Bought a new computer system

[Skybird]

Sentimental things aging men sometimes do...



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]

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).

[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.
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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. 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.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by mapuc

My first play-thing was Philips G7400 videopac
Markus

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

(smirk)