Bought a new computer system

[Skybird]

Sentimental things aging men sometimes do...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A28tvIHcdGg&list=TLGGKm6_LbD1zOYwMTA2MjAyMQ&t=16s


It sin principle an emulator with attached keyboard and with games onboard, and Basic. You can switch modes between VC-20 and C-64. Inside in princple is a PI-2 or PI-3, something like that. HDMI and USB.
Funny! Brings back memories.



The sam eocmpoany anmo8cned they are dpoing the Amoga 500 next. That would be awesome if Speedball 2 is included (its also in the C-64 above), its one of the games I vote into the eternal hall of fame.



I had table chess computers - and a VC-20 and next an Amiga 500. Did my university writings on it and a long Star Trek novel of 600 pages that I once wrote, via BeckerText.

[Skybird]

:D
I am absolutely impressed with what they managed to squeeze out in performance from this old 8 Bit machinery. I just played three matches, and I must say , despite the looks, that obviously owe to the 8 Bit limitations, the gameplay is and feels the same like it was on the Amiga. The guy plays it on a real C64, but I can asssure you, on this hardware emulator it is exactly the same thing.

I also found that after over 25 years I still have the same soft spot this this game, and could not get enough of it. It rocks - squared. If they indeed brign out the Ami8ga as they annoucned and it comes with SB2, it will be an instant buy for me - if for no other reaosn than just this one title. (The Steam version from some years ago just ruined it).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMfSGLunWr4

[mapuc]

Made a search for Amiga 500 and found this page.
Looks like there are thousands of game free to play.

Edit
I removed the link, because I tried one of the game and despite waiting for a long time the game didn't start.
End edit


Markus

[Von Due]

I grew up with that grey breadbox (c64). In my ill informed opinion it was the most important home computer until the modern pc. Spent my entire youth with the 64.

[mapuc]

My first play-thing was Philips G7400 videopac not a computer, but similar to Xbox a.s.o Had a few cartridge to this machine.

My first real computer was the Atari 130 XE with a tape recorder as extern game loader.

Learn a little about basic 2.0 or was it 3.0.

Markus

[Skybird]

The C64 and Amiga 500 certainly paved the way for things to come. There were others, the TI-99 I think, the Spectrum Sinclair, something by Atari. But the breadbox and the Spanish girlfriend really were important, were milestones. The Amiga dominated early PCs even up into almost the mid-90s.

I did not buy my first Pentium-class PC before I think very late 90s. Everything before Pentium 3 I think I skipped, stayed with the Amiga. For SPSS at university I used the PC of a friend, that statistics software never made it to Amiga. :)

Only coding languages I really learned well, were GFA Basic 3.0 late in the Amiga times, a structured Basic and quite good, and Pascal before that in my late school years, of which GFA Basic always reminded me. Oh, and of course Comodore Basic, unstructured.

I did a course in MSDOS late at university, but never needed it. When I came to the PC, Windows 98SE already was reality. SPSS 6 we ran on that friend's PC with W95. It was buggy and unstable as hell. SPSS I mean. It was the first Windows-compatible version of SPSS.

I hated it. :D But then show me a student who does not hate statistics.

Beside that, a programmable Casio FX-3600P, a Chess Challenger Voice, Mephisto II, Mephisto Exclusive MMIV+HG440. Twenty years ago I bought many of the many objects of chess desires of my teen years that I could nto afford when I was young. So, several old and classic chess table computers I call my own now, some of them quite famous and very, sinfully expensive back in the days.

[Von Due]

My father ran, wrote for and was the editor for an early local text tv where I grew up. It was all done with a c64.
It was capable of much more than running games! I saw a demo of how to control the electricity in wall outlets in a home via a c64.

I too got a pc very late, by the end of the 90's after my A500 went tits up with smoke and fanfare. So many titles that not only looked better on a 500 than a 486 running dos, but worked better as well.

[mapuc]

Now that we discuss older Vic20 and Amiga computers

The most popular programming language 1965-2019


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og847HVwRSI

Markus

[Skybird]

The company has formally released its advertizing for the Amiga 500 Mini.



https://retrogames.biz/thea500-mini


So far 25 games will be aboard, and quite a few famous ones, for examples those of the Bitmap Brothers - therefore the original Amiga version of Speedball 2... :D :up:



THEA500® MINI ANNOUNCED GAMES LIST (12 of 25)
Alien Breed 3D, Another World, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Battle Chess, Cadaver, Kick Off 2, Pinball Dreams, Simon The Sorcerer, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Worms: The Director’s Cut, Zool: Ninja Of The ”Nth” Dimension. Additional games will be announced at a later date.




German Amazon list March 2022 as availability time, the company says early 2022.

[Platapus]

My first play-thing was Philips G7400 videopac
Markus


My first "play-thing" was not a computer either.

(smirk)

[3catcircus]

Never had the VIC20. I had the C=64 and the C=128. Greatest gaming consoles of their generation. I felt that they were better than the Atari and Apple ][. The sweet sweet sounds of the 1541 drive heads crashing against the alignment stops due to copy protection... Using a hole punch to turn 5.25" floppies from single-sided to double-sided. Good times, good times...

Then I turned to the dark side and got a 286 IBM clone...

[Buddahaid]

Never had the VIC20. I had the C=64 and the C=128. Greatest gaming consoles of their generation. I felt that they were better than the Atari and Apple ][. The sweet sweet sounds of the 1541 drive heads crashing against the alignment stops due to copy protection... Using a hole punch to turn 5.25" floppies from single-sided to double-sided. Good times, good times...

Then I turned to the dark side and got a 286 IBM clone...

And now we get to have heated arguments in fish bowls with complete strangers. :Kaleun_Cheers:

[3catcircus]

And now we get to have heated arguments in fish bowls with complete strangers. :Kaleun_Cheers:

There have been times where my coworkers and I have almost been thrown out of a restaurant at lunch while having heated arguments...

I think it may be generational - those of us who are older who have actually had to have arguments in person have a better time of knowing how to agree to disagree than those who've only ever argued online. I don't think in all the arguments I've had with coworkers, friends, etc., That there has even been an urge by any of us to "cancel" each other.

[Cyborg322]

After the Vic 20 and Commodore 64 I think the next major leap forward was the Sega Megadrive and the end of those awful buggy cassette tapes

Also the emergence of the first Home and business MS DOS systems in the early 80's

[mapuc]

My first "play-thing" was not a computer either.

(smirk)

It was a predecessor to the Playstation. Unfortunately I can't not remember what they call these type of tv-machine. That's why I wrote play-thing

Markus

[3catcircus]

Let's not forget the Coleco Adam and the TI-99/4A.

They need some lurv too...

[Skybird]

The company has formally released its advertizing for the Amiga 500 Mini.

https://retrogames.biz/thea500-mini

So far 25 games will be aboard, and quite a few famous ones, for examples those of the Bitmap Brothers - therefore the original Amiga version of Speedball 2... :D :up:


THEA500® MINI ANNOUNCED GAMES LIST (12 of 25)
Alien Breed 3D, Another World, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Battle Chess, Cadaver, Kick Off 2, Pinball Dreams, Simon The Sorcerer, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, The Chaos Engine, Worms: The Director’s Cut, Zool: Ninja Of The ”Nth” Dimension. Additional games will be announced at a later date.


German Amazon list March 2022 as availability time, the company says early 2022.
They have released the full list of the 25 included games (mind you, this is an emulator, you can add your own amiga games, too).



Alien Breed 3D, Alien Breed: Special Edition 92, Another World, Arcade Pool, ATR: All Terrain Racing, Battle Chess, Cadaver, California Games, Dragon’s Breath, F-16 Combat Pilot, Kick Off 2, Paradroid 90, Pinball Dreams, Project-X: Special Edition 93, Qwak, Simon the Sorcerer, Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe, Stunt Car Racer, Super Cars II, The Chaos Engine, The Lost Patrol, The Sentinel, Titus the Fox, Worms: The Director’s Cut, Zool: Ninja Of The ”Nth” Dimension

A few real gems in there that i played a lot, beside the already known Speedball 2: Cadaver, F-16 Combat Pilot (by Digital Dynmamics, a real good alternative at that time to Spectrum Holobytes first Falcon title), and Alien Breed Special Edition 92.