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Any Retro Computer Enthusiasts Here?

MildredHubble said:
The everdrives generally work with the most commonly used emulator ROMs. I think as long as they aren't zipped, you just drop the ROM files onto an SD card and then you can select the game you want when you boot up the console.

I have a Mega drive/Genesis everdrive and that's what I did as far as I can recall.

Yes, retro gaming/computing can lead to a lot of clutter. I need to have a think about maybe thinning out my collection a bit. I'd probably keep the retro things and get rid of some older PC games. Sadly for quite some time PC games can only be registered once. So unless someone buys a game to have a physical copy for their collection or they have a damaged disc, they are just landfill as far as the used market goes :(
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Some games stand-alone may be worth more. Most of the cartridges I have are fake, but a few are real. I hope to sell them and get a respectable amount for selling them as a lot.
 
paloftoon said:
Some games stand-alone may be worth more. Most of the cartridges I have are fake, but a few are real. I hope to sell them and get a respectable amount for selling them as a lot.
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If you have enjoyed them as much as you want to and you won't miss them, then it's probably better to sell them and invest the money into something you will enjoy more.

The only thing I find is that sometimes I've sold things, only to find out that they have become super valuable today. So I'd recommend perhaps doing a little research into how rare the games you have are just in case you have something that might be much more sought after in the future.

Obviously, you can never be sure how things will pan out, but sometimes you can work out if certain titles are becoming more valuable and project that into the future.

I only wish I had bought an Atari Falcon 20 years ago when they were only £200. Now they sell for thousands potentially! :oops:
 
MildredHubble said:
If you have enjoyed them as much as you want to and you won't miss them, then it's probably better to sell them and invest the money into something you will enjoy more.

The only thing I find is that sometimes I've sold things, only to find out that they have become super valuable today. So I'd recommend perhaps doing a little research into how rare the games you have are just in case you have something that might be much more sought after in the future.

Obviously, you can never be sure how things will pan out, but sometimes you can work out if certain titles are becoming more valuable and project that into the future.

I only wish I had bought an Atari Falcon 20 years ago when they were only £200. Now they sell for thousands potentially! :oops:
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Right. Well, I've had these things for decades. You never know with some things, but most of what I have won't be worth anything. If it's fake, unless it's hard to find as a rom, it's essentially worth nothing by itself besides the enjoyment of playing the game because it's just that, fake.
 
They could be still unusual because they are fake though! So it's definitely worth doing a quick Google search at least! Some of the methods used to scoot around Nintendo's CIC chip might be unique for example. This can be of significance to collectors sometimes, or even the community in general as it can help when designing modern day cartridges or flash carts.

Just for their significance as oddities, knock offs can be worth more than you think.

An example could be the Scorpion 16, a sega genesis/mega drive bootleg console. It's really just a pretty standard Mega Drive albeit, in a funky case. Those things sold for maybe £70 when I was a kid when a genuine console cost £120. Now the knock-offs go for crazy money! I wish I had bought one when they were basically throwing them away.

So sure, in reality they aren't the real thing but because they are relatively rare and as a curiosity, they sell for a lot :-)
 
MildredHubble said:
They could be still unusual because they are fake though! So it's definitely worth doing a quick Google search at least! Some of the methods used to scoot around Nintendo's CIC chip might be unique for example. This can be of significance to collectors sometimes, or even the community in general as it can help when designing modern day cartridges or flash carts.

Just for their significance as oddities, knock offs can be worth more than you think.

An example could be the Scorpion 16, a sega genesis/mega drive bootleg console. It's really just a pretty standard Mega Drive albeit, in a funky case. Those things sold for maybe £70 when I was a kid when a genuine console cost £120. Now the knock-offs go for crazy money! I wish I had bought one when they were basically throwing them away.

So sure, in reality they aren't the real thing but because they are relatively rare and as a curiosity, they sell for a lot :)
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I had a game called Duck and I didn't realize how rare it was. I got a decent price for a lot of games by including that one. So, not complaining and I was finished with it. I wasn't as good at looking things up and I didn't handle my stressful life back then as I did now. I've tried to sell and look up and experience enough things that I do have a sense of if something may be worth something, but I get what you mean.
 
It could be considered old-school to continue with 'Windows 7 Professional' for such things as digital image tools, and bare-bones word-processing tasks. I apply 'Google Chrome' browser for searches - which requires 'Windows 10' or higher for Chrome updates.

I'm considering the LINUX operating system with an open-source photo editor, and the Google Chromium infrastructure.

Any experiences, advice?
 
MROSS said:
It could be considered old-school to continue with 'Windows 7 Professional' for such things as digital image tools, and bare-bones word-processing tasks. I apply 'Google Chrome' browser for searches - which requires 'Windows 10' or higher for Chrome updates.

I'm considering the LINUX operating system with an open-source photo editor, and the Google Chromium infrastructure.

Any experiences, advice?
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I still have my 2003 system I built running Windows XP offline. Though admittedly I''m thinking about shelving once and for all as I simply don't use it any more. Nor do I use Windows 10 other than to update it.

Take a look at our Linux thread. Lots of comments in particular from some fool running Adobe Photoshop 5.5 (1998) in Linux Mint 21.2 and Pop!OS22.04. Which BTW runs better in Linux than in Windows 10. Though to print anything I convert it to XCF format in Gimp 2.10. A nice Linux photo editor, but it ain't Photoshop.

In both Linux distros I run both Firefox and Brave browsers.

Courtesy of Wine 8.0.2. WINE="Wine Is Not An Emulator" - WineHQ - Run Windows applications on Linux, BSD, Solaris and macOS

https://www.autismforums.com/threads/any-fellow-linux-users-on-here.33060/page-23
 
I used to have a very large collection of iMac G3s at one stage as that's what I grew up on, had to cut down on how many computers I owned so now I just have a PowerBook for that occasional early-OSX nostalgia hit. Unfortunately that doesn't run OS 9 though (well, it can but its hacky and things like sleep and ethernet dont function at all)
 
deltoro said:
I used to have a very large collection of iMac G3s at one stage as that's what I grew up on, had to cut down on how many computers I owned so now I just have a PowerBook for that occasional early-OSX nostalgia hit. Unfortunately that doesn't run OS 9 though (well, it can but its hacky and things like sleep and ethernet dont function at all)
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My old G4 Mac mini can run the Classic Environment. I haven't done so for ages since it was updated to OSX Leopard and it broke compatibility. I think it was just a compatibility later really and it was phased out after OSX Tiger.

I used to use it to run a few games that I hacked together from the PC versions. Mainly Star Trek Voyager Elite Force, Return To Castle Wolfenstein, American McGee's Alice. Back then you just downloaded to Demo version, and then copied the PC game files into its folder and you had a full working version of the game and didn't even need to use the disc to play it :-)
 
deltoro said:
Yeah so can the PowerBook G4 which is good, but it just isn't the same you know?
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I do know what you mean :-) I think it's kinda the same for me with emulators. They are great but nothing quite matches seeing the real transistors doing the work.

MiSTer FPGA is the closest I will get to emulation, since in theory you have the same combination of transistors wired up in the same way, so it's a one to one replica of the hardware contained in a single chip :-)
 
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