| Sep 18, 2006 @ 11:53 PM |
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sirdidymus
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although i haven't used it in years, my Atari 130XE is still (last i checked) fully functional.
I still have my Amiga 500 - she's a sweet!!! Had to replace the fdd once and repurchase a video cable that i accidentaly lost (thank GOSH for ebay!!!) - but she runs like a dream.
Although i don't play them my, i still have my SNES, Genesis and Turbografx. I also have the 3DO and Dreamcast on the ready for whenever they might be called into duty.
Anyone else still have some old systems lying around that they tinker with from time to time?
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| Sep 19, 2006 @ 4:39 AM |
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T_i_m
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I have an Atari 600XL and an Atari 800XL, both in like new condition. I got them as new old stock for cheap about 8 years ago, along with several ROM cartridges, a modem and a cassette tape drive. I don't use them at all anymore. I'd sell them off on eBay, but they don't bring much money at the moment.
I also have an Apple Macintosh Quadra 630 that was given to me a few years ago. It's in excellent condition and is set up and runs, though it rarely gets powered up.
I have an old Compaq 486DX2 66Mhz and a CompuAdd 386 25Mhz (both were freebies) that are put away in a closet.
There is a Packard Bell Pentium I 133Mhz set up as a telephone answering machine using IVM Phone Answering Attendant by NCH Swift Sound, the best program I have found. The OS is Win98SE. That same machine doubles as a MIDI music studio using Voyetra Orchestrator and an Aztech sound card that has both an acoustic wavetable and a Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer which uses the Voyetra Super Sapi! driver that provides stereo sound for the FM synth and voices close to the Yamaha DX7II keyboard (the stock FM drivers are not very good at all). A Roland S10 is the keyboard controller.
[Edited on 9/19/2006 5:26 AM]
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| Sep 24, 2006 @ 1:41 PM |
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waterfire
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Amiga, one of the best computers around…in it’s time.
I do not have any of the old computers (classics), I ended up giving away all my old stuff.
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| Oct 7, 2006 @ 8:13 PM |
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NatureGal745
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We had a Commodore when I was younger...we all used it to play games. I still remember playing the original Nintendo too.....loved those Bowser fights on Mario 
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| Jan 28, 2007 @ 4:28 AM |
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ChrisInCalif
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I still have my Atari 2600/5200/7800, Colecovision, Intellivision that I modified for audio/video outputs, but I haven't hooked any of them up in a long time.
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| Jan 28, 2007 @ 6:56 PM |
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ToucherinSparks
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I have a Commodore 64, and a Commodore +4 stuck in storage somewhere. Just never got around to throwing them away. Now they are becoming collector's items. The Plus 4 may end up being big bucks some day since they didn't sell a lot of those.
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| Jan 31, 2007 @ 2:25 PM |
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Strandedboarder
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For a long time I held onto my Commodore VIC-20. I could program it in three languages and had all sorts of expansion boards for it.
It's so funny to think of what I used to do with only 3.5k of RAM!
Now I need 200 MB just to boot up.
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| Jan 31, 2007 @ 8:25 PM |
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Uranium
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I took an old computer and turned it into a old video game system.
I got a Video output of an old P3 667 to my TV and put Emulators on it, then hooked up a USB gamepad. Now I have a SNES and Genesis in one, and can download any game rom I want. booya
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