I named my first external hard drive "Flying Toaster" due to its portability and my love of the old After Dark screensavers... it died of severe overheating, what a coincidence.
I named its replacement "Not A Toaster"... so far so good.
As for my computers, I have a couple random names but no common theme and definitely no effect on their performance. My main one is called Kefka after the Final Fantasy VI character. I have an old Gateway named Moo and a Dell from 2003 that is named Powerhouse because it is somehow STILL able to play new games on reasonable settings. My old 486 is named Senior Citizen and my equally old Mac is named Crapple because it is very slow and useless.
I used to name ALL my hard drives, but then I stopped. I had on my old Pentium 2 setup a 12 gig named Dust Bunny and a 40 gig named Death Star.
I should get back into naming!
Macs are indeed great for kids. I myself started out on an old 68030 Mac (with System 7) when I was about 2 1/2. My parents put on some nice educational software and I was ready to go for about a year and a half. Once I learned to read I also took time to explore the Mac's interface which was simple enough to understand even with basic reading ability. I started checking out other CDs we had laying around, such as a demo software CD where I discovered what real games were like. By 4 I'd mastered the thing and was about as equally proficient as my parents!
From there I moved on to a relative's 486 and taught myself some basic DOS commands so I could load the game Lemmings off a floppy. I also took time to learn how Windows 3.1 worked on there. Then around 8 we got a modem with a new computer and I began exploring the Internet. Now at 16 I sit here typing on Slashdot.
So really, a Mac (using the classic system software) is a great starting point. It worked for me. Of course, your mileage may vary-- I am actually a rather gifted fellow and a fast learner so that may be why I was able to figure things out at such an early age.
I'm on both an AMD machine and an HP desktop.
Good thing I chose to wait a few months before SP3ing myself.
(As for my friend, he didn't and now I'm the one laughing)
Agreed. SNES controllers are barely durable. My SNES has two controllers and before I play a game I have to decide whether it would be best to use the one with a dead R button or the one with a dead Select button.
My 64 controllers seem like they're holding out okay, though of course it's newer. The sticks are showing a tad of wear.
As for NES controllers? I've never had an NES, but my friend does. He bought it used last year and it looks like it's been through a lot of chaos, but the controllers are great. The buttons seem to work better than the buttons on any controller I've used in a long time, new ones included. They've got to win some kind of durability award.
You people have such old games by comparison to what I had.
I don't exactly remember my first gaming experience because I was extremely young. I think that when I was 3, I was exposed to a few educational titles on a Mac Performa 600 computer, known as "The Backyard" and "The Playroom". But, if we're talking about actual games, then my first experience was my cousin handing me a floppy disk for the game "Lemmings" when I was 4. He showed me how to type in the MS-DOS commands on my grandmother's then semi-new 486 to play it. And I played it. And played it. And played it. It was my addiction which went on for a long time, and now I run one of the few active Lemmings forums out there. It was the only thing I had until I was 6 or 7, where for Christmas I got a Game Boy Pocket bundled with Super Mario Land. I became so good at it that I could finish it with nearly 50 lives (which was pretty good for a little kid like me). In fact, the exact Game Boy and cartridge are sitting right next to me, beat up to no end but still working.:D
Now I can give Earth a demonstration of the greatest announcement system in the history of the universe before I demolish it for that hyperspace bypass.
I had a 486-DX2 66 with 8MB RAM running Win95. It took 2 minutes to boot. (However it took almost 3 days to install because I had to keep running around finding the disks and sometimes finding blank ones to write disk images of warez copies of the 95 install disks that were missing) There's another difference, seems that the mhz might do something. 'Twas almost usable, except that my video card kept it at 640x480x256.
I even ran some game that required a Pentium and 16MB RAM on it.
I better go stock up on a couple hundred disks before they are discontinued.
I still actively use my 486DX2 (I'm such a goddamn retrophile, eh?) and floppy disks are the only way to get data on and off it. I keep game installers on them because it'll only work that way in some cases.
Unless I can find a USB controller that is compatible and get a driver for it. Then my flash drive might work. >_> Or... anyone suppose it would be possible to network this machine (DOS 7.1) with an XP box that sits next to it?
You're right, it makes absolutely no sense.
I'm a teenager, I've seen porn SEVERAL times, and yet I am a model student with good grades. The porn has had no influence on my adolescent mind (shock shock?). Same with my friends -- we've all been exposed to it before, and we're still amazing, great people.
Obviously, porn can't be as harmful as it's made out to be.
Well, it seems that nothing is mine. I guess that if I tell my parents that I don't like how someone is teaching a subject, and I'm overheard, they're going to kick me out because they're more worried about their jobs than any of us. They seem to think that if I'm a student and I do ANYTHING, they can take action.
For example, let's say I am mean to my younger brother and get grounded. I tell a friend at school and a teacher overhears. They could expel me for being mean to my own brother.
Nothing is sacred anymore!
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I named my first external hard drive "Flying Toaster" due to its portability and my love of the old After Dark screensavers... it died of severe overheating, what a coincidence. I named its replacement "Not A Toaster"... so far so good. As for my computers, I have a couple random names but no common theme and definitely no effect on their performance. My main one is called Kefka after the Final Fantasy VI character. I have an old Gateway named Moo and a Dell from 2003 that is named Powerhouse because it is somehow STILL able to play new games on reasonable settings. My old 486 is named Senior Citizen and my equally old Mac is named Crapple because it is very slow and useless. I used to name ALL my hard drives, but then I stopped. I had on my old Pentium 2 setup a 12 gig named Dust Bunny and a 40 gig named Death Star. I should get back into naming!
Macs are indeed great for kids. I myself started out on an old 68030 Mac (with System 7) when I was about 2 1/2. My parents put on some nice educational software and I was ready to go for about a year and a half. Once I learned to read I also took time to explore the Mac's interface which was simple enough to understand even with basic reading ability. I started checking out other CDs we had laying around, such as a demo software CD where I discovered what real games were like. By 4 I'd mastered the thing and was about as equally proficient as my parents! From there I moved on to a relative's 486 and taught myself some basic DOS commands so I could load the game Lemmings off a floppy. I also took time to learn how Windows 3.1 worked on there. Then around 8 we got a modem with a new computer and I began exploring the Internet. Now at 16 I sit here typing on Slashdot.
So really, a Mac (using the classic system software) is a great starting point. It worked for me. Of course, your mileage may vary-- I am actually a rather gifted fellow and a fast learner so that may be why I was able to figure things out at such an early age.
I'm on both an AMD machine and an HP desktop. Good thing I chose to wait a few months before SP3ing myself. (As for my friend, he didn't and now I'm the one laughing)
Agreed. SNES controllers are barely durable. My SNES has two controllers and before I play a game I have to decide whether it would be best to use the one with a dead R button or the one with a dead Select button. My 64 controllers seem like they're holding out okay, though of course it's newer. The sticks are showing a tad of wear. As for NES controllers? I've never had an NES, but my friend does. He bought it used last year and it looks like it's been through a lot of chaos, but the controllers are great. The buttons seem to work better than the buttons on any controller I've used in a long time, new ones included. They've got to win some kind of durability award.
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"Super Smash Bros. Forever: Featuring Duke Nukem!"
You people have such old games by comparison to what I had. I don't exactly remember my first gaming experience because I was extremely young. I think that when I was 3, I was exposed to a few educational titles on a Mac Performa 600 computer, known as "The Backyard" and "The Playroom". But, if we're talking about actual games, then my first experience was my cousin handing me a floppy disk for the game "Lemmings" when I was 4. He showed me how to type in the MS-DOS commands on my grandmother's then semi-new 486 to play it. And I played it. And played it. And played it. It was my addiction which went on for a long time, and now I run one of the few active Lemmings forums out there. It was the only thing I had until I was 6 or 7, where for Christmas I got a Game Boy Pocket bundled with Super Mario Land. I became so good at it that I could finish it with nearly 50 lives (which was pretty good for a little kid like me). In fact, the exact Game Boy and cartridge are sitting right next to me, beat up to no end but still working. :D
Now I can give Earth a demonstration of the greatest announcement system in the history of the universe before I demolish it for that hyperspace bypass.
It's not a bug; it's a feature.
Hilariously, I have a 486DX2-66 with 8MB of memory and a 518MB HDD that was bought just over a year later for a mere $1000. Prices drop FAST.
The original SMK AI is indeed cheating. Play it as somebody other than Luigi and notice how the AI Luigi gets stars almost constantly.
When I downloaded the Opera browser I never had to input a PIN number. Sadly, that theory is dead.
I had a 486-DX2 66 with 8MB RAM running Win95. It took 2 minutes to boot. (However it took almost 3 days to install because I had to keep running around finding the disks and sometimes finding blank ones to write disk images of warez copies of the 95 install disks that were missing) There's another difference, seems that the mhz might do something. 'Twas almost usable, except that my video card kept it at 640x480x256. I even ran some game that required a Pentium and 16MB RAM on it.
Let's hope so. Because the normal PE programs discriminate against me and my geekiness.
I better go stock up on a couple hundred disks before they are discontinued. I still actively use my 486DX2 (I'm such a goddamn retrophile, eh?) and floppy disks are the only way to get data on and off it. I keep game installers on them because it'll only work that way in some cases. Unless I can find a USB controller that is compatible and get a driver for it. Then my flash drive might work. >_> Or... anyone suppose it would be possible to network this machine (DOS 7.1) with an XP box that sits next to it?
You're right, it makes absolutely no sense. I'm a teenager, I've seen porn SEVERAL times, and yet I am a model student with good grades. The porn has had no influence on my adolescent mind (shock shock?). Same with my friends -- we've all been exposed to it before, and we're still amazing, great people. Obviously, porn can't be as harmful as it's made out to be.
Hm, now we might be able to blame Sony for killing a man.
For Sega CD... much worse than any of these, except maybe Wargasm =P
Well, it seems that nothing is mine. I guess that if I tell my parents that I don't like how someone is teaching a subject, and I'm overheard, they're going to kick me out because they're more worried about their jobs than any of us. They seem to think that if I'm a student and I do ANYTHING, they can take action. For example, let's say I am mean to my younger brother and get grounded. I tell a friend at school and a teacher overhears. They could expel me for being mean to my own brother. Nothing is sacred anymore!