other than Amstrad CPCs what are you guys into?

[salvogendut]

Hopefully I won't be overstaying my welcome here if I introduce another topic. What other computers are you guys collecting or playing with , other than Amstrad CPCs? I'll go first, I have a pretty sizable collection of older unix hardware (mostly Sun/SGI) , a few amigas and my faithful old C128

[ZorrO]

How many computers have to be?
Or how old do they have to be, to call it a collection?

[norecess464]

Computers: not really a "collection". I have many Amstrads and an (upgraded) Amiga 600, which I keep mainly for comparison with the Amstrad CPC models. I love the Amiga -- it has some of the same games as the CPC, but with a different feel, and not always for the better. But I hate the much longer loading times on the Amiga.

Consoles: NES, SNES, MegaDrive+32X+SegaCD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PSX, (original) Xbox. I have no preference, they all provide excellent games!

In the past, I actually got much more (NeoGeo CD, CD32, TurboDuo, Atari ST, C64, an A500...); but I decided to refocus on what I really loved and sold the rest.

[salvogendut]

How many computers have to be?
Or how old do they have to be, to call it a collection?

It's not so much about the quantity but more about the quality. What other systems get your attention?

[salvogendut]

Computers: not really a "collection". I have many Amstrads and an (upgraded) Amiga 600, which I keep mainly for comparison with the Amstrad CPC models. I love the Amiga -- it has some of the same games as the CPC, but with a different feel, and not always for the better. But I hate the much longer loading times on the Amiga.

Consoles: NES, SNES, MegaDrive+32X+SegaCD, Saturn, Dreamcast, PSX, (original) Xbox. I have no preference, they all provide excellent games!

In the past, I actually got much more (NeoGeo CD, CD32, TurboDuo, Atari ST, C64, an A500...); but I decided to refocus on what I really loved and sold the rest.

I am not really a gamer but yeah if I could go back in time I'd love to live the years when Dreamcast and PSX came out. I had no idea Amiga had slower loading times

[Shaun M. Neary]

Hopefully I won't be overstaying my welcome here if I introduce another topic. What other computers are you guys collecting or playing with , other than Amstrad CPCs? I'll go first, I have a pretty sizable collection of older unix hardware (mostly Sun/SGI) , a few amigas and my faithful old C128

I'm here 13 years and lurking longer. If I haven't overstayed my welcome then I doubt anyone can... apart from the guy who's looking for graphics for his demo (remember that guy?)

I dabble with my Spectrum +3 with Gotek fitted as Speccy ports on the CPC are too slow for my taste.
I like Sega and Nintendo stuff from the 80s/90s, so NES, SNES, Master System and Megadrive/Genesis get played a lot.

Playstation 1 and 2 are getting played a lot more too. Although I'm still stuck on the end of the original GTA.

Also playing around with an Atari 7800 (which is 2600 backwards compatible) as well.

I've a bunch of systems here that I've collected in recent years but these are currently my jam (as the kids say today).

[eto]

I decided about 3 years ago to focus only on the CPC. It's already enough time and money spent on the CPC and having more than a single system 

- Atari STe - was my second computer after the CPC. However I haven't touched it for over a year. I consider selling it.
- Arcade games - I built a Arcade cabinet to have some 1980s vibes every now and then. Basically Arcade games sparked my interest in computers and without them there would not have been the CPC, ST and then the start of my IT career.
- Wii - I love a few of the classic Wiimote games 

I had plenty of systems over the years but that's what's left. 

[andycadley]

Speccy, C64, Atari 8-bit, Amiga, ST, Gameboy, NES, MegaDrive, SNES...

If it's 8/16-bit and you can even vaguely play about coding with it then I probably do. 

[Mark_wllms]

I have an Amstrad CPC6128 (colour monitor), a Nintendo DS Lite and a smallish collection of Psion PDAs. That's enough for me. I emulate other machines on the DS Lite and play text adventures on the Psions. They are also useful note taking and writing tools.

[norecess464]

I had no idea Amiga had slower loading times

It's not that the Amiga is slower at loading data from a floppy disk -- it just has more data to load.

For example: sampled audio versus chip music, high-resolution graphics versus limited color palettes, and so on.

When launching a game on the Amiga, I always have the feeling to wait and wait and wait.

Of course, this could be avoided by using a faster Amiga etc. but I like keeping the vanilla 68000 CPU inside the computer!

[Bryce]

Anything 4, 8 or 16 bit and also retro / vintage test equipment. This week I'm adding a HDMI output to a Philips Videopac G7000. Maybe the first of its kind?

Bryce.

[Rabs]

I look for 8 bit computers I can build, below is my last build. Very nice project from GitHub, See AVI ELF II

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[ZorrO]

@salvogendut -
6128, A1230 and PSX filled mine 90s. I can read about others but I don't want to waste my time, space and money on them.

The average time to start a game on CPC + FDD is 14 seconds. And on Amiga with FDD it's over 2 minutes, which is closer to C64 with a tape recorder than to CPC with FDD. The truth is that 16/32bit without HDD is like 8bit without FDD, a snail and no comfort.

@norecess464 - 
I wonder what games you consider better on CPC than on Amiga?
I can only think of one: Prince of Persia.

[arnoldemu]

Mostly CPC, Plus and BBC Master.

Other 8-bit computers and consoles I keep an interest through vids on youtube.

[norecess464]

norecess464 - 
I wonder what games you consider better on CPC than on Amiga?

Did I say that?
Oh yes I said that loll 

Amiga versions are usually far superior (and feeling different, too) to those on the Amstrad for the same game, clearly there's really no debate about that.

[Prodatron]

What other computers are you guys collecting or playing with , other than Amstrad CPCs?

Like many others here, I have a typical computer collection from the 70s and 80s, but that's probably boring and not the point here, since you asked what you are "playing" with.

In addition to the Amstrad CPC, I continue to develop software for the following Z80 computers from the 1980s and early 1990s:

- MSX
- Amstrad PCW
- Enterprise 64/128
- Amstrad NC100/200

and some "modern" Z80 clones and compatible computers called ZX Spectrum Next and Isetta TTL.

This is, of course, due to my Z80 multitasking operating system, SymbOS, which was originally developed for the Amstrad CPC but later ported to these other computers and has now established its own platform-independent Z80 ecosystem for applications and games.

I'm not a big retro gamer and don't use any non-Z80 systems, with the exception of the Atari 8-bit computers, which are my favorite 6502 machines. I love that scene, and I meet people every year.

[dthrone]

I've not moved on since the 90s in terms of buying stuff so no modern consoles or PC gaming etc. other than handhelds.  Got to admit my favourite / most played systems are SNES and N64.  I do use a 2DS XL but mostly for SNES emulation!

Development though I stick to Plus/GX because the timescales are realistic for a one-man 'full production', it is seriously underutilised, and has the magic and wonder of being my first computer.

[scorp6128+]

My family had an ancient Pong video game from the 70s.
Then in 1987 I got the Schneider CPC 6128, by far my biggest influence.
In the 90s, I bought a pc-engine, followed by a super-nintendo.
All of this shaped me for years.

In the early 2000s until 2023, retro systems were completely gone for me as I pursued my career and started a family.

At the end of 2023, I had more time again and discovered a console that can emulate numerous systems, including the CPC and the GX4000.
So I gradually got back into the CPC world and today I love being active with my reacquired CPC Computers.

I also look at other systems via emulator, starting with the Atari 2600, Atari 800, ZX Spectrum, C64, Atari ST, Amiga, practically all Nintendo and Sega Home Systems, PlayStation I, NeoGeo and the classic arcade machines.
I may have forgotten 1-2 systems as well.

Today, I find it exciting to discover and compare different ports of classic games on different systems.
That's fun for me and wasn't so easy in the past.

[Anthony Flack]

I'm a game designer by trade and I've built up quite a collection of mostly 80s and 90s stuff although a lot of it is packed away. I'll go through phases. I've been too busy with making games recently to be playing much of anything. It's too much really, but I'll go through phases... everything can be emulated now of course but I've accumulated things over the course of several decades. 

When I used to live in Japan I collected everything that was going cheap at the flea markets at that time, got loads of NES/SNES/N64/PC Engine/Mega Drive/Saturn/Dreamcast stuff, as well as Gameboy, DS, Game Gear, Wonderswan. It was a regular weekend thing to go to the flea markets and bring home a few games. When I got back to NZ I got hooked on collecting for the Master System for a while, but that's done now. It doesn't take long to collect for the Master System; the library is not huge. 

Computer-wise, I have an Amiga, a C64, 48k Spectrum, an MSX2 which currently needs fixing (must get back to that sometime), and several CPCs. I don't collect original software for any of them, got to draw the line somewhere. Although I did pick up a full set of Amsoft tapes recently only because they came up at auction and nobody else wanted them (Sad! And to think how thrilled I would have been as a kid)

I also have 3 arcade cabinets out in the garage, all from the late 70s which I restored from shells. They've got Raspberry Pis in them running MAME right now -  although I do have a few arcade boards I stopped myself before I got too far into that. 

Oh, I got a Vectrex not long ago because I always wanted to see what that was like. And more recently I decided to go all the way back to my roots and started collecting LCD and VFD tabletop games. I have a lot of Game & Watches, there is something that fascinates me about their design, and electronics of that era generally. 

I haven't kept up with the modern stuff so much, even though it's kind of my job. I went from Xbox 360 to PS3 to Wii U to Switch and that's as far as that goes. My house isn't full of this stuff, I have one room out the back which is set up for games and music and most of them are packed away most of the time. My 6128 has been permanently set up since I got it though.

I feel like I need to have this stuff around to remind me of why I wanted to be a game designer in the first place. 

[dodogildo]

If I had only one choice, I would say MSX.

[McArti0]

I would like to read and look at the documentation Toshiba Pasopia 7. I'm curious about this 48kB vram.

[ZorrO]

Sometimes I like to watch videos on YT about platforms that I missed out on and which seem cool, such as MSX2, Atari ST, Falcon, Sega Master System and Mega Drive.

[salvogendut]

I look for 8 bit computers I can build, below is my last build. Very nice project from GitHub, See AVI ELF II

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A computer named ELF ? Man I love it already! Kudos! This thing is so beautiful!!!

[asertus]

I have several old computers, basically 8bit ones, 2 CPCs, 1 GX32, 1 C64, couple MSX, 1 N-GO... lately I am playing with the agon2 board.. it reminds me to the MSX, having a VDP instead of memory mapped screen... and learning some NES because of the hype of Malasombra. And waiting for a PCW..

I do not want to jump to 16 bits because it would open another world of stuf...