What other retro computers are you into?

[Franko]

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... )

[Franko]

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... )

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[Franko]

@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...

[Franko]

SNES RPGs, you say? Played them all? Since your pretty new to the internet, might I point you to a website 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... )

[Franko]

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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