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  2. Posted · Edited by Laner

    On 3/19/2021 at 2:53 AM, juansolo said:

    Slight tangent. My brother and I when we were kids were once going through my grandad's record collection. He was a musician, played keyboard and trumpet, but was mainly into big band type stuff. To this day we were blown away finding a Deep Purple record in there (pretty heavy stuff in it's time, and yes we're old).

    I have few memories of my great uncle who died in the mid 80s. He handed out the presents at Christmas and was a bus driver... that’s about it.
     

    But he also owned a Chaka Khan cassette, which has always made me chuckle when I think about it.

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    I was one of the early adopters a few years back. I didn't have much success with the Concerto and eventually sold it. 

     

    However, I got one of the new ones yesterday, and it works great!  I put the Smokemonster 2600 and 7800 collections on an old Transcend 2GB SD card, and so far, so good.  Very pleased!

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    1 hour ago, Atarick said:

    We can nitpick if the impact or quality of the VCS will be anywhere near the past Atari products (safe to say likely not), but the argument that it shouldn't count as "real" Atari for xyz reason is a bit odd to me. 

    There's no lineage connecting it to the Atari of old.  From Bushnell -> Warner -> Tramiel, there was a through-line - employees, products, culture carried through from one "era" to another, even if they changed over time.  However, there's no connective tissue between 2020 Atari and any of the previous eras other than a logo and a handful of irrelevant IPs.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Laner
    Relisted C64 as BIN

    I have several Commodore items up for BIN... here's what's available at the moment:

     

     

     

    SOLD:

     

    Cardkey numeric keypad for Commodore 64/Vic-20 SOLD

     

    Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Champions of Krynn (C64, Complete in box)

     

    Behr-Bonz Vic-20 127-in-1 multicart (NTSC) 

     

    Lot of Commodore odds and ends (modem, MMC2IEC, MicroIEC, 64HDD, etc.) 

     

    Vic-20 with three game carts, joystick, power supply, A/V

     

    Commodore 64 w/ manual and power supply 

     

    Lords of Conquest (C64 - w/ box, manual)

     

    Epyx Jet Combat Simulator (nee Fighter Pilot) (C64, Complete in box)

     

     

     

  12. Posted · Edited by Laner

    On 8/28/2020 at 1:32 PM, Keatah said:

    At what point did the PC become exciting for games? For the masses I mean. Personally it was the beginning/middle of the 486 era for me. But I'm sure it started happening earlier. 386SX-16 maybe? 386DX-40?

    For my money, it was 1990-92; specifically Wing Commander and Ultima VII  - those two games in particular shone on the PC, and the other platforms weren't able to keep up.

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  19. Posted · Edited by Laner

    My impression is that the TRS-80 line was... adequate. They were serviceable systems, but there was nothing terribly noteworthy about them. As mr_me pointed out, they actually led in sales for a few years. But between IBM entering the market on the high end and Commodore dominating on the low end with the Vic-20 and 64, they quickly lost market and mindshare at the turn of the decade.

     

    The CoCo series was also adequate, but couldn't compete with Commodore and Atari as gaming computers.

     

    For my money, the Tandy 1000 line was their biggest success.  They took the promise of the PC Jr, and made it work.

     

    If sales had not been limited to Radio Shack stores, the Tandy computers could have been a much bigger deal. But we'll never know.

     

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    The Digital Antiquarian has covered the TRS-80 pretty extensively, specifically around how it helped usher in the nascent interactive fiction genre: https://www.filfre.net/tag/trs-80/

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    6 hours ago, Sid1968 said:

    The Amiga Core is on both Systems nearly the same. That core benefits in absolutely NO way of the better performance of the MISTer.... what a shame! It seems that only more performance hungry cores like Dreamcast are being realized on the MISTer and not on the MIST. 

     

    I doubt the MiSTer as it currently exists will ever be able to properly mimic a Dreamcast. Most likely it'll top out at Playstation 1 levels. Anything beyond that will require a beefier FPGA.

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    On 1/24/2020 at 10:56 PM, blzmarcel said:

    Would there be any objections to just restoring the original page to how it was on 2017-02-02 ? I still find that change that I outlined above to be a bit suspicious, especially in that I can't find any reason for the change and can't fathom anyone without ill motives wanting to take it down.

    Take it up with whomever decided to delete the page. I doubt it was anyone here on AA.

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    2 hours ago, eightbit said:

    Playing this game as a kid (on an NTSC machine of course since I reside in NA) I always thought the glitching on the bottom half of the screen was weird but chalked it up to the C64 just not being "powerful enough" to run the game perfectly. Years later I found I was very wrong. The game was intended for PAL machines and rights correctly on them. On NTSC machines the music is too fast and the screen glitches.

     

     

    Yeah - that was an eye-opening experience for me. I just assumed those sort of glitches (I recall them being particularly prominent in Paperboy and Rambo) were just due to poor coding. 

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