Consoles of the '80s. (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/consoles-of-the-80s/a-200806189420522063) Brings back memories. :D
aww..good old memories here :D
to bad my amiga 500 was sold when i was young.
and it didn't say anything about duck hunt on the nintendo.
and sega was cool :flirty: could use the latest joysticks on the Commodore A500 (com ports) :flirty:
It reminds me what a bad decision it was to throw out my ZX Spectrum and C64 (the bread box) inclusing tape decks, boxes full of cassettes with games joysticks and so on:crying:Only thing I have kept is the Turbo adapter for the C64, since it was impossible to get your hands on back then.
I started with Amiga. At that time Workbench (GUI) had almost all the stuff already we still use in Windows (and the first ones fit one 770KB floppy - MS hello! Why the feck your software is so bloated!?). Actually If you use the latest OS and have a graphics card it doesn't look any worse (there is an IP stack and browser for it). With WinUAE (or any other OS ports) or some other emulator and the power of modern CPUs you can play the old games with the same (or even better) speed.
I had 2 Amigas. A500 with 80M HD and A500+ with 120M (SCSI) HD and 40MHz 68030 Turbo. I put both of them to junk 3 years ago...argh...misssing them already :crying:
Ok, have to admit that in those days computers had problems. Like in Amiga: The default mouse was clumsy (in today's standards), the floppy drive broke easily so that it didn't recognise copy protection, joystick was only digital(some games claimed to support analog, but never saw one), no protected mode,... the new generation should have come out earlier (1200,4000), Commodore not putting enough effort into development, insane level of SW piracy,...
athough they had the spectrums and the c64's they didnt have 2 computer i had, BBC B and an acorn electron, i still have the electron!!
I've actually played a couple of those, even though i'm only 20 :)
especially that yellow handheld
I think I still have an amiga in the loft with an add on HDD too. Plus a huge amount of floppies full of software!!
I recommend trying WinUAE (http://www.winuae.net/) emulator. It is absolutely superb.
I have created a Workbench installation on a fake HDD, with a fake graphics card. See piccy (http://www.lfsforum.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=20686&d=1165687056) here.
The UAE emulator requires Amiga ROM image. If you have an old Amiga you can create it easily yourself with the software available. The Amiga disk images are ADF files. They can be created too with the software there. EDIT: Those require of course having an old Amiga and some floppies to make them. That is the legal way to get them...
I doubt anything is left on your floppies GFK. We tried some old C64 floppies, and only few survived.
I miss being 15 again :-( that was 20 yearg ago, OMG :-( :-(
they also forgot about Texas Instrument.
My 15 year old Amiga disks had survived quite well. But I had kept them well in a disk box away from sunlight. I see that you are from Israel. It could be that heat destroys some of the data over the years. In Finland the heat certainly isn't first of the problems. :g:
PC cannot read Amiga disks. You need to make an image of the disk in Amiga (there is a program fro that). Then insert PC 720kB disk into Amiga (Amiga crossDos app can read them, but only 720kB, not 1.44MB disks) and transfer the image in 2 pieces to PC (Amiga disks are bigger and won't fit one 720kB PC disk). Then in PC merge the files with "copy ..." command (cannot remember the exact parameters to merge files). The ROM image can be made bit same way but different program and it can fit one disk. (there seems to be some afread program which seems to be able to read Amiga disks with PC HW, but haven't tested it and it seems to require 2 floppy drives)