Retro Geek
Cloudscout
– December 23, 2007 08:49AM
I know I'm not the only one here to dabble in old toys and technology. What retro entertainment do other people enjoy?
Commodore
Atari
Coleco
Intellivison
Pong
Merlin
Simon
Betamax
LaserDisc
CD-i
8 Track
Windows XP
Etc.
binky
– October 27, 2008 08:09AM
Anyone interested in some old hardware?
I've got a Lisa and a Plus (Ehman external drive and MacRecorder, MacVision) to get rid of.
John Willoughby
– October 27, 2008 08:10AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Does the Lisa boot?
Cloudscout
– October 27, 2008 08:41AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
If JW doesn't claim it first, I'd like that Lisa... even if it doesn't boot.
John Willoughby
– October 27, 2008 08:58AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
I yield my claim to CS. He will take good care of it, and probably will get more use out of it.
binky
– October 27, 2008 09:08AM
It powers up, but doesn't make it much further. I haven't played with it for a while. I can dig it out and see its current condition.
Madaracs
– October 27, 2008 09:56AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
I've got a working SE30... do you want that too, CS?
ddt
– December 02, 2008 09:22AM
cross-posted:
ran into a fanboi-run store in LA that has a lot of old video game stuff -- games, systems, accessories.
http://reflexgamer.net/
ddt
Madaracs
– December 03, 2008 06:34PM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
Oregon Trail 1.4 (1986)
I just played Oregon Trail for an hour and a half and died. What a let down.
Madaracs
– December 03, 2008 06:39PM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
Fooblitzky.
Anyone know what this is? I'm about to try it.
--
OK this is some kind of kids game. I don't get it.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/03/2008 06:40PM by Madaracs.
stan adams
– March 24, 2009 01:13PM
El Jeffe
– March 24, 2009 03:28PM
What a journey.
No one can argue with you there. Only geekier if Woz was in the seat.
John Willoughby
– March 24, 2009 04:13PM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
Where do you flush it?
El Jeffe
– March 25, 2009 04:29AM
What a journey.
The tricorder kinda looks like a prehistoric Flip Video camera.
tliet
– June 09, 2009 12:13PM
Cloudscout
– August 01, 2009 07:56PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Remember Hotline and Carracho?
bahamut
– August 02, 2009 11:25AM
I used to find porn on Gopher.
Steve Cordova
– August 24, 2009 03:45PM
History passes the first time as tragedy, the second time as farts. - Roy Edroso
Lego Animation and 8 bit gaming
stan adams
– August 24, 2009 04:04PM
That was excellent. I know why they call it '8-bit' but I think the more important detail was just how memory efficient that sort of graphic generally was.The whole crazy programm had to fit in a scant 4K of memory! Such feats took a different kind of economy wrapped with creativity to animate / illustrate back in the day.
I probably have some cassette tapes stashed away somewhere of the Atari 800 games hand typed from paper listings.
I am old enough to remember working with mainframe jockeys who would do assembly in their head to figure out an old program.
If I tried to explain this to even the programmers in my office that are ten years younger than me I am fairly sure that I would get the 'whale oil lamp" look from 'em -- it would be like the "walked two miles uphill both ways to school in snow storms" of earlier generations...
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/24/2009 04:15PM by stan adams.
Cloudscout
– October 04, 2009 01:45PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I just picked up some 8-bit Atari hardware. One of them confuses me... it's an Atari 800XL with an extra toggle switch added to the back. I have no idea what this toggle switch would be for. I suppose I could open the thing up and see what it's connected to. I'm thinking that it might have different ROMs in it that you can switch between or something but I've never actually owned an 8-bit Atari computer before so I know absolutely nothing about what kind of modifications people would make to them.
I also picked up an Atari 130XE that has a problem with the Help, Option and Start buttons. That is, they don't seem to work. I can power it on with a game cartridge plugged in and the game comes up on the screen but I can't start the game because it doesn't respond when I hit the Start button.
