What other retro computers are you into?

[yakumo9275]

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

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.

[motrucker]

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.

[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...

[scuzzb494]

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

[runequester]

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

[scuzzb494]

Ive perused your website a few times and I must wonder, how big is your house ? You have quite the museum

Not big enough :-(

[Retrofan]

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.

[pwermonger]

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.

[james666]

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.

[tone007]

Not even the Atari 800?

No.

[EgillSkallagrimsson]

@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 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.

[save2600]

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!

[james666]

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.

[LoadWB]

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.)

[kd7ota]

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.

[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... )