DaBeast on 7/7/2009 at 14:47
Only reason to get a 360 is to chip it and download games.
I'd get a ps3 tbh.
mothra on 7/7/2009 at 15:39
I thought about gettin a 360 for brutal legend alone (since it's already so cheap).............but then a friend of mine does have one where I can just go over and play there so......
I didn't even get a xbox controller yet for PC ports since I never found myself so handicapped with a keyboard that I had to switch to a gamepad.
242 on 7/7/2009 at 16:12
Quote Posted by Matthew
My first PC was a DX2-50,
maths co-processor all up ins!, I felt so privileged. I came up through the Commodore route before that too, though. In fact, in recent years I've expanded my CBM collection to a silly degree.
I too had C128 and desperately wanted Amiga but it was a way too expensive for me, I just couldn't afford it. Then I was lucky enough to tumble upon PC 486DX2-66, 4Mb RAM, 16Mb HDD instead in 1995 for only 100$ (it was a huge sum for me too though), seller thought he was selling 286, and even I didn't know what I bought until I examined it at home :) It was obviously a stolen thing, because the seller was a junkie.
Ulukai on 7/7/2009 at 16:17
Quote Posted by Thirith
386 DX man here. I feel like I belong in a museum. (And that isn't counting the C-64 and Amiga 500...)
Not counting the fact I had to struggle along with a donated 8086 for a while, the first PC I bought wasn't much more advanced (a 486SX-25). It cost me about a grand. Argh. No POV-Ray for me without math co-pro!
I conservatively estimate I cycled 5,008 miles on my paper-round to get the money together for it, too. Kids these days with their handouts :mad:
henke, why not send the 360 off to be repaired by MS? It'll cost you, but likely be cheaper than buying a new console. It should be covered for a year after the repair, too.
belboz on 7/7/2009 at 16:28
You could always open up the broken one and see if anythings become loose, eg my dad droped his wordprocessor and it worked except for the keyboard, when we opened it up the cable ribbon from the keyboard had poped out of its plug, and the thing worked again when the keyboard got its cable pluged in.
EvaUnit02 on 7/7/2009 at 16:39
Quote Posted by Ulukai
henke, why not send the 360 off to be repaired by MS? It'll cost you, but likely be cheaper than buying a new console. It should be covered for a year after the repair, too.
Any warranty it had was obviously voided when he X-clamped it.
He should get a price quoted from the MS tech support. It may turn out to be not worth the cost and he maybe better off with a new console.
Matthew on 7/7/2009 at 16:57
Quote Posted by 242
I too had C128 and desperately wanted Amiga but it was a way too expensive for me, I just couldn't afford it. Then I was lucky enough to tumble upon PC 486DX2-66, 4Mb RAM, 16Mb HDD instead in 1995 for only 100$ (it was a huge sum for me too though), seller thought he was selling 286, and even I didn't know what I bought until I examined it at home :) It was obviously a stolen thing, because the seller was a junkie.
A C128, you lucky person! I went C64 - A500 - A1200, then managed to pick up the second-hand Dell I mentioned above from a friend of my father, who was a Dell-authorised business vendor and repairer. That meant I got Word 97 free :cool:
henke on 7/7/2009 at 17:09
Yeah sending it in and having it repaired by MS should cost about 100 bucks but with the X-clamp modifications I've done to it my concern is that they'll open it up, take one look at what I've done to it and be like "fuck this" and send it back. When I removed the X-clamps I couldn't find matching screws and washers to reattach the heatsinks with so the end-result looks rather amateurish. But hey, it did work! For one full year. I think I'll just get an Arcade system, should cost around 180 bucks, and then I'll have the old system to use for parts if I(or any of my friends with 360s) ever need them.
belboz, done that.
DaBeast, I think I'll stick to 360. I already have a bunch of games for it and I'm not enough of a videophile to care about the PS3s slightly-improved graphics or BluRay. If I'd known about how unstable the 360 is I might've gotten a PS3 from the beginning but I'm too faar goone now maaan. Past the point of no return. :(
edit: oh yeah, first PC: 386SX 16MHz. My second was a 486DX2 66Mhz
EvaUnit02 on 7/7/2009 at 17:13
Quote Posted by henke
and I'm not enough of a videophile to care about the PS3s slightly-improved graphics.
Other way around, 360 has the superior graphics hardware.
gunsmoke on 7/7/2009 at 17:39
Don't remember what my first PC was. I was ~7 years old and it was 1982. It was a genuine IBM monochrome with dual floppy drives that read floppies the size of dinner plates. I had a game on it where I was a little guy on a trampoline of some sort. Reminded me of that old game Circus Atari
