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Old Games. Jun 27, 2015 23:38:12 GMT

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Retro games become more and more popular, especially as Apps for smart phones and tablets.
Also steam has its share of classic games made compatible for modern systems.

There are the old LucasFilm Adventures like Maniac Mansion, Zak McKraken, Monkey Island, Loom and many more. There is a multi plattform interpreter available for free:
www.scummvm.org
You can even legally download 2 Adventures for free on this page.

Then there are the video console emulators. You can turn a Raspberry Pi into a Retrostation. The original RasPi even has an analouge TV-out and is capable to emulate the classic 4 to 16 bit consoles. There are plenty of good SNES games available, e.g. "Lost Vikings".
The Raspberry Pi 2 (the QUad core) can also emulate up to Nintendo 64 although not many games work well enough. The major issue is that the N64 came out before decent 3D graphic standards were invented. The conversion between the N64 graphics data and OpenGL for modern graphic cards is very tricky.

You can't do anything wrong by playing Zelda (at least SNES and above). Zelda and Zelda II (NES) are not bad but rather boring if you are not used to old video games. BAck then you admired the realistic graphics, something later generations can't understand.

And then there are the many games you can't recommend for children at all. BTW, I saw the "Postal" movie just yesterday. It's a movie based on the Postal² video game. Too bad this will never be available in the US. Because with the US censorship, you couldn't tell it apart from the emergency broadcast channel

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Old Games. Jun 27, 2015 23:56:47 GMT

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Aug 21, 2014 23:32:39 GMT GTCGreg said:

Mousetrap (really stupid)

Depends. Assembling all the plastic stuff and fooling around with them was real fun for a few hours or so. But actually playing the game which makes you just wait a long time between putting in pieces was stupid.

But I'd bet that the game is tons of fun when seriously drunk. I don't own one but when I was a soldier, I had rediscovered an old commercial gift. A game with a spherical, biassed dice which almost always gives you a 6. The game usually lasts 6 rounds and the one who had got started wins. So you can play it all alone, it's the same fun.
I don't remember why I took it with me to the barracks one day. There was this a weekend right before Christmas and everybody had received a 2-liter bottle of really cheap wine - on a Saturday with a mandatory stay inside the barracks - right after standing attention for 3 hours straight in heavy snowfall to listen to speeches.
I don't remember much of that evening but the game was the best game I have ever played - until it had caught fire at 4 AM or so.

the light works Demi-God Posts: 38,742	Old Games. Jun 28, 2015 2:34:28 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by the light works on Jun 28, 2015 2:34:28 GMT I grew up with a few of the mechanical "some assembly required" games - even a few with incomplete instructions and either missing or extra parts that we never figured out exactly how they were to be played.

wvengineer Evil Senior Member Just this guy, you know... Posts: 2,678	Old Games. Jun 28, 2015 12:07:12 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by wvengineer on Jun 28, 2015 12:07:12 GMT Can you setup a Raspberry Pi as Windows 98SE computer? There are a lot of DOS and early windows games that don't work in newer systems that I would like to dig back out.
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Old Games. Jun 28, 2015 13:31:53 GMT

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Jun 28, 2015 12:07:12 GMT wvengineer said:

Can you setup a Raspberry Pi as Windows 98SE computer? There are a lot of DOS and early windows games that don't work in newer systems that I would like to dig back out.

No, wrong processor, wrong system architecture. You need a full emulation which requires a lot of processing power. What works well is the DOSBOX, the Pi 2 can run Tombraider I well as almost all DOS games before Tomb Raider. What works well is installing Win3.x in the Pi's DOSBOX, Creative Labs still offers a Win3.x sound driver on their website which works good in DOSBOX.

For games not compatible to DOS and NT, you need a real IBM compatible computer where you can install Win95/98SE/me in a virtual machine so you can play those games just fine on your Win7/8/10/Linux/mac machine.

The Emulation capabilities of the PI stop at about 486DX4-100 running DOS (DOSBOX) and N64.

It can emulate a PS1 just fine but PS2 still requires a state of the art PC with lots of RAM and at least a QUad-core. The reason is the vector CPU used for modern 3D graphics. While basically doing the same as any modern graphic card, the way it is doing that is totally different so you need several real powerful conventional CPU cores to process the data like the "slow" vecor-CPU of the PS/2 does.

Here's a list of the emulators which come with the Retropie image:

Amiga
Amstrad / Schneider CPC
Apple 2
Atari 800
Atari 2600
Atari Lynx
Atari ST / Falcon
C64
Final Burn Alpha (fba)
Game Gear
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advanced
Intellivision
Macintosh
Mame
Master System
Mega Drive
MSX
N64
Neo Geo
NES
PC x86
PC-Engine
Playstation (PSX)
ScummVM
Sega 32X
Sega CD
SNES
Vectrex
Z-Machine
ZX Spectrum
Atari 5200
Sega SG-1000
Philips Videopac G7000 / Magnavox Odyssey²

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