@kari
guess i’m a YouTuber now, 95k+ subs 🎉 ... 👉 just a girl in her 20s who loves #making, #fixing 🛠️, #coding 👩💻 & collecting cool #retro 🕹️ things 🔴🔗 https://www.youtube.com/karilawler 🌎🔗 https://www.karilawler.com
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... And for those across the pond, ZZap!64 first launched in May 1985 and was the go-to bible for UK C64 fans for many years. And it's still going strong today (relaunched in 2021 and now published by @zzap64micro.bsky.social) with quarterly issues and annuals.
... What an absolute time capsule for the #C64. Loving the humour, reviews, and how vivid and bright each page looks. Also, obsessed with the covers by the legendary Oliver Frey. ... but seriously, what's with all the premium rate phone line adverts? Did you ask bill payer's permission 😂📞 (cont...)
Who remembers 80s/90s video gaming magazines? And do you miss them? 🎮🕹️ ... Having a great time going through this stack of vintage ZZap!64 magazines that my dad bought for me, knowing my retro obsession! 😄 ... Which ones did you buy back in the day, C&VG, Nintendo Power or something else? (cont...)
tbf, I didn't think you were that old to have had/used a C64 lol
tell me ... was about to buy a 96GB DDR5 upgrade in October, held off till the new year and wish I hadn't as it's gone from £270 to £900.🤦
Monster Maze is one I have played a while back, jump scares and everything lol
Not yet ... but that one, and the Timex spectrum version are on my list to get. Plus would love to get my hands on some of those Brazilian clones, like the TK80 and TK90X/TK95👍
... on another note, saved two more Sinclair ZX81s ... just needed fresh ULAs to bring them back to life. Thank goodness for modern FPGA replacements, because original chips are getting harder to find now.🛠️
Also on the topic of ZX81s ... what games does everyone recommend I check out next? 🤔
... we're so spoilt nowadays with gigabytes of RAM to play with ... so hats off to those incredible 80s programmers who squeezed amazing games into 48K/or 64K on the Speccy and C64!
Drop your first coding machine in the comments below, bonus points if it had a language other than BASIC😄 (cont...)
What computer did you first learn to code on?👩🏻💻 (or not😂) ... Gaming like it's 1982 tonight!🔥... Still can't believe they squeezed a complete chess game, with computer opponent, into just 672 bytes on the ZX81. No castling or promotion, but still an absolute masterpiece of coding wizardry.🧙♂️ (cont...)
Check out the video ... as now tempted to paint one of my Commodore computers, what colour do you think I should go for?🤔 Great job @yawning-angel.bsky.social, always happy to help.
Best way to describe is, it's a very poor bootleg that came after the original Game Boy it's styled upon. And contains one of those single LCD screen games, like Tiger used to make.
ha ... I need to find a manual, as for the life of me I can't work out what I'm doing with this, it's that bad lol
i will only present looking down at my couch from now on lol
gaming holy grail found ... show me a better video game console than this 😂 #retrogaming #gamekid
I'm not, and according to Google;
Asking "who remembers" to learn about the past—even if you were not alive—is generally not confusing; it is a common, effective way to initiate storytelling and gather oral history. People who were alive then often enjoy reminiscing about their experiences.
I love that game!
not heard of that one before ... thanks for sharing👍
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recently got a copy of that very game, in a big bundle of CD-Roms that I got off eBay ... plan to try it out soon👍
Had to Google that one, looks interesting👍https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Streets_(video_game)
Been meaning to play that one for a while👍
I do play a lot of these old games through DOSBox. Linux wise, only really played around with emulation on the Raspberry Pi. Recently ran up the REDREAM Dreamcast emulator on a Pi 5 and was quite impressed.
Recently picked up a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold at a car boot, that I believe just needs some of the capacitors changed as some are bulging. Fingers crossed I can get working again.
Just been checking out Voodoo 2 cards on eBay, and can't believe the prices they go for😮
loving the attention to detail by continuing the colour theme on all devices ... although, with my spray painting skills, if I tried this it would look no where near that clean lol
Current Specs:
- Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU ⚡
- 256MB RAM (a bit overkill for the era – typical I believe was 32-64MB, what did you have?)
- S3 ViRGE/DX Graphics Card 📺
- Generic SoundBlaster-compatible sound card 🔊
- 16GB CF HDD (modern twist 💻)
- CD-ROM drive 📀
... This setup runs the Monkey Island CD-ROM version perfectly, but I'm looking at period-correct upgrades to make it even faster and capable of more mid/to late-90s titles. The graphics card is at the top of my list ... the ViRGE is decent for 2D but struggles with 3D games. What do you recommend?
Who remembers the glory days of 90s PC gaming?🕹️💾 ... If so, what was YOUR all-time favourite game? Doom? Quake? SimCity 2000? Or maybe another LucasArts classic? ... Currently lost in the pirate world of "The Secret of Monkey Island"🏴☠️ on my (pretty authentic, I think!) Windows 95 build. (cont...)
