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PostLink    Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


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I hear ya, but man, digital downloads are so much simpler. They (and I) are on Steam, Uplay, Origin, Bethesda, Playstation, etc.

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PostLink    Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kal wrote:
I hear ya, but man, digital downloads are so much simpler. They (and I) are on Steam, Uplay, Origin, Bethesda, Playstation, etc.

Kal


Not denying that, unless you have slow internet. Plus I genuinely enjoy collecting these games. It's a sense of pride in the collection. Plus I'm an old PC guy. I'm in talks with a guy right now for a super zippy 286 AT 18 MHz system, not running, he's asking a little too much. I'll see if he comes down in price. A month ago a guy on freecycle gave me a bunch of floppy software. See where I'm going with this Mr. Green

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PostLink    Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2020 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still have boxes of floppies as well.... even for my C64. Wink

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PostLink    Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Floppy discs... Now that is old-school....

I'm a retro gaming fan but I draw the line at platforms I couldn't stand when they were new. I'm still traumatized from waiting 47 minutes for Frogger to load on cassette for my Spectrum 48k. Gaming started with the Master System for me.

Download speeds for retro games don't really start to matter until you get to CD and DVD based games. The largest cartridge games download in the blink of an eye.

I've found that, in most cases, the speed is limited by the site hosting the content far more than the speed limitations of my connection. Still, if you're into the latest PC games where you could be downloading 100gb+ each time, it's worth doing a little experiment of timing downloads before and after a speed upgrade. You can usually downgrade to the cheaper package again if the extra speed didn't deliver the advertised benefits.
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PostLink    Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2020 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I'm a retro gaming fan but I draw the line at platforms I couldn't stand when they were new. I'm still traumatized from waiting 47 minutes for Frogger to load on cassette for my Spectrum 48k.

Nice. I used the predecessor (ZX81) as I couldn't afford the machine I wanted at the time (Commodore PET). With only 1K of RAM it was quicker/easier to to just rewrite games from scratch we wanted to play than try cassette loading (which never seemed to work).

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PostLink    Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2020 2:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heh. I guess I was even more old-school than you guys, since I started gaming in 1974. (Actually in 1973, but that was on an ASR33 Teletype printing about 12 chars/sec. On paper. Not good for much past tic-tac-toe and Hunt the Wumpus.)

Pong was still an exotic experience when I started playing and writing games. But I was playing on a large timesharing system with 512x512 graphics and multi-player games, so it took the rest of the world a while to catch up. Smile
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PostLink    Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2020 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

garyfritz wrote:
Heh. I guess I was even more old-school than you guys, since I started gaming in 1974. (Actually in 1973, but that was on an ASR33 Teletype printing about 12 chars/sec. On paper. Not good for much past tic-tac-toe and Hunt the Wumpus.)

Pong was still an exotic experience when I started playing and writing games. But I was playing on a large timesharing system with 512x512 graphics and multi-player games, so it took the rest of the world a while to catch up. Smile


I used to play pong at my friend's house on some kind of built-in dedicated console thing. It had 3 built in games, a built-in monochrome crt monitor and two rotary pot controllers. I used to hate going to his house until his dad bought him a Commodore Amiga. If you ever want a game to destroy a CRT, Pong is the one to go for. It's literally designed to cause burn-in.

It's interesting to me that my 4-year-old son likes some of my old games even though he's seen the latest PC and console stuff. I guess "good" is a timeless quality. He keeps taking my mini Bubble Bobble and Pac-man cabs (the My Arcade one).

My main thing (for retro gaming) is collecting real arcade hardware. A lot of games from the 80's and early 90's don't feel that special these days when played with a regular joypad. It's a different story if you use real arcade controls, even if the software is running on Mame.

This is my latest purchase that arrived this morning - an Uzi machine gun from an Operation Wolf cab. It's a real light gun inside with a recoil motor.



I can't wait to wire this bad boy up to my USB2Gun board.
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