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  1. Posted

    On 8/17/2020 at 5:26 PM, Nateo said:

    That's been my trouble so far - finding someone who will ship to the states and not have the shipping cost be astronomical. This seems to be an issue unique to the UK so far, with shipping costs from the rest of the EU often being about 30 - 40% less than what the UK is offering.

    Damn it, I just want a bog standard Speccy! :P

    I usually have this issue in reverse when shipping from America to the UK. I wonder if it's some kind of trade agreement issue?

  8. Posted · Edited by Cepp

    As per Flojomojo's link you can install it on x64 Windows so long as you use the replacement installer. It probably works quite well in PCEmu now as well.

     

    It's still an amazing game Elvis and well worth playing today.

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    I'm sure the IIgs is cool. I just never got into it at the right time. I have one or two with all sorts of parts and peripherals for it.. But there it sits.

     

    There are places that will do a recapping job for you or sell you the necessary kit with the right caps. Not sure of any off-hand, gotta go, so maybe someone else will mention some choices.

    That's probably what I'll end up doing. There's a few people I can ask and get quotes from. Of course part of me says, No! Save money, do it yourself! lol but I'll leave it to someone else.

  10. Posted

    I find little that's memorable about the IIgs. Maybe it'd be different had it been my first Apple II.

    I've never owned a vintage apple computer but the II GS just really stands out to me as a cool little system. They rarely show up though and usually get listed for £500+.

     

    Going back to PCs I do have an Abit KT7-Raid motherboard that really needs a recap. It has an AGP slot, 5 PCI slots and an ISA slot. With 512MB RAM and an XP2100+ CPU it's pretty much the ultimate 9x motherboard for me but I'm terrified of fucking it up. I've never recapped anything and I'll be kicking myself if I somehow kill the board during my attempt.

  11. Posted · Edited by Cepp

    Depends what you're going for I suppose. Do you have to have that Voodoo instead of a cheap Nvidia card and nGlide? Must you have access to Roland music or the fastest cpu for your particular chipset? Like you say, if you want perfection you'll pay for it.

     

    I think in general you can still pick up an old desktop and parts pretty cheaply that will play most games with a bit of tweaking.

     

    Other computers? I dunno, they've all certainly raised in value over the past ten years but I guess that's to be expected. At the very least the C64 is still affordable here in the UK which is great since that's the computer I plan to pick up next. The Apple II GS however...

  14. Posted · Edited by Cepp

    It can take years, decades even.

     

    I started "turning around" when it became impossible to get to the other side of a 20x20 bedroom. I had to "fly" a facetime phone on a long ass stick to see the other side of the mound. Either that, or spend half hour moving stuff around, and then fussing because it never got put back as efficiently as when it was first packed. I even got a drone later on to spy on it all. Sometimes it was more efficient to get the ladder and enter the other side through the window.

     

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    I also chose to do emulation exclusively to fulfill the childhood dream of having ONE machine play ALL my videogames. There's something ineffably cool about a machine that can adopt many different flavors and personalities and become any classic console.

    Things haven't got that out of hand thankfully but I am sitting here after dragging out three old PC's I've scavanged parts from over the years and wondering why I still have them. That's after watching Marie Kondo's new show on Netflix and being inspired to have another round of decluttering which tends to happen when I watch those kind of shows.

     

    I do like that PCem has finally reached the point where 3D accelerated games are playable. I've been waiting years for that and I was quite impressed to see G-Police runnning well on it the other day.

     

    Life would be a lot simpler if I could transition to emulation only but I just enjoy playing games on real hardware too much for it to ever happen.

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  16. Posted · Edited by Cepp

    For me the games I had a lot of fun on SMS were the old standard rpg's Phantasy Star & Ys. I had a pretty good collection of SMS games along with the NES, but once the Genesis came out I pretty much abandoned the SMS 100%. Apparently though a lot of the better SMS titles came out after that timeframe, although people in the US weren't privy to a lot of it, which is a shame.

     

    I will say for me, Shinobi on the SMS was a disappointment at the time for the fact that you couldn't rapid fire shurikens.. which is what I liked about the arcade game. However I ended up liking the title for what it was.. playing through it. Warning though IT HAS THE WORST ENDING FOR A VIDEOGAME EVER. Ok maybe that's harsh, but "it's up there" with the worst. Just saying.. if you spend the time to get good at the game, don't expect reward. :)

     

    I was also disappointed at the time with Double Dragon after all the hype of it being 2-player. It felt very 'floaty' to me. HOWEVER.. in recent years I've come to realize that it was because of the weak sound. When you play the FM Sound version. It totally changes the feel, at least to me. I've come to like it more these days. Check the difference out:

     

     

    Biggest issue for me was the insane amount of flicker. It's too much.

     

    I think all of the best games have been mentioned here tbh so I'll just say avoid all Sonic games except for the first one which is excellent. Also, Ninja Gaiden is a poor imitation of the NES games with floaty controls.

     

    Castle of Illusion is the best game on the system imo although Wonder Boy 3 gives it a good run for its money. My personal favourite is Alex Kidd in Miracle World, it's a little janky but I love it all the same.

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  22. Posted

    Most waste facilities aren't going to let you haul off items once they're on site. Especially items that are considered hazardous waste. (CRTs have leaded glass)

     

    You're welcome to try. If you do it without getting permission, they could charge you with theft.

     

    The real reason this policy is in place, they don't want to be held liable in case some moron got injured or sick with something they hauled away from the dump

    This is the case at my local place, they had a really nice 80s TV I wanted to take last time but they also have cameras everywhere and signs saying they'll prosecute anyone that takes stuff away :/

     

    I doubt they watch people like hawks so you could probably walk into a container and casually walk out with one if you park your car close enough but I didn't have the guts to try it.

  24. Posted

    I own a 21" Dell Trinitron CRT monitor for my PC and a 28" Sony Trinitron CRT TV for my old consoles. The monitor is used for my Windows 98 PC but tbh it's too big and I'd like to downgrade to a smaller screen. The TV was put into storage a few months back when I bought an OSSC (although I just pulled it out again today to test my recent 2600 Vader purchase). I would, again, like to get a smaller TV to put upstairs on the computer desk and hook up the Atari.

     

    You really can't beat a CRT for old gaming but I got tired of having a large/heavy TV and decided to compromise. Now I have all of my RGB capable consoles hooked up to the 42" 1080P TV I bought on sale late last year via the OSSC. Latency is practically non existent and the games look great on the big screen but I still feel the difference the moment I switch back to a CRT.

     

    Anyway here's a pic of the TV. It needs some image adjustments for the Atari but firing it up quickly put a smile on my face :)

     

    20180407_183755.jpg

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