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Actual old hardware has a problem though: might me impossible to find. For example I live in Brazil, I learned to code trying to port MSX Basic games to a 286

by speeder 10y ago

Actual old hardware has a problem though: might me impossible to find. For example I live in Brazil, I learned to code trying to port MSX Basic games to a 286 GWBASIC, because I never saw a msx in person. Also, some other hardware I would love to fool around and never saw one: C64, Amiga, Sega Saturn, 3DO, PC Engine, non-Intel Mac, a real NES (I owned a clone once), programmable calculators.

panic 10y ago
That's what emulation is for! I know VICE in particular is a very accurate C64 emulator.
tluyben2 10y ago
MSX's are hard to find in Brazil? I thought it used to be very very popular there. I see many of them here [0] for prices I would definitely pay; here it is very hard to find them for those prices still. I would buy stuff like this [1] or [2] blindly. If you buy it I will pay you more + shipment to me :) C64s are still ok to get in other countries; MSXs are getting scarce. I managed to collect over 100 of them luckily as it is my favorite computer (nostalgia sure, but I also find it important that young people can see how it used to be). I have all the computers you name there, several of each; I can trade you for a working Gradient or Hotbit. Or just pay you :) Personally I like the ZX Spectrum & MSX the best to code on, because I was raised on Z80 assembly. After that the Amiga, but I already find that a bit too advanced; MSX is so limited (a little over 3 megahertz & usually 64-128 kilobytes! of RAM) it really is a game to get things working at some speed. But people are still doing it; for me the highlight is [3] which I find far more impressive than the latest JS-soup framework :) Then again, this [4] is impressive! [0] http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx [1] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx-gradiente-11-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx... [2] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-11-c-teclado-funcperfeito-revisado-ccaixa-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-... [3] http://www.symbos.de/ http://www.symbos.de/ [4] http://webmsx.org/ http://webmsx.org/

by speeder 10y ago

panic 10y ago

That's what emulation is for! I know VICE in particular is a very accurate C64 emulator.

tluyben2 10y ago

MSX's are hard to find in Brazil? I thought it used to be very very popular there. I see many of them here [0] for prices I would definitely pay; here it is very hard to find them for those prices still. I would buy stuff like this [1] or [2] blindly. If you buy it I will pay you more + shipment to me :) C64s are still ok to get in other countries; MSXs are getting scarce. I managed to collect over 100 of them luckily as it is my favorite computer (nostalgia sure, but I also find it important that young people can see how it used to be). I have all the computers you name there, several of each; I can trade you for a working Gradient or Hotbit. Or just pay you :) Personally I like the ZX Spectrum & MSX the best to code on, because I was raised on Z80 assembly. After that the Amiga, but I already find that a bit too advanced; MSX is so limited (a little over 3 megahertz & usually 64-128 kilobytes! of RAM) it really is a game to get things working at some speed. But people are still doing it; for me the highlight is [3] which I find far more impressive than the latest JS-soup framework :) Then again, this [4] is impressive! [0] http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx http://lista.mercadolivre.com.br/msx [1] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx-gradiente-11-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-791538729-console-msx... [2] http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-11-c-teclado-funcperfeito-revisado-ccaixa-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-792461786-msx-expert-... [3] http://www.symbos.de/ http://www.symbos.de/ [4] http://webmsx.org/ http://webmsx.org/