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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: runequester on October 06, 2010, 05:40:06 AM
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Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?
Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?
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Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?
Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?
You might have guessed that I'd just have to answer this one... :)
An entire history of my computing ownership & experience is quite simply... Started In 1982 With The Vic20, then came the C64, next was the A1000, followed by the A500, A1200, A1500 and the A4000.
All have been sold over the years except my A1200s & C64, the only console I own are a couple of SNES (best R.P.G. games ever) the only other console I've ever owned was the Vectrex, wish I'd never sold that little beauty... :)
(oh and this iMac I bought a few months ago for the net, but that doesn't count... :) )
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TI-99/4A (my first computer, 1984)
Commodore 64/128 (second and third computers, 1987 and 1990)
Amiga (my fourth computer, 1992)
Additionally, I had a brief flirtation with Apple ][s and Atari (due to school,) the later of which I am delving more into with a long-ago acquisition of an Atari 800XL with 1050 floppy drive, which I am not sure but may be Happy. There was period during which my 64 was dead and I was relegated to using a Vic-20, which, as neat as it may have been, I am likely not to enshrine in my collection. My grandfather had a 520ST, and I would love to assemble a beefed up ST system.
I have also in my time turned up an SX-64, of which I now have two. My family also had a Color Computer 3 for a very short while. I think we focused more on the 99/4A than on the CoCo3 so it had to go. A lot of other people have mentioned consoles, so I will mention that we only ever had an Atari 2600. Personally I have now garnered a 5200, 7800, NES, Genesis CD, Nomad, PlayStation, and an X-Box.
For now, I am content with my active 128D, 99/4A with peripheral expansion box (PEB,) several Amigas, and building up the Atari 800XL system. I will most likely also set up a 64C system once I get my room organized.
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My 1st computer was a Tandy Trs80 Coco1. Got it expanded from 4KB to 64KB which greatly enhanced the experience (the upgrade added extras other than just RAM). After that came the Microbee, and then c64. Amiga was next and Ive not strayed from it yet. In recent years however, via emulation, Ive checked out most other machines that I'd read about in computer magazines I read as a kid and find that nostalgia is present for most of these machines (even though they were the enemy at the time), particularly speccy and amstrad cpc. The two retro machines that I have most interest in other than the amiga though would be the c64 and tandy coco's (particularly model 3, as it was significantly enhanced over what I had a child (gauntlet2 for coco3 for example looks quite similar to amiga/atari st versions, despite being an 8bit machine with only 64 colors)).
Man, day's gone by hey ? :)
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ZX Spectrum +3 is my first. Sinclair computers are great.
I also got C64, Amstrad and Atari, but don't use them.
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Currently, apart from several Amiga computers (3000, 1200, 2x2000), I own a C64, a C128, an SX64, an Acorn A5000, a PowerMac G3, a Mac IIci, an Atari Portfolio and a Sun Ultra 2.
And quite a few pc-boxes, but I don't count them as retro. Even though several of them are equiped with old Windows versions like 95, 98 & NT4. :-)
My computer history goes from the C64 to the Amiga 500, to a pc. Most of my retro machines have never been used by me as my main computer, but have been acquired out of interest. I would like to have an MSX 2 or something, but space is lacking...
And yes, I do count the Sun Ultra 2 as a retro machine, even though it is still quite capable with 2 GB ram, dual 400 MHz cpu and two 73 GB scsi-drives. Likewise with my beige PowerMac G3 (1 GHz cpu, 768 MB ram, 128 MB videocard & 80 GB harddrive).
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Hmm, i have had interest in many other retro computers consoles. My collection consits of:
A few Sega Megadrives / Megadrive II's + games & Accessories + Sega MegaCD
A couple of Sega Master Systems + accessories etc..
A couple of Sega Game Gears + games & accessories
A couple of Nintendo NES's + games and accessories
2 Sega Saturns + Games
Sega DreamCast
Quite a few Gameboys (all types) + loads of games and accessories
Nintendo N64 + games/accessories
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo SNES + Games/accessories
About 29 different Nintendo Game & Watch games
A couple of Commodore 64's + loads of games & accessories
Atari Jaguar + games
Atari 2600Jr + games
Sinclair Spectrum + Games
Atari Lynx + Atari Lynx II + Games
Atari 1040 STe
Atari 130XE
Atari 800XL
+ Some other stuff i forgot
I used to have (Now Sold):- NeoGeo AES, NeoGeo MVS, NeoGeo Pocket
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Msx!!!!!!
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Let's see:
Atari 65xe
Atari 130xe
Commodore 64
Coleco Adam
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
All are gone but I still have the Amiga 2000
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Msx!!!!!!
Oohh have one too. I forgot. Lol
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Too many to name, though I'm partial to machines that weigh more than I do.
Really not an Atari or Tandy fan, though.
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Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?
Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?
Just follow the link to the website... I live a retro computer repository so I'm pretty lucky really. Trying to think of something I don`t have to play with... An Amiga 1060 would be nice and a tape drive for my A3000UX possibly. Finally got a KIM which was given to me.
And for me it started with a ZX81, which I still have and still works. I have in excess of 500 computers here with probably a fifth of those Amiga. And that doesn't even begin to describe the collection given the amount of peripherals, expansions, media, books, magazines and software that I have. I am in retro heaven.
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ZX81 in 1982
ZX Spectrum in 1983
C128 in 1985
Amiga 2000 in 1989
Still have my ZX Spectrum case I have an emulator to run any games on PC. A C64 just to play with on the odd occasion I want to hear that SID chip, complete with a 100+ 5.5" disk collection each with multiple games. Everything works fine as long as I keep the beastie cool.
I gave my ZX81 to my younger brother and I think my mum threw it out with a tea chest of other stuff (including classic mags) back in the 90s. )o:
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My other computer is a PIII 500Mhz Wintel box. That's retro enough for me thank you very much.
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I started with a hombrew Z80 system, built from plans published by a guy who went on to become a shuttle astronaut. Then I went to an Atari 800, and 800XL, to the Amiga 1000, and finally the 2000. Still have them all, but mainly use emulation now.
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I am into Bally arcade(my first computer in 1978). Apple IIE, coco-2, Vic-20, C64, Amigas, Quad and dual Xeon motherboards. That is the extent of my collection and computer hobby interest. For most daily activity and for work it is strictly PC.
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I am into Bally arcade(my first computer in 1978).
Really? Wow... that was wasn't too common, but yeah, same here. Bally Professional Arcade was the first electronic hook-to-TV game/console/computer I was exposed to, as well. Somehow during all the rebranding and mismanagement, it got known almost exclusively as Astrocade. (Even though I don't think it was ever formally called that, somehow that is the name it seems to have landed with.) I learned about programming from Bally Basic. Which explains a lot about my coding skills, really. WHAT? :lol:
Also, C64/128. My first real computer. Still have a small C64 setup, though nothing like back in the day.
Also old MIPS SGIs. I remember thinking how cool they were back in the day, and if you look around a bit, there are some beautifully preserved and very affordable models out there.
And, I just trimmed my Amiga collection down to a reasonable size. Which is to say it's still nice, just not completely overpowering, anymore.
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Mostly the Amstrad CPC as that's what I had before my Amiga 500 (Amstrad CPC 464 with green screen, then CPC 6128 with colour screen, then an A500 with TV, then an A1200 with TV, then monitor).
Being from the UK, I also look at some Spectrum and C64 stuff. Not so much Atari, old Apple, etc.
I like looking at the old computer specs. Today I was looking at the 3DO, heh. Was wondering if anyone wanted to write a game similar to "Slayer" on that console (an AD&D doom-a-like), should be doable on a 25MHz 68030 apparently, given the 3DO's 12.5MHz ARM6.
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I went from an Atari 2600 as a kid to the Amiga and have never looked back.
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And, I just trimmed my Amiga collection down to a reasonable size. Which is to say it's still nice, just not completely overpowering, anymore.
It is not a system until the lights dim when you turn it on! :)
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Does the original Playstaion count? Didn't think so.... Crash Bandicoot
I do have my C=64 system on a flat that I occasionally bring up from the dungeon to tinker with.
My other computer is a PIII 500Mhz Wintel box. That's retro enough for me thank you very much.
lol
Still have the first pc I built in 1998. 500mhz Athlon (http://rcfreas.com/tribes2/Roach/roachinfo.htm) that is currently used as a "go between" to get files from the internet to the Amigas via 100mg ZIP discs.
Now that I have aquired an Epson9600 printer for my photography, the Athlon64 HP with XP has been the mainstay. The retro machines have been neglected...
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Just as most of the others have said, I'm into the retro computers that I had when I was growing up. My first computer was a TRS-80 Coco 1 which I learned to program on. A few years later I got into Apple IIs and then eventually the Amiga 500. I had loaner PCs that I did work programming on in those days but I'm not nostalgic about those DOS boxes one bit.
My collection consists a few Amigas, an Apple IIc and my original Atari 2600. I'm actually glad I kept a lot of my original machines all these years. There were many times that I almost ditched them. My originals are the ones I care about the most. The stuff I bought in recent years don't hold as much value to me.
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I have had some flirting with:
Microdigital TK-90X (a spectrum clone) - that was my first computer and with it I did my first steps into programming.
Commodore 64 - that was my favorite gaming machine
Atari 65xe - Nice machine, cool looking, I was more interested in its different OSes than anything else
Macintosh LC631 - It is still a very comfortable classic Mac to tinker with.
Sun Sparcstation 20 - It was so awesome and so elegant to work with Unix and OpenWindows with two processors and 128MB of RAM!
IBM AS400 - Pure horse power and top of the line security.
I currently only keep the C64, the Mac and the Atari. I still regret I sold the others.
From time to time I fantasize about buying a SGI O2, a machine I allways wanted , but shipping costs are so damn high!
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C64/128, which predated my Amiga interest. (I have not ventured back to my first computer love, the TI99/4A.)
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Just my C-64. I have been trying to get that SID sound going.
But Bruce Lee is pretty cool too!
Hiiiiiiiiiii Yhaaaaaa!
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I am really into NeXT myself. Have 2 sweet NeXTcubes all pumped up. I had a BeBox but sold that. Kind of sad I did but had to go. I am mostly into Apple, NeXT, and Atari.
tj
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I still have a working ZX Spectrum, but it rarely sees action.
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I saved my paperboy money in 87 and 88 to get a home computer. I programmed trs-80's in school but I wanted something better. A friend's father had some atari computers so I bought a 400xl (400 but with memory expanded and a real keyboard) and a 600xl, but the 600xl was broken so he gave me an 800xl instead. Later I got a couple vic-20s c64s 64cs and amigas and pcs.
But the atari and commodore 8-bits will always be favorites.
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I went from a 64, to a 128, to an A500 growing up. I'm still (obviously) big into C= 8bit and have multiple systems. I also own a couple CP/M boxes, Kaypro 10 and Televideo TS-803H.
Over the last ~ 15 years I have owned and used just about everything imaginable, but they have all been sold except what was mentioned above.
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Listed oldest to newest:
Hp-85, about 1979 or 80 (also have HP-86 and 87). These are very cool all-in-one designs, Hp's first attempt at a desktop computer! They use a very early and cryptic operating system.
Timex-Sinclair, 1981
Atari 1200, 1982?
IBM 5150, 1982? Played Trade Wars on this, also have a PC Jr.
Osborne 1, 1982? CP/M OS, very professional when it came out.
Apple IIc, 1983 or 84. Always wanted one when new, never quite took the leap.
The various Amigas, see signiture
IBM Personal System 2 w/486 - Dos and Windows 3.1, early 1990s? Still used for old Dos stuff.
Some pizza box Macs: LC III, Performa 475, Quadra 605, mid 1990s. I love how compact these are.
A non-descript Intel tower with Xubuntu
Other Macs: biege G3 Tower, G4 Quick Silver, G5 tower
Sony PS3 It plays blue rays, I don't game much. I thought it would be great with xubuntu, which sadly runs on only one core. NOT!
Most of the older stuff was rescued long after these machines were in vogue. I couldn't afford them when new, the first HPs, for example, went for many thousands of dollars.
The G4 serves up movies from the net to TV, the G5 is getting a lot of use since my A3000 got sick (repairs are coming along). My first Amiga 500 in 1989 was the machine that seemed unlimited in what it could do and the ways it could be expanded. The community that sprang up around it to increase its usefulness was magical.
Most of the other machines are seldom turned on. The Amigas still fascinate.
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I like reading about retro computing of all flavours, but the only classic system I own and use is an A500.
I'm pretty intrigued by the Sharp X68K, though. If it wasn't for the language barrier, I'd have imported one by now.
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My collection is ... a bit long to list :) Means there's hardly any room left in the flat, don't think the girlfriend understands the fascination! She has been playing Settlers on my 1200 lately though!
The actual consoles vary from the Atari 2600 to the PS3 via things like a Neo Geo, and the computers start with the VIC-20 and ZX80 up to the AmigaOne which is my main computer (with an Athlon FX-51 PC for games like Civ). In between there's 3 C64s (2 of which without SID chips so I could put them in the AmigaOne), Commodore MAX Machine, Atari 800XL and 800XE, 65XE, an ST (original, no disk drive), a 1024STfm, Faclon 030, Memotech MTX-512, tons of Spectrums, Mattel Aquarius, Tatung Einsten TC-256, Dick Smith V300, Laser 200, Panasonic JR-200U, some MSXs including a Philips MSX2, ZX80, some ZX81s, Jupiter Ace and Ace 4000, TRS80 MC-10, Dragon 64, Archimedes A3010, TI-99/4 and TI-99/4A, Enterprise 64, BBC Electron, B and B+, some Sinclair clones from Brazil or Russia mostly, PetersPlus Sprinter, EACA Colour Genie EG2000, CGL M5, 2 Tomy Tutors, Commodore 16, 116 and Plus 4s, Mac Mini, a couple of old PCs (486 and K6-2), a SPARCstation 2, a maxed-out SPARCstation 10 (dual 180MHz!), some others I've forgotten.....
...and of course 2 A500s, 3 A1500s (with A2286, A2386 upgraded to 486SLC2/50 and GoldenGate 486SLC25 respectively), an A4000 towerised (AmigaOS 4), AmigaOne XE G4, and a Sam 440ep.
That reminds me... I have a Sam Coupe too. Oh yes, and a Triumph Adler Alphatronic PC. And a ... well, you get the idea! Now if only I could afford an AmigaOne X1000...!
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C= all the way as far as retro computers go. My history goes as follows:
C64 -> A500 -> A1200 ----> PCs and Macs aplenty.
I dont own any working Amiga hardware these days but have emulators on my GP2X and PCs. Still have my old C64 and LYNX somewhere...
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TI-99/4
You know, those 99/4 systems do not seem to circulate much, but recently I have seen three show up on eBay in the US as well as a couple on Craigslist. I always wanted to use the Equation Calculator, but cannot think of any other use for the 99/4 that I cannot get from my 4A.
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New guy here!
I have mostly C= computers.
C64, C64C, C128, C128D, A1000, an A2000.
I also have an Atari 400 but that's in the gaming collection. That's a monster in itself. LOL
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I was collecting several for a while, but just recently realized there were too many I just didn't have time to use..
And I like to use what I collect...
So I just traded my Coleco Adam for some Amiga stuff... Sad, but it's going somewhere where it will be used much more.. So it's better for him...
Although, it wasn't really downsizing, because I am now awaiting an Amiga 1000 (with an Insider II for c. 2M RAM) which should be here today or tomorrow.. :-)
As for other computers, I have an Apple IIe and IIc which I use from time to time.
The IIe has the color monitor, which is nice, but there's something I really love about the IIc with it's little green screen.. ;-)
I pull out my Tandy Model 100 from time to time...
My C64 was acting up last time, so I have to work on it eventually.
The Vic-20 gets some play time every once in a while..
The Mac Classic is fun.. I'll probably phase out the other Macs I have (IIsi and an LC I think..) as I don't really use them.
I almost never use the TI 99/4A and the ST 520f.
Just not very familiar with the TI and found out that I really shouldn't have gotten the ST.. One letter "m" can make a huge difference. The 520fm can hook to a TV (m=modulator). The 520f needs a monitor, and it's just not worth the hassle for me.
Combine those with the Vectrex and 3DO (and other older consoles) and I just run out of time to use them...
Oh, on the Amiga side, I have a 1200 and a 500, although with the A1000 coming, I might phase out the 500...
desiv
(OK, even tho I'm downsizing, I wouldn't mind adding a SOL-20 to my collection at some time.. ;-)
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I pull out my Tandy Model 100 from time to time...
That reminds me, I said earlier I wasn't a Tandy fan, but there's the exception. The M100 is a cool little machine, I enjoy entering programs and saving them as WAV files on my laptop for later retrieval.
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I use my C128 and C16 with 64K ram expansion hooked to a Commodore 1701 monitor and Commodore MPS1230 printer with Commodore 1570 diskdrive and Commodore 1541-MkII. and a ZX Spectrum+3 hooked up to an Alba 19" HDTV using scart with Multiface 3. Still use them today. Not to mention many carts and Joysticks for them all.
Mike.
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Im into all game consoles and am trying to collect them all.. :) besides that its commodore amiga and 64 all the way. I dont like Mac at all and I only have a PC for a few games, proper internet and ofcourse work.
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Spirantho, That's some collection.... :shocked:
Well, I have C-64's and 128's (2 each) TI-99, 2 Mattel Aquarius, CoCo3, Tandy Model 4P, and a Timex Sinclair that hasn't been hooked up in a long time. :cry:
Ooops, I forgot, I also have an IBM 8086 PC (with EGA, 4, yes, 4 different colors!)
But, my favorite retro computers are Amiga and C-64/128....hands down...:hammer:
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Just not very familiar with the TI and found out that I really shouldn't have gotten the ST.. One letter "m" can make a huge difference. The 520fm can hook to a TV (m=modulator). The 520f needs a monitor, and it's just not worth the hassle for me.
You can buy cables to connect STs to TVs, at least in Europe where we have SCART. It wouldn't be hard to make a composite video either, someone must have done it somewhere....
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You can buy cables to connect STs to TVs, at least in Europe where we have SCART. It wouldn't be hard to make a composite video either, someone must have done it somewhere....
No SCART in the US.
There are composite MODs for the ST, but I've only seen them on the "m" model.
There is someone making an RGB-Svideo adapter for the ST(including non-m's), but they had to go through several redesigns as the ST wouldn't work properly with the most common converter chip (AD724??).
Found the quote about it:
Out of spec HSYNC signal, so AD72x and friends can't properly sync up.
Supposedly, he has found a converter chip that will work with the ST, but hasn't released it yet.
So, apparently it is kind of hard to do.. ;-)
desiv
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Thought I'd put together a pictorial timeline of all the different computers & consoles I've ever owned... :)
(look kinda biased towards Commodore, when I look at it... :) )
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/Commodore%20Scotland%20Pics/MyComputerHistory-1-1.png[/IMG]](http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/Commodore%20Scotland%20Pics/MyComputerHistory-1-1.png) (http://[IMG)
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@Franko
I've seen you mention a few times about you liking SNES style RPG's, and the C64. Unfortunately the game was never completed, but I thought this might be of interest to you if you've not seen it before:
http://www.gtw64.co.uk/Pages/m/Shots_Mythos.php
Looks great, and the demo plays quite smoothly. Just a shame there's not more to it.
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I've had a lot of computers but what retro stuff I have now is
C128DCR, Jiffydos ROMS, uIEC/SD, Gideons 1541Ultimate-II.
Also have a GP2X, and I mess with TI99 stuff but dont own one right now. I did a TI99 Scott Adams interpreter (you can find it in the IF archive) and worked on the game compiler. My friend is writing an entirely new Classic RPG for TI99 which looks really cool.. and I follow the CoCo3 FPGA stuff, as I think CoCo3 was under appreciated and just too late to market :P
I'm planning a retro CRPG for C64/C128/Coco3 as well as working on my Retro CRPG for psp/gp2x/pc.. not sure if I will try and port it to the miggy or not.
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Right now I only have a couple of Amigas (and the Windows machine), and one TI99/4A w/expansion box. I'll have another C-128 or C-128D shortly and another Dreamcast.
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@Franko
I've seen you mention a few times about you liking SNES style RPG's, and the C64. Unfortunately the game was never completed, but I thought this might be of interest to you if you've not seen it before:
http://www.gtw64.co.uk/Pages/m/Shots_Mythos.php
Looks great, and the demo plays quite smoothly. Just a shame there's not more to it.
@fishy_fiz
Thanks for that, I'd never came across that site before... :)
Hard to believe that it's a C64 game, it looks as though it could have been a genuine SNES game. Pity it was never finished though, I'd love to find some other SNES RPG games, but I'm afraid I already have them all and played them from start to finish, gawd knows how many times... :)
Pity no one ever wrote a decent SNES R.P.G. style game for the Amiga, it was more than capable of handling such a game... :(
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These are the main models I have...
KIM-1,PET,CBM3032,CBM4032,C16,C116, Plus4,VC20,VIC20,C64,SX64,C64C,C64G,C64GS,C128,C128d,SFX, C386SXLT, 386SX 20,TV3000H, A500,A500Plus, A600 ,A600HD Amiga 1000,A1200,A1200HD, A1200HD/40, A1500,Checkmate, A2000,A2000HD, A3000, A3000T,A3000UX, A3000 AMAX II,A4000d, A4000T,EZ-Tower,Ateo Concepts, MiniMig ,CD32,CDTV,SX32, Acorn Atom,Electron, Archimedes,A3000, A3010,A3020, A5000, A7000, RISCStation, Pocket Book,AEG 2000,Colour Genie, Alcatel,Telic, Amstrad GX4000, CPC464,464 Plus, CPC664,CPC6128,6128 Plus,PC1512 DD, PC1512, HD20, PC16,PCW8256, PCW9512,PCW9512+, PCW9256,PPC 512,PPC 640, Notepad, NC200, Alt386SX, MegaPC, PenPad, Apple Apple II,Apple IIe,Classic,PowerPC,Quadra 650,LCII, Performa,G4,iMac, Apricot XI, Portable, Mitsubishi VS550, Atari 400, 800, Woody CX2600,2600,2600 Junior Short Rainbow,2600 Junior Large Rainbow, 600XL,800XL, 7800,Falcon, Jaguar, 65XE, XE,130XE,520 STFM,104,ST, 1040 STFM,1050,Lynx, Portfolio,BBC Model B,Master System, Bit79, Z88, Canon V-20,PB-100, FX-720P,FX-802P, Cifer Club,DataView DataView25, Dk'Tronics, Dragon Dragon64, Enterprise Sixty Four, Epson HX-20, Franklin Spellmaster, Grundy New Brain Model A,New Brain,Husky Hunter,Jupiter Cantab Jupiter Ace,JVC HC-7, Matra Hachette Alice Mattel, Aquarius, Memotech MTX500, Miles Gordon Sam Coupe, Mitubishi MSX ML-F48,MSX ML-F80,ORIC-1, Atmos, Osborne Osborne-1, NEC, 8300, Panasonic REAL 3D0 FZ-1 , Philips G7000 , Philips V6-8010 ,Philips CDi 210 , Philips CDi 450, Sanyo MSX PHC-28L, MSX MPC-100, MBC-550, Sharp PC 7221,MZ-80K,MZ 711, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum 16K ,Spectrum 48K, Spectrum +, Spectrum +128, Spectrum +2, Spectrum +3, Sinclair QL, PC200, Alphacom, MiniTV, SONY HiT BiT, HB-101P, PRN-C41,Sord,GGL M5, Spectravideo, SVI 728, Systema Type-right, Tatung Einstein, Texas Instr TI99/4a, Silent 700, msx, Toshiba MSX HX-10,MSX HX-10 KIT, Tandy TRS-80 Model 4,TRS-80 Color,TRS-80 Color 2,TRS-80 MC-10,TRS Model 100, Pocket Computer, Yamaha XSM,CX5MII/128,IBM AT,IBM PS/1,IBM 300GL,PS/2 Luggable,Compaq Portable, Compaq III, Zenith Data Systems - Desktop,Ameltone Stadium, Colourscore,Visionscore, Grandstand 4600,ITML SD90 ,Teleng ,TVSport, Genius, NEC Turbografx, Nintendo Famicom, Famicom Family BASIC, Disk System, NES , Famicom Junior, SNES,Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, Nintendo64,Gamecube, Sega Master System, Mega Drive, Super 32X, Saturn,White Saturn, Dreamcast, Orange Dreamcast, Mega CD, SNK Pocket NeoGeo,NeoGeo Console, Sony Playstation, PSone, PocketStation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, BanDai WonderSwan Color, XBOX, XBOX 360 Elite, Dark Tower
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These are the main models I have...
KIM-1,PET,CBM3032,CBM4032,C16,C116, Plus4,VC20,VIC20,C64,SX64,C64C,C64G,C64GS,C128,C128d,SFX, C386SXLT, 386SX 20,TV3000H, A500,A500Plus, A600 ,A600HD Amiga 1000,A1200,A1200HD, A1200HD/40, A1500,Checkmate, A2000,A2000HD, A3000, A3000T,A3000UX, A3000 AMAX II,A4000d, A4000T,EZ-Tower,Ateo Concepts, MiniMig ,CD32,CDTV,SX32, Acorn Atom,Electron, Archimedes,A3000, A3010,A3020, A5000, A7000, RISCStation, Pocket Book,AEG 2000,Colour Genie, Alcatel,Telic, Amstrad GX4000, CPC464,464 Plus, CPC664,CPC6128,6128 Plus,PC1512 DD, PC1512, HD20, PC16,PCW8256, PCW9512,PCW9512+, PCW9256,PPC 512,PPC 640, Notepad, NC200, Alt386SX, MegaPC, PenPad, Apple Apple II,Apple IIe,Classic,PowerPC,Quadra 650,LCII, Performa,G4,iMac, Apricot XI, Portable, Mitsubishi VS550, Atari 400, 800, Woody CX2600,2600,2600 Junior Short Rainbow,2600 Junior Large Rainbow, 600XL,800XL, 7800,Falcon, Jaguar, 65XE, XE,130XE,520 STFM,104,ST, 1040 STFM,1050,Lynx, Portfolio,BBC Model B,Master System, Bit79, Z88, Canon V-20,PB-100, FX-720P,FX-802P, Cifer Club,DataView DataView25, Dk'Tronics, Dragon Dragon64, Enterprise Sixty Four, Epson HX-20, Franklin Spellmaster, Grundy New Brain Model A,New Brain,Husky Hunter,Jupiter Cantab Jupiter Ace,JVC HC-7, Matra Hachette Alice Mattel, Aquarius, Memotech MTX500, Miles Gordon Sam Coupe, Mitubishi MSX ML-F48,MSX ML-F80,ORIC-1, Atmos, Osborne Osborne-1, NEC, 8300, Panasonic REAL 3D0 FZ-1 , Philips G7000 , Philips V6-8010 ,Philips CDi 210 , Philips CDi 450, Sanyo MSX PHC-28L, MSX MPC-100, MBC-550, Sharp PC 7221,MZ-80K,MZ 711, Sinclair ZX80, ZX81, Spectrum 16K ,Spectrum 48K, Spectrum +, Spectrum +128, Spectrum +2, Spectrum +3, Sinclair QL, PC200, Alphacom, MiniTV, SONY HiT BiT, HB-101P, PRN-C41,Sord,GGL M5, Spectravideo, SVI 728, Systema Type-right, Tatung Einstein, Texas Instr TI99/4a, Silent 700, msx, Toshiba MSX HX-10,MSX HX-10 KIT, Tandy TRS-80 Model 4,TRS-80 Color,TRS-80 Color 2,TRS-80 MC-10,TRS Model 100, Pocket Computer, Yamaha XSM,CX5MII/128,IBM AT,IBM PS/1,IBM 300GL,PS/2 Luggable,Compaq Portable, Compaq III, Zenith Data Systems - Desktop,Ameltone Stadium, Colourscore,Visionscore, Grandstand 4600,ITML SD90 ,Teleng ,TVSport, Genius, NEC Turbografx, Nintendo Famicom, Famicom Family BASIC, Disk System, NES , Famicom Junior, SNES,Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, Nintendo64,Gamecube, Sega Master System, Mega Drive, Super 32X, Saturn,White Saturn, Dreamcast, Orange Dreamcast, Mega CD, SNK Pocket NeoGeo,NeoGeo Console, Sony Playstation, PSone, PocketStation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, BanDai WonderSwan Color, XBOX, XBOX 360 Elite, Dark Tower
Ive perused your website a few times and I must wonder, how big is your house ? You have quite the museum :)
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Ive perused your website a few times and I must wonder, how big is your house ? You have quite the museum :)
Not big enough :-(
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Good thread. Thanks for opening it!
I only had in the day an Spectrum 48k, as the Commodore (which I had at school) was too expensive. That was in the 80's. In the 90´s I bought a Sega Megadrive (Sega Genesis outside) with lots of games.
It was last year I saw a C64 for sale at Ebay as broken, and thought of using it as a keyboard with the Keyrah card. The thing was that after buying it I coudn't dismount it (I was so sorry...), so I started to look at Google and finally changing some chips I could make it work. That was the beggining of "something", as I coudn't give of buying more parts... 1541 floppy drive, Datasette, and I began to buy some games to have them in the original way they came at the time (but yes, I have too a floppy emulator, and recently bought another: http://c64sd.roxer.com/)
Later I bought a Snes and a Super FX Game Converter to play USA games on it too, as several games for it. Later I bought the A1200 Amiga, 1260 Blizzard and lots of modifications...
The most recent adds on to the collection are a Mega Cd (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XE5CyRiXU) for my Megadrive (wich I've modified: http://www.mmmonkey.co.uk/console/sega/md1switches.htm)
And the last one I received last week was an A330 Dingoo, wich I've modified to play Dingux and too so I can see it at the Tv directly. With it I can use a wireles joystick and play MAME and others, even Scumms like Full Throttle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktBJ6HpNJQ&feature=related), and even play WinUAE4all...
Ah, I've got too 3 Nintendo Game&Watch. As "Modern" consoles I only have an old modified PS2.
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Where to start.
My first system was an Atari 2600, still have it.
Second was my Commodore 64, still have it
Then a Commodore 128, still have it
Commodore Plus/4 to use at school, still have it.
Then, finally, an Amiga 500 (really wanted the 1000 and now I finally have a 1000). Sold that 500 and got a 2500, still have it.
Then an Amiga 1200, still have it
These systems have been joined by Amiga 1000, 500, 3000, 4000/040, 4000/030 Video Toaster, CDTV, CD32, Commodore Pet 4032, 8032, B128, 16, 128D, SX64
For non Commodore I picked up an Atari 800XL that was used as a teleprompter with the hardware and software. Atari 130XE. Atari 1040STE, Atari 520 ST upgraded to 1MB RAM, TI99/4a. I also have a Tandy 1000HX and an Amstrad PPC640 for old DOS machines and a splattering of old laptops including a 486 Thinkpad 701C "butterfly keyboard".
Of course, now I have a Windows 7 Multicore, multiproc workstation too. My wife hates my basement.
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Really not an Atari or Tandy fan, though.
Not even the Atari 800? If the Amiga had a direct ancestor, the 8 bit Atari with its Jay Miner designed Antic chip was surely it. Check out the "Drunk Chessboard" demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZkiR7MV3s Pretty impressive for 1979 hardware.
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Not even the Atari 800?
No.
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@fishy_fiz
Thanks for that, I'd never came across that site before... :)
Hard to believe that it's a C64 game, it looks as though it could have been a genuine SNES game. Pity it was never finished though, I'd love to find some other SNES RPG games, but I'm afraid I already have them all and played them from start to finish, gawd knows how many times... :)
Pity no one ever wrote a decent SNES R.P.G. style game for the Amiga, it was more than capable of handling such a game... :(
SNES RPGs, you say? Played them all? Since your pretty new to the internet, might I point you to a website (http://www.romhacking.net/?genre=14&platform=9&status=A&languageid=12&perpage=50&page=translations&transsearch=Go&title=&author=) that may be of interest to you? That's just the straight SNES rpgs. Add in strategy and adventure rpgs and you've got quite a list of translated games that you may have missed unless you imported the Jap versions. ;) I'm pretty sure this site should be a-ok to post since they don't host any of the actual roms, just links to the translation patches.
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Let's see... my sig has just about all of my classic computers, etc. listed.
C64 breadbox and original 1541 not listed.
And I agree with Tone not being enthused about 8-bit Atari's. Having been re-acquainted with them quite recently, they do not have the lasting power that something like a C64 still has. Just couldn't get past the ugly/blocky primitive graphics and colors comparatively when you've got all these systems side by side today. Atari's other systems you can make allowances for and appreciate for what they are - but NOT the A8's IMO - blech. Jay had a good thing going with Amiga obviously. And his A8 back in '79, but then the 80's happened and Atari's 8-bitters didn't do a damn thing to keep up (8-bit wise), but add RAM or maybe (barely) change their OS a bit. Basically just rehashed the same old crap over and over and over again over a span of nearly 10 years!
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And I agree with Tone not being enthused about 8-bit Atari's. Having been re-acquainted with them quite recently, they do not have the lasting power that something like a C64 still has. Just couldn't get past the ugly/blocky primitive graphics and colors comparatively when you've got all these systems side by side today. Atari's other systems you can make allowances for and appreciate for what they are - but NOT the A8's IMO - blech.!
I'm surprised that the Atari 8 bit doesn't get more love here. 256 colours, hardware scrolling, 4 channel sound and the ability to mix screen modes and palettes on different scanlines was pretty cool for 1979 and in some respects superior to the C64 three years later (although the latter has much better sprite hardware). The design is very reminiscent of the Amiga with Pokey, Antic and GTIA having similar functions to Paula, Agnus and Denise. It even boots up in a Workbench 1.3 shade of blue. Eastern European coders have done some astonishing stuff with it. Yes, Atari flogged the original hardware for far too long, but so did Commodore with the Amiga.
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I'm surprised that the Atari 8 bit doesn't get more love here. 256 colours, hardware scrolling, 4 channel sound and the ability to mix screen modes and palettes on different scanlines was pretty cool for 1979 and in some respects superior to the C64 three years later (although the latter has much better sprite hardware). The design is very reminiscent of the Amiga with Pokey, Antic and GTIA having similar functions to Paula, Agnus and Denise. It even boots up in a Workbench 1.3 shade of blue. Eastern European coders have done some astonishing stuff with it. Yes, Atari flogged the original hardware for far too long, but so did Commodore with the Amiga.
I will second on this one, more so knowing what I know now. I began programming on Atari 1200XLs about a year before I got my 99/4A and well before my first C64. I was somewhat surprised that the newer machines had only 16 colors versus the 256 colors of the Atari, though the sound of the C64 and the multi-memory map of the 99/4A impressed me technically. The only thing I did not wrap my head around before moving on was player/missile graphics. Pity I never owned an Atari at home, my history might have been a little different. Buddy of mine during my 64 years had one of the flip-top 1200s, and I had to admit it was a pretty neat system.
(Interesting side note, the teacher who ran the Atari lab at the junior high school was also involved in the local 99/4A user group.)
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I still own:
Apple //GS
Commodore 64
Commodore 64c
Commodore 128
Amiga 1200 (In pieces)
Sega Saturn (chipped)
Grey fat Playstation (chipped)
Slim PS2
Sega Dreamcast
***Used to own four atari systems along with 100+ games, but gave those to my older brother to add to his own collection.
Either way, they are all boxed up still. One of these days ill have to take them out to see if they still work. Hear Commodore 128s and older C64s are starting to just die out. :(
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SNES RPGs, you say? Played them all? Since your pretty new to the internet, might I point you to a website (http://www.romhacking.net/?genre=14&platform=9&status=A&languageid=12&perpage=50&page=translations&transsearch=Go&title=&author=) that may be of interest to you? That's just the straight SNES rpgs. Add in strategy and adventure rpgs and you've got quite a list of translated games that you may have missed unless you imported the Jap versions. ;) I'm pretty sure this site should be a-ok to post since they don't host any of the actual roms, just links to the translation patches.
@EgillSkallagrimsson
Thanks, I hadn't seen that particular site before but had seen one quite similar to it. When it comes to SNES R.P.G. games I only like to buy the originals, with all the maps, booklets etc... :)
I've spent over a grand collecting them over the years but to me they're well worth every penny spent on them. I have a few Japanese ones, but when it comes to these type of games, if you can't read Japanese then their not really all that playable. I do have an SNES emulator on this iMac and I already had purchased a number of years ago a DVD on ebay with all the translated roms on it, much prefer to use the real thing though... :)
(PS:Yes, I have played them all and as far as I have been able to tell there are none that I've missed... :) )
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My first was the TI 99/4A, like many others here.
I was fortunate as I just found one with the tape recorder both in the box and with all manuals at a thrift store this morning. What a cool find. Looks like all the manuals are like new!
Now to see if I can hook it up to a TV or monitor....
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My first was the TI 99/4A, like many others here.
I was fortunate as I just found one with the tape recorder both in the box and with all manuals at a thrift store this morning. What a cool find. Looks like all the manuals are like new!
Now to see if I can hook it up to a TV or monitor....
If you are getting back involved, check out 99er.net and 99ers.org. There is a Yahoo! Groups list as well related to 99ers.org. In one of the recent posts (Oct 5,) someone was flogging a "Mini-PEB", with 19,200 RS-232, CF interface for DSK1-DSK3 emulation, and I think 32k memory expansion for $50.
I recently blew the dust off one of my old TI BASIC games and sampled the tape recording, then used Tape994a to convert the sample to TIFiles format to load into Classic 99. Now I am reprogramming a game I wrote 22 years ago using my laptop with a TI emulator. Then with CS1er or Tape994a I can convert the TIFiles into a wav that can then be played back into the real hardware. I could also drag my PEB out and do it disk-to-disk if I dared spend the time setting all that up right now; there is a program I believe called PC99 which will read and write TI 5.25" disks using a PC.
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RetroDuo NES/SNES System ???
Anyone own or used one of these consoles, it's called the RetroDuo and is a NES & SNES games console. I've only just discovered it myself but it seems to have been around for a couple of years now. Im thinking about buying one if it really does work... :)
It's claimed it can play all original NES/SNES cartridges from any region (ie:PAL/NTSC) it only has composite out (yuk) & SVideo out (suppose that'll have to do) but no RGB out.
There's a youtube video showing it working, but from what I can find out about it some folk say it works fine while others say it doesn't. Just wondering if anyone owns one of these things and if it really does work with all SNES cartridges... :)
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(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/Commodore%20Scotland%20Pics/RetroDuo-1.jpg)
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I've had an ntsc Retro Duo v2 for a couple of years now, and I've had no problems with it. The video output is not as good as the real thing, but it plays all of my SFC, SNES and NES games. I recently picked up a 60-72 pin convertor and some FC games, but haven't had a chance to try them out.
The controllers are okay, but of course not as good as Nintendo's, and the NES port in my unit is extremely tight.
Overall, it's great considering it's a clone.
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Yes I have one Amstrad CPC 6128 although the dirve unit doesn't work, I have use it with cassette mode.