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Discussion in 'SIG: General Chat' started by M.D.Baker, May 4, 2020.

  1. by nysavant
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    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.
     
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  2. by Andy Barr
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    That would be great, Al, re the pinball files for the Megadrive / Gamestation Pro. I honestly haven't had any time to hit it though I was going to earlier and then Bev's friends came round for tea and that was that :) Glad you're on the mend and glad you've got some new gizmos to play with and hope you enjoy the Rubber Keyed Wonder! Cheers, fella. Enjoy a relaxing, recuperating weekend, mate.
     
  3. by AlexDrito
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    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.
     
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  4. by AlexDrito
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    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! :)
     
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  5. by Paul "Mclaneinc" Irvine
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    Having come from the Amiga to PC, I was used to having to adjust stuff in the startup-sequence. So Dos was a no brainer, BUT, it to me a while to try and see why the PC was considered better. Initially it felt like this machine was a step backwards. Eventually, through money and upgrades I started to see the PC as 'better'. Now, I use the PC as my tinkering tool.

    Consoles will remain my go-to games source, purely for not having to do any setup (although older computers didn't need too much tinker ala the C64 and Atari), in goes the disk or cart, and we are good to go, simples!

    Hope your daughter likes Astrobot, it may look cute, but there's good old gameplay in shed loads..
     
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