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CardJoe · 28th Jan 2010, 09:09

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/20...ival-hits-uk/1

The National Museum of Computing is set to become the venue for the first British Vintage Computer Festival for two days in June.

scawp · 28th Jan 2010, 10:20

I have 6 megadrives, do they count?

mi1ez · 28th Jan 2010, 11:19

Man! This looks awesome! Pixelh8 cheesecake!

Evildead666 · 28th Jan 2010, 15:00

From the good old days

My first computer was a Dragon32, then an Amstrad CPC6128, then Amiga500, then PC's took over lol...

Tempest is still a very good game and plays on just about anything...

-=ice=- · 28th Jan 2010, 15:30

Yay, 19th of June is my birthday, perfect timing

SteveU · 28th Jan 2010, 15:30

Lol, my first PC was an Amstrad 464 with a Green Screen!!!

I have fond memories of loading Harrier Attack on it's 'integrated' tape deck. It's about the only game I could ever get my dad to play due to it's ultra simple control.

Ah, those were the days!

Azayles · 28th Jan 2010, 16:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveU

Lol, my first PC was an Amstrad 464 with a Green Screen!!!

I have fond memories of loading Harrier Attack on it's 'integrated' tape deck. It's about the only game I could ever get my dad to play due to it's ultra simple control.

Ah, those were the days!

I had that same computer, and the same game! Me and my brother used to love playing that once the game had loaded from the tape drive.
You kids now and your "hard disks" don't know you're born! lmao xD

barbary · 28th Jan 2010, 17:48

Vic 20, CPC 6128 with green screen and then Amiga 500 which I still have in the loft. I also had the A520 add on which was (hold on to your socks) 2Mb of Ram and a 20Mb hard drive.

2Mb of ram is rediculous I mean what would you ever need that amount for.

SMIFFYDUDE · 28th Jan 2010, 21:01

Many a C64 joystick was broken while running the 100 metres in Go for the Gold.

Emulators just don't give the same feel.

Farfalho · 28th Jan 2010, 21:40

My first pc was a 286 Peacock branded pc. It was awesome to play Leisure Suit Larry, Cats and some other popular titles of the day, even Monkey Island! With the 3.5" floppy and the 5.25" floppy (mitsubishi one!), yellow and black were the colours. Omg that was some serious fun back then, a little kid =)
The games only took KB of space and that was huge!

thehippoz · 28th Jan 2010, 21:46

leisure suit larry lol what about the original castle wolfinstein.. 5.25 inch floppies dual density and notching them with a exacto knife so you could use both sides

dire_wolf · 28th Jan 2010, 22:59

Ohh interesting, that'll be me going then

phuzz · 29th Jan 2010, 07:42

@barbary
2Mb? We had the A500 with the 512kb expansion, it was years before I could afford a computer with 2Mb of RAM. (eventually had an A1200 with an extra 8Mb for a grand total of 10 whole megabytes, and a faster CPU).

dire_wolf · 29th Jan 2010, 10:30

I've still got an A1200 with a Blizzard PPU card w/ 128MB RAM. Dread to think what that cost new, it's still worth over ton on Amibay.

AshT · 15th Jun 2010, 09:30

Bumped.

The event is this weekend (Sat & Sun). Worth popping along for a bit of nostalgia.

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28th Jan 2010, 10:20	#2
scawp Multimodder Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 91	I have 6 megadrives, do they count?

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-=ice=- Multimodder Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Posts: 217	Yay, 19th of June is my birthday, perfect timing

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SteveU Multimodder Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 110	Lol, my first PC was an Amstrad 464 with a Green Screen!!! I have fond memories of loading Harrier Attack on it's 'integrated' tape deck. It's about the only game I could ever get my dad to play due to it's ultra simple control. Ah, those were the days!

28th Jan 2010, 17:48	#8
barbary What's a Dremel? Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 18	Vic 20, CPC 6128 with green screen and then Amiga 500 which I still have in the loft. I also had the A520 add on which was (hold on to your socks) 2Mb of Ram and a 20Mb hard drive. 2Mb of ram is rediculous I mean what would you ever need that amount for.

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thehippoz Banned Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 5,780	leisure suit larry lol what about the original castle wolfinstein.. 5.25 inch floppies dual density and notching them with a exacto knife so you could use both sides

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dire_wolf Last Of The Dovakhiin Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UK Posts: 2,422	Ohh interesting, that'll be me going then __________________ "Don't Fear Citizens! TAD KNOWS HIS RAID!" - Bindi MAIN BOX E7400\|HD5770\|Viewsonic VX2260WM\|Asus Xonar D2X\|4GB Dominator\|Samsung F3 1TB\|Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L WIN98/DOS GAMES BOX 1GHz P3 Coppermine\|GF3 Ti500\|Creative Live! 24-bit\|256MB Rimm\|WD 10GB HDD

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phuzz This is a title Join Date: May 2004 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 1,287	@barbary 2Mb? We had the A500 with the 512kb expansion, it was years before I could afford a computer with 2Mb of RAM. (eventually had an A1200 with an extra 8Mb for a grand total of 10 whole megabytes, and a faster CPU).

29th Jan 2010, 10:30	#14
dire_wolf Last Of The Dovakhiin Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: UK Posts: 2,422	I've still got an A1200 with a Blizzard PPU card w/ 128MB RAM. Dread to think what that cost new, it's still worth over ton on Amibay. __________________ "Don't Fear Citizens! TAD KNOWS HIS RAID!" - Bindi MAIN BOX E7400\|HD5770\|Viewsonic VX2260WM\|Asus Xonar D2X\|4GB Dominator\|Samsung F3 1TB\|Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L WIN98/DOS GAMES BOX 1GHz P3 Coppermine\|GF3 Ti500\|Creative Live! 24-bit\|256MB Rimm\|WD 10GB HDD

15th Jun 2010, 09:30	#15
AshT Custom User Title Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 996	Bumped. The event is this weekend (Sat & Sun). Worth popping along for a bit of nostalgia.