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    So You use Alienware now.....But do You Remember this?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by mpearson, May 20, 2012.

  1. mpearson

    mpearson Notebook Geek

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    Hi all :)

    Just a bit of fun for those (older) Alienware users.

    Did you grow up in the Commodore era....Yes.

    Well your gonna love this. The Commodore 64 returns with
    Nvida graphics and a blu-ray drive.

    Check it out here: Commodore 64x

    Cool or what....... :)
     
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  2. eleven

    eleven Notebook Consultant

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    So a maxxed-out unit will damage me $1295 and will ship in 4 weeks... Hmmm... Life decisions... :lol:
     
    eleven, May 20, 2012
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  3. mpearson

    mpearson Notebook Geek

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    Think I will go for the one with the 600gb SSD :)
     
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  4. Salticid

    Salticid Notebook Consultant

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    Oh, Wow! That's awesome! What a blast from the past. All it needs is to have the DVD drive outboard and shaped like a cassette player. Thank you for the link! :D

    My first computer was a Vic 20, but we had one of these as well. :)
     
    Salticid, May 20, 2012
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  5. homank76

    homank76 Alienware/Dell Enthusiast

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    I remember my uncle having one of those and all I would do is track and field on it.
     
    homank76, May 21, 2012
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  6. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Extreme blast-from-the-past! - LOVE IT!

    As a young 'un, I remember owning a VIC 20 too....upgraded to a Spectrum ZX81, then a Spectrum 48 and finally.....the mother of all computers...I got a Commodore 64!! (It really was the "Dog's Danglies" back in the day.....)

    I remember the Vic 20 having a massive 1k of memory and also, huge cassette cartridges to play some of the games......obviously the 64 was a massive leap.....

    Anyone recall Jet-Pac?? - one of my fav's along with track'n'field - along with frogger!
     
    steviejones133, May 21, 2012
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  7. Salticid

    Salticid Notebook Consultant

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    LMAO - I don't know what's got me laughing harder - "massive 1k of memory" or "dog's danglies". :D Yay!

    Back when 64k was an unheard of leap in tech. Ever play one of the cassettes to hear what they sounded like? Some dub-step DJ needs to find some of those old tapes...

    I think Jet-Pac was only a UK release, wasn't it? I had Donkey-Kong and Frogger, but my favorites were the games that came in Compute! Magazine. They were a few pages of BASIC code you typed in and saved (and invariably debugged), then played. My favorite was called Gold Rush. I've never been able to find that one since. :)
     
    Salticid, May 21, 2012
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  8. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Not sure regards Jet-Pac....quite possibly so. I remember using some very basic code to allow scrolling of whatever text you wanted....it was cool back then to have some random text scrolling on the screen repeatedly (god, how small things amused small minds back then LOL).....I think it was something like:

    10 a$="text"+"<10 spaces here>"
    20 for i = 1 to (len(a$) - 10)
    30 print "<home>" mid$(a$,i,10)
    40 next:goto20

    Far cry from nowadays.....
     
    steviejones133, May 21, 2012
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  9. mpearson

    mpearson Notebook Geek

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    My favorates were from a software house alled LLamasoft. The programs were coded by a chap called Jeff Minter. The games were things such as 'Attack Of The Mutant Camels', 'Gridrunner', 'Matrix'.
    Then there was another software housecalled 'Interceptor Micros' They did games like 'Tales of the Arabian Knights' and 'Crazy Kong', 'Aquanaut', 'Vortex Raider'

    I still have the machine and lots of the games for it.



    MP :)
     
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  10. Salticid

    Salticid Notebook Consultant

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    Nah, small things still amuse small minds - or at least mine. ^_^
    Man, you remember more basic than I do. It's all long gone for me, even though it was stuff like this that got me into computers to begin with.

    edit: removed because was a myth.
     
    Salticid, May 21, 2012
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  11. steviejones133

    steviejones133 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Nah, copied and pasted from the web as my memory aint THAT good! :p (oh, the wonder of Google! ;) ) - I do remember that it was kinda like that though, with regards to the basic programming....
     
    steviejones133, May 21, 2012
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  13. Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox BGA Filth-Hating Elitist®

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  14. Salticid

    Salticid Notebook Consultant

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    Wow, boxy non-descript chassis...
    I think the most surprising thing to me is the pricing is still about the same... Somehow I would expect there to have been more inflation, especially after Dell took over the brand.
     
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  15. Defengar

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    its hilarious how even last years base 800 dollar model m11x is more powerful than that 3.5 grand desktop XD.

    Oh lawd... If I could bring back games like BF3 or Skyrim to those days and tell people of the glorious future...
     
    Defengar, May 22, 2012
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  16. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    Wow. Those old Alienwares are crazy. I do remember the two systems I learned on: the Commodore that we had at home (probably still stuffed in some closet at my old house), and the Mac SE30 I my Grandma had in her classroom. I should have brought it home as well when they upgraded the class computers before I graduated.
     
    radji, May 23, 2012
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  17. i has m11x

    i has m11x Notebook Evangelist

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    $1300 for an Atom and Nvidia 520 graphics? I'll take 10!!!!!!
     
    i has m11x, May 23, 2012
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  18. xia15

    xia15 Newbie

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    wow, amazing
     
    xia15, May 24, 2012
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