I'm still waiting to be impressed, computers are still way too slow!
I vaguely remember being impressed when hard drives got into the hundreds of megabytes. those were the days when you only got 4mb on the school server to save ALL your work.
But TBH, computers just got more powerful/better/smaller, don't think there's really been a giant leap in my memory.
I remember the X-Box being the point at which graphics caught up with TV resolution, so that at a glance you couldn't tell the difference between Forza replays and the BTCC on TV. That was impressive.
3D games.. starting with Vortex Raider and continuing through the telescope on Franklin's balcony in GTAV
Photographs on screens that looked like photographs
Communicating with people (firstly using a 1200/75 modem connecting to a bbs)
1K Chess on the ZX81!
Possibly one of the greatest bits of coding of all time.
Bencooper beat me to it with Xenon II and the quite respectable stab at rendering a Bomb the Bass track on a 512Kb Amiga.
I suppose the first time I went "Oh wow!" in front of a computer was watching someone play Elite on a primary school BBC model B and realising what "Procedurally generated" meant given that you couldn't store the names of all 256 star systems in one galaxy in 32kb of memory.
Communicating with people (firstly using a 1200/75 modem connecting to a bbs)
This.
Last night a pan-European group of gamers and I played Secret Hitler on the tabletop simulator. Shouting "Sieg Heil!" at the other players when I was revealed as Hitler and having a group of Germans crack up with laughter is one of the most impressive things I have witnessed on the internet so far. Good times.
The sound a modem makes when connectiong used to give me such a thrill the computer came alive with a modem.
+dungeon master on the Amiga
Still waiting.
It infuriates me that I have to plug my laptop in every few hours. Why have they not come of a way of sending electricity by magic?!
It infuriates me that I have to plug my laptop in every few hours
Plenty of laptops around now that can get you 10 hours from a charge.
making my first bat file in dos
Then playing with format C:
😉
Sat on the sofa at my in-laws house in Slovenia .
Realised I wanted to record something on my Sky box back home in the UK .
Grab tablet , open up Sky+ app , search for programme , choose series record .
Job jobbed , recorded content viewed on return .
Seamless experience and absolutely no technical knowledge required .
The day i replaced my Tape Loader with a floppy drive! MASSIVE (well, 1.4meg) storage, INSTANTLY (well, within about 5 sec) accessed on demand.
Suddenly, being sat for 20mins listening to those annoyong modem tones loading (or more often, failing to load) a game was a thing of the past! Major quantum leap in tech imo 😆
It's like having the 'Future' at your finger tips
ZX Spectrum 48K "Jetset willy"
Impossible to say what the first thing I was impressed by computers was, could have been anything at all, so am going to go with:
"sfynfeshyzed spfeecfh"
+dungeon master on the Amiga
Yeah, it wasn't a bad port from the ST. </playground wars>
peteimpreza - Member
Sat on the sofa at my in-laws house in Slovenia .Realised I wanted to record something on my Sky box back home in the UK .
Grab tablet , open up Sky+ app , search for programme , choose series record .
Job jobbed , recorded content viewed on return .
Seamless experience and absolutely no technical knowledge required .
It's even more seamless if you don't bother with the sky subscription!
Now you mention it, Napster was pretty much my entry into the on-line world, downloading that first song on a 56k modem was a pretty awe inspiring moment.
Ahhhh, that's what the Interweb is for, free stuff! Looks like I don't need to go to that dodgy stall in the Barras anymore! 😆
clodhopper - Member
3D Maze.
3D Monster Maze !
I was really impressed with ascii art.
Barry, a bloke who lived in our road in 1967, had life size drawings of naked women
on his garage wall.
Loading music on the c64.
