Subj : Re: Retro Games
To   : Nightfox
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Oct 19 2022 11:32:47

 Ni>  bo> The problem with the retro-fad is this hardware won't last. It's old,
 Ni>  bo> sadly, will die with replacement chips hard to get. You're only one
 Ni>  bo> hardware fault away from your machine not working. Disks and tapes WI
 Ni>  bo> degrade. I've had old 5 1/4 inch floppies shed magentic material onto
 Ni>  bo> drive heads of my 1.2M drives, which needed a pull apart and clean. P
 Ni>  bo> supplies die. 
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> If you can't do complex repairs, then its not a good investment.
 Ni> 
 Ni>  bo> For running software, emulation all the way. I only really want the o
 Ni>  bo> hardware for two reasons. 
 Ni> 
 Ni> Yeah, the aging hardware is a problem.  At least we do have emulation so
 Ni> that we can still run the software.  And sometimes there are modern
 Ni> solutions that look a bit like a classic machine, such as this RetroFlag
 Ni> GPi2 gaming case (for a Raspberry Pi CM4) that looks a bit like an
 Ni> original Nintendo Game Boy: https://retroflag.com/gpi_case_2.html
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

The VICE emulator with CRT filters looks so close to the original its crazy.  We'll never quite emulator the feel of loading up the disks, tapes, but they were always a little unreliable.

I nearly got myself TheVic, that remake which was a single board computer in an old Commodore Vic20 looking case.  In the end I just decided to keep using VICE.

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