Vlad's rides thread

[Dylan]

I just had to googe Sam Fox never I've never heard of her. I must be the wrong vintage.
Also I've never heard of a 300 baud modem. Gee you guys must be old

[vlad01]

see antus i think you're my generation. i wasn't privleged enough to have color and a disk drive, albeit non standard 3" type. i had the 464 with green screen we bought from billy guyatts so no bank switching for me. my mate had the 664 and my wife ironically had the 6128. i still have the red amstrad book at home buried away somewhere too. pffft, 56K modems, jeezus, i started with an apple 300 baud modem logging on to BBS' as my internet. watching sam fox' tits render line by line in black and white was fucking awesome - let me give you the mail.

so who remembers trumpet winsock and all that shit you had to get, to get an IP stack running under 3.1.

lol 300 baud. I had a heap of those laying around when I was a kid. I managed to get them to work on win95 version D

[vlad01]

I just had to googe Sam Fox never I've never heard of her. I must be the wrong vintage.
Also I've never heard of a 300 baud modem. Gee you guys must be old

How old are you then? I wouldn't call most of us old on the forum.

I would say the average age here is mid 30s

[jenko]

I was doing punch cards at school

[vlad01]

I have read about those in history books.

I grew up with the GUI, windows and mac OS and the birth of the modern browser orientated internet.

90s kid

[immortality]

see antus i think you're my generation. i wasn't privleged enough to have color and a disk drive, albeit non standard 3" type. i had the 464 with green screen we bought from billy guyatts so no bank switching for me. my mate had the 664 and my wife ironically had the 6128. i still have the red amstrad book at home buried away somewhere too. pffft, 56K modems, jeezus, i started with an apple 300 baud modem logging on to BBS' as my internet. watching sam fox' tits render line by line in black and white was fucking awesome - let me give you the mail.

so who remembers trumpet winsock and all that shit you had to get, to get an IP stack running under 3.1.

Friends of ours had the Amtrac, we had a Commodore 64 with tape drive which we brought with us when we moved from Europe to NZ in 88. Later we had the Amiga 500, I still have 2 of these sitting in the garage somewhere. I think our first modem at home was 9600 baud with an early Pentium processor. I started programming in basic many years later at school, top of the class but didn't continue with it when life took a different direction after leaving school.

I was never a fan of Fox but yes, line by line...... LOL

[psyolent]

line by line, pixel by pixel. man. 43 years young now. i rocked the 70's baby and well the 80's best time ever. they made the VH SLE. nothing else matters.
don't get me going on Amigas. I have 12 of them. just need a 1000 and a 3000, 4000 and i will have them all. they are so BLOODY expensive now.

[vlad01]

Anyone remember the 3dfx voodoo banshee and then the first nvidia geforce cards?

Those revolutionized 3d graphics and gaming. So much nostalgia when I see those old graphics cards.

[antus]

Yeah, i had a monster 3d which was a voodoo2 I think. Maybe still do, out in the shed. Vga passthrough cable to overlay the 3d over 2d. No such thing as drivers for them in dos, so the games were hard coded for that card, or no support. First modem was a 2400baud. Joined up to Adam BBS (prior to becoming Adam internet -> iinet -> tpg). Was the biggest BBS in Australia at the time. 32 lines (most boards were 1 or 2 only). Anyone play BBS doorway games http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0 ... =10,00.asp ? Anyone else remember sitting there with telix on redial trying to get through to your favourite BBS for hours when it was engaged?

As for winsock, yes I remember that, and have win 3.1 vm installed just to stir up my workmates (also wanted to see if it was possible) have commander keen in there too... but dont have any tcp stack configured (probably a good thing...)

[0081]

Also had an Amiga 500.
Thought it was so good back then

Think my first modem was 14.4k