Re: XGS/32 v1.5 Released

[sporadic@my-deja.com]

Sure Jeff.  But it appears you have a heck of a lot more electrical
outlets in your room than I do.  Or at least you have a massively string
of daisy-chained power pads that will give your local fire marshall
sleepless nights if he knew about it!  ;)

More on nostalgia--it's funny how I think so fondly of my IIe and IIgs,
and will not think of giving them up, while I could careless about the
old 486 and Pentium in my closet (in fact, I'd be happy to give them
away but I can't find anyone who will take them.)  I never was exposed
to C64/Amiga/Atari ST during the 80's, so now it's fun to see how the
others lived during the Golden Age of Computing.  While I would never
admit to this back then, certain games are better on "those" machines
than on the IIe/gs.

I finally managed to play Sword of Sodan--this was the much hyped game
that was never finished/released for the GS, even though the gorgeous
demo had everyone drooling (but I must say Task Force GS more than made
up for it!)  Anyway, played SoS on the Amiga, and it was actually pretty
disappointing!  So much for reality.

Regards,

Jimmy



In article <38a2302e.825612@news>,
  CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney) wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Feb 2000 06:39:09 GMT, sporadic@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> >Just a side note, it's pretty darn amazing to have all these
emulators.
> > I'm also now playing with C64, Atari ST and Amiga emulators.  Back
in
> >the 80's these systems were sworn enemies, but now it's kind of neat
to
> >be able to run them all on one computer.  Not to mention all the
games
> >on MAME.  The side effect of all this nostalgia is I'm thinking about
> >picking up my old GS from my parents'.
>
> The thing that struck my funny bone when I read this is that I have
> the real machines (C64, Atari 1040STe and Amiga 500) in addition to my
> Apple II collection and a TRS-80 Color Computer 2.  I don't need
> emulators for any of these machines as I can always just set them all
> up and use them.  :-)
>
> Not to mention the fact that I can use them all at the same time with
> no degradation in performance.  Now there's multi-processing for you.
> :-)
>
>
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