Loving the new retro set!
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Already was a big fan of the first set, this one is awesome as well! Thanks Merlin!
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I love the retro set too. I am working on a story where the main character comes from 1994 to 2019.
The C64 is what I really wanted, but the others are a welcome addition to my content library. Now i'm just waiting for the dforce parachute pants and Member's Only jacket
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You'll have to revise your starting time line back about 10 years By 1994 I was using a 486 and thinking about upgrading to a pentium
this is great THANKS !!
I see my choice, the Atari 800 ... I loved that computer. It was my gateway.
Atari 800
Tandy 1000
Gateway 2000 a 286 can't remember the model...
then I think several build my own ...
Then an HP or two and a couple Dells.
I believe the small black computer is a Timex Sinclair 1000. I had one of those with a 16k memory expansion module in the 80's. The promo images give a good representation of what the graphics actually looked like.
I love this, I really wish I would of kept my C64
Thanks, the small black computer is based on the Timex Sinclair 1000 (Sinclair ZX81 in the UK), the beige one the Atari 800 and lastly the TRS-80 model 4.
You should probably back that up to 1984.
C64 main popularity was 1983-1986. After that, popularity shifted towards the IBM compatible PC for computer users, and the 8-bit Nintendo for gamers.
This is really great set! The ZX81 lookalike (Timex in the USA I think) has authentic looking ZX81 text and game screens. I love the Atari 800, in real life I had a 400 because I couldn't afford an 800. Maybe this will inspire me to start up a modelling program and try and make an 810 disc drive for it.
Does the Atari 800 come with BallBlazer?
Atari 800
Don't forget the Atari ST/Commodore Amiga between those.
The Commodore Amiga and the Commodore 128 would be AWESOME too! Thanks so much for these. So much nostalgia, so llittle time.
Those would be 16 bit retro.
They overlapped the early IBM PCs. I had an Amiga at home while I was using a PC at work. I thought the Amiga was a much better computer than the PC of it's day but businesses went along with the PC due to IBM's reputation. There was a saying in those days "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
Yes, I just meant that - at least in the UK - they came between the 8-bit home machines and the switch to standard PCs.
You're right about the UK home computer market. As I remember it, when the Amiga and the ST were at their peak no-one would think of having and IBM compatible PC as a home computer. PCs were boring things for office use then. Also, people who owned the Amiga, the ST and the 8 bit machines were either computer hobbyists or wanted to play games on them. It was sometime after the PC spread to the home market that home compter became useful devices.
Cool to see the LodeRunner screen.
I loved our Amigas. It was actually my introduction to computer art. An artist friend introduced me as it was her medium. My husband liked using the 3d modeling programs but I never got into that (still haven't). When another friend got me ibti DS and Carrara, I had forgotten that I'd done 2d art on the Amiga.
Lightwave 3.5 on the Amiga 4000.. happy days!
Yes it's good.
But I still feel bad because I've lost that PC freebie with the store and all the new electronic devices :'(
If you want to stick with 1994 you might find something appropriate in InLite Studio's free Gamer Console Pack. No TV screens though.
Hurumph, you young'uns with yer new-fangled commercial software packages. How about Rot3D for the Amiga 1000:
Commercial apps weren't available yet, so I wrote an **exceedingly** simple 3D modeling and animation program called Rot3D. Released it as shareware and it was picked up by Aegis to include with their initial release of Videoscape. Also wrote my own 2D paint program for the A1000 way back before Deluxe Paint et al were available. Typical hobbyist mindset of the era. No app? No problem, just write your own!
Some nasty graphical artifacts in that shot above, it was taken recently on my resurrected A2000 system which seems to have suffered a bit from years of storage.
I didn't have anything that fancy.
It was an upgrade from my A1200.. I think my Mum got a good price on it second/third hand, and LW back then wasn't exactly legit. But yea.. great introduction which got me into this business.
Everyone forgets the Commodore Plus 4
I dabbled with 3D modelling programs on the Amiga. With an un-accelerated Amiga 500 it took hours to render a mirror ball over a chequer board, and people complain about Iray render times
I think I might still have a CD-ROM of the Amiga version of Cinema 4D somewhere. If I can find it, it would bne interesting to see if it would run on Amiga Forever.
Because it and the Business 64 and the C-128 were al basically spinoffs of the C-64. All good machines but they're all rather overshadowed by the Commodore 64 which, even 37 years later, is still the single best selling computer of all time by a hefty margin.
I played Elite on the Spectrum and it was awesome because it had 3D wiremodels in space!
I had an Amiga 1200 and added a 68030 processor running at a blistering 28MHz. But, it was my introduction to creating computer graphics - 2D animations in Deluxe Paint (I still miss the simplicity of that program), and 3D images and animations in Imagine.
I still have the machien and it still works, but I don't have a small enough TV to display it on - everything is too pixellated on a modern flat screen.
That was my setup, although as now I generally stuck with stills. A1200 and Deluxe Paint. My art major friend's husband suggested she show me Deluxe Paint and I was hooked. After her husband passed away and she moved back to her hometown, I lost interest. I think out of grief, as I had been very close to both of them. Then a dozen years later another friend introduced me to 3D art, and here I am.
i still remember Art Major painstakingly detailing parts of her projects pixel by pixel--thankfully they used a large screen TV for a monitor. I had a tee with an amazing dragon she'd done in Deluxe Paint.