Re: Retro Spectrum - my thoughts

On Wed, 16 Apr 2025 09:24:10 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

On 15/04/2025 15:15, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

And the disadvantages of 'real' hardware are usually enough to>

counter-balance any claims to purity anyway (assuming you can even get

it to work anymore!). I mean, the Speccy's chicklet keyboard alone
would be enough to make me go screaming into the night. ?

>
That's the way I look at it, I could get over that it only has an RF
output (lots of people have modded them to be a bit more monitor
friendly) but the whole loading from tape part - no thank you and if you
go down the route of a gizmo that dumps games into memory then when not
just buy a emulator in a box?
>
The one I do understand is the purists whose interest is not really in
the games but instead it's getting the original hardware back in working
order. I can see the appeal of doing that.

Yeah, that's the main reason for all my retro-PCs I keep hanging
around. I LIKE tinkering with the hardware.

(Well, that and some Win9x-era games are really finicky about running
on modern hardware/OS, and even emulation isn't quite the panacea it
should be. Yet.)

But my XP/DOS boxen mostly exist just because I get joy from the
struggle of getting that old machinery to work again. It's mostly
nostalgia ("Oh man, I was so excited when I first got this Athlon x64
Thunderbird; it was so much faster than my old computer!") and enjoy
vicariously re-living those events.

But I'll be honest; my emulators get a hell of a lot more actual USE
than those machines.