mark.coleman

Just wondering if any people on here are into retro computers in anyway, whether it's gaming, hardware, etc, etc and do you frequent any forums. If you are, pop over to www.retrobsession.net/forum. It's been around for about six months with an online chatroom and very friendly peeps.

Mark

DonnieDarko

mmm MAME32 http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/arcade/mame.html

GaryK

I had a few that I collected off ebay, vic20, c64, a few zx81s,speccys, atari 2600 but then thought its easier to play the emu's or updated versions of originals on the PC so typically play manic miner, galaga, r-type, uridium tons of great old games out there that are still *great* fun!

T4molie

Gary,

Alright fella? Where'd you get the r-type from for the pc? I used to love that game

Andy

J4CKO

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Emulators are ok but theres nowt like the original, the tactile bit, the smell, the authentic sound through a crappy Ferguson mono telly.

Dieseldog

Ahhhh, memories of the mighty powerhouse of the Sinclair ZX80...



10 PRINT DAVID SMELLS
20 GOTO 10


... never did end up in IT. Their loss I s'pose.

rik1471

Just got me an atari 2600, NES, SNES, N64 - oooo, it takes me back

Mario 3 on the NES is still one of my favourite games ever, even today.

GaryK

Andy, Alright mate! I didnt get r-type for the pc, was running it under an emu, Atari ST or Amiga, cant remember which, you dont need kick *** graphix for that cos its soo damn hard with a million one shots being fired at ya!

jpor

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I believe the ZX-80 is a very hard computer to get hold of these days. Back in the early 80's Sinclair had an offer on for ZX-80 owners to upgrade to the ZX-81, if they traded in their ZX-80s.

kingofturds

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have a load stashed away in the attic c64,nes,mastersystem,snes,megadrive/cd/32x,jaguar ,ps1.
I have a 360 under the tv but all i have been playing for the past week is final fantasy 7 on the ps1

mark.coleman

Yep, you're certainly right there, fetching up to £300 on Ebay for a mint boxed unit.

Andy, if you're after R-Type for windows, a conversion was done and called F-Type, I had it a few months ago. If you can't find it let me know and I'll send you a link.

Oh and J4CKO, that's a question I asked on the forum and certainly agree with you.

T4molie

I was playing an updated version of it recently on the PS2 I think and couldn't really get into it as much. You just can't beat playing the older version for some reason

GaryK

Andy,

See what emu's are on PSP and get one of those to help with the trudge of the daily train commute!

Gary

bigsinky

bbc micro model B. what they used to be able to do in 32k

GaryK

zx81 what they used to be able to do in 1K!

jpor

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Write a 100 line program and be able to execute it.
Before the days of bloat ware.

TimWRX01

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You can get a perfect version of r-type for ps1. It comes with r-type 2 also and is called r-types.

I was playing it last week and it is still awesome. that bit on the first stage where the background and the music changes (where you go through the arms) = Total Class!

bigsinky

does anyone remember Frak for the model B. and all the Acornsoft stuff. Elite the first BBC Model B program with disk protection. i enjoyed trying to crack that one Ahhhhhhh....................memories

bigsinky

anyone have an Atari 1024 st. remember all those compilation discs by Was Not Was

mark.coleman

FRAK, Ohh yes, and I still have it in it's nice gold case.

jaytc2003

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not surprised. You would get a variable not found message if you run that as you are missing the "" around the DAVID SMELLS

GaryK

lmao@jaytc

indeed you are the resident zx80 BASIC gu-ru by the looks if it

i8gtmf

Had a C64 way back around 1984 or thereabouts sold it a few years after and managed to pick up around 1988 an Atari 800XL with disc drive, cassette deck and a mass of games most on floppys. It still works to last time i tried it

jpor

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Okay it's time for a list of everyones first computers. I'll start the ball rolling:

1983 - VIC20

1985 - ZX Spectrum 16K (Won it in a Smith Crisps raffle)

1986 - ZX81 + 16K RAM PACK (picked up in a secondhand shop for £10)

1988 - Commodore AMIGA A500

1991 - Commodore AMIGA A1200 (With 420MB Internal HDD)

GaryK

1981-ZX81
1982-Vic20
1984-Spectrum 48K
1985-C64
1988-Atari 520ST
1990-Atari1040STE
1992-286 PC with 1MB RAM! (cant remember clock speed something 16Mhz)

mark.coleman

You can look at some of my stuff on www.retro-mark.co.uk

First computers

ZX80
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Atari ST
Commodore Amiga

And the consoles

Videosport MKII
Atari 2600 Woody
SEGA Mastersystem
SEGA Megadrive

And the list goes on........

TimWRX01

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The only home computer I still have is an acorn electron - still at my mums somewhere.

Also owned a speccy 128K +3 (disk drive version)

still got these consoles

Master system, NES, Megadrive, SNES, Neo geo pocket colour, N64, PS1, Saturn, 2 Dreamcasts, 2 PS2s, 2 Cubes, Xbox, Gameboy advance, PSP, DS.

Think that's it.

T4molie

Power up the main weapon, let it go and let the chaos begin

Just remebering the days when I had my old Spectrum 48k I think it was Daley Thompsons Decathlon - I removed the metal plate off the top so that instead of having to furiosly hit 2 rubber keys I could just slide my finger backwards and forwards over the pressure pads..... man some of the records I used to get doing it that way were UNBEATABLE

TimWRX01

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Could you beat Gus on the tug of war though? I think he was the 8th and most difficult one.

T4molie

I think I got him once