Say an Atari ST, 21" TV?
I could bring that with two joysticks and any games anyone wants (I have 3GB of ST floppy disk images).
It would be a lot of effort and we'd need a little table space so thoughts please?
I just figured with beer a few games of rampage, international karate, rainbow islands, commando, stunt car driver, robocop, pac man, xenon, r-type etc etc would be fun, esp the multiplayer ones.
Thoughts please.... TL/oldie?
Think we might be able to figure out something for that, sure! We'll arrange a side table for it be be solo on, Penfold can handle the details as he's heading up the organising of the event.
Over to you Penfold!
TL.
if i was going youd find it hard to get me away from stunt car driver
vvvrorrorooom... weee......... crash
Retro pah - what about a spectrum with Chaos on it - we can play 8 players
What kind of an Atari is that?
An Atari 1040 or something similar?
We used to have an Atari 1040 ST FM at home which was great. We still have it stored in the closet. Loads of games aswell: G-sisters and such which had a great 2-player action.
i will be bringing TRON again for a bit of retro action
Shall i bring my n64? All the old classics but i need 2 more controllers :P. 2 v 2 goldeneye comes to mind :P.
ghost, you are 2 young.
N64 is NOT classic/retro in any definition!
Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!
got an acorn electron and a bbc b in the cupboard that i got for christmas's 84 and 85
Quote from: sulky_uk;145537got an acorn electron and a bbc b in the cupboard that i got for christmas's 84 and 85
we could bring some program listings and type them in woohooo! *i'm joking, no really I am :o)
Quote from: sheepy;145510ghost, you are 2 young.
N64 is NOT classic/retro in any definition!
Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!
lol its retro to me. Actually a few lan's back i sat talking to a few of the guys: Fatal, Fatbob, Lionheart and JAS to name a few. We sat down in the local curry house and those guys talked about their old consoles and games. I couldn't grasp the fact they had to feed tapes into machines which sometimes worked and sometimes didn't. I then spoke to Lionheart at the last lan in April and realised how he typed a few pages of codes at a time into consoles to get them to do bits a bobs. I was amazed. I think one think i did learn from this experience was that the next generation take steps in technology for granted and never realise how the generation before didn't have this technology.
I'd love to see those machines working and wouldn't mind a go of what sheepeh calls a "trully" retro machine :biggrin: .
Well if I was going I could have brought my Spectrum. Oh the joys of Jetset Willy or the real Elite. :dribble:
Quote from: sheepy;145510Im just wishing i still had my comadore 64!! fed by tape drives!
I just threw my two c64s out... plus 1 turbo loader, two tape decks and 1000 games. I doubt the tapes would have worked anymore anyway... I considered keeping the ol' breadbox for a split-second, but I would never use it. It has been in the basement for years now so out it went.
Still have an ol' IBM 8086 with 12" monochrome display store down there I got my hands on some 12 years back, with original software! I plan on keeping it as long as I live in a box or something... It is from before my time (I started with 80286 12MHz with regard to PCs) but the original IBM PC is kinda special. Yeah, just make fun of it, I don't care :narnar:
why did u chuck them! im surprised this is going so cheap, especially when most games go for £ 2-3 each
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/commodore-64-loads-of-games_W0QQitemZ270019643989QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Quote from: Sn00ks;145585Well if I was going I could have brought my Spectrum. Oh the joys of Jetset Willy or the real Elite. :dribble:
My god. I'd forgotten how much time I'd wasted playing Elite on the Speccy - I loved that game. So much so that later on I bought a copy for my Amiga, and a copy of Frontier (Elite 2) for my first PC.
If I was being pedantic though, the
real Elite was the monochrome version on the BBC micro. I remember spending ages playing that round my mate's house...
And GMjr, you've not lived 'til you've used a personal computer that required you load games in off of a cassette tape. Or spent hours typing in a 1000 line poke from a games magazine, only to have the piece of **** reset two lines before you finished because you inadvertantly knocked the woefully designed plug-in joystick interface. Ah, happy daze.... :biggrin:
Quote from: sheepy;145596why did u chuck them! im surprised this is going so cheap, especially when most games go for £ 2-3 each
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/commodore-64-loads-of-games_W0QQitemZ270019643989QQihZ017QQcategoryZ4193QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
The tapes were so old I doubt they work anymore and over here you can get a C64 with 1 tape deck and 1000 games for typically £50.
Cheap? Well, the games (at least mine) are/were not originals. It is prob. 10-20 tapes with 50 games per tape, loaded using a Turbo 2K.
Quote from: Cadaver;145599My god. I'd forgotten how much time I'd wasted And GMjr, you've not lived 'til you've used a personal computer that required you load games in off of a cassette tape. Or spent hours typing in a 1000 line poke from a games magazine, only to have the piece of **** reset two lines before you finished because you inadvertantly knocked the woefully designed plug-in joystick interface. Ah, happy daze.... :biggrin:
Oh yes, I remember doing just that, me and my mate taking turns typing in a page of code each into a ZX 81 (hard going as the keyboard was supposedly touch sensitive!!) using a magazine that just had listings for you to type in. After several hours we where near the end of the final page, looking forward see if the 16k of code we had put in worked (doubtful, so much code) and his mum accidentally knocked the table and we got 'ram pack wobble' and the screen just cleared.... we just stared at the empty screen for a while, before looking at each other, then his mum in disgust - 'well thats that then - lets go and get ****ed!' - oh happy days - but it was cool, you felt like you where at the cutting edge and it taught you how to program or at the least how to type he he!
Stryker,
Nice touch !
We'll definitely sort something out for that if you're happy to bring it.
Space shouldn't be an issue unless we suddenly get a hoarde of new sign-ups.
I imagine it will generate a fair few watchers, so we can rack up a table somewhere we people can stand around and watch.
Great - will sure be great to see all those ol' games again
PEN
I have a commodore 64 with disk drive too whhhoooo. Anyways, I mentioned the atari as its going to be most practical for a LAN having a built in disk drive an all :biggrin: an games that are mostly retro and playable.
Right, I think there will be some interest then.... just my luck I just got my PC an LCD monitor so now I'm lugging a 21" TV :smile:
We can get three players on rampage, two on joysticks and one on keyboard, got no 8 player games though :flirty:
Anyone an ex-master of kickoff? kickoff2? sensible soccer? now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.
Oh yes, as I said I have 3GB of games too. I'll bring the best of em that I know on floppy, plus the software to get any game requests on floppy on my pc so there will be no end of games.
Quote from: Stryker;145678now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.
Wasn't that Speedball, or Speedball 2? :unsure:
Top game, if that's the one you're thinking of.
Quote from: Stryker;145678Right, I think there will be some interest then.... just my luck I just got my PC an LCD monitor so now I'm lugging a 21" TV :smile:
Unless we swipe one of the TV's from a bedroom :norty: (However I can't think they'd be too plussed about that).
Thanks
PEN
Quote from: Penfold;145729Unless we swipe one of the TV's from a bedroom :norty: (However I can't think they'd be too plussed about that).
Thanks
PEN
Non-starter I fear. They should be able to provide a TV, being a conference centre, but I bet they'll want paying for it.
EDIT: Oh yes, £30 a day (http://olivercromwellhotel.co.uk/main/conference-facilities.html) for A/V equipment it seems. :eyebrow:
I have a Vic20 in the garage.........and there's some games on cassette tape..........how retro u wanting to get.......
Quote from: Cadaver;145743EDIT: Oh yes, £30 a day (http://olivercromwellhotel.co.uk/main/conference-facilities.html) for A/V equipment it seems.
Well, as Stryker's happy to being along his 21" ......... :whistle:
PEN
Quote from: Stryker;145678Anyone an ex-master of kickoff? kickoff2? sensible soccer? now what was the one by the "bitmap brothers" the footy with all the violence, I was only playing that the other day.
Speedball?
Quote from: Benny;145933Speedball?
Oh dear, Benny you must have played speedball!
It was one of the Bitmap Bros most famous games.
Based on the "Rollerball" movie, but without the skates and bikes, just the violence. :devil:
I have an Amiga 500 (Kickstart 1.2) available as well!
Oh, an Amiga 500 (kickstart 1.3) also......
And an Amiga 1200 with CD-ROM and internal hard drive.
Theres a Philips 8833 MkII monitor sat in the cupboard as well, dunno if it works, might possibly explode with power! :unsure:
well, my mother threw away my amigas :/
but heres some info: theres a pc version of the old Xenon, named Xenon2000
its dlable from the bitmapbrothers webiste, it only has 1 lvl tho, still its nice
speedball, thats it.... what a hoot. Just been playing rainbow islands and newzealand story.... most excellent.
I went a little mad a few weeks back.... I've now got:
vic20 with tape deck
classic shape c64 with tape and disk
3 * new shape c64 (two with tape, one with disk)
About 500 cassette originals
CD with every C64 game ever written (just need a good tape deck as to put them on tape I have to play them through my soundcard while recording them)
MSX
Atari STFM with second floppy drive
Quote from: Stryker;146048speedball, thats it.... what a hoot. Just been playing rainbow islands and newzealand story.... most excellent.
I went a little mad a few weeks back.... I've now got:
vic20 with tape deck
classic shape c64 with tape and disk
3 * new shape c64 (two with tape, one with disk)
About 500 cassette originals
CD with every C64 game ever written (just need a good tape deck as to put them on tape I have to play them through my soundcard while recording them)
MSX
Atari STFM with second floppy drive
Uhm... with all them games - what about just bringing a couple of joysticks and run the Vice emulator on a PC? You can then mount the .d64 images directly into the emulator, that is you still have to do the load"*",8 stuff... That way there is no need for a TV nor a console... but of course, the retro bit sort of disappears. Just an idea...
That name, Stryker.. everytime I see it I think of Airplane, or Airplane 2: The sequel, where Lloyd Bridges is trying to remember where he knows the lead character from, named Striker... "striker, striker... striker!" and the guy behind knocks out a woman :lmfao:
Some more facinating stryker facts: It was the name of a most excellent football game..... it was the name of a porno star, an I mean a really porno star who'd f**k anyhthing with a cavity.
As for the retro gaming, I think we need the whole atmosphere of having a retro computer.... emulator games.... yeah, like the body is there but theres just no sole.
I need to make sure I've got the best 2 player games: so far I have:
kickoff2, rampage, joust, blasteroids, karate kid, bubble bobble, speedball 2, space duel
Can anyone add any more to that? I know there are loads more but I'm pi55ed right now, whats your excuse? :blink:
How about barbarian, int. karate and commando?
We can always get the games from c64.com btw.
How about conkers? :whistle:
Quote from: Doorman;146967How about conkers? :whistle:
I had no idea you were into Nintendo 64 :narnar:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=conkers