/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5399259
The music scene in 2005 was completely different from what it is now.

>>5312921
What's a SID music?

>>4873212
>Awesome, did the owner decide to finally stop deadnaming trans game developers?

>>4865773
>Pirates is also great as it's about the only Microscope game of any interest today.

>>4759128
>In the modern Englishosphere, there's relatively more talk of PC-98 than there is of pre-NES consoles & comps

>>4629458
>Too much research required for discussion

>>3451121
>I was pretty old already when I got my own Amiga, so no real nostalgic connection to it

>>2662109

>>2576346
>The only thing I really remember about classic PC gaming is I hated it because there was no mouse support

>>2570539

>>2501302
>Not everyone in the retro community is 20-something and not everyone who is young only cares about NES, PC Engine, and Genesis at earliest

>>2493439
>it's still impressive in the context considering it's a very primitive computer even for an 8-bit system
I don't think you know what primitive is. The Apple II for example was a much more primitive computer than the A8-bit.

>no interrupts
>bleeper sound
>relies totally on NTSC trickery to generate color
>disk controller is completely software-driven

>>2483391
>Can't you even run DOSbox on a system with RGBi out?

>>2474830
>no, 16bit computing never caught on in the US the way it did in Europe

>the early IBM compatibles and Macs weren't 16-bit

>>2469696
>EGA graphics have their place, but indy was not made for them. Instead the EGA graphics are derived from the MCGA originals

>>2468532

>>2459404
>but I'd still rather have a glimpse at childhood than none at all