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General / Off-Topic does anyone collect retro?
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Collecting is a stronger word than I would use for what I do but I tend to play one game at a time until something else comes along and I have kept hardware that allows me to use old software (mostly games).
I recently rationalised my hardware collection, recycling some stuff (a pentium 4 PC & a vanilla Nintendo Wii) where I have other hardware that can entirely fill their role.
Some hardware has become collectable & I have sold a few old graphics cards recently too, including my last remaining working Voodoo2 and an nvidia ti4200 that both went for a surprising amount on ebay
I was left with two complete old PCs (plus my modern one) until last week when one final graphics card sold (an AGP Matrox G400 dualhead), leaving me with just a PCI Voodoo3 2000 & the need to decide which of the two win9x compatible PCs to keep complete.
I've decided to keep a Pentium 3 650e (overclocked to 866), with the voodoo3 it can run everything I need it to in DirectX9, OpenGL or GLide, and has ISA, PCI & AGP slots to test older hardware.
The other one is an AT socket 7 mobo that is compatible with AT or ATX PSUs in an AT case, fitted with an AMD K6-2 400 (the fastest CPU that supports a 66Mhz FSB), 2 sticks of 32mb SDRAM.
It used to run 24/7 as a Grand Prix Legends VROC race server (with the PCI Voodoo3 in it) for years until the HDD died, I don't have the heart to just throw it away though & it might make for a nice retro dos/win9x PC if anyone's interested & nearby.
My games collection isn't all that big, mostly racing games but I managed to get Interstate '76 working recently (muscle cars with guns, gameplay is a bit like SRV combat).
One day it may no longer be possible to play online only games like ED even with appropriate hardware, I think that's a shame (and a reason why I play it so much while I can). I can still play most of my collection though
I recently rationalised my hardware collection, recycling some stuff (a pentium 4 PC & a vanilla Nintendo Wii) where I have other hardware that can entirely fill their role.
Some hardware has become collectable & I have sold a few old graphics cards recently too, including my last remaining working Voodoo2 and an nvidia ti4200 that both went for a surprising amount on ebay
I was left with two complete old PCs (plus my modern one) until last week when one final graphics card sold (an AGP Matrox G400 dualhead), leaving me with just a PCI Voodoo3 2000 & the need to decide which of the two win9x compatible PCs to keep complete.
I've decided to keep a Pentium 3 650e (overclocked to 866), with the voodoo3 it can run everything I need it to in DirectX9, OpenGL or GLide, and has ISA, PCI & AGP slots to test older hardware.
The other one is an AT socket 7 mobo that is compatible with AT or ATX PSUs in an AT case, fitted with an AMD K6-2 400 (the fastest CPU that supports a 66Mhz FSB), 2 sticks of 32mb SDRAM.
It used to run 24/7 as a Grand Prix Legends VROC race server (with the PCI Voodoo3 in it) for years until the HDD died, I don't have the heart to just throw it away though & it might make for a nice retro dos/win9x PC if anyone's interested & nearby.
My games collection isn't all that big, mostly racing games but I managed to get Interstate '76 working recently (muscle cars with guns, gameplay is a bit like SRV combat).
One day it may no longer be possible to play online only games like ED even with appropriate hardware, I think that's a shame (and a reason why I play it so much while I can). I can still play most of my collection though
You mean specifically the Commodore 64 or some wider definition but still excluding the last 25 years?
I had Acorn stuff as a kid, starting with an Atom, BBC (that I played a lot of Elite on, my avatar on this forum is my Acornsoft Elite badge) and a Master, then moved over to PCs. The only game of any note I played on Acorn hardware was Elite & I have Elite+ for PC & ED of course. I'm interested in the hardware, making it work & how it works but don't still own any of mine.
This is more my kind of '80's retro
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I think when we look back we remember all the great stuff & forget the bad
A youtube channel I watch a lot is Adrian's Digital Basement, he does some excellent diagnostic work, recovering old computers & other hardware, Cathode Ray Dude and Tech Tangents are good too, I'm sure there are plenty of others I'm forgetting
As far as actually using computers & gaming are concerned my interest is in windows PCs, anything much older than that can be an interesting project to get working & test, but once it's working I tend to quickly run out of things I actually want to do with them.
I still have my original zx81 still boxed does that count
I did try but it crashed after the first 1k when loading
The ZX 81 represented a significant advancement to the previous machine ZX80.I did try but it crashed after the first 1k when loading
Not sure how many people s realized that memory could be expanded upto a whopping 64K
I think modern developers who never experienced 8bit micros dont appreciate the resources they have available and you end up with alot of bloated code.
My Mobile has already filled up so you have to keep upgrading or many that's the whole point.
I have essentially become a computer archeologist historian with a personal museum collection.
Just found this !
When writing code I always write for the smallest tightest code possible, these days its to easy to bloat it out and hope for the best but coding old school has taught me not everyone has a uber PC
It wasn’t retro when I ‘collected’ it