Hey, hey, 16k, what does that get you today?

[Adam_151]

Found this on another forum, catchy tune

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

Must admit its a little before my time, but did make me dig up some fond computer nostaliga memmories of my own

 

[Thermo]

that was exactly my time. I had every one of those games in the song they showed in the background. Much more entertaining than the new ones. i only wish i could find an emulator that was easy to use!

 

[tawelfryn]

My time too. Yes Emulators are are pain to use. This site is quite good Thermo, some good classics here
http://www.1980-games.com/us/action-games/remake.php

 

[2scoops0406]

Well, ahem. I've got a Speccy emulator and about 30 games if you're interested, it doesn't work on XP though, need windows 95 /98 etc.

 

[2scoops0406]

As for what you can achieve in 16k, well, the ZX81 had a basic chess program in 1K, appollo 11 apparently had around 64k of RAM on board. Colossus allegedly had the processing power of a Pentium 2 (albeit for a very specific function) I think the message to take from this is far from gloating as to what modern computers can do, we should be utterly ashamed of what we do do with them based on the sheer amount of horsepower we have now.