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Minidust posted:my RAM story is that the last level of Doom II was basically unplayable, then when my Dad upgraded from 4MB to 8MB it was like I could move and breathe again My second PC was an Amiga 500 (my first was an A1200, oddly enough) and it had a little switch built in which turned on the 1 MB RAM expansion that was built into the machine. Fun things happened when you'd flip it while the computer was running. (Once I got old enough to use a soldering iron I wired the expansion to be permanently on and disconnected the switch because turning it off was only required for three games and they all loving sucked.) Dr. Quarex posted:What kind of pure maniac was playing DOOM with a mouse? That would be literally everyone at id. The demos that came with the game were clearly recorded with a mouse.
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For me, real hardware is important just because every micro from that era has a different keyboard layout and emulating them comfortably has and will likely always remain a huge pain in the rear end Like, look at this poo poo:  e: f,b & also  Coffee Jones posted:8 bit PC keyboards are significantly different from the IBM PS/2 that we all see today. Thing is, most games are going to start straight from boot. So, if you’re emulating, you have a game pad plugged into your PC, and you’re almost never going to touch the keyboard.
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Coffee Jones posted:I think it’s a successor to the ZX81 keyboard It is, but it's even funkier than that. They figured since before the Spectrum+ they didn't actually have real keys (just either rubber buttons like you'd find on a TV remote or, in the case of the ZX81 and ZX80, painted rectangles on a flat sheet of plastic), they'd spare you the pain of typing in your keywords. Every key has a dedicated BASIC keyword. It wasn't until the Spectrum 128 when their basic let you type in your keywords letter-by-letter. The Sinclair family of computers is an entire loving mess. Mind boggling that they lasted well into the nineties.
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nielsm posted:PC games with tracker music soundtrack off the top of my head: Basically most games on UE1, too; it couldn’t play regular music files unless you added some additional middleware; they dropped xm support in UE2, iirc
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Oh yeah, given the topic, this is an obligatory watch even if you have seen it already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
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The worst PSUs have to be Commodore ones; they're essentially a transformer encased in a massive brick of epoxy. Can't imagine how much of a pain in the rear end repairing them has to be. Did they ever made sensibly designed aftermarket replacements for them?
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You Am I posted:I use the SDrive Max on my 800XL for most stuff. I also have a good collection of 400/800 games that I got in a bundle with the hardware: Are those the Apple speakers from the G3/G4 era?
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