A Brief History of Ashens' Computers | Ashens
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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Hey Stu! What computers did you have many moons ago?
LISTEN AND YOU SHALL SEE.
Full list:
Commodore VIC-20
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
Atari ST (then STE)
Commodore Amiga 1200
PC based around a Pentium 200 MMX
Then some awful shop-bought Pentium 3 450 based thing
Then loads of different self-built machines
And now: THE GAMECHILD (sort of)
#PC #RETRO #ASHENS
Jesus christ. I was not expecting this.
not expecting to see you here
He is expected to be seen whenever there is some nostalgia involved.
@@fouadabouhatab8514 not been in many lazy game reviews videos though
Subverting expectations! It was not Jesus christ.
Jesus it's only a flape
I'm disappointed your PC isn't cheap poundland tat soldered together to create some terrifying Frankenstein's monster computer that runs on Megaduck cartridges and the dust from the tops of years-old Hunger Breaks cans.
that was the previous machine, obviously
I'd pay to see that machine
An overclocked POP Station.
@@Hudson316 I'm still disappointed he didn't show Armour Force.
I take it that your current PC is cooled with liquid filth?
Bright Spark that’s an ollllld reference man
Holy crap, that's a reference that takes me back.
Maaaannnn that's an old one
That might be hard, I think Tesco stopped selling their own brand of liquid filth
I did not sign up for this amount of whiplash.
"And of course, most importantly, GORF is FROG backwards"
Hell yeah it is.
"Frog" was apparently the school nickname of the developer!
Glad you had better luck with Overclockers. I spent over a grand on a pre-built PC in 2008, it died after a week, sent it back, they returned it a month later, hard drive dead. Sent it back again, got it back, graphics cards were hanging off, inner case bent up. They refused to replace it in its entirety, and to add Insult to injury, while they were fucking about with it, the price had gone down to 800 quid, while I couldn't use it, and refused to refund the difference.
(I know no one cares, but I felt better for saying that, since their service was atrocious)
Let it all out...
At least he got it for free.
I care.
@Bernard Coleslaw
Can you clarify; was he VERY racist, or physically huge. And a racist.
Paul, who in their right mind would pay more than 7 grand for a car? People who can afford it and enjoy quality, there's your answer.
I will cry the happiest tears of joy if Stuart and LGR could do a collab video on classic computers.
If Clint and Ashes are ever in the same room together, reality will stop working. Worth it imo
That's cos your an idiot
Get Big Clive in on it as well, with Techmoan getting the soundtrack. And the 8bit guy making another awesome new game for whatever system it is.
Your videos always make me feel homely, although I'm not from the UK my main language isn't English and I can't relate to most of the things you talk about.
Quality content, thanks Ashens.
Bloody hell, that’s a lovely PC.
Thats 4.5k worth of PC if you buy the replica that OCUK are selling
That is a brutal computer. Coffee Lake CPU, 1080 Ti...yikes.
It shames my Devil's Canyon/1070 system, much as I hate to admit.
Love the new PC! Black suit, red tie, and RGB everything else!
Black suit and red tie? Does he have a mustache?
The Blue BlobFish
Depends. Is Ashen's Mumbo Jumbo?
Bronies and Minecraft references? Get outta here.
yeah if you have £4.5k to wank off for a Game Child pc
Plastic Cock, Suit and tie, Randy Genital Beater?!?!?! Dirty bastards!!!!!
Surprised you don't have a Poundland branded PC.
Made by Funtastic
Chef excel
A POP Station in a case that looks like an old IBM PC.
With a Signalex CPU and RAM
Speaking of people who helped the channel.
Still have my Commodore 64 and Amiga. Great gaming and learning machines. Had a huge Public Domain library with a lot of people making their own games with the likes of AMOS and such.
have you looked inside the frame of your couch yet? there's a magnavox odyssey in there i just know it
it's the colour scheme, i swear
6:40
I think that mystery key is actually the "Any" key.
I'm glad the Tab key is standard, it's hard to find Tab anywhere else these days
Whatever happened to the one Overclockers were sending me? :S
not coming cos ur shit
Damnnn... what do you two have against Larry?
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. No, you're both wrong. Larry is great.
Stu nicked it!
They were sending me one as well, because technically I'm on RUclips. Shouldn't we ALL get one?
The Gamechild build is incredibly impressive. Massive props.
Does this particular PC say hello when it's turned on?
I just hope the barf sounds when it crashes.
Should actually be doable, just dig around in the system files, find the bootup graphic/sounds and replace them with his video intro. Not sure what OS he's got in that though, might not be as easy on Win8/10 (never tried) as it was back on XP/7. (Though it's absolutely trivial on linux.)
it's actually just as trivial in windows . Just go to system sounds and change away
Changing the graphic as well was what i was thinking primarily (i know OP only mentioned sound but why not go all out)
I bet Larry Bundy Jr's PC says " hello you".
When a CPU has been sat in a drawer longer than you've been alive. Oh the times we live in.
Oh MAN, the nostalgia with Pinball Fantasies and Legends. Never did play the third game that much, but I remember enjoying the other two on my parents' Amiga.
Well, when I wasn't playing Rainbow Islands, anyway. That game was my jam.
This video is the story of my life. 1st computer ZX Spectrum +2 and endless hours of programming on its crappy 48K Basic, until I finally got the courage to turn to its 128K Basic editor. 2nd Computer, my first PC Pentium MMX200 64Mb RAM on a SOYO motherboard, Graphics card the Allmigthy Diamond Viper V330 with the Riva 128 chip, and Quantum Fireball HDD with 3.2 Gb, quickly replaced by the same model, but with 5,1 GB capacity and a 33,6 Kbps analog modem. Thanks man for the memories. Keep up and Stay Safe.
Oh, I can get my own Ashens PC minus the logos?
"£4,499.99"
Yeah... Maybe next lifetime.
Well it's either that or a used Mazda.
I just got a £100 graphics card for my PC and that feels like ive shelled out on it. A penny under 5 grand? Jesus Christ.
Yeah.. I did not expect it to cost that amount of money tbh.
It's not worth £5000 you could build a similarly spec machine for £1500, just a company thinking they can slap limited edition on something and charge you an arm and a leg for it.
_Finance available on orders over £250_
Truly an exciting era to have computed, at home, personally.
I still have an Amiga games collection and a C64 games collection CD on the shelf
And holy cow, your gaming PC is amazing!
1MB!?!, 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640 K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again." - Bill Gates
Isn't that quote on video? That reeks of the DSP defense.
Damn, I'm old.
The extra 384k is for porn!
Take a shot every time Stuart says "Those were the days."
Last time I was this early Ashens was reviewing the Chiptendo Vii...
My first was a ZX 81. I owned lots of books with games in it that you could type over. Oh the tension when you would run it (and it would never run fine the first time of course!) Games were hard to get and quite expensively, so I got creative instead. I still love to fiddle with code and software to this day.
hey, nice shoutout to the Nostalgia Nerd. He is like a british LGR :)
I'm glad you have a new PC and camcorder. When I watch reviews of Poundland air fresheners or whatever, I want them to be in 4k.
At 50 fps.
Woo Gorf I was so lucky my parents had a video store with Gorf and Kangaroo arcade machines, the arcade version voice was awesome
The A1200 you described is pretty much the same as mine with the 25mHz accelerator(probably the same one, with the magic co-processor or whatever) with 6mb of RAM and a CD-ROM drive connected to the side via a Squirrel. Just instead of fancy pants video capture, I went for a fancy pants 56k modem and browsed the internet incredibly slowly with a browser I can't remember the name of that looked like Netscape.
That custom backplate on the 1080Ti is awesome! The custom glass panel is, as well, of course.
One cool thing about VIC-20 is that it tends to transcend country/continent lines as people's first computer. I've seen plenty of people from the US, the UK, elsewhere in Europe, etc, say that the VIC was their first machine. That's kinda cool when you think about it
ZX Spectrum +2 was the first gaming system I ever owned, I believe it was Christmas '93. I had the James Bond bundle and a literal box full of games, half of which actually worked.
Well as stealth adverts go this was very enjoyable. Nice to see a spread of machines across the brands.
That PC deserves a PC master Race salute
This is giving me nostalgic flashbacks to listening to you talk about Spectrum games back when I was still in middle school.
I'm old enough to have graduated college now, so, y'know, there's one to grow you up a bit.
My 1st computer was also a gift from my uncle. A Texas Instrument something that takes cartridges. Used to play Hunt the Wumpus on it. But my favorite thing to do was open up the massive manuals it came with that contained programing code. I would spend hours at just age 7ish putting in code that would allow a ball(black blob really) bounce across the screen once.
There is no pain quite like that of loading a Spectrum game from tape for about half an hour only for it to either:
1. Turn out to be utterly unplayable garbage.
or
2. It doesn't bloody work.
First Computer: ZX-81 kit. Screwed up the soldering work(bye-bye $50), so my dad bought a TS-1000. Second Computer: C64. Third Computer: TI 99/4A. Fourth Computer: Generic 486. Fifth Computer: Amiga 1200. Sixth Computer: long series of custom-built Pentium and Opteron machines.
I may need a moment alone after seeing that PC.
Hahahah that's UNREAL: Back in 1996 i had my first PC and it was a Pentium 166 (wich later i overclocked at 200Mhz) and the video card was a Matrox Mystique!! :D :D
The coincidence is unbelievable. Except I live in Italy and I don't have a brown sofa.
That pinball table in pinball illusions is more than a little inspired by Appleseed
So, Overclock UK wanted to give Ashens a £4500++ top spec personalised modded PC for free, in return of him saying a couple of words about them in his video, and you'd prefer Ashens to say no because some of his viewers would be upset?
What reality is this?
My first computer was a 486 running DOS version 4 back in 94, 95. I attribute my early literacy to having to learn to type in the commands to actually play the games. Jazz Jackrabbit was a favorite, and of course I would sneak in a bit of Doom when my mom wasn't looking.
Retro Games just announced that they are going to make a full-scale rerelease of the ZX Spectrum, simply called The Spectrum.
I love older computers. They’re just charming in my opinion.
Edit: forgot the s at the end of computers.
Also got try ZX Spectrum +2 for Christmas ‘86. I was 11 and my sister was 9.
Played Tapper, Nomad, Amazon Woman and a Daley Thompson game. Nomad was the favourite.
Take a sip everytime Stuart says "Those were the days". I dare you.
This was a very clever, and completely acceptable way to receive a gift through promotion. Most other YT channels would've done some minimum effort video of them saying 'thank you' over and over for 10 minutes. Bravo on making it interesting.
Well, I have or had all these computers, but at the PC-end, I got by then a K6-2 300 and a Voodoo 3 AGP. The first Graphics Card I ever bought. It was a gift from the gods and I still have that card.
Totally loved my Amiga 1200 (32-bit), had it built into a tower with 133mhz PPC expansion, 8mb ram and a Bvision 3d gfx card, amazing for the time and kicked any pc's butt.
Still got my Commodore 64, had too many games to name but navy seals, Robocop 3 and flimbos quest were some of my favourites
The thing I remember most about the Atari ST is the sound, the music on all the Atari ST versions of games is the best, Turrican 2 springs to mind.
I've never really been a PC gamer, being raised on NES and Sega Genesis as a 90s kid from Canada, but this video makes it damnedably tempting to get in on that action.
Spot on with Gorf for the Vic20!
I went
ZX81 - 3D Monster Maze
ZX Spectrum 48k - Manic Miner
BBC Model B - Repton 3
Home Built PC 386 - Zork
Various upgrades - Falcon Series
First Console Megadrive - Desert Strike
Good on you for including the absolute best part of Pinball Illusions in that little clip. *_"IJUSTLOVETHOSEFLAMES!"_*
I've got a Vic20, switchable memory expansion, datasette, lots of games, I'd be more than happy to donate it, seriously! I've got a couple of joysticks too. It's just gathering dust really. I met you on the book tour last year. If you're interested, I'll send details
I had all the Amigas over a number of years... Amiga all the way!! :)
Dizzy games were my jam in the 80s, loved my little 48k spectrum
This gave me goosebumbs. My first computer was the spectrum 48k, until my little brother broke it. The we upgraded to the spectrum 128k, this was the one i remember the most. Renegade was so good.
Advent was PC worlds own line, often made in Germany, which was why I had to learn how to do DOS in German as well as English.
I *loved* Diablo/Hellfire! About a year ago I fired it up again just to see how it held up; you need a few patches to get it to run on a modern machine. It's definitely aged, but assuming you're in the mood for nostalgia, you can pleasantly knock out a few afternoons with it since the dungeons are always randomized and you get new stuff each time. The Hellfire expansion was great and it's a shame it didn't get better reception; I particularly liked the bug alien demons or whatever they were.
Surprisingly there is a modern, active modding community for Diablo 1 called "The Hell" where they basically just ramp up the difficulty to 1000. Clicking on skeletons was somehow made much more difficult.
This one was a lot of fun to watch. And wow, that GORF port does look pretty slick! Its fast and so colorful.
I love listening to you Stuart, I find you invigorating Xx
Everyone has to do a video like this - great idea! If I think Spectrum I think Monty Mole - Think Amiga and think Speedball 2- there's an App somewhere in this too!
I'm kinda disappointed Ashens' current PC isn't a sleeper build. Ya know, those modern PCs in old computer cases.
Thumbs up for starting on the Sega Saturn, "the programmer's machine". I also started on a C64. Not a Vic20 but I was aware of them lol
I had a Sinclair Spectrum 128k and I bloody loved it.
I remember Gorf! I really liked it because it simulated several of my favorite arcade games
Ashens mentioning Quake II is just golden
That's a brick wall of computing power you have there. Should last you about 5 years or more. Hope you enjoy it for years to come!
Gorf was arguably one of the very first arcade games which had an end-boss. Great upload.
Ashens, I am genuinely envious of your current PC.
Respect the nod to Slam Tilt. The 'Ace of Space' music remains etched in my brain - what a table!
For me - Spectrum 48k, Spectrum plus2, Atari ST 1024, NES, Super NES, game boy, PlayStation mk1 , Nintendo 64, Nintendo gamecube, xbox, Nintendo wii, PS3, wiiU, XBox one, PS4 (I didn't get a BBC micro, PS2 or sega Saturn, but used other peoples for these.)
Your current pc is gorgeous, both in spec and in design!
Love the final PC. Let me check out the link, I might be interested. Need a new PC soon.
Oh..... shit...
£4,500... Yikes... maybe not.
I've still got that exact model of the Spectrum in my loft. Haven't fired it up in over 25 years though.
Nice, a history of Ashens. Thank you.
GORF is FROG backwards... WTF?! I have been playing this game since the 80's and I never knew this. Damn... Mind blown!
Pac-Man is Nam-Cap backwards.
How utterly charming. Thanks for sharing, Stuart.
Gorf was one of my favorites. Pretty sure I had it on my Atari 800xl, but had so many systems it's difficult to remember for sure.
Im so glad I've grown up around modern technology, old computers are so clunky! Yet there is something charming about them
My first computer was the Spectrum ZX+2! I really liked the Dizzy games and a game called Colin the Cleaner.
I had the same, I learnt 6502 machine code on a VIC 20 and 68000 on the Atari st. The Atari st was great.
Still have a C-64. Works just fine.
I love the slow pan on Peter's face.
I remember my folks purchased me the A600, and then the A1200 came out about 6 months later, so what we had was instantly obsolete.
I said to myself as I clicked your PC link "You watch, I bet it's over 1000 quid" Then I face palmed harder than Captain Picard.
I love hearing someone talk all nostalgic about the days when 25mhz and 6mb of RAM was high end computing. The early days must have been a wild ride.
People used to program more efficiently.
Gotta admit that Over Clocker's custom pc is beautiful.
I started out with the Commadore 64, the game I remember most is probably one of the Dizzy games. Now, I'm about to go put my PSVR headset on and play RIGS on a PS4 Pro, oh how far we've come.
Sticky Keys at 8:05
Hah, that pinball table looks to be a weird mashup of Robocop and the anime Appleseed.
Sega Saturn.
You have my respect.
I like the way the Renegade dude does a 'dad run' to get around
Also known as 'the penguin' or "that walk wot you do when you're not sure if that fart was really just a fart".
The best late 90s PC upgrade was to get a Celeron 300A and run it on a motherboard capable of easy overclocking, such as the ABit BH6. I got my AU$200 300A up to 463Mhz on a 103Mhz memory bus, while a proper P-II 450 cost close to five times the price.
Best CPU bargain ever, in terms of bang for buck and overclocking capability.
My Spectrum 128k + 2 was very iffy. A present in 1988 which came from the BB Adams shop in Norwich (Ashens may remember it). The joystick ports never worked. Had to use an interface from the old 48k+ to connect the Kempston joystick.
After that I had a Sega Master system, got bored of that and then got an Amiga A600 in 1992/3. Sold that after I got bored of it and regretted it ever since.
Renegade and Target: Renegade were excellent games on the speccy.
Damn! That Overclockers machine is fi-i-i-ne!
Man I love old games and computers.
I honestly didn't have much of a problem with my Pentium III 450 back in the day. The biggest problems were that CPU speeds rocketed up in the following years and it was no longer feasible in any case to use CPU brute force for 3D graphics, but I was playing primarily management sims and RTS games back then, along with some of the late-1990s CRPGs. It wasn't until later when I started to delve into the 3D-heavy games between 2001 and 2005, around the time when I upgraded to play Half-Life 2.