by Ice Cream Jonsey » Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:39 pm
OK, the other one would probably work best as a sort of "who is coming and when" sort of thread.
Here, I'll investgate what my goals for the actual expo would seem to be. Lately I have been playing the hell out of an Atari 8-bit and 5200 emulator for my Dreamcast. And the games are incredibly fun. Having thousands of them on a disc doesn't suck much, either. So perhaps it's that same sort of experience that I'd enjoy having in a different form.
So, possibilities include:
o An Amiga. What kind? Are they for sale there? More -- can I take the hundreds of disk images that I've got and get them working in a manner that an Amiga 1000 or whatever would be able to process?
o An Atari ST. OK, here I don't actually have a bunch of disk images for it. But goddamn did good games come out for this thing.
o A Commodore 64. A big maybe here, as I actually had a C64 once (I think it was Straw's?) and left it at Walrustitty's house, so I already have a huge strike against ownership. I definitely had no way to get disk images to the system itself. (The ST and Amiga using 3.5" disks is huge in its favor.)
o Consoles.... maybe this is my best bet. Dunno. I would love a Vectrex, again, if I could get games for it.
o Intellivision. It sucks because the controllers die on it way too easily. Plus, I've got the "Intellivision Lives!" thingie. Eh, we'll see.
It occurs to me that I have no real idea if stuff like the ST and Amiga will be there in full force. Guess it's time to do some research.
OK, the other one would probably work best as a sort of "who is coming and when" sort of thread.
Here, I'll investgate what my goals for the actual expo would seem to be. Lately I have been playing the hell out of an Atari 8-bit and 5200 emulator for my Dreamcast. And the games are incredibly fun. Having thousands of them on a disc doesn't suck much, either. So perhaps it's that same sort of experience that I'd enjoy having in a different form.
So, possibilities include:
o An Amiga. What kind? Are they for sale there? More -- can I take the hundreds of disk images that I've got and get them working in a manner that an Amiga 1000 or whatever would be able to process?
o An Atari ST. OK, here I don't actually have a bunch of disk images for it. But goddamn did good games come out for this thing.
o A Commodore 64. A big maybe here, as I actually had a C64 once (I think it was Straw's?) and left it at Walrustitty's house, so I already have a huge strike against ownership. I definitely had no way to get disk images to the system itself. (The ST and Amiga using 3.5" disks is huge in its favor.)
o Consoles.... maybe this is my best bet. Dunno. I would love a Vectrex, again, if I could get games for it.
o Intellivision. It sucks because the controllers die on it way too easily. Plus, I've got the "Intellivision Lives!" thingie. Eh, we'll see.
It occurs to me that I have no real idea if stuff like the ST and Amiga will be there in full force. Guess it's time to do some research.