Do you get into retrocomputing?

[Yorus]

The more things go out of fashion, the more fashionable they are.

Do you like retro computing? What computers and consoles do you have or want to get that we can consider "discontinued" or old?

In the world of PCs, as we have seen in other branches, it is difficult to value what is considered retro and what is not, since it can still be given a more or less decent use.

If the branch is successful, I will link your jewels in this first post.

[Yorus]

I start with:

As for PCs, I don't have anything that I think can be considered retro, since an Athlon XP with 1Gb of RAM looks like what I see daily even in many companies. However, I do have original games with more than a decade behind them. Some titles:

Wing Commander, Acedemy.
I-War.
Eurofighter 2000.
Microprosse Formula One Grand Prix.
Sim Earth.
Ultima VII, The Black Isle.
Diablo II.
Diablo II, Lord of Destruction.
Warcraft III.
Warcraft III, Frozen Throne.
Start Craft.
Star Craft, Brood War.
Total Annihilation.
Combat Chess.
Cannon Fodder 2.
FIFA – Rumbo al Mundial 98.
PC Futbol 2000 + extension.
Lotus III – The Ultimate Challenge.
Sensible World of Soccer.
NHL Hockey 95.
Microsoft Golf 2.0.
Dark Reign.
Actua Tennis.

As for "non-PC" computers, you know, my ZX Spectrum+, which I still need to repair the keyboard and buy a Divide interface to load games from SD or Compact Flash. I still have a few original cassette games, and even the tape reader, but I'm not sure how well everything will work at this point, I see it as a very delicate medium, so I'm not sure if I'll try to get some more titles. Some of these titles are:

Fantasy World Dizzy.
Nonamed.
Rex Hard.
European 5-A-Side.
Silent Shadow.
Carlos Sainz.
Infiltrator.
Aliens.
Australian Games.
Blood Valley.
E-Motion.
Short Circuit.
Bruce Lee.
Shadow Skimmer.
Lazer Tag.
Football Manager 2.
Master Chess.
Alien Highway.
Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix.
Emilio Butragueño.
Winter Games.
Fernando Martín Basket.
Knight Rider.

I forgot to mention, I also have a Gamapark GP2X F200, perhaps from the GBA era, or even a little more modern, but especially designed for emulation. A gem that I haven't fully taken advantage of yet.

I'll put up photos if this gets a bit of success.

[cobito]

The oldest PC I have is an 8088. From there to the core 2 I have almost all the generations. As for software, the oldest game is a cdrom of playable demos from 1995. And pirated software, because I have some 5.25" installation disks of Wordperfect 5.1 (I doubt they still work).

Retrocomputing seems very interesting to me because it is a way of seeing how things have evolved, which makes you appreciate what there is now and also a way of solving puzzles (will I be able to make this work on that?).

[incrediboy]

The strangest thing I have is a Game Boy Light imported from Japan. It's similar to the Game Boy Pocket but with thicker batteries and a backlit screen. The one I have is the Pikachu Yellow edition, like this:

[Sylver]

What a great thing that incredi
I have the normal Game Boy Color from all life, successor of the Pocket with a few games from that era.
I also have very old computers, the oldest of them none other than the Amstrad PCW 8256, which I do not know if it is still in the basement...

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and then almost all generations of Intel avoiding 423 and 775 (and the most recent ones less 1155 of course)
in AMD since the K6 onwards I have copies, up to Athlon II.

¡Saludos!

[cobito]

Now I've remembered the most retro thread I've created: The museum of horrors (final version) - HardLimit

And also this one: http://foro.hardlimit.com/windows/t-la-evolucion-de-windows-en-imagenes-53557.html

By the way, I also have a Megadrive, but without too many games and I don't even have it handy.

[lforos]

I have practically nothing left because I was getting rid of the old stuff as I evolved (I had no other choice) :cry:

I still have some things that I posted here HardLimit - View post - The Spectrum, 30 years old and back on sale.

[Yorus]

@ cobito:

What a great collection the "museum of horrors" has, the truth is that there is a lot of PC history in there. I don't keep my first PCs because they were real junk (the first one was a desktop and even so, after the Coolermaster Centurion I think it was the biggest case I've ever had xD) and because the feeling with PCs for me was very different from that of 8 and 16 bit computers, perhaps because of the very definition of "cloner".

@ incrediboy:

That Gameboy is a gem, I don't know if it will be difficult to find, but being from outside our borders it already has that touch of exclusivity.

@ Sylver:

I loved the Amtrad PCW, very aimed at office work but I thought they were really cool. A shame that Amstrad was obsessed with 3" floppy disks instead of 3.5".

@ lforos:

I still regret selling the Spectrum +3 at the time. Well, regretted to a certain extent, because I got money for my first PC, but now I would like to tinker with it and of all the official Spectrum it is the most valued, impossible to find it for less than 60€ and usually it exceeds that, when we can find Megadrives and Supernintendos for 30€ with controllers and all, sometimes even for less.

[incrediboy]

@Yorus:

@ incrediboy:

A gem that Gameboy, I don't know if it will be difficult to get, but being from outside our borders already has that touch of exclusivity.

The Game Boy Light was only sold in Japan, and the Pikachu Yellow version was sold, if I remember correctly, as a limited edition exclusively at the Tokyo Pokémon Center :fuckyea: