[mybrainhurts]

[wpo750]

Mobsta said:

BigBen said:

Olf said:

Cactussed said:

PhantomHumper said:

Exact same Amiga that I had, loved it.

Me too. Spent HOURS playing FA-18 Interceptor

Did you ever land on the enemy aircraft carrier?

Edited by Olf on Wednesday 3rd December 21:48

Which rather improbably refuelled you and replenished your weapons ! Never did sink the fking thing tho

Awesome game though
Here it is on the tube

Ahhh, so much of my youth was wasted on FA-18. That youtube video has brought back so many memories, I was almost tapping the keys whilst watching it. Remember the blue code wheel? Also noticed Stunt Car Racer on the same page, another classic.

Other Amiga games worth remembering:

Supercars
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Kick Off 2 (many 2 pence pieces won and lost over that game)
Sensible Soccer
Speedball 2 (that was seriously slick for its time)
Chase HQ!
Sim City
Lemmings
Xenon
and I think Syndicate was the last game I ever played on my trusty Amiga.

Consistently armed with an up-to-date version of X-Copy (v6.0 pro being a favorite iirc) I was the piracy king at school by the age of 10 lol.

[Hoppy2008]

Cant remember what it was called, but it was an electric dumper truck that you could input codes into (co-ordinat type, i think) and it would go forwrd, reverse, etc and pick up and dump little black balls?

[ol]

Pvapour said:

surprised nobody has posted this

I did earlier in the thread:

ol said:

The Atari 2600, my first computer. I can still remember the day I got it, ahhhh memories