Post by: whizzard on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:08:05
Post by: The Mad Professor on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:17:00
Post by: brimborion on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:20:16
Post by: whizzard on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:24:56
Most people wanting to do that will just install VMware and run a virtual machine to play the game.
It's not really about playing a game... we all know how to do that... its about booting it up, its sounds, seeing how it runs with fresh eyes, screwing around with it and stuff. It would be fun for about 10 mins anyhow hehe. Its one of those purchases that you regret after 15 minutes probably :rolleyes:
I found it interesting that they actually are "vintage" and have value nowadays.
Post by: Korth on Fri, 27 February 2015, 20:41:05
I abandoned my last 486DX2-66 platform almost two decades ago, after deciding that it was just not worth keeping around for legacy gaming. Followed just a few years later by my last Pentium-MMX/233, then a few more years before saying goodbye to my last P4. Emulation through DOSBox or some VMware (in Windows or linux) is helluva lot easier and better than keeping obsolete platforms (and their obsolete MS-DOS or Win9x/XP configs) up and running. No more messing with finicky SoundBlaster/Ultrasound cards, mouse issues, IRQ nightmares, DOS memory management, MSDOS vs Win9x/XP multiboots, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and .INI files and all the rest of that crap. Just set up the emulator with whatever legacy hardware you want to pretend you have, how fast (or how slow) you want it to run, and click your game's new launch icon, can't get much easier.
I do, however, sorely miss my old-style RS232 ports. New RS232 solutions just don't push out enough signal voltage to work directly with older (but not too old!) tech gear.
Post by: whizzard on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:08:14
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:08:41
Post by: brimborion on Fri, 27 February 2015, 21:14:49
Post by: jdcarpe on Fri, 27 February 2015, 22:08:46
I want an IMSAI 8080 and Ally Sheedy.^ This guy gets it.
I like the IMSAI, but I was always enthralled by the toggle switches and lamps on the front panel of the Altair.
Post by: pr0ximity on Sat, 28 February 2015, 00:43:10
You'd probably be interested in this article:
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/mac-plus-introduce-modern-web/
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 28 February 2015, 10:26:42
It's true using dosbox or some other vm is fine most of the time. But I had a lot of old titles that have big problems or just wasn't able to get running at all that way so you need a real machine with older 'low spec' hardware it won't freak out on in those cases.
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 28 February 2015, 10:59:11
How depressing, a computer from the middle of the PC era is now vintage?I would consider a PC before '95 to be vintage. Before Windows 95. Keyboards without windows keys.
The Commodore and Atari computers stopped being produced at about the same time, as were Apple Macs with mechanical keyboards and Motorola CPU:s.
The Matrox Millenium was introduced in the mid '90s also. PCI only, I think. Sort of in between vintage and just "old".
Post by: TacticalCoder on Sat, 28 February 2015, 15:19:05
So I was thinking about how cool it would be to hook up an old 486 DOS/Win 95 computer just for a stroll down memory lane, maybe throw wolfenstien and old lucasfilm games on it... How much do you think a computer like that would be worth? I was suprised that I must not be the only person to look this up... they are anywhere between 200 and 500 dollars on eBay! I remember giving my first computer to a family member when I got a new one, who knew that it would go from being worth 20 bucks to 400? Sometimes I wish I was a hoarder. Ah yes... I had a Matrox Millenium (I think) badass 4mb graphics card in that beast. Just thought it was funny, does anyone here have a vintage computer?
Wait what!? I was in my garage today, making room for my new (old) car... The place is a mess of old Mac Classic, beige Mac G3, 286, 386, 486, gfx cards, memory modules, hard disks, etc. Most of these computers are probably still working. I was going to simply throw the PCs away (not the Mac Classic, I keep that one). Heck, there's even an old Alcatel "Terminatel 258", probably still working too, looking like this:
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But old working 486s are still worth something? That is crazy...Especially now that you can buy, say, a Raspberry Pi 2 probably way way way more powerful than a 486, for less than $40.
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sat, 28 February 2015, 15:55:44
Post by: whizzard on Sat, 28 February 2015, 19:10:48
Post by: sirisaac1982 on Sat, 07 March 2015, 21:08:29
When I moved I didn't have the room for it so, I put it up on kijiji. Though I might get $50 or something for it. I had over 200 emails in just a couple of days and sold it to the highest offer. $500!!!! I was floored.
I still have a few other gems in my collection, but the II plus sale will be hard to beat. :thumb:
Vintage video games can be valuable too. Sold my NES collection for 10x over what I ever put into it.
And now I'm investing my money in keyboards and key caps... :eek: LOL!!!
Post by: Lanx on Sun, 08 March 2015, 00:03:31
dear lord, remember QEMM, QEMM was the difference between 50k sometimes to get DOOM loaded.
Post by: Korth on Sun, 08 March 2015, 12:56:37
Post by: jdcarpe on Sun, 08 March 2015, 13:41:26
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 08 March 2015, 19:33:27
That was kinda fun - seeing PC stuff appearing on an old HP terminal.
Post by: ctm on Wed, 25 March 2015, 21:01:49
Post by: Korth on Fri, 27 March 2015, 04:35:16
I am thinking about getting something like a IBM 5140 and then put a Raspberry Pi in it. But I am not sure if there is a way to make Raspberry Pi make output to the ultra-low resolution screen.lol, you're not far off. The most challenging part of an FPGA-based Apple II+ emulator board I built, long ago, was the PS/2 keyboard interface.
Post by: slip84 on Sat, 28 March 2015, 20:20:23
I should go raid it.
Post by: Hak Foo on Sat, 28 March 2015, 22:14:55
For example, anything that depends on the bizarre keyboard layouts Commodore and Atari favoured