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Jesus Christ I've been waiting for this thread for SO LONG. The Retro Gaming thread is great but it's not the place to nerd out about old computes. Post some motherfuckin' old computers If I were you I'd have put a shoutout to Lotharek's store, he sells the HxC Floppy Emulators among other cool things for old computers. Also the uIEC/SD and 1541 Ultimate II are both SD card interfaces for the C64 which are infinitely useful for anyone who still rocks a C64 in this day and age. Have a picture of my C64C with a MIDI cartridge (the MSSIAH!) I have a 1541 Ultimate II on preorder but can't wait to actually place the order  Now that I'm gonna be able to play poo poo that requires a 1541 to work, it's become a table on my soldering table  Here's my IIgs Woz Edition and a Mac Plus, along with a floppy drive and both Bard's Tales  Here's my Atari 1040 STE. I love the gently caress out of this thing. I have a modified Sony floppy drive I wanna drop in for 1.44MB support. I have a SM124 but didn't picture it.  This is my childhood Apple //c and the first computer I ever used. I have the matching monitor in a different room s I didn't picture it.  Also got a Classic as well as a Classic II.  Here's something none of you nerds (or very few) have ever seen before. A Performa 640CD DOS Compatible. It came with a daughtercard with a 486DX2 if memory serves me right. It was the first computer with a GUI my family ever owned, and I played the everloving poo poo out of some DOS games on this thing. The daughtercard had great Sound Blaster emulation too.  TV tuners too!  I just missed a $40 Coleco Adam on Craigslist  and my floor is messy with 1000 cables because the ~studio~ is getting rearranged
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What this thread needs is more AutoDuel. I mean tell me if you saw that artwork on Steam or GOG or whatever you WOULDN'T buy it on the spot before even reading what it was about. Autoduel has to be one of the first RPG's where you're in a car the whole time. You also have frightening gangs and vigilantes warring on highways and you gotta fight to survive. It also has permadeath.  gently caress yes check them graphics Also I am taking this space to shouts out to the first game I ever played, except my memory of it is in black/green only. 
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Oct 29, 2013 17:44
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Have any of you played Scarab of Ra though? That's a B&W Mac game for the ages y'all. I need to get those Classics I took some pics of hooked up because the hard drives are loaded to the brim with nothing but B&W Mac games. Most won't even run on something that isn't a B&W Mac. I remember there being an amazing clone of Elevator Action, obviously there was Glider, but one of my fondest memories is of this weird airlock game where you're in space and an airlock and there is really crunchy sound and I don't remember any of the rest of it? poo poo man I gotta find where my ADB keyboards are stowed away. edit: I found a vid of System's Twilight for classic Macs, everyone watch this mindfuck of a puzzle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcln72yqO0s Bing the Noize fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Oct 30, 2013 |
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Oct 30, 2013 05:16
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Cannot Find Server posted:Oh god you weren't kidding about their page layout. It is exactly what I'd expect from a website for 80's computer enthusiasts Did you see the part of their site where it says in huge letters that what they show online is a tiny fraction of the stock they have? You probably missed it because everything is big bold letters on that site. Last time I bought some poo poo from them I ordered a catalog too. It's like 400 pages and all their Atari video game related stuff even has its own catalog, which I don't have. Yes, they do print catalogs and you have to mail order them. If you PM me i have the latest catalog and can probably see if they have what you need (I know they do, you should just call them)
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Oct 31, 2013 02:15
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Live CD/USB seems like a different thing because most if not all of the reason you'd want to shuffle between disks and squeeze as much space as possible between them is because you don't have any HD space and need to keep on' computin'. Maybe if your modern PC had no hard drive, but that's weird given how an unremarkable/low capacity hard drive is more worthless than a spindle of CD-R's. For any C64 havers, I think I posted this in the Retrogames forum but not here. If you are a longtime C64ist, you may know a thing or two about the 1541 and how it is required to get certain software running on the C64 (namely if you're a fool who is into demos and things like that) then you should consider spending a little more than you would on a uIEC/SD or SD2IEC and get a 1541 Ultimate II. The 1541 Ultimate II comes in a nice looking shell, takes microSD, and is a beast compared to the uIEC or SD2IEC because it emulates a 1541 on a tiny little FPGA. The website layout is kind of confusing though, I didn't realize for a long time that if you pre-order one, that just is the equivalent of an "interest check", you can go straight from that to a normal order and pay him for one if you want, or wait for him to get a big batch of them in (which he does regularly). They're a little over $100 so given the extra support/less awkward form factor compared to a uIEC/SD I think it's well worth it, especially as the uIEC/SD's been creeping up in price steadily
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Nov 2, 2013 10:40
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Yeah XMPlay works pretty nice (also still looks 1999 as hell) but I think SIDPlay is the best for if you're just listening to SIDs. Nothing like putting some Ryo Kawasaki on loop for a good long while.
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Nov 2, 2013 12:21
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Captain Rufus posted:If that thing works as claimed it is a seriously awesome thing! Well I don't own one myself (yet), but I plan to get one to share between a 68k mac and my Atari STe. That dude (hxc2001.free.fr or whatever) is the exact same person that runs Lotharek's store I posted last page, at lotharek.pl. I don't own any of his devices personally but know plenty of people who use them in their old synthesizers and computers and absolutely love them. It'd make my trying-to-make-music-with-a-ST thing a poo poo ton easier. As for C64, it's well worth it to drop cash on a uIEC/SD or a 1541 Ultimate II, depending how C64 crazy you are (if it's "Very Crazy", buy a loving C64 and a Ultimate II what are you doing.) Also the 1541 Ultimate II shipped to the USA is about ~$70 more than a uIEC/SD shipped, but it obviously has a ton more features to back it up. Also that sounds awfully Johnny Turbo-esque.
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Nov 5, 2013 09:15
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Holy poo poo you have a Cyrix chip in your machine. I'm immensely jealous. I want one 
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Nov 7, 2013 05:48
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The 90's were glorious if you gave no fucks about everything becoming more than twice as powerful every year and ran that old hardware hard as it'd go until you absolutely had to upgrade. 68k strictly until '98. The day we upgraded from 9600 baud to 56k was amazing  Still want to get a Cyrix replacement chip one of these days. They can't be that much, i oughta slap one where the 486DX2 is, make that DOS Compatible even more hosed up.
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Nov 7, 2013 11:55
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Whenever you buy your X68000 which uses the world's best CPU (not that Intel trash god how could you get it wrong ugh god) please make sure it either has a lot of RAM or you have a lead on some more to put on it because IIRC it's pretty hard to come by! Also definitely get a floppy emulator for that thang, will make playing all of its superior ports of games a lot better.
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Nov 16, 2013 00:15
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tuluk posted:Rufus, any chance of you covering autoduel in the future? Rufus and I were gonna nerd out about Autoduel if I made it there but I didn't. Autoduel C64 is a good game. One day we will see an extensive effortpost about B&W Mac games from Rufus but I need to get him a B&W Mac first oops
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Nov 17, 2013 23:17
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Don't you have a way to write to 5 1/4" disks? E: I'm talking about writing disk images from the internets to a 5 1/4". Apple II's can do it with ADTPro but I lost my fuckin cable Bing the Noize fucked around with this message at 10:36 on Nov 18, 2013 |
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Nov 18, 2013 02:11
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Oh jesus my 1541 Ultimate II is ready to be ordered  *runs to the bank with stacks of cash in hand* Also yeah Rufus whenever I see you I do have a STe and a Mac Plus for you.
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Jan 8, 2014 22:19
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But none of those are a X68000 I'm really determined to bring a X68000 back whenever I go to Japan but I know even tracking one down is going to be a miserable nightmare.
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Jan 19, 2014 21:55
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Genpei Turtle posted:Getting any software for it is going to be pretty tricky too, though not quite as hard as the hardware. Lotharek's floppy emulator and a TOSEC set  As much as I would love to own real X68K games versus loading em up I don't have the $ or time
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Jan 21, 2014 07:41
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Yeah but poo poo like VMware tools exists for a lot of platforms. It's when you don't have tools available for your retro platform it becomes a pain getting files in the VM
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Feb 1, 2014 18:10
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I grew up with an Apple IIc (still have it). I had a friend who had a C64 and I wanted one for myself really bad, but as much as I loved the Apple II it looks so loving bad.
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Feb 3, 2014 17:24
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Super Star Trek is the only real Trek game. I am jealous my dad had the experience of playing it on a HP 2000. No monitor, just wasting poo poo tons of paper
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Feb 7, 2014 22:58
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Civilization was always garbage. Those of us with good taste played better games like Spaceward Ho! and computer vesions of Koei games (e: Don't call it The New England)
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Feb 16, 2014 20:20
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What's the issue with cracked games not running on real machines?
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Feb 16, 2014 22:44
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I mean you couldn't throw more RAM at it and then use software workarounds? That said I don't remember if the A1200 is one of the ones where you gotta get that expansion card before you can even add more RAM though
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Feb 16, 2014 23:03
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I'm trying to remember the name of some series of Classic Mac games that were some pretty simplistic early style tile based RPGs. The main character was some animal and the name was something really simple like "whoever's adventure". Man it's been bugging the hell out of me. I found it on a shareware top downloaded list back in the day so someone else must have played it... Excuse me while I start going thru abandonware archives alphabetically
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Mar 19, 2014 05:06
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Nope. I know it was a lot more like I described it and I'm gonna go thru some old Zip disks when I get home and pray they still work. It was also a lot rougher visually. It was straight up just tiles and no animation, you would just move from one tile to the next like you were playin a Atari 8bit or C64 Ultima or something like that. Not that rough, but it was a pretty rough game with some pretty basic sound effects.
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