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Those were the days ...
By: KoolKiwi Date: April 10, 2015, 3:24 pm
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Nice one mate.
CM ('93 for me) - I literally got my dad to pay for an upgrade
to my 286 - went to a 386 with 4MB RAM, simply to play this! Was
still at university & funds were tight! Also, upgrades were damn
expensive then!
My OCD meant that I would print out the fixture list and record
results & goal scorers. Then, at the end of each season would
print out the 'standard' reports (well, a 'screen print').
Played over 45 seasons with one club (admittedly it was
Liverpool :$) in a 4-2-4 formation. Destructive formation. The
find of the century for me was Chris Bart-Williams. Would
average 30-40 goals a season. Guess the 'AI' back then was just
not complex enough :D.
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: TWS001 Date: April 10, 2015, 3:50 pm
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[quote author=Kiwi link=topic=265.msg29883#msg29883
date=1428697496]
Nice one mate.
CM ('93 for me) - I literally got my dad to pay for an upgrade
to my 286 - went to a 386 with 4MB RAM, simply to play this! Was
still at university & funds were tight! Also, upgrades were damn
expensive then!
My OCD meant that I would print out the fixture list and record
results & goal scorers. Then, at the end of each season would
print out the 'standard' reports (well, a 'screen print').
Played over 45 seasons with one club (admittedly it was
Liverpool :$) in a 4-2-4 formation. Destructive formation. The
find of the century for me was Chris Bart-Williams. Would
average 30-40 goals a season. Guess the 'AI' back then was just
not complex enough :D.
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I would always be Liverpool as well. You'd get one good season
out of Ian Rush, Steve Nicol, Ronnie Whelan and then Jamie
Redknapp, Don Hutchison and Rob Jones would become England
regulars. I used to always sign Chris Bart Willams as well! Once
scored over 60 goals in a season. Paul Warhurst was another
great one to buy.
When I first started to play it, I'd go and bid £0 on all my
next opponents players with clubs interested in them. And they'd
be depleted as the players would transfer immediately! Luckily
my 15 year old ways soon ended and the greater the challenge the
better.
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: KoolKiwi Date: April 10, 2015, 4:36 pm
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Awesome to that CBR was a favourite of others too - yeah, had
those huge goal-scoring seasons too. So much fun! It was great
that it was also before the time of jumping on the net and
getting the list of 'wunderkids' on a platter.
Possibly why I can only spend a few days playing the latest
release of FM - still love the detail, but way too easy to
'cheat' at it.
Never knew about that glitch! ;D
Edit ... not a glitch, but more a 'tactic'
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: TWS001 Date: April 10, 2015, 6:42 pm
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[quote author=Kiwi link=topic=265.msg29885#msg29885
date=1428701804]
Awesome to that CBR was a favourite of others too - yeah, had
those huge goal-scoring seasons too. So much fun! It was great
that it was also before the time of jumping on the net and
getting the list of 'wunderkids' on a platter.
Possibly why I can only spend a few days playing the latest
release of FM - still love the detail, but way too easy to
'cheat' at it.
Never knew about that glitch! ;D
Edit ... not a glitch, but more a 'tactic'
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When I bid £0 on a player, I didn't get them, but an interested
club 9 times out of 10 would. Made games against overperforming
smaller teams like Coventry or Wimbledon easier. On Amiga, after
about 25 seasons, the save would start to mess up. Clubs would
start playing yoyo with a manager, each appointing him every few
days, and then the performance of the week would start going
mad. Next season you knew it would crash as the disk couldn't
handle the save data size!
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: KoolKiwi Date: April 10, 2015, 6:49 pm
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Damn!
Amiga ... boy, don't hear that word too often. Actually my first
piece of technology was a Commodore C-64 - was the slim fancy
looking one too. Loved the fact that to play (World Class)
Leaderboard Golf - one with 4 courses including St Andrews, you
had to load the game into memory from a tape drive. I had a
slight problem with mine - had to put some weight on the top ...
Never forget that the counter would stop at 83 when Golf loaded
correctly. If it went passed that, the game would crash.
Fun days!
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: TheBalbyBuddha Date: April 10, 2015, 11:04 pm
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[quote author=Kiwi link=topic=265.msg29887#msg29887
date=1428709769]
Damn!
Amiga ... boy, don't hear that word too often. Actually my first
piece of technology was a Commodore C-64 - was the slim fancy
looking one too. Loved the fact that to play (World Class)
Leaderboard Golf - one with 4 courses including St Andrews, you
had to load the game into memory from a tape drive. I had a
slight problem with mine - had to put some weight on the top ...
Never forget that the counter would stop at 83 when Golf loaded
correctly. If it went passed that, the game would crash.
Fun days!
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Ah still have the Amiga in the attic ;D
Started on an amstrad CPC 464 green screen thought it was the
best thing ever when i got a color adapter and could play it
through the TV.
Also had the goal scoring machine CBW ;D ;D and Des walker was
a tower at CB basically ripped the heart out of Sheffield
Wednesday ;D
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: KoolKiwi Date: April 10, 2015, 11:25 pm
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What are the specs of that Amiga?
Des Walker ... wow, blast from the past!
Probably the 'biggest' upgrade I ever got was going from the
tape drive for the C-64, to a disk drive. The disk drive itself
was the size of the entire C-64. Hilarious!
This was the C-64 next to the disk drive - used 5.25" disks: :D
:D
HTML http://homepage.hispeed.ch/commodore/pictures/c64_1541.jpg
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: SherlockH Date: April 11, 2015, 3:46 am
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[quote author=Kiwi link=topic=265.msg29889#msg29889
date=1428726356]
What are the specs of that Amiga?
Des Walker ... wow, blast from the past!
Probably the 'biggest' upgrade I ever got was going from the
tape drive for the C-64, to a disk drive. The disk drive itself
was the size of the entire C-64. Hilarious!
This was the C-64 next to the disk drive - used 5.25" disks: :D
:D
HTML http://homepage.hispeed.ch/commodore/pictures/c64_1541.jpg
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Started out with c64, moved onto an Atari ST and then an Amiga.
The ST had a really good word processor package which got me
through college at the time.
On the cm front two of the best midfields to buy in the early
days were Murphy and Lennon, they were great well before they
made it in rl. Think they were both at Crewe.
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: guest15 Date: April 11, 2015, 5:35 am
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so nostalgia time : )
i had canon msc 64, then amstrad, then commodore 64 - canon and
commodore with tape drives ... and we used to do sth with little
screwdrivers to tune the game or sth, i cant remember now ...
and for the CM, i used to sign andri sigsorrson ... a free
transfer, icelandic, older brother of the dude playing for ajax
nowadays, first season blanks, from second he used to score 30
each... also i used to sign kabba samura and zlatan from malmo :
) it was 95-96 i guess ...
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Re: Nostalgia Time
By: gladiatorrrrrr Date: April 11, 2015, 11:43 am
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I had a msx machine, it was a bit easier to program with it:
BASIC! Great stuff, first a tape. And after I saved some money I
could afford a disk drive....good times!
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