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That's a very very nice, sweet bit of kit you've got there, Dave.
Very nice indeed and if you can't treat yourself at Christmas to a retro bargain then there's summat oop and no better time, really
Many thanks for your kind comments - if just one of these rambling retro cards makes one of you guys smile, without kicking the cat, then I've achieved a little something.
I was gonna pester you for more details of this little Mister MiSTer magic box but instead I hunted the little larker down on You Tube so here we go, fellas - why Alex Drito will be understandably smiling this Xmas and that's without Baz's bizarre ballcocks through the post...

Enjoy one and all - get stuck into plenty of retro computing this Chrimbo, fellas.

I've got an Atari Gamestation somewhere to discover and report back on!

 

Yes, be keen to hear how you get on with the MiSTer Alex

 

In a word...awesome - the real thing simulated exactly - time after time.. I can see why you and others like you are so enthusiastic, Dave - it's one helluva piece of (pricey) kit but well done for holding out for one at a reasonable price. Bleedin envious, buddy! Neat summary above - many thanks, fella.

 

As ever, very nice Atari mag purchases, Al - love em without even having got me paws on em.

Do you happen to have a link to any PDF versions... I know, I could search, I'm a lazy ass and this wee beastie is taking a while to settle at her new home tonight so keeps wandering around mewing... Bev'll be oop in a mo and give us both frying pan treatment...




She has been to the top of every cupboard in the house and investigated every corner of every room and got every spider's web she could find on the end of her nose and in her whiskers... just waiting for the 1st ornament / vase to come tumbling down and then, again, me and the cat will be DOG MEAT, PAL!

 

Funny you should mention that Andy, here you go. I like to have the PDF versions as well for easy browsing.
https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/atari/mags/mags.htm

Between your new cat and Thumbs us humans will soon be outnumbered here

 

What a cute little short hair...Cindy will drool when she see's it..

I'm just glad thumbs lets us live in her house..

 

Many thanks for that link, Al.

Yer reet, pal.

Us humans are becoming an endangered species and the felines are tekkin ovver.

Paws for thought.

 

Sad story re the girls, as I say, there's always someone worse off than you..

 

Eventually bought the Digital Eclipse Llamasoft collection for my XBox while it was on sale. The games are all typical Jeff Minter sensory overloads and good fun for a quick blast. Apart from all the videos though what I really enjoyed were the pictures taken of the Llamasoft stands at various 1980's computer shows, and the copies of the Nature of the Beast newsletter. Brought back memories of when I used to sit in my little cupboard under the stairs and read them along with my copies of Big K and C&VG

 

AFAIK, the Superstation One only reproduce (and it does it accurately) the Playstation One with all its catalogue and modern ports and storage. Still you can connect a USB CD-ROM and play with your PS Discs. If I were you, I'd go for the MiSTerPI or the MiSTer still available on Ali, at a very good price (that's the one I bought).

I am also interested in those PCs which are powerful enough to run emulators for more modern machines and consoles (PS2, PS3, even PS4 now, XBOX, WII, Switch, etc.) - I'll take a look at it soon.

 

Sorry to hear you've gone down with a sickness bug, Al, but on the positive side I hope you're better for the weekend and you and Paul look forward to exploring both game dynamics and all those emulated virtual 8bit systems that platforms like MiST offer... the world has never been more exciting for the retro gamer! Enjoy your weekends, fellas.

 

Thanks Andy. Still not 100% but moved on to the sofa now and going to watch the Rubber Keyed Wonder documentary about the Spectrum tonight.

Also had the Anbernic handheld that looks like a Gameboy Advance arrive today as well as my latest copy of Retro Gamer and a Roy of the Rovers annuall so plenty to keep me from getting too bored this weekend mate.

How are you getting on with the Gamestation Pro? I have a couple of nice Megadrive Pinball games if you want me to share the files so you can put them on the SD card.

 

I agree 100% with your words, Paul. I've read your description of Astrobot (I will try it on the PS5 of my daughter) and I've found the same features I always notice when I see a piece of software running. Whether it's an arcade game or an adventure game, be it even a management software, sometimes you can feel how good work has been made behind the scenes, how good was the project and how good they managed to exploit the hardware or language features. It's just there in front of your eyes and you can almost sense the smoothness and the speed of the game/software. Same happens with some OSes or some hw systems, the fluidity of the scene, the smoothness of the objects, windows or sprite movements, the synchronicity of music and video on a demo. Just great stuff! And that's where the most fun comes out of. And, as you said, it is more fun to see how they made it (reading the code or a description of the sw techniques) or, if you're able to, modify the code. I'm 56 now and sometimes it still sounds like "magic" to me.

 

Thanks Daz, to be honest, I remember very well the first years of the 80s and the 90s where I used to work assembling PCs with a little company I formed with a friend, so I was always among DOS and then Windows configurations to run office and business software as well as DOS games, so I knew everything about config.sys, autoexec.bat, RAM management tools and utils, etc. I used to configure also other DOS shells like 4DOS (amazing!) and every kind of deviltry in order to optimize the systems with RAM, storage, peripherals, etc. Do you remember the floppy disk system modified to hold more than 360K, 720K, 1200K or 1440K? You could get 10 to 20% more room to store your file and programs. And so, the DOS/Windows systems are not so glamorous to me to reproduce them now on MiSTer... basically I am completely saturated with those systems... so I prefer weird or less famous computer systems like Oric, BBC Micro, ST, etc. But anyway, it's all about fun, and see that a single little box on my desk is able to reproduce such a lot of systems, is quite amazing! I'll go deep in configuring and playing around with it next weekend. Always a challenge to find enough time and enjoy these sessions, though!

 

Who needs 45 TERABYTES of games? Well, just about anyone, right?



The Arley4d project went from a repository of 37 to 45 TB in the last few weeks - of course it's all on the cloud - in the video above you can find a description and the link to the latest version of Emulation Station Desktop modified to download ROMs from the Net (cloud)

I've given a try and installed it - very easy thing to do - the package takes up about 6GB on Windows and has just about every system up to PS3 in it - game ROMs in ISO, BIN, ZIP and other formats are actually downloaded from time to time and you can even copy them as long as they are in the ES-DE \temp folder. Last systems added: C64, Amiga, XBOX, XBOX360, 3DO, Jaguar, etc.

Of course you need fast Internet connectivity and a decent CPU and a powerful graphic cart on your PC. And you're ready to go! A lifetime won't be enough to play them all!

 

Latest acquisition is a MK1 Megadrive and an Ali Express Mega Everdrive so I can finally get to play Shinobi again and Tsatsujin

 

Same setup as me Richie, nice. Hope you have lots of fun with it.

 

Welll done Richie, great find. After you talking about getting one the the other day as well, excellent stuff.

So what are the plans for the Arnold - memory upgrade, SD drive?

Also, didn't realise thhis thread hadn't been updated since August last year. Come one people, show us your new pussycats, or something like that

 

I aint had anything new is ages, as you know, I'm in shifting gear out mode (when I can be bothered to take pics and do the adverts). Good to see Richie getting a bargain. And also nice to see he still likes to tinker with the gear.

Was saying to Al that the only new machine I'd like these days is a PC Engine, a real one, not the mini version. Sadly the cost is silly. Shame, lovely selection of cracking conversions on it, R-Type is wonderful, so many great arcade titles.. Maybe one day..

 

As far as the CPC goes, I plan to get a Xilinx programmer and build some 512 or 1MB CPC RAM expansions next month. I fitted an external audio jack to the 464 so I can load in .cdt tape files so I have loads of games to go at - including Football Manager 2

 

Just for my info, I looked at how much a PCE was, I nearly fell off my chair. It and a TerrorOnion device will set you back hundreds..

Wow...Just wow...

 

Yeah, I like the simple white PCE, was always borrowing my brothers one, he had loads of HU Cards. Was a special little machine. The 'after' versions were ugly, compared. Still good machines but not as iconic.

PS, the state of the PCE's on Ebay is shocking, they look like they were dug out of a field, while their description is is 'good condition'. What is more shocking is that they are Chinese or Japanese traders, from looking at what Serena gets from the traders she uses, it's hard to tell the items were used.

We all expect a bit of yellowing, but these are just filthy...

 

The White PCE only has a J-NTSC RF output so it needs to be RGB modded. Whereas the Core GrafX and Core GrafX 2 have a composite out so you can use them out of the box over here. I quite liked the Grey and Orange of the Core GrafX.
What I would really like is a PCE Duo but they are really expensive now and the CD-ROM is a bit flaky now. On my PCE Mini there are a couple of SuperGrafX games, Dai Makaimura ( Ghouls and Ghosts ) Is one and to be honest I am not seeing a big difference but maybe I am comparing it to a SNES version on my SNES Mini.

 

All this talk of PC Engines. Might need to run some emulation later. And avoid my mates shop as he had a couple of import machines lol. Also got a PC Engine portable (GT?) in stock but think that is about £650! His latest Facebook looks like he is fully stocking the Atari+ range of consoles, games and joysticks....

 

BRILLIANT, DAZ! HAWAY THE LADS - bad day at the office today down at West Ham and without captain fantastic Xhaka, we looked a bit lost today. Let's hope he's back soon. Like you, love the old Kevin Tom's FM. Might have to get that one rebooted shortly.... on the Oric of course!

Great to hear that Rich has acquired a CPC464 once more - they really are class machines and cannot be overlooked when discussing iconic 8bit machines of the 80s - as Al jokingly said - but many a truth is said in jest - get ready to offload it again, Rich, once you've had yer fill and our man from across the border comes knocking!!

Good to be back - hope you're all well - maybe one day Paul will get his PC Engine too - hope so, mate - the Norwegian fjords were very nice by the way but you can't beat blighty for your retro kicks! Cheers, lads - catch you during the week and post a few Northern Leets pics - they were stunning and my Kodak instamatic didn't disappoint Oh, and even our boat was in the right colours, guys -