Itās on YouTube if you search for it.
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I wonāt try to recall the details of my first custom-built PC. All I can remember is that it was running Windows 98.
On the other hand, my first Mac was a 2007 white plastic MacBook with Mac OS X Tiger. I still have it somewhere, and itās still running perfectly fine with Snow Leopard.
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My first one was either a LC or a PowerMac 6200. After those I also had a PowerMac G4, a white Macbook and a few MBPāsā¦
Nowadays very happy with my MBP M1.
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Another great. Used to play that on my brothers 386 2/66
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Mine was a Commodore 64 with the gun. I also had a batman game and an olympics game. Nothing better than loading a cassette for 5 minutes and being demented by the sounds of hell and flashing lines that would almost give you epilepsy. Great computer though, I remember buying the games magazines and it showed you the graphics for Spectrum and the 64 for each game, we would sit and argue at school which was better. Obviously 64 all the way, but I must admit Dizzy for the Spectrum was awesome.
For my Amiga there were so many great games. Escape from Colditz was awesome but so hard to finish. Sensi Soccer, then sensible world of soccer was the greatest football game ever. Canon Fodder like @PeteSharp mentioned, Syndicate was great and I think a game which was light years ahead of its time, was Hunter. Probably was the influence to a lot of todays games.
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I was thinking about this game after I posted, also Sensible world of soccer. Turrican 2, Chuck Rock (loved that, apart from the crash often when you clocked it).
Did you ever play K240 @AdamNotEve
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Loved Turrican 2. Also loved Chaos Engine and Alien Breed. I never played K240 , Iāve never heard of it. Any good?
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My first Mac. 1993 Macintosh LC
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This has reminded me that my post earlier was wrong! My first Mac was an LC, in 1991.
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I have one of these, paid Ā£50 for it on eBay. Itās very nice and the keyboard is great!
Awesome, Iām going to grab those.
Are the soldering jobs intricate to replace these?
Also wondering, is it possible to pick up a replacement battery for the back of the Macintosh?
The G4 cube? 
Letās not forget Alien Breed, Speedball 2 and Hunter 
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Oh yes, SpeedBall was awesome.
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Blast from the past! Didnāt own one, but we got brand new ones at college in the same year 1991, we used them for Mac Draw, I think it was Draw it was compared to now a basic vector drawing programme we used. Remember thinking how amazing it looked and my first encounter with a mouse. We would spend ages just moving the mouse pointer around, look I can slow, nowā¦ I can go fast 
The Opus PCs we used in school before then were DOS and didnāt have a mouse, but we had a lazer bloominā printer, it was the future then.
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Oh my god I canāt believe youāve opened up that 40 year old can of worms 
In fairness, my mate had a C64 and the games did feel like true arcade games, especially Track and Field. However, it didnāt stop the arguments āthe speccy has lots of fine dots, your C64 has big blocksā āno that isnāt colours blocking and bleeding over each other on the speccy your seeing things and need your eyes testedā as you try and gaslight your C64 friend when pointing that out
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Syndicate and Turrican, 2 of my most played games I think 
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Relative to surface-mount soldering, no, it is not intricate. Surface mount is far more intricate due to the teensy tiny size of each component, requiring you to have a dedicated magnification tool to do the job properly. Even then, I always find myself accidentally flicking the new SMD parts into the air, falling who-knows-where, losing them forever. With larger ādiscreteā components (aka āthru-holeā) like are on the Analog Board of a Macintosh Plus, you wonāt ever lose any parts accidentally, and many people can do the soldering job without any special magnifier at all. Meaning, with only your normal glasses or contacts or good eyes, you can solder thru-hole parts just fine. That is based on my own experience doing such soldering jobs.
If you have never touched a soldering iron in your life though, it might be good to find a dead electronics device, pull out its circuit board, then play around with desoldering and soldering. Itās not difficult. You just want to make sure you donāt accidentally burn yourself.
Also, when soldering in a new component, itās best to avoid keeping the soldering iron touching any component leg for more than about 4 seconds, if you can help it. Electrolytic capacitors are especially heat sensitive. You wonāt prevent them from working, but their useful life is related to the heat they experience during their lifetime, and that includes the brief, high-intensity heat they are hit with during soldering. But if you practice enough and have a good soldering station set to 350Ā°C, most solder joints should melt in a couple seconds. Adding new solder or flux can help too. The exception are solder joints attached to a large āground planeā (lots of copper), which acts as a heat-sink for your soldering iron. The better the iron, the better it can deal with those joints. Because I do soldering a lot, I also have a heat gun, and sometimes heating the area of a ground plane (even with a hair dryer) can make soldering or desoldering joints there much easier.
Yes. If you open the same video link I provided in my earlier post, expand the text description beneath the video by clicking the āā¦moreā text link. The CMD-F to do a keyword search. Search for āPRAMā. That will jump you to the PRAM battery link. It is an Exell Alkaline Battery A133 that is sold on Amazon.
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Awesome thanks for the detailed response James 
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First Mac was a white MacBook core duo in 2006. Persuaded after various friends had Macs and they were so much better to use than Vista. Was great to use and was able to upgrade it a bit to keep it going longer.
Eventually was disassembled and resprayed pink with a silver bezel to make a āPinkbookā as a Christmas present for niece who really wanted a pink laptop.
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