Retro computing and gaming

[CJ]

Give me Quake or DOOM 3 any day. Pure adrenaline rush!

Old skool FRP for me too. I remember routing IPX over DB25 parallel cables between machines for network play in the early Doom days (on a monochrome display running on an i386SX @ 33Mhz). Sorry, got sidetracked......

CJ

[Baldrick]

Aaah... Memories

[Bernard]

That reminds me of my Amiga, it was the good one with a whole MB of ram... it had a HD too (20MB).

[Dragonheart]

Amstrad CPC 464 for me. I'd actually love to have it back, still have all the games, they were cassette format haha. Didnt have the power of the Amiga which was floppy disc wasnt it?
Some of the retro games are just so cool, something about them I think that just makes you want to play them again!

[fatboyfat7]

It was the original 8 bit Nintendo for me in my youth. Remember seeing an Amstrad once but never played it. I actually bought an Nintendo off ebay again about 3 years ago for fun. Novelty wore off fast! Its true though that the older games were more legendary. ie) everyone had the likes of Mario Bros and Sonic, but theres nothing like them around now really.

[Dave]

i had an Amiga!!! Oh there were some classics on it!!

I downloaded an Amiga emulator recently and a few of the old games just for a laugh, it's exactly the same!

[CJ]

The Amiga 500 was the link between the C64 / CPC64 and the PC, it was a ground breaking home computer. I had an Amstrad CPC64 (very much a clone of the Commodor 64) in the mid 80's, I learned to program BASIC on that thing (but mostly played Shinobi), it was class. The things you could do with A 4Mhz CPU and 64k of RAM...



I also had a Commodore VIC 20 at some point, I can't remember it being much use (what do you expect out of a 1Mhz CPU and 5k of RAM...)



CJ

[Bernard]

I had the Amiga 600HD (where HD stood for hard drive) but before that I had a BBC Acorn PC.
I had games that consisted entirely of typing, remember 5 1/4" discs???

Repton From Youtube.com


I still have the Amiga in the garage, along with a PC running windows 3.1...

[CJ]

remember 5 1/4" discs???

I remember using them as recently as the mid 90's to load Novell Netware drivers onto old servers, proper floppy disks!

My first foray into computers was '81 with the release of the Atari 2600, Centipede kept me busy for hours on end.



Nintendo started releasing 'Game & Watch' handheld devices at about the same time, LCD all the way. None of this DS Lite lark thank you very much:



CJ

[gfalls]

Sinclair Spectrum ZX. Bought in Gibraltar in 1981. Now that was a computer to be reckoned with...

[gt94]

My first console/computer was an atari 2600 loved playing dig dug and pitfall then i had a commodore 64 had about 200 cassette tapes then an amiga 500 then a super nintendo which was in my mind in a class of its own and then a nintendo 64.Then the usual ps1,ps2,and now ps3.My bro bought a full size arcade machine and has all the double dragons on it and robocop and wrestle mania.
We never grow up just grow older i love playing games dont think i will ever change

[CJ]

My bro bought a full size arcade machine and has all the double dragons on it and robocop and wrestle mania

I've been tempted to build a Mame based cabinet for years but never got around to it

http://www.tmsoft.com/article-arcade.htm

CJ

[Dragonheart]

remember 5 1/4" discs???

CJ

I actually have this at home! It was working perfectly last time I tried it which was about 5 years ago, dont know where it came from but it ended up with me anyway.
CJ that Amstrad pic brings back memories;



One of my all time favorites.
Ive been trying to find downloadable versions of this game for the laptop but cant come across them anywhere. Anyone know any good sites retro games can be downloaded from??

[Baldrick]

http://www.abandonia.com is pretty good for 'abandoned' classic DOS games (there's a good few others... Google 'abandonware'). A good opensource x86 emulator: http://www.dosbox.com/

[Baldrick]

One of my all time favorites.
Ive been trying to find downloadable versions of this game for the laptop but cant come across them anywhere. Anyone know any good sites retro games can be downloaded from??

Try http://www.classic-pc-games.com/c64/games/spindizzy.html

[CJ]

MAME is definetely worth a look => http://mamedev.org/

Then its just a matter of downloading games (aka roms) of your choice from the likes of RomWorld.

CJ

[Baldrick]

Agreed... Mame is excellent!

Add to this http://www.classic-pc-games.com C64, Amiga and Windows and you're laughing.

I knew I had one of these knocking around. Well, you never know when you might need one

[Bernard]

Agreed... Mame is excellent!

Add to this http://www.classic-pc-games.com C64, Amiga and Windows and you're laughing.

Nice link, found this.
An old favourite gorefest game of mine

[Baldrick]

A classic... remember it well.

I'm not particularly into role playing games, but got totally hooked on Leisure Suit Larry (in the Land of the Lounge Lizards) back in the 80's. Basically help the sleazebucket get laid. Great

http://www.classic-pc-games.com/cgi-bin/search.php?go_search=submit&gname_keyword=Leisure+Suit+Larry&gname_pc=1&gname_amiga=1&gname_c64=1

Leisure Suit Larry From Youtube.com

[kevinod]

Went through a series of computers too, Atari 2600 was the first but I remember going into an electronics shop in town and we got an Atari 800XL. Commodore 64 had way more games available but Atari was good for basic programming, got it to do all kinds of great things, Page 6 mag had lots of programs every month too.

Amstrad CPC 464 later on, green screen just like CJ's pic. BBC Micro, and eventually a orange screen 286 Tandem. Wanted an Amiga for ages, could never afford one though. Can almost remember what the box looked like.

[colm_mcm]

My favourites from growing up:

Atari 2600 - all the obvious classics
Nintendo Entertainment System - loved Zelda, Top Gun, Mario
Commodore CDTV2 - Can't remember too much about this one, played CDs!
386 - Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, Scorched Earth
SNES - Mostly Mario Bros
PS1 - Gran Turismo
PS2 - The Godfather, Gran Turismo, Driver

[Baldrick]

The Commander Keen series was amazing... totally groundbreaking in it's day. For a cartoon-like game it could really get the adrenalin flowing... remember those rock things that would creep up on you, and the Blow Fish?

[colm_mcm]

Used to get Commander Keen for free from Apogee as shareware, From what I remember one of the lads knew how to delete a file so you could play it as many times as you liked. same with Duke Nukem.

[mcgon1979]

keen4 was brilliant. the best. I see they just (in july) re-released a re-mastered version of "The Secret of Monkey Island"... All new 1920x1200 art work and voiceovers. classic game.