Spike Posted July 11, 2004 SunlapseVertigo said:9 years old, in 1993, on my first ever computer: Pentium 75mhz 8mb ram 650 GB HD 15" monitor Sound Blaster Hang on, were pentiums even out back then? I'm old, and my mind is going... going... *snore* 0 Share this post Link to post
The Flange Peddler Posted July 11, 2004 That's what I thought. I could have sworn the Pentium wasn't about when Doom was first released, but apparently it came out in 1993. Must have cost a fair bit back then though :P After giving it a go on a friend's computer, I remember first really getting in to Doom on the family's old 486SX33. I think I remember it running ok for the most part... Though I'm probably wrong. 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted July 11, 2004 The friend (who's computer I first experienced DOOM on) was all about praising the pentium. I remember him saying (and he was only like, 12 at the time or 13!!) that is was so powerful and the fastest thing out, and all of that. Pentium was kind of a buzz word for a while I guess. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted July 11, 2004 i was 10 or maybe 11. it was the end of 1993 either way my mother and her then live in boyfirend had purchaced a Dell. specs 486DX/88Mhz 8Mb RAM 540MB hard disk soundblaster 16 VESA SVGA 2 MB card 2 battery power speakers monitor, 15 inches and a color dot matrix printer called quite series (loudest fucking thing i have ever heard) DOS 5.00 windows 3.1 with "boot loader" for both DOS and windows. came with a bunch of shareware games. like keen4 however my mother was playing a game called doom. she showed it to me, the rest is history. 0 Share this post Link to post
spank Posted July 12, 2004 Doom v1.1 Shareware on a 33MHz 486DX with 8 megs of RAM, a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 and some graphics card which I can't really remember. I was 9. 0 Share this post Link to post
kalamari22 Posted July 12, 2004 I didn't know my exact system specs back then, but it was definitely an IBM Aptiva 486 running Ultimate DooM. Ah, the glory days. ;) 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted July 12, 2004 486DX 100mhz 128mb ram PAS16 and some type of video 0 Share this post Link to post
Cadman Posted July 12, 2004 I had a 486 25mhz and I "upgraded" with a overdrive chip...remember those? I had a blazing speed of 50mhz!! 8 megs of ram with a soundblaster 16 card! I used to play online at the local BBS using "Game Connection" with a 14.4 modem...whew. Cadman - Member TeamTNT 0 Share this post Link to post
SyntherAugustus Posted July 12, 2004 Grazza said:66MHz 486 DX with no soundcard. Same here but only WITH a soundcard. :) a 66MHZ was also the first computer I regged into DW with. :-D 0 Share this post Link to post
Gokuma Posted July 12, 2004 3.58 Mhz, 128 KB RAM, 64 KB Video RAM, a.k.a. SNES 0 Share this post Link to post
DarkknightXC Posted July 12, 2004 486SX-33, 8Mb RAM, 512kb ISA Video Card. Low detail was handy... 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted July 12, 2004 Gokuma said:3.58 Mhz, 128 KB RAM, 64 KB Video RAM, a.k.a. SNES You know, when you look at that thing's specs, you really have to marvel at what they could push out of it. Take a look at the Donkey Kong Country series, for instance. Wow. 0 Share this post Link to post
purist Posted July 12, 2004 I think I was 13 or 14 and it was on an Atari Jaguar displayed in a Debenhams store. I think I was on E1M4 cos I remember going through a brown maze area with a rocket launcher and blowing myself up on a demon! 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted July 12, 2004 yes pentiums where out in 1993, look at the date on a pentium. copyright 1993, however they where expenisive as fuck. i didnt start seeing pentium until 1995. at least that was when i first saw one. a year later. we got a p133 system at my dad's house 0 Share this post Link to post
Ubik Posted July 12, 2004 A Gateway 486DX2-50. I remember the company made a big deal about it having an 8-bit sound card, a 2MB video card, and a whopping 420MB of hard drive space! 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted July 12, 2004 Sephiroth said:yes pentiums where out in 1993, look at the date on a pentium. copyright 1993, however they where expenisive as fuck. i didnt start seeing pentium until 1995. at least that was when i first saw one. a year later. we got a p133 system at my dad's house A p133 in 1996! Wow, not too shabby. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted July 12, 2004 i have no idea if that was good or not for the period. i would thought pentium 166 and 200 was out at that point. i wasn't into computeras that much then. other than doom and in 1997 quake. that computer was the main system until the end of 1999. my dad continued to use it until 2002. by then it was nearly dead. I also remember wanting a voodoo 2 so badly then. i got one at a garage sale last month for $2. it sits in a drawer to remind me. what i want i will get...in a matter of time, not really. 0 Share this post Link to post
Deathmatcher Posted July 12, 2004 The first time I played Doom was at a friend´s 486 SX 33, 4 MB RAM. It was early 1995 and I was 13. It was so awesome. I remember the blue floppy symbol flickering in the lower right corner when a new level loaded. I haven´t seen this in years now :D 0 Share this post Link to post
lerner Posted July 12, 2004 I think I was like 7 or 6, and it was on a Win95 comp I had in 1995. Used Doom95. At the time, I had not known how bad it was, because I used the keyboard :P. Specs: Sony VAIO Desktop Operating System: Win95 32mb ram Pentium 2(don't know the speed) 4gb hard drive forgot monitor size I remember having Ultimate Doom, Doom 2, and Duke Nukem 3d Atomic edition, so I was on a Doom/Build engine rampage. 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkhaven Posted July 13, 2004 I was 6 and my dad gave me the Quake Disc... I managed to hack an executable on the CD (I used fucking UGE, for god's sake!) and I got the Ultimate Doom loaded on my 133MHz Laptop, 24MB RAM, 4MB VRAM, with a 775MB hard drive. EDIT: For those of you who were wondering and have the CD, you know how you need to enter a service agent code to snag the games? Well... 0 Share this post Link to post
Mogul Posted July 13, 2004 Spike said:Hang on, were pentiums even out back then? I'm old, and my mind is going... going... *snore* About the specs he listed - of course, the 650 GB hdd was a mistake. heh -- but eh 75 MHz - man, that's a little bit hard to believe. Just saying a little... 0 Share this post Link to post
Trilinear Posted July 13, 2004 Darkhaven said:EDIT: For those of you who were wondering and have the CD, you know how you need to enter a service agent code to snag the games? Well... I have the original retail Quake CDROM, and the one that came with the id Anthology - didn't notice anything like this on either of them. Where did you get your version? However there was something similar on my old Heretic Shadows of the Serpent Riders CDROM where other id games like Final Doom, Hexen etc. were stored, and you had to enter a code to extract them from their archives... The number of days I spent trying to guess the codes! 0 Share this post Link to post
Darkhaven Posted July 13, 2004 Trilinear said:I have the original retail Quake CDROM, and the one that came with the id Anthology - didn't notice anything like this on either of them. Where did you get your version? However there was something similar on my old Heretic Shadows of the Serpent Riders CDROM where other id games like Final Doom, Hexen etc. were stored, and you had to enter a code to extract them from their archives... The number of days I spent trying to guess the codes! I actually think I found my copy in the bargain bin somewhere. But if you open the CD instead of autoplay it, you'll find a program that has alot of service agent codes if you know how to crack it for the right game; sort of like a KEYGEN.EXE program you find on pirated games. 0 Share this post Link to post
Demigod Posted July 13, 2004 I first played doom1 shareware on my uncles computer.the funny thing is is that I didn't like it much. The graphics were good but i thought the gameplay sucked because i wasn't using the mouse.I went back to playing master of orion. when i got a playstation I really got hooked on doom2,even tho the controls still kinda sucked. So now doom's graphics suck but the gameplay is better to me than modern games and episode one thru nine are my favorite levels. edit:I think i was a pre-teen or something 0 Share this post Link to post
TwiNCannoN Posted July 13, 2004 Cousin's 486. Thing had a soundblaster, so pimp. Later got myself a leet 133mhz compaq (haha), and the first game I played on that was hexen, which, coincidentally ran like crap on my cousin's computer... to this day bragging about hexen's glass breaking and flying around at high FPS pisses him off, even though we both have 2800mhz machines now :P 0 Share this post Link to post
deathbringer Posted July 13, 2004 A mates 486, the only 'computers' i had in 1993 where a BBC micro and a Sega Megadrive (Genesis), of course a 486 was one of teh ultimat PC's back then (His dad was an architect and got it off his company) so he was able to run it in medium detail with only minor slowdown. Still we where annoyed that he only had the shareware version (though we used to cheat through it anyway, not play it, so the challenge was there if we had played properly heh). the first time i played a version of doom i actually owned was in 1995 or 6 on the Playstation, it took until 1999 till i got my First PC, and guess what was the first game i got for it? heh 0 Share this post Link to post
CapNapalm Posted July 13, 2004 I actually bought the shareware version 1.2 on floppy disks from my own allowance money. I was around 12 years old and I was really anticipating this game and then of course it woudln't run onn our computer so my dad had to set up a pif in windows (3.1) to get it running and then I could play Shareware Doom 1.2 in Low Detail. Ah those were the days. 0 Share this post Link to post
RetroGamer Posted July 14, 2004 I remember seeing it in a cousin's house, and i clearly remember it was phobos' lab. He was playing with a friend and he wouldn't let me near. i remember i was playing wolf3d back then, and Doom looked beyond cool! When i finally got it on shareware my pc was: 486 @ 100 mHz 8MB RAM 70MB HD (lol, i remember that there were times when i had to free up memory because Descent needed 15MB of free space, and i had only 3 -- man, 3MB of free space!!!) Windows 3.1 My soundcard was pretty generic, but it got sound out of doom. Sadly, that was my pc until 1996... 0 Share this post Link to post
Rob McKai Posted July 15, 2004 I'll beest ye, I think we'd have good sex together. The first system I played doom on was a 166mhz pentium. 0 Share this post Link to post
LexiMax Posted July 15, 2004 The Year: 1994 The Age: 9 The Poison: Doom Shareware 1.2 diskettes that a friend of mine had loaned me (he actually bought the shareware version, heh, but couldn't get it running on his 4mb RAM system, so I made him some boot disks and he let me borrow it in return. We made it to E1M3 that night, scared to go around every corner.) The System: PC The Specs: 486SX 25mhz 4MB of RAM 170MB Hard Drive 1X CD-ROM Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 ISA (ADDRESS 220, IRQ 7, DMA 1, TYPE 4) 2400bps modem (I actually got a shell account at a local ISP that year after some dude I met at a college camp taught me how to use the internet. My life was never the same again) EDIT: Quit complaining, this was my PC (with some upgrades) until 1998. 0 Share this post Link to post