Reasons to be cheerful... 1,2,3

[teamster1975]

Yes we did ,and i think the four of us thoroughly enjoyed it in one way
or another

Time for another one Puggy! A plan for the new year!

[mjb]

heh being someone who grew up on the Internet (starting around 1993 long before it got popular!) I've been to my fair share of meets (50+ of the things) and tbh your opinion of someone doesn't tend to change even if the guy/gal looks the polar opposite of what you expected, as long as the personality's the same

The second you detect anyone's been pretending to be someone they're not though, they sortof instantly get labelled ;)

[steve_earwig]

Damn, all my excuses have vapourised Now I'll have to find a picture where I've still got some hair. Hmm...

1995, they dumped a pc on my desk, I'd never touched one before but then my boss broke his ankle and I didn't have anything else to do... I used to go up town with loads of office-types, meet up, get drunk, dance a bit, find your way home before the trains stop running.

[teamster1975]

heh being someone who grew up on the Internet (starting around 1993 long before it got popular!)

Cor, Spry Mosaic on Windows 3.11, what a fiddle that was to get working with the tacked on tcp stack!

[mjb]

heh being someone who grew up on the Internet (starting around 1993 long before it got popular!)

Cor, Spry Mosaic on Windows 3.11, what a fiddle that was to get working with the tacked on tcp stack!

I mostly avoided Trumpet Windsock because I didn't use a PC until a few years later. Back then I used an Acorn A3010 bought from a whole years worth of paper round money (£600 at £13/week)

[teamster1975]

I mostly avoided Trumpet Windsock because I didn't use a PC until a few years later. Back then I used an Acorn A3010 bought from a whole years worth of paper round money (£600 at £13/week)

Trumpet Winsock! Good memory, I'd forgotton!
My Uncle was always into his Archies, he had a BBC B modded up to the hilt before that

[DaiRees]

I had an Acorn Electron

[teamster1975]

There were some good games though Dai! I remember my Uncles beeb was the only one I knew of that could run Elite

[Doggy]

I did Elite & Revs- they were great.
Re-did Elite about 2-3 years ago with a pc Beeb simulation - almost as good, but I got to Elite status in a couple of weeks, took me a few months the first time.
I was a fairly old hand by the time Beebs came along, started on Commodore Pets about MCMLXXIX.

Anyone else remember Revs

[DaiRees]

Yeah I had elite too. Vaguely remember Revs but I never had it!

Chuckie Egg anyone?

[Welly]

Well I would have a Chuckie Egg Dai, if I wasn't already at work as of 06:30am

[Doggy]

Better for you than a generic chicken sandwich

[Welly]

I thought Dai was on about a boiled egg with a runny yolk

I remember some of my friends had ZX81's ??

I was an outdoor lad 100% and spent all day out on my Huffy BMX, and snogging girls

[mjb]

Yeah I had elite too. Vaguely remember Revs but I never had it!

Elite was the daddy. I spent weeks becoming Elite Shame the Elk version didn't have missions or Thargoids, but I guess missing that made ArcElite all the better

Revs was only released on the BBC. I once tried to get it to play on my Electron with Slogger Master RAM Board (could switch between a standard Elk setup and a second PCB with faster CPU and 64k accessible RAM although no direct access to screen memory) but it didn't work

I mostly hacked around on it (how many kids nowadays have a firm grasp of assembly by the age of 7?) and played text adventures though. I've tried playing text adventures recently and I find I just don't have the patience for them any more. Shame

[Doggy]

I'm obviously a bit older than you lot, was 20 something about that time, so it was TR6, Europa Special, that kind of thing.

(And a few I'd rather not admit to)