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Old 05-10-2009, 12:59 AM
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I wouldn't do that if I were you Dave... lol
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Old 05-10-2009, 01:03 AM
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I've stopped collecting and am even removing some stuff, except my best machines. The only computer I'd like to add would be an FM-Towns. Take a look at the great versions of Shadow of the Beat and Zak MacKracken. This is the greates version of this game, with background sound and everything. Works in ScummVM of course.

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Old 05-11-2009, 11:11 PM
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Here's some Retro Mac software: Quicklook plugins for SID-files, C64 disk images (d.64/.d71/.d81), and here's another Quicklook plugin for real C64 image formats. Some screenshots are below.




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My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 05-11-2009, 11:14 PM
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Here's another interesting page: www.doremac.com combines Commodore & Mac, and at Lallafa's Blog you have some more C64 software, including the portation of MacVICE.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 05-13-2009, 04:52 PM
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and the nicest fun part in the early c64 days was typing 4 to 10 pages of hex value listings from a magazine into your machine.
Thank god we later on had checksums.
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yeah and later on making it into a binary and storing to tape or disk
heh! tapes were hours of fun!

esp when they'd go bad and look like spaghetti giving a ton of errors

nice to see other members in the 30+ years of age range

Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!

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Old 05-13-2009, 05:44 PM
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nice to see other members in the 30+ years of age range
At least it adds some sense
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Old 05-13-2009, 05:50 PM
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At least it adds some sense
true!
I just can't communicate with most of the teenagers @ insanelymac,
kids with gigahertz machines these days...

Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!

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Old 05-13-2009, 05:54 PM
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Beware they are also here

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Oh, and Andyvand is 24.

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Old 05-13-2009, 07:22 PM
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Age is not the matter, the interests are. I knew a guy who was 13 and interested in old computers - very old computers - in tube radios and a lot of other old stuff. And he could repair things very well. But later he changed totally, I don't have any contact with him anymore.

I'm 33 now, and I used the most common computer systems, C64, Amiga, MacOS 7.5 (on Amiga emulation) MS-DOS, Win98, Win XP and now OS X. But I'm now settling down to C64/C128 and MacOS, and a bit of Amiga if I find time for them.

An important thing is when people are keeping their roots. I never hide my old computers from my history. Without them I wouldn't have made so many experiences in computing. The most kids today start with Windows and a mouse, great. Click, Click, Click and start the game. Older computer geeks had much more to do, and they came earlier in contact with programming, especcially if the computer directly starts with it's integrated programming language - BASIC.

2 Opteron systems: OSx86 10.5.8, Andy's 9.8.0 kernel, Asus A8N-SLI Premium, Opteron 185 o'clocked @ 2 x 2,95 GHz (2nd system 2.6 GHz), ATI Radeon HD2600XT 256MB Dual-Monitor 2x HP L2035, 4 GB RAM, Griffin FireWave as main audio device, Marvell + nForce LAN, Asus U3S6 USB3/SATA6 card, 5,5 TB harddisk, Firewire 800 card, Apple Remote + eHome IR receiver, 2x Wacom serial graphics tablet, Canon Pixma iP4700, Logitech Internet Navigator wireless keyboard/mouse combination.

My Audio stuff: M-Audio Transit USB (default audio), M-Audio ProFire 610, M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge (34 channels) using Creamware A16 ADAT converter MIDI: M-Audio Midiman 4x MIDI interfaceBehringer Audio Mixers: Xenyx 1002, Xenyx 1002FX, Xenyx 1202FX, Eurorack UB1002FX, Eurorack MX1804FX, Eurorack MX262A • FX devices: Lexicon MPX100 DSP, Behringer DSP-1000 Virtualizer, Behringer MiniFEX 800 DSP, Behringer Multicom Pro MDX4400 compressor RETRO: MSSIAH midi/sequencer/synthesizer cardridge for the C64 (Dual-SID), Steinberg M.S.I. MIDI Interface for C64
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Old 05-13-2009, 07:57 PM
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merely joking, every generation has its own quirks
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Oh, and Andyvand is 24.
24? not a teenager then...

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Age is not the matter, the interests are.
and remembering that everyone has a mind of its own, putting it to use is a good thing.


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The most kids today start with Windows and a mouse, great. Click, Click, Click and start the game.
Geekery aside, what bugs me is spoon-feeding, I guess it has to to do with the click-click, start the program way of thinking.



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