Post Your Retro Computers/Games - Thread

Dan Dare and Days of Thunder
Great games :D
350gb drive? i wouldn't have thought the Amiga OS could ever recognise anything that size!

Neil79 said:
Get it out now!, atleast you can give it a good test and take some photo's

I'm the only one who's done photo's so far :(
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I would except its 300miles away. :(
Also got an external hard drive and extra floppy drive for it.
 
I had an Amiga 500, sold it when I upgraded to an Amiga 1200 which is in my loft.

Some of the best gaming days on that machine, flight sims galore as well as Elite 2: Frontier

I had a bit of a dodgy power brick that had to have the cable bent & held with cable ties. Not sure it all even works anymore as it must be about 15 years since I last played it.

Loads of originals & lots of non-originals :D
 
That was one hell of a bargin Neil! There's some pretty uncommon games in that lot.

I've got a collection of Spectrums and a couple of Amigas around the house. Here's the Spectrums which I have to hand. They could all do with a clean!

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All of these were bought as faulty and I have since repaired. The rubber-key speccy is one of the early 16k models which hasn't since been upgraded to 48k. They are getting pretty difficult to find now. I've also got a boxed Spectrum +2a in my parent's loft with a light gun and stuff and I think there is also a ZX81 up there as well, but I haven't seen it in a few years so who knows!

I've also got a couple of Amigas. I kept my A1200 from when I first bought it and have since upgraded it with a 120MB harddisk and a Blizzard 1230 Mk-IV 030 accelerator which pushes it up to 50MHz. It's also got an additional 8MB of ram on board.

But my pride and joy is this Amiga:

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It's an Amiga 4000/030 which has been expanded with a 2GB harddisk, and a Warpengine 040 accelerator with 128MB onboard. I've also installed a DVD-rom since this picture was taken.

Amazingly, I picked it up for free from freecycle. It was faulty when I got it. The Harddrive was corrupt and it only showed a yellow screen when turned on. It turned out to be a problem with a badly-seated kickstart chip. Once I reseated the chip it sprang into life.

I'm planning to upgrade it with a kickstart 3.1 chip at some point so I can get a more modern version of workbench installed.
 
Amiga 4000... wow never seen that one before :D, hope you do some more pics with it running!

Btw those spectrums, the guy in that store said they don't last their lifetime unlike the commodore
 
Yea they were originally built for cost rather than longevity. The 16k and 48k spectrums both had dodgy keyboards which was caused by the ribbon cable which joins the keyboard to the main board. They were originally poor quality which causes them to break up over the years. But you can get hold of replacement ribbon cables or trim of the broken up end if there is still enough length on them.

The only thing wrong with the +3 was a snapped belt for the floppy drive. That's pretty easy to sort out.
 
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