Subj : Re: Retro Games
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Oct 18 2022 08:53:08

  Re: Re: Retro Games
  By: boraxman to Nightfox on Tue Oct 18 2022 01:53 pm

 bo> The problem with the retro-fad is this hardware won't last. It's old, and
 bo> sadly, will die with replacement chips hard to get. You're only one
 bo> hardware fault away from your machine not working. Disks and tapes WILL
 bo> degrade. I've had old 5 1/4 inch floppies shed magentic material onto the
 bo> drive heads of my 1.2M drives, which needed a pull apart and clean. Power
 bo> supplies die. 

 bo> If you can't do complex repairs, then its not a good investment.

 bo> For running software, emulation all the way. I only really want the old
 bo> hardware for two reasons. 

Yeah, the aging hardware is a problem.  At least we do have emulation so that we can still run the software.  And sometimes there are modern solutions that look a bit like a classic machine, such as this RetroFlag GPi2 gaming case (for a Raspberry Pi CM4) that looks a bit like an original Nintendo Game Boy:
https://retroflag.com/gpi_case_2.html

Nightfox
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