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The Mr. Do SNES version is not inferior. Some of the excellent arcade ports are better than mame in the sound deparment. Nothing beats the original arcade game, but Mame includes too many low rate sounds, and misses a lot of sounds from the originals. I rather have a 100% emulated version of an home system game, than a 85% Mame version most of the time. I love Mr. Do! I played the crap out of the Colecovision version for years. I never knew that there was a SNES version. I just downloaded it and it is awsome. It even has a 2 player battle mode! Anyone who would like to play some SNES Mr. Do! in Battle Mode online, you can message me at deadmeow1334 on AIM or Yahoo. Jeff

If PC's didn't have the worst operating system of the big players, who did? Do you know what a "PC" typical user in the late 80's would say when they saw an Amiga, Atari ST, or even an Apple IIgs in action? "Wow". "many Commodore 64 owners went to PC... could not make use of the disk drives and monitors which cost quite a bit of money." C64 was the cheapest peice of hardware out there. If the Amiga had been backward compatible at all with the C64, that would have been a handicap.

I am curious whoever here used a 1980's released computers into the 90's as there primary/top computer? I know most people with Atari ST's or Amigas, or Apple IIgs probably used their machines into the 90's, but I am curious how deep into the 90's. My Apple IIgs was my primary computer from 1987 to 1996. I bought a USR Courier HST 9600 baud modem in 1986 for my Apple IIe for like 699, which I used when I bought my IIgs. In 1995 I got online on the internet first through a BBS, and threw a shell account on a unix box they call it? I had to get familar with UNIX having never used it before, but it was fun. I had access to everything I needed, text web browsing, FTP, telnet, email through PINE, and of course IRC! That was the most fun back then. I finally got a windows pc in 1996. I am proud to say I have been in computing for about 24 years, and have never used a MSDOS machine. I could never understand why somebody would want a boxy, no style looking IBM compat, with an even worse OS! blah!

I remember seeing this ad in video game magazines of the 80's for the Epyx fast load cartridge. It showed some skeleton in a chair hunched over a C-64 with spiderwebs on him, and spiders and shit crawling on him, while the computer screen reads "loading...".

What a nice system, with nice games. I had a Turbo Grafx with CD and System 3.0 card to play Turbo Duo games. Very good selection of CD games unlike Sega CD. If the disc is spinning, you can try a cd cleaning disc. Otherwise if its a broken mechanism in the CD player itself, I don't see why that can't be fixed.

I would follow Bill's instructions on setting up a gaming store with one big difference. I would hire really hot college girls to work the store.

I smell some Atari bias. As an Apple II person, I liked my inferior IIgs, but I had many IIgs buddies who went over to the Amiga side. The Amiga was the best computer of its era. There is no comparison.

I had two typing classes, but my typing skills developed mostly from initially typing up applesoft basic language programs, and then bbs'ing. The IIgs was made to be inferior to the Mac, so it didn't cut into the Mac sales. Macs were King at Apple.

Its hard to justify keeping tons of systems, when emulation is so common, and only getting better. In the 90's I had Atari 5200/7800/XEGS, Intellivision,Colecovision,Turbo Grafx, 3D0, Sega Genesis/SMS adapter/Saturn/Dreamcast, Apple IIgs, various 68xxx Macs. Now I have a Dreamcast/Saturn, Genesis/SNES, Atari 800, Apple IIgs. All of it is in storage at the moment. Out of all my old systems, I miss my Turbo Grafx and 3D0 the most. The Atari 5200 was fun, but takes up too much space. I still have one Sega Master System game that I auctioned off in the 90's on Ebay, but some deadbeat never paid. Montezuma's Revenge (yes there is a SMS version).

Here is a link to Karateka II, an Apple II disk (image) movie that someone made. It was made to showcase an imaginary Kareteka II game. Excellent fighting, and extreme violence. Very entertaining! It will run an any and standard Apple II emulator. ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/i...ateka_ii.dsk.gz Here is AppleWin a good Apple II emu http://www.zophar.net/Files/apple18j.zip Here is an ftp site accessable via the web also for Apple II disk images ftp://ftp.apple.asimov.net/pub/apple_II/images/

I was wondering if setting up a C-64 system for gaming was worth the trouble, but it always seems a hassle everytime I thought about it. I was just curious. I am mainly looking for an old computer system to set up for gaming on a television set. I am going to try an Atari 800 system, I just bough a disk drive for it. I have an Apple IIgs in storage, which I could do the same with, but the IIgs games will be blurry on the television versus an RGB monitor or emulator. On the other hand the Apple II games would look on my 27" television. So maybe I will try that when I get tired of the Atari. I am sure all of the old computer systems were fun. BBS'ing was the most important thing to me on my old Apple II systems after I bought my first modem, so I could have never been completely happy with a C64 and Atari 800. You miss something from the experience when limited to 40 columns. I am sure there were some nice Atari & Commodore boards that utilized those systems BBS capabilities.

The Apple IIgs is still the most powerful Apple II, and it was the first Apple to have a color desktop GUI based OS.

Pitfall II was a great game back when it came out.

While my friend had Ataris, I got the new kid on the block, an Intellivision in 1980, so I couldn't trade games. However in 1983, with prices coming down, I finally got an Atari 2600! Vanguard was the first game I got. I loved that game! I will never forget driving home from K-Mart with my Atari 2600!

Wasn't GEOS available only as one 5.25 inch copywrited disk? Were you able to boot from a hard disk with GEOS? or boot from a 3.5, or install it on other disks?

It must be noted that the great injustice of creaky Apple II sound, was corrected in the Apple IIgs. The Apple IIgs had a sound chip capable of 15 voices and 32 channels. KEGS emulator for Windows seems to play back the IIgs sound back very well.

Back in the 80's there were dedicated video game systems, people wanted more than video games. Video games were a bonus to general computing. I probably spent more time calling BBS's and downloading games in 1984-1989, than actually playing games. As word processors, computers were/are invaluble. Just think, if it wasn't for computers, people would still be using typewriters! You young people are lucky! I remember in highschool in the late 80's we still had typing class! (I don't know why?!)

I see from Ebay ; "Q: Is it compatible with a Vic-20? A: Yes it is compatible with the 64/128,16 the plus 4 and the vic 20. At least that is what the user guide says. Thanks" That is cool a 3.5 inch drive for Commodore computers. I would imagine transfering games to 3.5 inch disk would depend on the OS they game was written for, unless it is a single file based game. Apple DOS 3.x was designed in about 1978 for 5.25 drives. PRODOS was introduced around 1983 for bigger storage devices (3.5, HD etc). The PRODOS games are fine, but the older DOS 3.x games won't work on PRODOS, so you have to put them on a 3rd party mutant operating system that acts like DOS 3.3 on 3.5 drive. Is it possible to copy Commodore games to the 3.5 inch drive, taken into consideration the operating system? Is it worth owning a 3.5 inch drive???

I had an XEGS in the 90's. One that I found in a thrift store. Donkey Kong was such a suprise! Anyway the keyboard was "detachable" but you only have like 18 inches of cable on the keyboard, so you can't move it very far. The Atari 800 XL seems like the best all around, since its small and functional. If I really get into, I will buy an Atari 800 XL or maybe an XE. Right now I will see how I do with my Atari 800 and new disk drive.

I won a 1040 disk drive on Ebay for my Atari 800. I can play tons of games on the emulator, but they are just more fun on the television set. I have been really bored lately, so this will give me something to play with. I know nothing about Atari DOS'es, compression, etc. When I get the drive, I want to transfer disk images to disk. So where do I start :-/ ?

Okay, here are my favorite sports games and the new versions I have discovered. 4th & Inches - I downloaded this on Halloween night in Highschool for my Apple IIgs, and me and my friend Chuck played the crap out of the game all night. I later discovered a Team-Editing disk for it, and we both put in our favorite NFL teams, I had Atlanta, St Louis Cards, KC Chiefs, he had Pitt, and some others. Now I discovered this for the C-64 emu and what a pleasant suprise! Quality graphics, and quality sound! (A+) Best pc football game ever! GBA Two on Two Basketball - I had this on my Apple IIe, and later IIgs(super), fun game! Found this for the Atari ST(excellent)and C-64(not bad), but just as fun! (A-) Hardball - This was not so hot in the IIe, but awsome on the IIgs. I found this for the Atari ST emu, and just as good as the GS version. C-64 version holds it own, Atari XE version so-so. (B+) John Elway Quarterback - The arcade version was great, the Apple IIe version was average, and the IIgs version looked great, played a little slow. NES version plays a little faster, avg graphics. Found it for the C-64, it was a let down, graphics nothing great, way too slow. (C-) Super Sprint - Kick ass arcade game, we played it at the arcade in highschool. I found this for the NES emu, and it is pretty good. Found the C-64 version, and it looks cheesey with little tiny cars, but it plays very well, and it looks as if you can design your own tracks. Going to look at this some more! (B)

Phoenix is good. They should combine all the crappy games into one. Then you would have Pac Man chasing the Congo Bongo ape and Donkey Kong, who escape in the Zaxxon spaceship/plane thing.

The Commodore 64 prices were slashed so low, I remember them selling them at Walgreens, and they were giving away Texas Instruments. Commodore killed the TI computer line and hurt competition in general. Just think if we had the choices today, that we had 20 years ago. Imagine being able to choose from IBM/APPLE/COMMODORE/ATARI today? We have 3 major gaming consoles, just imagine if we had 3 major computer companies or more? If you want to play games on a PC and run the most popular programs, you are stuck with one type of computer and one operating system. That stinks.

3d0 is a fun system. It has the all time best version of FIFA soccer, John Madden is pretty good, I think Golf was okay, and I had a bunch of games for it. I think I still have like 3 games, and 4 controls for it. I should get another one.

Look on the ended auctions of Ebay, that is the best thing to do.