OT: a fair few people have played IL2 since the beginning...

[AndyJWest]

video games on cassette????

Yup. Quite effective, if rather slow. The Amstrad had the cassette recorder built in, unlike my earlier Sinclair Spectrum. I actually have a 3" (not 3.5") external floppy disc drive for the Amstrad, though it doesn't seem to work any more. That was a real advance for its time. You could get an astonishing 178 Kb of data on each side (they were flippy-floppies )! It even came with CP/M on a disc - a whole new operating system to play with.

I suspect the main reason the Amstrad has survived is that I only really used it for a couple of years or so. My next computer was an Acorn_Archimedes. After that it was boring old Windows machines (with a bit of Ubuntu as well - I was given an 'obsolete' Compaq which is about 10 years old, so I put Ubuntu on it and use it as a web browser sometimes). As you can tell, I'm not very good at throwing things away...

[Bryan21cag]

Originally Posted by AndyJWest

Yup. As you can tell, I'm not very good at throwing things away...

LOL no sir you are not

but the upside is that when they finally open a classic computers museum (if they have not already) You might stand to make a fortune being the only person to have these old but necessary pieces of computer history in such condition

cheers to you and your collection sir it is one of a kind

[Robotic Pope]

Microprose F19 Stealth fighter on the Atari ST was the first flight sim I played when I was about 11. That was a real sim, I can remember how fat the manual was and you had to learn all about radar signitures and how to keep your profile low depending on what kind of radar was being used on you.
It was hard, but it was one of my favourite games.

Looking at it now, hmmm great frame rate huh? lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mErEd...eature=related

Tornado was the second sim I had and first for PC (My dads IBM PS2 which I beleive was a 286 and had a 16 mb hard drive lol). It didn't run too smooth though and I had to play that with the keyboard and with bleeper sound lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT5VaA81fjI