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‼️This reminds me of the “explosion” in baseball card collecting. The “explosion” in GI Joe collecting. The “explosion” in Coca Cola memorabilia. It was called “boomers” and when they died this crap piled up in every antique mall in America and was left to rot. I’m not kidding, all of that crap has been sitting in the same spot in some places for about a decade now and nobody wants it. You’re next.

To be honest. I am soooo happy I dont need to deal with the old shit stuff anymore. I dont know who conciders "Retro" in any way interesting. Like special electronics equipment from the old days is cool and interesting, but not computers. I am so happy I dont need to deal with diskettes anymore. Or old, slow and noisy HDs. There is nothing interesting about old computers at all. The only retro computers that I might concider interesting are the ones you couldnt afford back then and cannot afford now. Some specialized super computers or computers that were designed to do very specific tasks. They are interesting and cool. But the typical personal computers normal people could afford, are boring and useless. People always talk about retro but nobody in their right mind uses them in any really useful way. It is just all talk and nothing else. Its just an collectors item and nothing more than that.

doom in night vision :)

I guess this explains the prices of Commodore gear these days, and probably other similar-aged stuff.

Zarathrusta, Robocod, The Killing Game Show, Hired Guns, Pinball Dreams, Kid Chaos, Microprose Golf, Project X SE, and Hybris are all neat ones to check out on that machine.

Seeing SimFarm of all games stuttering like that is strangely nostalgic.

When is the next Canberra Vintage Computer Exhibition, btw? I now have a tonne of retro gear to show & swap these days... :P

Argh nice to see “games in green” back ❤

Love it bro 😂👍

A few of my favorites : Turrican II, Marble Madness, International Karate, Lotus III, Ghouls n ghosts, Indy 500, Pang, Silworm, Swiv, Stunt Car Racer. On a 500 I wouldn't consider an accellerator. On a 1200 where you run everything in WHDLoad, yes.

Hi, why not to try North & South?

I tried looking to see about buying one of these but all I could find is his website which did have a PDF for version 6 but that's about the only page that seemed to be functional so it looks like I need to keep looking.

I upgraded my Amiga 500 with an ACA-500plus a year after I got it in 2019. I don't play many games on mine, it's more of a glorified typewriter and it runs Deluxe Paint IV at double speed. I'm still figuring out how I can use the creativity software and the resulting files with my modern computer in a modern context. It can be a fun experiment to try out what (from all the advertised possibilities promised in those 80s ads) one still can do with an Amiga.

for convenience an accelerator with ide connector is a good upgrade. An 030 with some extra memory is all you need and they are very compatible. I don't think you can hdd boot from stock 1.3 roms howerver so the rom chip needs upgrading unless the accelerator has a map rom feature. It's a good idea to map rom anyways since ram is faster than rom. Then you need an ide to CF adapter and a CF card, or a CF to SD adapter instead of CF card. The point of this is to run Workbench of the CF card, and use WHDload games launching them using a launcher such as igame or any of the other available. WHDload requires extra fast ram that you would get from the accelerator so it won't run on a stock a500. It's also a lot of fun tinkering and personalise Workbench to have the perfect gaming setup :)

For compatibility I ended up ditching all my accelerators and keeping my Amiga 500 with 1mb chip ram 1.5mb slow ram and a Gotek drive, near to stock keeping the 1.3 rom, if I want anything more I use emulation with coffin or caffeine os.

Yes, get an accelerator that will let you use a CF or SD card as a hard drive. You can load that up with WHDLoad and have almost all the Amiga games ever put out at your fingertips. You don't need a 68060 accelerator to play games, a 68030 with 8 MB of fast ram will play nearly anything adequately. I went from an Atari 800 to a used Amiga 500. From there I got a 2000HD, 3000 desktop, two A4000 desktops with accelerators and finally an A4000T with an 060/PPC and Cybervision with a big monitor. It all started with the lowly 500 with 512k to play some games, but the bug had bitten hard. Started a BBS, did desktop publishing on the 3000, added more phone lines to the BBS and after having 20 phone lines and modems hanging off of an Amiga 4000/060 I ended up starting an ISP business. The Amiga 500 totally changed my life. I still have it. I need to see if I can get it running again.

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Have you tried using a different keyboard. Maybe the flashing has something to do with the keyboard 🤓

Definitivamente, una belleza 🤩

I just got mine today, and I'm a bit disappointed, the image wasn't as sharp as what I was hoping for, I thought it'd look just as good as using traditional hdmi on a modern console but no. I use rgb scart for all my retro consoles, and I tried out my og xbox, while the image was alot cleaner, it was still blurry, didn't seem all too different to just using rgb scart normally on my hdtv. Maybe I'm missing something here, or a hidden setting, I hope so, because what a paid doesn't feel worth it right now.

Whats Guitar Vader @?

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Heading off to pax 2024 and sent this to a friend to let them know what they're in store for (their first pax haha) ty for the sick vid! liked!

Very nice machine sir.

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This cab is full metal?

Pretty cool. The X68000 fascinates me. I have a couple Amigas and some day would like to get a X68000 machine.

Awww... I used a teletype to get psychoanalyzed by Eliza and a Decwriter to explore ADVENT's colossal cave. It's great to see people still appreciate what those tiny systems were capable of.

I'm not a fan of vinyl records.

Interesting information. I will look up how to make a dim light!

Last sentence in the whole vid state Canberra Computer Festival 2004.... but it was 2024.

Great talk very knowledgeable

I planned to go but was in Tuggeranong when I remembered it was on. I own a few of those represented including some of the Atari and Commodore 8 and 16-bit computers. Have used multiple including BBC-B, ZX-81, Microbee, TRS-80 & CoCo. Last time I was inside Radford was mid-late 1980s at a show where a Microbee Gamma was present but not in working order.

2004 or 2024?

Eliza is a program with which I've had conversations for.

I would start with a full recap of the main, bottom and video boards. ❤X68K

ok that keyboard is neat

Very cool I’ll need to try this

where did u buy urs?

Great to see another successful vintage computer expo. Thanks for sharing! -Cheers, Steve

what was that pc in the 80s that Ted's Camera stores were trying to sell as "better" than C-64 and had 50 big company names behind it..and was total flop? companies included JVC and Sony.

Great talk from start to finish. I really learned somethings.

Great content! Keep it up. Subbed

I still have my Hitachi Peach.

Good place to spend the day 👍

Fantastic work, thanks.

Darn, would have liked to come, never knew it was on.

How did I not know about this?

You youngins with your flashy PC gaming desk setups...this stuff right here is what started it off.

How fricking awesome. 😁