80s_Atari_Guy

Well, Vector Zone, rolls nicely off the tongue. Whereas, Stramash Zone, sounds like you are trying to say "Smash Zone" with a st st st st stammer.

I know copyright would have prevented naming it Battle Zone. But wouldn't something like Vector Zone, have sounded better ?

Oh yes. And by coffee, I mean this.

Down the rabbit hole. Meanwhile, back on Earth. I'm really looking forward to getting a working Vectrex, since my FIRST Vectrex has major problems, which is the main reason I'm getting a SECOND Vectrex. The videos of the bizarrely-named Stramash Zone, look amazing.

Here's what I bought today.

What a bizarre reply

Seriously ? Wow, I honestly didn't know that. Over here, I can sell my car, PC, consoles, retro hardware, and I don't have to pay any tax. We pay tax on the first sale only. If I owned a business selling the same items, then I would have to pay a yearly tax.

Getting my second Vectrex, end of this week. So, can't wait to order this and try it out, looks awesome.

Surely, you pay tax for the First Sale Rule, only ? I don't know US law, but here in the UK we would only pay tax on pre-owned goods if the seller was running a second-hand sales shop. Pre-owned private sales are not taxable, thankfully.

True, I agree. What I meant was, to play Doom, the best way in 1994, then cost should be irrelevant since the best way would mean getting the best hardware. I mean, if you want a Ferrari, you buy a Ferrari. You don't buy a Ford Focus, then expect it to perform like a Ferrari.

I think the best I ever heard Doom's soundtrack was on my old Yamaha DB50XG, the stand-alone soundcard version was the SW60XG. The DB50XG, was a awesome-sounding midi wavetable card that fitted to a soundcard with a wavetable connector. PSX Doom music came a close second, that was awesome.

Thought this thread might be the best place to post this. Anyone modded a Tennokoe 2, with a RGB to Component v2 board ? Here is the mod http://www.tg16pcemods.com/rgb-to-component-converter-v-20.html I've followed the instructions exactly as they say. But component gives me no picture, so I assume my 20" LCD cannot do 240p over component. But more importantly, composite gives me a black and white picture. I tried composite on all my CRTs, with the same result. There are adjustable pots on the board, 2 I believe would possibly be for component, but one looks like it could be for composite. Here is my attempt. I can't see where I might have gone wrong.

I should have added to my post that, this can only be done digitally, not via analogue. And, as far as I'm aware, it can only be done on non-protected files (TAP), not protected files (TZX). You then play the resulting wav on a portable mp3 player/media player/mobile phone. I guess my original post looked a bit misleading. I should have said it was amazing the Spectrum, itself, was capable of loading 19,200 baud wavs via a digital source. Apologies.

Nice. Like the Madonna Music.

I personally loved the original Wipeout soundtrack. It perfectly summed up the 90s dance and club scene, and made gaming cool. Sony, really knew how to market the PSX, in the 90s, by merging dance, club, and gaming. Great times.

I personally think the best console version of Doom, at that time, was Ultimate Doom and Final Doom on the original Playstation. You could even link them up and play multi-player.

Cost is irrelevant. The best way to play Doom in 1994 was on PC. Just as today, the best way to play Xbox One games is on Xbox One X, and PS4 games on PS4 Pro. If you want the best gaming has to offer, then a state-of-the-art PC is the way to go. Again, cost is irrelevant if you want the best.

The 32x was released in November 1994. At that time, I had a Pentium 1 60mhz, 8Mb ram, and a Soundblaster 16. The more common PC was a 486 DX2-66/100. Add the cost of a Megadrive/Genesis + 32x + TV, and it's not much cheaper than a 486 DX2-66, which would run Doom much better than ANY console of the time.

Just over 1 hours worth of Pokey goodness. I just love that Jet Set Willy theme.

For the money, it's great. Works really nice in Elite Dangerous, but requires a lot of thought put into the mapping. Also works great in No Man's Sky, if you like that kind of game. My only gripe is that I'm left-handed, so I would have preferred the throttle on the right side of the Joystick.

Failure, loss, damage, replacement, repair. They're all part of life, part of living. I look at my arthritis and often dream of a cure, but it's here, I have it and it's part of my life. It's my memories, spent years of installing PC equipment, bending down to fit into tight spaces to fit ethernet cabling, or a tower case. Crawling into tight spaces to change cables, or to find breaks. Sure, your emulation looks great on the Pi, via HDMI to that nice 60" 4K TV. But it's lifeless. It's not how the original pixel artists imagined. You can take a Picasso, digitise it and clean it up, clean all the years of muck and dirt and print out a nice high-definition print. But it's no longer a Picasso, it's a copy that has lost it's heart and soul. You could argue that the new print looks better, but does it ? If it does, then why is it worth 5 bucks ? While the original is worth 5 Million bucks. Now, everyone has that nice high definition copy on their wall. But there will only ever be the one, the original. I see the real deal as this. https://halifaxbloggers.ca/flawintheiris/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2013/02/mad-max-interceptor-920-1.jpg Sure, it's going to break down, guzzles gas like no other, and has no modern comforts. No electric windows, no air con, no power steering, no CD player, no Sat nav. But it's unique. There will never be another made in the future. Driving it, you are driving a beast. Your senses are at their maximum, you feel everything through the steering wheel. The feedback from the car gives car enthusiasts a massive smile. Emulation is this. https://media.wired.com/photos/59325d1ca3126458449944dd/master/pass/bmwi8-ft.jpg Sure, it looks "Modern". Has all the modern luxuries, is incredibly high tech. Electric windows, power steering, central locking, alarm, digital dashboard. It's environmentally friendly. But it's dull. I have most of these things in my car. Most cars today have many of these features. It's fast, with amazing acceleration. But driving it, will it "Feel" like you're in control of something, or will it feel like you are along for the ride, while the computers do everything. I've drove a battery car, nothing like the I8, but I can say the nice quiet drive soon wears off fast.

It's gorgeous. Looks and sounds, are amazing. The soundtrack is amazing. It really feels and plays like Descent, which I guess is the point since it's written by the same team. I'm playing it using my T-Flight Hotas X Joystick. Mapping was a bit tedious, but it plays so good. The level design is superb, and brings back that claustrophobic feeling from the first Descent. The A.I. is good, although I would play it on a harder difficulty to get a real challenge. Sublevel Zero, was good, and you could see how the team wanted to give homage to Descent. But Overload is the real deal.

Exactly. The day I move from real hardware to emulation is the day I've lost my mind. Emulation has it's place. MAME, for me, is as close as I'll ever get to owning a real arcade. Emulation of systems that are rare or expensive, Jupiter Ace, Enterprise 128k, Neo Geo AVS, this is where I use emulation - but only because I can't afford the real thing. I believe emulation has heart and soul, put into it, from the programmer. But to say it has a soul is just silly. It hasn't survived many different eras, 80s, 90s, 00s. It hasn't seen different presidents, governments. It hasn't seen the changes in culture, and the progress we've seen towards racism, and people of different religions. It hasn't moved home with you, or enjoyed a developing family around it. All these are memories, experiences, and the soul of that machine that was designed and put together by humans. My A8 XL, has seen 5 different homes. 4 different Governments, many different players/users. When you turn off your emulation box, it becomes just a box. It's no longer the machine it was mimicking, it's now just a boring corporate box with a meaningless badge on it.

Virtualization, has no soul. No memories, no experiences, no soul. Created in a lab, it looks like the real thing, it talks like the real thing. But it will never be the real thing.