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I wanted a Sam Coupe , I had dreams about that lol , screen shots were so deceiving , back when captain planet looked cool lmao
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I found in the earlly days , many games needed a quick left , then a quick right , then repeat
. Combat school was one , hyper sports , i found Daley thompson broke at least one stick . So im going to say hands down , i found the konix ? speedking joystick to be the best . It had sturdy microswitches that clicked like my knees do now , It waggled like a joy , tended to blister the palm but combat school was worth it . Did anyone else enjoy the wagglers i enclose 2 pics , one of the original speedking , and a later model called the navigator , which was awsome like a buck rogers ray gun but it lacked the hand shape , and the stick was too short for high speed waggling . 
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The games for waggling sticks
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lol , i owned super trolley , was a good game
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Just been playing leander on the amiga emu ( what else ? ) was a bugger to get going , well worth the 3 hours of ticking boxes and un ticking , cheated and ran it on a amiga cd , compilation disc image . Never had the joy of owning the cd32 but it looks pretty sweet . I recall , as a kid going with my mate to a massive amiga fest , think it was the launch of the cd , it was written on every bag , i bought lotus turbo 2 , sweet game , full screen , in 1 player . the magnetic fields logo and orchestral intro still give me the chills
. Its wonderfull how a piece of music can peter pan you back to the pinneapple hubba bubba , and half penny chews . Must say , as much as my body has aged ( friggin badly lol) , mentally i still feel like a kid , and i have hours and hours for old crap , which crazily isnt actyally crap , the new stuff tricks us to think that .I used to daydream in class about getting home and getting bang on the amiga , what was there? 4 tv channels back then , fresh prince , star trek , then rick dangerous 2 , so glad other people enjoyed this great machine , sorry to go on , didnt have a girl friend at the time , and my mum let me watch the thing !!! , barelly slept after that , was well sure the cat was the thing , what a rush
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Sweet , that looks great dude ,
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2000 quid ! , bleedin hell . Betting you were the envy of many peeps at the time . Love the 8 meg ram , i was playing leisure suit larry in 97 , good game . my first pc was , pent 3, .450 ghz , 8 meg graphics card , needed a volvo to move it
solid build , brass i think
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On 04/11/2018 at 02:32, Timbo said:
Amiga A500 was the best computer at the time. It's the only computer I ever regret getting rid off with games like defender of the crown, gods, wings. another world, speed ball 2, syndicate were better than any pc game at the time.
Gods was awsome , good call , bitmap brothers made pure 16 bit gold
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20 minutes ago, AK45 said:
i started with an amiga A500 and not the awful plus version then moved onto the A1200 ,i too enjoyed rainbow islands and pinball dreams but there is so many great classics like "Lotus Turbo Challenge""alien breed tower assault""Lemmings""canon fodder""Turrican 2" i used to play quite a lot especially turrican 2 as the music was superb !
lotus , and turrican 2 had awsome tunes , the amiga had awsome sound , xenon 2 pushed music in games to another level , auto fire off to hear the music , the other 16 bitters were good good too , but the amiga sound , set it above the rest .
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Any one else use the Azimuth screw to get stubborn tapes to work ,
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The speccy had good detail in the graphics , but the colours mixing ( clash lol ) was a pain , the commodore didnt have the detail , but the colours were better . I remember it was important to have instructions because some games were random , my favourite randoms , were , gift of the gods , NOMAD , frostbyte , mailstrom , and my fave random was , ti na nog , a weird game ,
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Nice thinking reg , i think like cars , people have their first computer , its a special thing . I remember the first computer game i played , round me mates , it was Nifty lifty , on a speccy +2 . When my biggest choice in life was what flavour of hubba bubba too get
, good times , ive still got a callous on my hand from trying to beat combat school , with a speedking joystick .
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Hi Hi , Ive read quite a bit about Amber , so much controversy . Honestly ive spent hours reading the old skool banter , ive now changed my favorite fme hero because one fella made me lol , I imagined he was punching a kitten while typing some of those messages
. Back to the point , got a good folder on amber now , curious if I missed any final versions , I got Amber 2 Release Alpha 1.02 , and a few 2 part layouts , is that right ,
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I did lol , no wonder I had no luck , I remembered a bloke in devon who had a few machines 10 years ago, he seemed odd but I took the invite to drink voddy and smoke .Having eaten a dubious tasting cheese toastie and half a bottle of vod , I went to his kitchen to make coffee , two steps in his kitchen my sock came off having stuck to floor ! I drunkenly tried to make coffee anyway , when I got the milk (opened the fridge with my foot), I saw the cheese , I could see three green sides and one grated off , it was all that was in the fridge , that bloke . so I located his sister , tracked him down and asked him
, im not surprised now he didn't have it , hes my friend again now , lmao , good gag dude , good gag . you make awesome machines too pook , tip of the hat to you sir
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sweet thanks dudes , Nintendos drop kick is a pain , I like the sharing part of the net , reminds me of football stickers at school . Thank you andy , paint by numbers is the strategy , got to add thanks again you guys make awesome machines , tommy c is my old ladys hero ,
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hi andy , something simple to start , I don't know much about the actual machines , or parts , just enjoy cool pc things:) , playing a spectrum +3 emu last night , army moves is well hard . Im really enjoying learning something new . lol , drifted a bit there . The guide shows a , bin , a hi and a lo , I want that
, but not dond or some crazy arsed one . Just thinking about reels worrys me , simple is the key , thanks
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hi hi , tried to find a rom set that looked similar to the guide , a bin , a hi and a lo , Downloaded Roms 26112017 , was a rar from dads , that's dad
, but I cant find hi's or lo's , will look a bit more ,tend to be a spaz at times . I was set on making a dx , but looked at some classics , and that clearly is the way forward , cat and mouse looked great dude . Funny thing , when I was working last night , her indoors found the rom folder from dads and spent hours trying to run them , and deleted them in frustration ,
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Following your guide , what about Bell fruit bar 7s , paint by numbers first . thank you ,
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I did read the guide on making the games ( Reg , kudos on your time and effort ) , and I would love to try a dx , because there awesome . Stupid question 2 , where do I find a rom set ? I don't want to tread on anyones toes . Live next to south end so I could go on the machine hunt ( paparazzi the arcade ) , and then search for the machine roms ?
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Hi Hi , Been searching months now for a missing Dond , Im not starting this to ask for it , I enjoy the search
, love the banter , ( scampers crucifixion priceless ) . I have a stupid question , real dumb , here goes . Is there a finite ammout of machines ? , e.g are all the donds actual machines ? , can these be made from scratch ? . I ask because Beardy Knob is the dond Im looking for , I cant imagine noel agreeing , sorry to sound dumb , but some machines are awesomely nuts , and I cant imagine them out and about , thanks
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forgot to say , I found the aristocrat machine , on you tube , with a download in one file of 119 roms , it works fine , got to run in xp com'pat .
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Hi fruit dudes , I'm a keen collector of these great models ( sounds more adult if I call them models ) , and on my internet trawl I found , aristocrat , its like an Australian gambling toy ( sorry I mean model ) , I also found pub quiz machines , eg who wants to be a millionaire , called the platform emulator I think . and my question is , are there any others ? African fruitys ? , Russian fruitys ? , what have other countrys been doing while we have been holding pints and tapping for a repeat ? , what about the Chinese too , thanks
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Zip stick was a classic , Hyper sports was awsomes , think they had it on a saturday morning kids show ? , and bubble bobble !!!!!! what a game my +3 loaded it in seconds , was like instant gratification , the whoop whoop of getting an umbrella , pretty sure i faked a bad ankle to play that all day , it shows the great quality of game when you find out i had 76% attendence for a year
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