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Music on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?

Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion

(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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3 amiga 500
2 external drives for same
1 512kb memory upgrade
and
a 20mb SCSI Hard drive

I started with just the one, but then picked up faulty one for the equivalent of a tenner.. Turned out it was just the PSU that had gone. Then bought one with a faulty internal floppydrive. Last I checked all 3 were working fine.

I still love Blood Money, R-type and Shadow of the beast.. oh and Super Cars..god.. Super Cars is fantastic.

My record collection is STILL expanding. I recently picked up Soundgardens new record, a long with a NIN album and Nirvana..
I dont really buy stuff on CD anymore if I can help it.. I'd rather buy the vinyl and then stick that onto my phone in 320kbps mp3 (I've recently installed a FLAC player, but have yet to test it).
I play my records on two 1210mk2 turntables through a mixer I bought when I was 16.The Mixer has been through the wars of mobile djing years or playing as a regulkar at a club where the mixer had broken but the owner was too cheap to get it sorted.

I still record some of my mixes onto minidisc.
I still have my NAD tapedeck - and it works - last tape I bought was Down on the upside by soundgarden.
I have two original xboxes that I cant bring myself to selling, Shedload of original games and doowads for them too.

Oh AND I have a brand spanking new 6 head VCR sitting in it's box, silly.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:02, 9 replies)
Ha!
I replied to another Amiga post about how I still have my Amiga set up for R-Type and Supercars 2.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:10, closed)

Love those games. The world is a better place because of them.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:21, closed)
Guru Meditations
Those were the days...
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:29, closed)

Friend of mine once told me that if I left the guru meditation flashign for a very long time the game would fix itself..

so I left it on over a weekend..

the bastard..

a weekend I could've spent listening to MOD files, shooting aliens or something..
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:54, closed)
Ha! Oh dear...
and what was the point of pushing the mouse button? It just repeated the problem.

AND disk doctor on workbench never fixed a corrupt disk for me. Not once.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 10:57, closed)
There is an emulator for PC
But to work it you need a copy of the workbench .adf file. You can get most of the old games from abandonware sites too. Not sure how legal it is as most of the companies (Ocean Software, Mirrorsoft etc) are no more.

I also one found a PC version of Dungeon Master which is an open source thingy that was 100% faithful to the original. RPGs just aint like they used to be.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:50, closed)
Amiga Forever
www.amigaforever.com/

A totally legal way of getting hold of Amiga ROMs, loads of games, demos and other stuff. The cheapest version is only $US 9.95, but I recommend the plus edition at $29.95. Sure you can probably illegally find all the ROMs and stuff and fart around with it to get it working, but you get a good, working copy of Universal Amiga Emulator with AmigaForever, and a pre-installed Workbench environment all ready for you to use.

It is a bit fiddly, but if you know your Amiga stuff, you'll be able to work it out.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 14:58, closed)
Mod Rippers
Blood Money music was pretty cool for the speech samples but the RType theme was fucking ace. Dave Whitickers (sp) music (Shadow of the Beast) was always instantly recognisable too.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 21:28, closed)

First there was menace...
Now Pysgnosis presents...
A DNA designed game...
Bloody Money!!

Awesome start I still remember now, though as kids it made us sad as this meant our parents were now going to take control of the computer for hours to play it.
(, Sun 7 Nov 2010, 14:15, closed)

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