Graham Ollis 🇺🇦🌻🌮Starting my day off with a vintage Lego build. Certified complete my Bricks & Minifigs.
Okay taking break from fun stuff to tidy up a bit. More fun stuff to come but.
Listening to retro computer band The Stop Bits while tidying up. This song as far as I can tell is just 6502 instructions sung to music.
Okay next toy gonna try out is this RetroTink 4k I picked up years ago but am only now getting around to trying out.
I normally play my retro video games on an olds RCA CRT but I have a few RGB modded Vintage consoles I want to try out with component video. I am hoping it will look quite good. It takes component, composite, s-video, VGA or HDMI and will output HDMI with low latency.
Okay come with firmware was 1.3.4 so I am upgrading to 1.9.6. Now let’s plug something in.
Dracula X for SNES was fun but I am not very good at it only got to the third level.
The SNES Jr I got a while back also seems to work. I have misplaced my NES top loader with the RGB mod which makes me sad.
MS Pac-Man works. The S-Video looks okayish but I also haven’t tried to tweak anything yet just using the defaults.
I also have this do-dad that lets me load roms. I’ve only scratched the surface of what I can do with this things tbh. And I also don’t have a very good idea of what is worth playing aside from old arcade games ( I do very much like the Q*bert port ).
I have an Atari 7800 which has been modded for S-Video. My only complaint is the new ports face down from the console so I have to set it on something ( otherwise the cables get bent ) but that is only a small thing.
I picked up Ninja Golf some time back but am playing it for the first time today. The 7800 looks much better than the c64 on S-Video though that may be the adapter I am using for the c64 and I gave not tweaked and of the RetroTink settings.
Ninja Golf is as silly as it sounds. I also just played Food Fight which reminds me I should get some lunch.
More snow and PM activities have been cancelled at school so gonna go pick up Fire Rooster.
Played a little Doom Eternal with Fire Rooster. Finally beat my doppelgänger at the end of the DLC.
I also have a CoCo MC-10 in the box. It has chicklet keyboard and I don’t think it has ever been used except when I originally tested it. Unfortunately it does not have a cartridge port so the only way to run software ( other than by typing it in to the BASIC interpreter ) is off of tape. You can apparently get programs in .wav format and “play” them into this thing but I haven’t tried that yet.
Ariadne Conill 🐰
@plicease retrotink isn't bad, but make sure to update the included firmware, there have been a lot of improvements
@ariadne thanks for the recommendation
Christiaan Kras@plicease I want one of those, or at least the 5X version. But they cost so much money!