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Offline Flaser

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on: September 10, 2005, 02:56:18 pm
For a while I thought of myself as an old computer user, with so quirks for the good 'ol text based interface.

Look's like I'm very, very old in a sense...



Anyone still using a Commodore Emulator?
...or into DOS classics?
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Offline karajorma

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Reply #1 on: September 10, 2005, 03:10:42 pm
Only for emulating the Amiga. When I feel like playing something 8-bit I emulate something good like the spectrum. :p

*Reignites the old Spectrum Vs Commodore flamefests of his youth*
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Offline Roanoke

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Reply #2 on: September 10, 2005, 03:13:23 pm
Amstrad CPC464 pissed on both of 'em :nervous:
 

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Reply #3 on: September 10, 2005, 03:25:08 pm
Trash-80. I mean TRS-80.

4KB of RAM! More than enough!

Because by the time you've filled 3KB of it with code, you're bored out of your mind...
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Offline achtung

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Reply #4 on: September 10, 2005, 03:28:04 pm
Iv'e never even seen a C64
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Offline Roanoke

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Reply #5 on: September 10, 2005, 03:42:21 pm
You haven't lived.
 

Offline Geezer

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Reply #6 on: September 10, 2005, 03:43:05 pm
Hmmm.  Got rid of my Atari-400 years ago, soon after I bought a brand-new IBM PC-XT.  On the other hand, while the systems I maintain at work run on the latest mainframe, the core programs were written in the '70s and early '80s.  And, they finally upgraded our PCs to XP from Win 95. :yes:
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Offline Flaser

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Reply #7 on: September 10, 2005, 03:45:27 pm
Ask and thy shall recieve....


http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=98

....though you really should learn how to use Google.
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Offline vyper

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Reply #8 on: September 10, 2005, 03:48:39 pm
Me had a Spectrum:

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Reply #9 on: September 10, 2005, 04:02:56 pm
I've actually used a C64...which most people my age find shocking...
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Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #10 on: September 10, 2005, 04:13:57 pm
First thing I had was a Playstation. I was deprived... :(
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Reply #11 on: September 10, 2005, 04:16:25 pm
Ah I remember Commodore. Man, those were some high quality graphic games...

What? They were.
 

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Reply #12 on: September 10, 2005, 04:17:59 pm
First thing I had was one of the really, really old nintendo thingys...the one before the SNES I think. Then, I got hte SNES....

boy those were the days. My parents had nothing but pong - but when they did, my dad and his brother were addicted to it signifcantly :p
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Offline IceFire

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Reply #13 on: September 10, 2005, 04:18:25 pm
C64 Emulator?  I still have one that works!!!
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Reply #14 on: September 10, 2005, 04:28:52 pm
Spectrum, C64, Amiga 600....ahh..all those oldies passed trough my hands

*memories*
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Reply #15 on: September 10, 2005, 04:41:04 pm
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Originally posted by Flaser
....though you really should learn how to use Google.


Well I meant I've never seen one in real life I know what they look like though.
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Offline aldo_14

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Reply #16 on: September 10, 2005, 04:45:11 pm
 

Offline CP5670

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Reply #17 on: September 10, 2005, 04:51:29 pm
The first computer I used was a Mac in 1990, when I was 4, and I spent the next five years with that. Lots of awesome games on there. It still works perfectly.

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Anyone still using a Commodore Emulator?
...or into DOS classics?


I play old DOS games quite a bit. Dosbox and VDMSound cover many games, and for the rest I have an older computer with an SBLive card that can emulate an SB16 in hardware, so the sound works fully in everything on there.

I'm currently trying to get Prince of Persia 2 working, but have been unsuccessful. I'm getting some kind of problem with everything I try. I downloaded the Mac version but it has two files that are too big to fit on floppies and it would run like crap on that computer anyway.
 

Offline pyro-manic

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Reply #18 on: September 10, 2005, 05:03:58 pm
Damn, now you said it, I had (have, in fact) a Mac as well. Macintosh LC, 1989 vintage (I remember we went to a huge Apple Expo where we bought it), and it still works today. Also have an ancient bubblejet printer to go with it. Works fine, but you can't get the cartridges for it any more....
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Offline phatosealpha

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Reply #19 on: September 10, 2005, 09:57:33 pm
I remember all those.  Didn't own a C-64, but a friend had one so I got to play all the old school games for it.  Lots of fun stuff from way back when, when EA was making decent (well, for the time anyway) games and wasn't a soul-sucking megacorp.

I also had an atari 800XL, which was kind of cool since many games came with C64 on one side and atari 800 on the other.

Heh.  Wish I could find some of those old game.  Remember one called "Run for the money", an econo sim where you sold synthetic bannana to monkeys to buy enough paint to protect your ship when you escape from their god-forsaken monkey world.  Could buy new pumps, advertise, bait and switch.  All sorts of cool stuff.
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