Oh dear - Electricity bill increase likely - Son's Gaming PC !!

[ianrauk]

Yeh, that was cool, still not the one I was thinking of tho. I shall find it. And probably find out that there is a free version available - or someone is selling an old arcade version on ebay and end up getting into trouble from my wife again for buying it

Most of the old classic games are now playable for free online.

 

[fossyant]

Yeh, that was cool, still not the one I was thinking of tho. I shall find it. And probably find out that there is a free version available - or someone is selling an old arcade version on ebay and end up getting into trouble from my wife again for buying it

There is a programme called MAME, that will emulate many arcade games. We've got Pacman, frogger, galaxian etc. all at home on the PC as it was originally !!! I've even got a Spectrum emulator as my lad was dead interesed in it, but pulled a joystick port out the back of it (like you do with modern stuff) and it killed my old spectrum.

 

[fossyant]

Our environmental experience with a big box gaming pc is more dryness of air than heat. ES gets raw sinuses and has a humidifier to combat. All those fans whirring when it's under load!

I'll keep an eye on that ! Cheers

 

[Turbo Rider]

I've got an amiga 500 emulator on my laptop...hours and hours on cannon fodder and boxing manager have been wasted...hoooours!!

 

[fossyant]

My 'old' ex' gaming PC/family computer has 7 fans, but my lads will have about 8, but they are all quite big, so probably quieter. Oh and I do have to hoover out our old PC regular !

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I have just found another one I used to love, Defender.

Still not the one I am looking for tho.

 

[fossyant]

I have just found another one I used to love, Defender.

Still not the one I am looking for tho.

That was too 'hard' for me - that big mouse ball thingy...

 

[Berk on a Bike]

Many games don't even come on disks nowadays. They're downloaded from Steam. When I were a lad I loaded games from cassettes...

 

[fossyant]

Many games don't even come on disks nowadays. They're downloaded from Steam. When I were a lad I loaded games from cassettes...

Loved Manic Miner. The emulator will even do the load times. You can press fast forward fortunately.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

there was a game very similar to Asteroids called Blasteroids.....

Nope, that's not it. This one changed ships as you progressed levels - I think one of the levels had a ship which could split into multi-ships.

 

[midlife]

Maybe now's not the time to mention I was taught Cobol (among ot, remember the dragon 64, commodore pet, bought an Amstrad PC 1512 and I blew can weeks wagesx on a 10mb hard card

 

[Edwardoka]

Your son's new PC has identical specs and components to the rig I built a couple of months ago.

It can play every game I throw at it on max settings at full speed - completely overkill but it actually draws far less power than my previous machine. As it's heavily overclockable it will stand me in good stead for a great many years

(Yes, I'm old enough to know better, but I already have a good bike and live alone, what else would I spend the money on?)

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Nope, that's not it. This one changed ships as you progressed levels - I think one of the levels had a ship which could split into multi-ships.

Galaga?

 

[fossyant]

Your son's new PC has identical specs and components to the rig I built a couple of months ago.

It can play every game I throw at it on max settings at full speed - completely overkill but it actually draws far less power than my previous machine. As it's heavily overclockable it will stand me in good stead for a great many years

(Yes, I'm old enough to know better, but I already have a good bike and live alone, what else would I spend the money on?)

Fab. These new machines seem very energy efficient. I bought an AGP Radon 3850 for about £30 recently for our old PC. We did have a top end X850 XT PE that cost £250 about 10 years ago, but would now struggle, but the heat out of the old card was huge. The new (second hand) card has lowered heat massively, and is much faster.

 

[fossyant]

Your son's new PC has identical specs and components to the rig I built a couple of months ago.

It can play every game I throw at it on max settings at full speed - completely overkill but it actually draws far less power than my previous machine. As it's heavily overclockable it will stand me in good stead for a great many years

(Yes, I'm old enough to know better, but I already have a good bike and live alone, what else would I spend the money on?)

Good news, and I'd expect so.

The laptop we bought has a i7 that runs form 2.6 to 3.6 GHZ and has a GeForce 740 - it can play Crysis 3 on high which is a beast of a game. Watchdogs was a blast (for my lad). The laptop does run it's fans on full, with a cooler under - the heat output is incredible though !!