What other retro computers are you into?

[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... )

[dwaldrop]

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....

[LoadWB]

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.

[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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[kedawa]

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.

[Templario]

Yes I have one Amstrad CPC 6128 although the dirve unit doesn't work, I have use it with cassette mode.