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MacRS4

MacRS4

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Completely forgotten I'd got one of these in the loft! Alongside an Amiga 500, 1000 and a couple of other bits.

Funny, it's not as good as I remember :eek:

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Damn, is it complete? any software/games? or do you enter the code your self like the good old days of the Spectrum and those magazines that had page after page of code to type in?
 
Excellent, I have not played one of these for years :D

I suspect my dad had got it somewhere!
 
Yup, tape deck and loads of games, probably 30 odd. Classics such as:

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May fire it up and have a party :D

....but something tells me nostalgia is best left in the past.
 
Recently found my old Atari ST in the loft.

Fired it up and immediately regretted it, should have left the past in the past, memories ruined :(
 
When I was younger, my dad got his out of the attic in his mums house to let me play with, bad idea at the age of 5, forced the power cable in the wrong way and blew it up... poor old commodore
 
I had the idea to display mount my zx spectrum in the lounge, have it rigged up to the screen. Super fast loading of games was also setup and I even went as far as getting an AT keyboard plugin for it so I could play games using an xbox controller or something....

Then it dawned on me ..... WT* am I doing ? There are emulators you know - D'Oh. Canned the project - back to the loft :rolleyes:
 
Dug a few of my old computer from back in those days out the loft about a year ago but most of them no longer worked/worked properly.
 
wazza300 said:
haha you have to wait ten minutes for the cassette tape to load the game,
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More than that. Unless my memory is failing me it was more like 30 minutes. I remember I used to start a game loading before my tea. After eating my tea the game would be loaded. The cartridges were great though. They were instant and nearly identical to the arcade versions.
 
i remember on 1 of my old amstrads multiple cassettes for some of the games was evil as often 1 of them would fail and have to start over again. commodore 64 with its giant floppy disks was a very nice upgrade much more reliable.
crazy thing is every time 1 of these new computers came out my dad would buy it but he never got a proper pc till after win 98 was out
 
Ah the pain. I remember my vic 20. When we upgraded to a C64 we moved the cassette deck over. It had seen so much use the heads were totally worn down and it used to fail loading stuff on a far to regular basis.

Then we got the floppy drive and it was awesome lol. The amiga 500 was truly rocking though after that. What an upgrade path that was :D
 
Wow! That's awesome, I remember when I was about 5 (13 now) I used to play a Sega console (I think that was what it was called) where you put the game cassette things in the top, really bad graphics but it was so fun!

Doubt I can find anything like that in my loft, might be worth something!
 
RooBoonix said:
Wow! That's awesome, I remember when I was about 5 (13 now) I used to play a Sega console (I think that was what it was called) where you put the game cassette things in the top, really bad graphics but it was so fun!

Doubt I can find anything like that in my loft, might be worth something!
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Sounds like a Sega Master System or a MegaDrive :)
 
janp said:
Sounds like a Sega Master System or a MegaDrive :)
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I had a Master System 2. I remember my dad buying one for me from WH Smith. My first ever console and first ever "computer". I felt like a total boss walking home with it. Very happy memories of that console! My mother was the first person I knew who completed Power Strike in one sitting (you had to, no saves!) and with only the lowest type of weapon (1, but fully pimped). Amazing.. I got home from school once and there she was - she'd been sitting there playing it since the morning, non stop and completed it just as I walked in.

Then there's Kenseiden, Alex Kid (the original!! In Miracle World), R-Type... oh man...
 
mothermachine said:
I had a Master System 2. I remember my dad buying one for me from WH Smith. My first ever console and first ever "computer". I felt like a total boss walking home with it. Very happy memories of that console! My mother was the first person I knew who completed Power Strike in one sitting (you had to, no saves!) and with only the lowest type of weapon (1, but fully pimped). Amazing.. I got home from school once and there she was - she'd been sitting there playing it since the morning, non stop and completed it just as I walked in.

Then there's Kenseiden, Alex Kid (the original!! In Miracle World), R-Type... oh man...
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Was that the version which had Alex the Kid built into the console? If so I had that version as well.........man Alex the Kid was a sodding hard game.
 
It was only last year when I moved house and had to clear out the loft, that I sold my broken ZX80 (yes the original white one) still got £40 for it. the Atari ST on the other hand went in the bin as they are not worth much at all.
 
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