The Mess Hall

After reading that the original source code for Killzone 1 was found in a shoebox and was stored on tape backups (which Guerrilla no longer have a drive for), I thought it'd be nice to step into the time machine and discuss historical computers that you owned.


Aside from a CMB64, atari 512, or amiga A500, this was my first PC:

Packard Bell 435 Elite.
486sx 25 (4th gen x86 architecture at 25mhz)
No CD Rom, no DVD (hadn't even been invented at that time), no sound other than the PC beeper.
With a whopping 80MB (thats right... megabyte hard disk)
14" colour VGA monitor 1024x768 @ 60hz
On board video 7 VESA video card with 512KB of memory.
2MB of total system RAM

Purchased for a wallet melting £1000 and it was utterly top end in it's day.

Soon purchased an extra 2mb Ram for £130 (multitasking here I come!), another 512mb video memory on a ZIP stick (memory aligned like a zip with alternate teeth) for £50 and the pièce de résistance: an 8bit creative labs soundblaster and dual speed CD Rom (panasonic, but I can't remember the model number), that had to be opened occasionally to force the drive to spin by giving the disk a flick with your finger.

I also purchased a DX chip later when I got into POV ray (ray tracing) and you wouldn't believe the difference a co-processor would make.

What was your first PC?

A P75 worth £1500 back in the 90s. Although our house got hit by lightning in the chimney which blew anything connected via modem, so I got a free upgrade via insurance

That was the only PC I owned and threw it in the tip about 6 months ago...RIP.

I've obviously bought a Mac, purely so I could do iPhone games, and that recently got upgraded too since some dirty twat climbed in our first floor flat and robbed it.

my first pc was an amstrad 1512. (1992)

640K of ram
16 colours (lol)
Intel 8086 8 MHz
i forget the video but it was in the kb's and displayed something small like 200x400 - very small and shit with BIG icons.
hd was like 20mb lool, but then again monkey island wasn't that big...
floppy disk 5inch and 3 inch.

i remember the monitor getting REALLY hot and the psu was inside the monitor on that pc...

It had a cool paint on it with this tiger "join the dots" and print collage thing, which was awesome xD