/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8423838
It's a fucking workstation it's probably soulless like most other ones of the era.
Unless it's an Amiga situation and then I'll reconsider.

>>8423838
>jet-black PC complete w/ monitor

pretty goth

>>8423865
that was the high end look of the era

$7,340.18 adjusted for inflation in 2021. It better be worth it at that price.

>underrated
>everyone likes it

anon you don't know what that word means

It could produce some good Street Fighter II music.

>>8423854
>probably soulless like most other ones of the era.
That's where you're wrong kiddo

>>8423904
nice collection of mini fridges
I want one of those tiny cokes if you've got any.

>>8423904
Most workstations looked like this.
(This particular one is from 1985 but whatever)
You only picked out 2, maybe 3 companies that made extraordinarily unique designs.

>>8423916
No, there's actually just one company, just noticed the SG logo on the Octane in the back. Resolution was too small for me to notice. I'm definitely a retarf.

>>8423838
What kind of work was done on that station?

>>8423904
I had the opportunity to grab one at work many, many years ago. Still regret it.

>>8424002
damn bro :(
which one was it?

>>8423838
i fucking love the look of that computer so much. easily my favorite looking retro pc. would love to shove some modern pc guts into it and use it as a daily driver

>>8423981
The X68000 was usually used as a dev station for arcade games. So quite a few of the games for the computer are arcade perfect ports.

I won a junk XVI for $250 a few years ago on yahoo auctions. Fixed the common PSU issue, replaced the oscillator, battery coin mod, did full recap. Glad it was worth the investment.

>>8423838
Absolutely top tier aesthetics I agree

Turbo buttons and blinkenlights make me horny.
God I love this era of computing.

>>8424850
Settle down goober.

>>8424973
It was hyperbole. Are people not allowed to express their enthusiasm over things they enjoy anymore?

>>8423838
The FPGA implementation is working pretty good these days and is fun to mess around with.

>>8424850
why not keep the turbo button pressed 24/7? why would you purposefully slow down your pc also why does a pc need a turbo button?
>when it goes from playing nes to snes and needs that extra 4mb of ram

>>8424973
i hate LGRs facial hair

>>8424973
He looks like someone who enjoys seeing other men ram his wife.

>>8425324
286 games run too fast for 100mhz anon . ..

>>8425324
>why not keep the turbo button pressed 24/7?
>why would you purposefully slow down your pc

holy shit this retard thinks pressing down the turbo makes the cpu faster

>>8423838
>ejects diskettes with the force of WW2 artillery aimed at users face
>nothing personal, kid
Great computer though.
>>8423981
Lots of dev, plus it is a good office computer and an excellent game playing machine.
>>8425442
Pretty common belief amongst folks who haven't used software from the 808x era, even way back.

>>8425329
>>8425341
lgr is a truly passionate dude with good content
there's no way you fags are less soi than he is

>>8423854
it's not a workstation you retard, it's a gamedev station and gaming machine.

>>8423876
It's not. Amiga has more software and better games despite the inferior hardware and 20% of the retail price, and if you want a high end work station it's better to buy an IBM compatible.

>>8423854
It has some of the best arcade conversions of its era to the point where it was nicknamed "the god computer." And like the Amiga it was used in video for things like generating credit rolls and shit.

>>8423838
SOVL

>>8425341
He's North Carolinian isn't he? He probably goes bear huntin and shit

>>8426112
That picture gives me t urge to play that Love a Riddle song. Does it even exist?

>>8423876
>adjusted for inflation

that's not how it works

>>8426112
Holy fuck that’s gorgeous

>>8425096
They are but they'll be laughed at if they do it like a cringelord like you did

>>8425507
You don't have to compare everything to the Amiga.

>>8425096
Just filter by filename so you never see an iphone poster again
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>>8426209
Whatever.

>>8426171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww7vAt8b4j4

Computers are for stupid nerds who never have friends and have to make friends online. No girls no life no job except sucking momma's tits. Alpha chads love the Xbox.

What a great computer.
I remember a friend back in 1994 telling me about this amazing computer they saw that ran Strider and Street Fighter II even better than the snes and genesis. I thought he was full of shit but his mom came in and started talking about it too like they were going to buy one.
I wonder if it might have been one of these they encountered somehow.

>>8423916
if you think that beige workstations can't have SOVL, you're wrong.

>>8426809
Are you posting from your xbox?

>>8426765
Haha sweet

>>8426809
You got something against sucking on tits, faggot?

>>8423838
>pc master race of it era
Wasted indeed

>>8426994
Ironically you could easily do all your 4channing on a modern Xbox.

>>8423876
Now compare that price to a current years Mac Pro.

>>8423904
Is there even a proper name for the form factor of the Origin 2000 and Onyx?

>>8426968
That's not beige; it's eggshell at best.

>>8425507
>Amiga
I hope you enjoy 12fps games that barely fill up half the screen. I hear having to pick between sound effects or music is pretty fun too.

>>8426854
>this amazing computer they saw that ran Strider and Street Fighter II even better than the snes and genesis
Also 10 times more expensive than any of them.

>>8427763
Who the fuck would buy a $3000 (1987 currency) computer only to play arcade conversions when you could play the real thing for a few quarters at the arcades?
>12 fps
Even the full 3D game, No Second Prize, runs at 15-20 fps with dips down to 10 but never seem to reach single digit. Framerate is only a problem with godawful arcade conversions. The Amiga has plenty of computer games to choose from, with a much bigger RPG and strategy library than X68000.
>pick between sound effects or music is pretty fun too
That's more of a C64 thing. Amiga has one extra channel, though some programmers are lazy.

Even if you wouldn't buy the Amiga, you could buy the snes or genesis instead. $3000 would get you a sega genesis with $2800 worth of games, which would be around 80-90.

I am a stupid man but let me tell you of my desires. I emulate all game consoles, but want to buy a PC 88, PC 98 , and a FM Towns, and Sharp 68000. I don't want to emulate them, I want them.

Is this a stupid thing? Should I get the japanese computers or emulate them too just as I do for consoles that I at once had or never had?

>>8427829
>Is this a stupid thing?
Yes.

>>8427829
not trying to gatekeep but if you dont have prior experience old computer protocols and DOS, youre better off emulating. owning those computers is not plug and play. you gotta worry about obscure expansions and cables that only sell once in a blue moon on auctions.

>>8423904
I got to run around one of the Disney offices as a little kid. They had an entire room full of those that felt like a play room because of how colorful and round they were. I was too young to really get it but it kind of just felt like the ball pit room with all that round purple stuff everywhere.
Ran around the room for hours while my moms friend worked.

>>8427814
I'd rather pay $3000 for a Japanese computer filled with Japanese games than $700 for an Amiga filled with Eurotrash.

>>8427913
>I'd rather be a retarded moron than not
Okay.

>>8428126
Anything worth playing on the Amiga can be played on a PC, Genesis, or SNES, and usually better.

If you have an excuse to use the almighty X68000 for development and hobby work, it was a godly computer for the price.
If you just used it to pray gamu, you're a fucking tard. It is so much more than a way to play games. True PRO SPEC GEAR.

>>8428154
Lol not even close, not even the PC in many cases.

>>8428172
By the late 80s VGA was around and you could get a decent sound card, which pretty much negated any benefit the Amiga had.

>>8428225
Not until the 90s the PC could handle samples like amiga could, and more importantly amiga did everything for a fraction of PC's price. It took many more years until the 386 became cheap enough to give a decent gaming experience. PC manufacturers didn't give a damn about gaming until well into the late 90s, much less affordable gaming.

>>8423904

>>8427829
If you have the interest+money necessary for all those then you might as well spend much less for a MiSTer and poke around with them there before deciding to pump a lot more money into original hardware

>>8430548
Or you could spend nothing and emulate them on your PC to poke around. Instead of spending all that money to emulate on a mister with all the disadvantages it has to poking around. Although then you'd have a mister and could never shut up about it.

>amigatard seething at pekelarpers
>ranting about muh IBM compatibles in 2022
kek eurofags are obssessed

>Underrated
>huge game and doujin scene at the time
>only obscure in the west then because it wasn't released there
>now is highly sought after, a working setup costs a lot, and is generally out of the question unless you live in Japan yourself.

>>8425507
>Amiga
>better games
lol

>>8423838
>>8423870
1000% one of those was a "government computer" in some movie. They just, even today look fucking cool and hardcore. Probably the most based way to play SFII.

>>8432701
would you say it looks... sharp?

>>8432712
..hey yeah! It does look sharp. That could catch on, bro.
[lel'd]

>>8424850
Do you not have the self-awareness required to see how embarrassing and cringey this is?

>>8427758
>Impressive. Very nice.
>Let's see Paul Allen's workstation.

>>8432690
Yes. Ambermoon is better than anything X68000 has. Eye of the Beholder II, Hard Days Knight, Cannon Fodder, and many others too too.

>>8426968
The PS5 case should have been inspired by the NEWS workstation.

>>8433819
Where?

>>8432817
Yes, I admit it, it was cringe.
Give me a break already.