Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: Lee on September 09, 2011, 01:16:02 AM
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i am oldcomputerfan. i live in the untied states and i collect old 80s computers. i hope to get an arcade machine one day but for now i love80s computers!
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Welcome here, pics please and your real name. ;D
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You are welcome to this board here ..
And Arcade-Machines are in States cheaper than in Germany !
Regards
Dietmar
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Welcome here oldcomputerfan !
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Yeah welcome, and we like old computers too !!
Like these beauties:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/meeting/eurocade_2011/Eurocade_2011_22.jpg)
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/meeting/eurocade_2011/Eurocade_2011_39.jpg)
others like old toast-irons
Like this:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/meeting/eurocade_2011/Eurocade_2011_29.jpg)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) ;)
(That toast-iron plays a lot of great games by the way....but I was disappointed by the Berzerk....game play is too far of from the original.
But there are zillion of great games on it....and I totally envy that Bela still has ALL of his floppies...
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I remember my old C64 ... Modified with Speeddos, Speeddos Plus, and after that Dolphin-Dos .. the fastest loader system ever (at this time) ..
I remember faulty VIC chips .. faulty SID Chip ... and EVER faulty I/O Port .. so the parallel-cable will not work ..
But I love this "Computer" really ..
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Mmmm, I remember none of my Atari's to ever fail....
I also remember my uncle put a fan on his C64 PSU because THAT was the toasting part ;)
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I also remember my uncle put a fan on his C64 PSU because THAT was the toasting part ;)
I confirm ;D
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I put a cool pack in my one .. after becoming warm the C64 dies .. after cooling down it works again .. hehe ..
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Welcome oldcomputerfan (aren't we all btw?).
Just for your viewing pleasure; the ones I found in that creepy barn in Belgium:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/~chrischris/arcade/dust/MR23.jpg)
blairwitch project style picture ;D
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Just grab a bottle'o'retr'o'bwight and clean up that witchy mess!
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
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Regretfully it's not as easy as "grabbing a bottle"....I'd love to be able to !
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That retrobright does not look too hard to make...
I would love to check it out one day..
I do have a very "yellow" gameboy around..... hmmm
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I'd like my burglar alarm detector to get this treatment...but some of the ingredients I wouldn't know where to find...
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Welcome here :)
Feel free to share your collection in pictures 8)
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Welcome oldcomputerfan!
BTW: the retrobright stuff works like a charm.
I brought back to cosmetic life an old beat up Apple IIc and an Apple IIe with it. (will try to find the before and after pics and post on a new thread).
All you really need is strong Hydrogen peroxide (I think I use 10 or 20% bought at a beauty supply store for haircare stuff) and corn starch (what I used as a thickener after heating it all up in the microwave).
I painted it on the surfaces, left them out in the sun for several hours (applied a few extra coats in between as it kept drying up) and then wow! all the yellowing gone.
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I don't have any old computers (yet...) ;D, but i am a happy owner of 2 Sierra On-Line PC games.
BTW, chrischris that computer in the barn looks to be a C64 or an Atari 800 (?) clone judging by the keyboard.
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Haha, no they look to be terminals.
Terminals are actually no computers but they were hooked up to one big computer. The terminals were nothing more than a monitor and a keyboard and some interfacing hardware to get the data from and to that big computer.
They have very little intelligence of their own. And as you can see they have no drives or anything...
We'd call them a "think client" today I guess ;)
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Then the terminals are dumb computers. ??? ??? :lol:
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Yeah, and that technology was so good that even today we are returning to that kind of concept...
Citrix, terminalservices, VDI, etc. etc.