keenmaster486 wrote:Current PC's are the antithesis of the very reason I enjoy retro systems. I anticipate only nostalgia factor associated with them in the future... kind of like Windows XP machines today.
Agreed. Though it makes me shudder to imagine it, there will be a generation coming of age in 10-15 years who grew up with these terrible systems and recall the flaky Windows 10 experience as a highlight of their childhood/adolescence in the same manner as AOL and COD.
Anyway, here are some easy Facebook rips going back through the past 6 years. There are more photos buried around which I'll upload another time.
286 Amstrad PPC640 running the CGA version of Keen 4 (quite well apart from the lack of a backlight). This was at a demoparty in Sydney. We ended up running a super annoying QBasic demo on it at the party.
Not an old computer but I set up a USB Linux with DOSBox and a bunch of Keen mods on one of the venue's computers at the same party.
One of my Keen mods running on an x86 Commodore at a retro gathering in Adelaide (can't recall whether it was 286 or 386 at the moment).
Keen Dreams native port on an Amiga 1200 with Vampire accelerator at the Adelaide retro night.
A 486sx I found floating around my collection. This was a highly regrettable accidentally-on-purpose disposal during a shed cleanup in 2016. The hard drive controller wasn't working but I could boot from a floppy disk. I may still have the CPU though. Pretty sure I had tried swapping it with a 586 and didn't swap them back.
NetKeen running on classic hardware (Pentium I 166MHz or thereabouts). This was raw DOS using straight IPX packet drivers rather than using Windows' inbuilt networking.
Finally, this was my setup at one point during the mid 90s. 386 40MHz 4MB RAM 540MB HDD on the right, Apple IIgs on the left. The Apple was from my primary school when they upgraded to new PCs. Some crazy relatives sold it off along with a really nice collection of disks when my brother took it around for a sleepover and we didn't get around to picking it up for a week or two. I bought another one a few years ago.
Still got the 386 motherboard and the front panel from the case. The board needs repairs after a battery leak but should work fine when that's fixed.
