[The Niles]

My first computer was an MSX. 64k RAM no monitor but a simple TV. I still have it and I have set it up from time to time but there is no reason for it. I have only a few games for it and only used it to program on it. I made quite a few good games. Can't port them though and that is a shame.

The oldest computer I have worked on was a VIC20 the predicessor to the C64. That was fun but very limited. A friend and I made a game for it than was pretty fun to play but ran on the very limits of the machine. It was in real time and that is actually hard to make work on that old thing.

If you think programming no longer pushes computers to their limits you should look again. Games like Far Cry are ammazing and a game like Medieval Total War gets the most out of your computer. Those games can run on slower machines but then they have to. If you want to sell a game now you cannot have it run only on the most modern they have to be able to run on slower machines as well or they will not sell. If you are lucky enough to own a very fats computer you are in for a (vissual) treat that makes the extra bucks you payed on your rig worth while but the game you can play on older setups.