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Post by oldtimer on Feb 4, 2023 17:31:47 GMT
Whats the most obscure system you collect or play on?
For me its the Philips G7000 system, i collect the games and the memerobilia attached.
Also i collect Acetronic/Radofin stuff too.
Whats your obscure stuff?
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Post by Markopoloman on Feb 5, 2023 0:59:04 GMT
I don't really collect for anything currently, but when I get my shit space sorted I'll carry on getting stuff for my Tatung Einstein.
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Post by kerr9000 on Feb 5, 2023 12:36:35 GMT
I wouldnt say I collect for it but I do have an Odyssey 2 with about 20 odd games I purchased it on the cheap about 10 years ago.... my issue is I wont pay much for stuff so im always getting whatever I can get on the cheap and thats what shapes my collection in general.
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Post by RetroBob on Feb 5, 2023 13:06:10 GMT
I used to collect for the Amstrad GX4000 but it is such a piece of shit console that I realised it was a bit pointless so ditched it.
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Post by englishinvader on Feb 5, 2023 13:58:28 GMT
The Commodore VIC-20. I'm one of approximately only 400 people worldwide to own one of these: www.retroisle.com/commodore/vic20/Articles/megacart.phpNot that that's anything special within the VIC community. The individual cartridges are the real rarities and many of them only have a handful of known copies in existence. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2023 18:51:55 GMT
It has to be my most recent acquisition, the Mega65. Although I suppose perhaps that's not really in the spirit of the thread as it's not a commercially released system and is an FPGA implementation rather than a bespoke ASIC-based machine.
Still it is fairly obscure. I don't think there would be more than 1-2,000 of them so far. Trenz Electronics are still selling them, although it is a bit of a wait. It took almost 18 months for mine to arrive, but I think shortages are improving slowly.
It is actually possible to make your own Mega65 according to the user guide, using the Nexys 4 or Nexys A7 FPGA. Even those cost a pretty penny though, so the prebuilt system is actually not a bad deal!
I've had a quick fiddle with the Mega65, just trying out the more powerful BASIC so far, which is really just scratching the surface. It is possible to use ACME compiler to develop in machine language using a PC, but that will be a steep learning curve.
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Post by mattb on Feb 5, 2023 22:03:49 GMT
I used to collect for the Amstrad GX4000 but it is such a piece of shit console that I realised it was a bit pointless so ditched it. At the very least, collect for the CPC6128+ instead. It'll run all those games plus a whole bunch of rather better ones on top of that. 
The rarest hardware I currently use would be the GPD Win which, according to the Indiegogo page, only sold just over 2000 units. It is basically just a very compact Windows PC though.
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Post by oldtimer on Feb 6, 2023 12:36:27 GMT
The Commodore VIC-20. I'm one of approximately only 400 people worldwide to own one of these: www.retroisle.com/commodore/vic20/Articles/megacart.phpNot that that's anything special within the VIC community. The individual cartridges are the real rarities and many of them only have a handful of known copies in existence. Love the Vic20, i have a boxed one along with some carts etc and also a boxed C16 . |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2023 19:46:38 GMT
I used to collect for the Amstrad GX4000 but it is such a piece of shit console that I realised it was a bit pointless so ditched it. At the very least, collect for the CPC6128+ instead. It'll run all those games plus a whole bunch of rather better ones on top of that.
The rarest hardware I currently use would be the GPD Win which, according to the Indiegogo page, only sold just over 2000 units. It is basically just a very compact Windows PC though.
One of those 2,000 GPD Wins would have been in my collection once - it didn’t really live up to its promise, for me. I think it had an Intel Atom that on paper seemed to have some modest gaming prowess, and I had both Bioshock and one of the X360 era Tomb Raiders working, but only temporarily - both were rendered unplayable due to constant crashing. I guess the video drivers just weren’t meant to cope with gaming to that degree. |
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Post by mattb on Feb 6, 2023 22:48:21 GMT
At the very least, collect for the CPC6128+ instead. It'll run all those games plus a whole bunch of rather better ones on top of that.
The rarest hardware I currently use would be the GPD Win which, according to the Indiegogo page, only sold just over 2000 units. It is basically just a very compact Windows PC though.
One of those 2,000 GPD Wins would have been in my collection once - it didn’t really live up to its promise, for me. I think it had an Intel Atom that on paper seemed to have some modest gaming prowess, and I had both Bioshock and one of the X360 era Tomb Raiders working, but only temporarily - both were rendered unplayable due to constant crashing. I guess the video drivers just weren’t meant to cope with gaming to that degree. Yeah, on paper it's powerful enough to run most PS3/360 era games. In practice, results are going to vary and you've got a lot of setting up to do. Also, the Switch arrived shortly after with a far better GPU and where everything just works.
I still found it handy for working through some my huge Steam backlog of indie games and running emulators though.
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