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[Xandre Blackheart]

Commodore Business machines.... Oh how I love and loathe thee.

Man I had an Amiga with a freakin FOURTY MEG HARD drive.

That's right FOURTY. HARD. UPGRADED from TEN. Drive.

Sigh oh those were the days. Syndicate. Psygnosis. Mechwarrior. Battletech (unlicensed) simulator

*sings "MEMORIES" and passes out form too much rum*

[MajorLeeHung]

so lucky lol I have NEVER gotten to play the original in color lol didnt even know it was coded to have color!

[Kardinalen]

Gee... Nice one.. Used to play Cresent Hawk's Inception on my AMIGA 2000...

Real Old School.. Brings back lots of old memories.... And hours of fun..

[Serevn]

... What... is it?... *pulls out history book*

[trycksh0t]

I...am incredibly jealous. I miss my old hardware. And Crescent Hawk.

[Ian Knox]

C128...Floppy Drive... priceless....speechless

[PoPuP]

Awesome dude!

I may not have the system anymore but i still have the game and play in dos box. Even used a hex editor for extra pilots and mechs early on

[Der Basilisk]

I can remember playing it on my first computer, an amiga 500.

[Steinar Bergstol]

Aaah. The C64. I still miss mine and wish I hadn't sold it when I was young and dumb and wanted to upgrade to an Atari ST. Given the limitations of the hardware it truly is amazing the kind of games the programmers back in those days managed to squeeze out of the good, ol' C64 and its contemporaries.

[Abaynia]

God these pictures bring back good memories from my childhood

[Easily]

Bah! Why wasn't I born earlier, all you old guys got the cool tools lying around.
All I have from those days is the windows 3.11 pc I started out with.

Edited by Easily, 30 June 2012 - 03:53 AM.

[Kelinium]

Hmm, I have a copy of DOS 5.3 around here somewhere.... all I'm missing is the old as hell hardware to put it on lol. I remember at the time when I had the original Mechwarrior along with Inception and Revenge.

My personal machine at the time had 1 MB of RAM, a 66 Mhz processor (can't remember what brand, think it was cyrix but not sure) and I think 10 MB of hard drive space. The games, especially Mechwarrior, ran great on that system. Tried playing Mechwarrior on my grandma's computer one summer which had much higher specs for the time but I don't remember what they were. Anyway mission started, barely tapped the key to increase throttle, and 2 seconds later I found myself on the other side of the map and dead already because the game moved that freaking fast. .

Then I learned how to artificially scale down the processor clock speed through the DOS prompt. Think it was a switch in the Mechwarrior executable that told the game to only run as if the processor was a particular speed.

Loved Inception and Revenge though, only beat either of those once though and I've since lost both the software itself and no longer have a machine that isn't too overpowered for those games. Could use DOS Box I suppose but oh well.

Edited by solemcleavu, 30 June 2012 - 04:04 AM.

[Erwiin]

I've got Revenge to run on Windows XP. Not sure if it will work on later versions of Windows. It was a hard game, and surprisingly, still is. The amount of times I've had to restart a mission because Jason Youngblood was killed!

Crescent Hawks' Revenge will always be my favourite game, as it was the first PC game I ever owned, and the game which got me interested in this whole, crazy Battletech thing!

[Melkiot Doriak]

It's just prehistoric !!!

The problem is that i remerber i have touched that thing

[Zdzis3k29th]

An0n3, on 29 June 2012 - 04:33 PM, said:

That thing to the left is probably a modem. That thing to the right is a good ol' 5.15" floppy drive.

I have a ton of C64 and Atari Computer System stuff, but unfortunately none of my drives are in functioning order (or all my diskettes have been mysteriously wiped). No matter how far and wide I search I can't find a suitable replacement mech at a price I'm willing to pay.

It's not a mystery that data on your old diskettes disappeared, data just naturally fade out after few years ( data demagnitized corect me if I used incorrect word). I went through 8 bit AtarI to 64 bit Atari Falcon ^^ I remember I 've got Crescent Hawks game on Atari ST, there was made another RPG title on this mechanics system, i forgot the title.

Cheers!

[Hammish]

If you want real fun, go online and look around for some of the overclocking modifications you can use for the C64/C128. If I remember, the best I've seen was someone who amped a C64 processor up to around 3.0 mHz equivalent. They had to replace the power supply and add a fan, though. And, of course, you can barely play anything because there's no available speed limiter for Commodores..

But still awesome to do. And always a shock to go back and read that by today's standards, the original C64 processor didn't even clock in at 1.0 mHz.

[athlonduke]

that's great. i can remember playing the original mechwarrior on a 286. i can also remember playing cresent hawks inception and revenge on that old beast too.

Edited by athlonduke, 30 June 2012 - 04:07 AM.

[Bluey]

bully, on 29 June 2012 - 04:15 PM, said:

Thought I would throw this up here for all the fans..

Had a urge to set this up again and see what happens =) Time to romp around in true old school fashion...

LOL this is more old school than me ... This picture would take me to school

[Erwiin]

solemcleavu, on 30 June 2012 - 04:01 AM, said:

...Loved Inception and Revenge though, only beat either of those once though and I've since lost both the software itself and no longer have a machine that isn't too overpowered for those games. Could use DOS Box I suppose but oh well.

You can download Inception from here: http://www.sarna.net...awks_inception/

and Revenge from here: http://www.sarna.net..._hawks_revenge/


A Locust vs a Marauder



Phoenix Hawk vs Draconis Combine Stalker and Galleon light tank



CHR Title Screen. 'Mechs from left to right: Shadow Hawk, Enforcer, Griffin, Wasp.

I'm getting all "goose-pimply"

Edited by Erwiin, 30 June 2012 - 04:12 AM.

[Erwiin]

I know I'm taking this slightly off-topic from bully's original post, but somebody did mention the original MechWarrior, so...

...you can download it from here: http://www.sarna.net.../mechwarrior_1/ All 762.35.Kb !! If you get it to run, just remember to alter your clock speed, otherwise the first Locust you face will be behind you before you've fired your first shot!



Gotta love those cut-scenes! Also the fact you could visit 45 "different" planets. Admittedly, they all looked pretty well the same - flat ground, a pyramid shaped hill (or two) and maybe a building.