Subj : Re: Retro Games
To   : Darklord
From : Commodore Clifford
Date : Wed Oct 26 2022 12:08:38

I know what you mean about filling the niches...  I do have a bunch of
800xls (most of which were from buying lots on eBay because of one or two
rare items I wanted, but had to buy the whole lot).

The 1200xl's were all deliberate (though I admit, at 5 I've "overniched"
that one).  Most of the multiple 800xl's and 1200xl's were gonig to be
for a multi-game/multi-bbs project that I decided to abandon because it's
hard enough to keep one node busy these days.

Also wanted one 800 (maybe 2, one stock, one incognito).  So I  have the
"stock" one.

But never wanted a 600xl, or 400, or 65xe.  I did get a 130Xe, but that
was mostly because it was a sweet deal, in box, perfectly clean with no
yellowing and matches the ST's it's sitting next to.

Same with the ST line... Falcons, TT, Megas, Mega STE's... I still have
the 520s (without the F) for nostalgia since that was my first... but no
desire to have any STFMs.

Other than that, got a C128 for "trade", Apple ][e that belonged to a
former roommate and I did buy a //c (before getting the ][e) because my
first computer experiences at school were Apple (and that's what my
friends had, but my dad bought an Atari for the games, and ... that's
where it went from there).

I use emulation to test things sometimes, or to do maintenance (like
using warp speed on Altirra to make copies of large ATR's) but most of
that is for eventually using on real hardware.

That said, I'm close to getting an ST BBS running in emulation and
perhaps in the cloud on Azure.. Just not sure if I want to tell anyone.
;)

oops.

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