Tempest Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 My game room is almost ready, but now I've come to the hardest part. What computers do I want hooked up? I've got all my game systems covered with my two huge entertainment systems, so now I need to think about the computers that will go on the desks. I've got limited space, so I want to keep out the computers with unique games and those that are actually fun to play. I've got six desks (tables really) that can hold two computers a piece. It might be possible to squeeze in a third one if the other computers were small or didn't have any peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, etc.) but it would be tight. One of the tables is mostly taken up by my RGB systems setup (SNES, Saturn, Genesis, SMS, and DC hooked up to a VGA monitor), so that gives me 11 spots for computers. Here are the systems I'm considering: Atari 800XL TI-99/4a TRS-80 Model III CoCo 3 C-64 Vic-20 Atari Mega STE Amiga A1200 Apple IIe Pentium I (desktop) and Pentium III (tower) Spectravideo SV-328 MSX 2+ Coleco ADAM IBM PCjr Macintosh Classic Macintosh G3 (tower) Macintosh IIfx and of course my regular PC. I believe I can hooked the two older PC's up to my regular PC, so those could all be condensed into one spot. So for the other 10 spots I was considering: 100% firm on having out --------------------------- Atari 800XL TI-99/4a C-64 Vic-20 Coleco ADAM (this is VGA modded and serves as my Colecovision as well) Apple IIe Regular PC / Old PCs Amiga 1200 Considering ------------ CoCo 3 - Has some neat games, many are unique TRS-80 - I was amazed at how much fun I had with this at the CCAG Macintosh Classic - Has tons of unique games, and is small and compact Probably won't have out -------------------------- Mega STE - Blasphemy on an Atari board I know, but it seems redundant to have out with the Amiga 1200 SV-328 - Most of the games aren't all that fun and have to load from tape. Takes up too much real estate. MSX 2+ - If I had more than 5 games for this I'd have it out in a heartbeat. Maybe once I get the disk drive working this will change. Macintosh IIfx - Early color Mac games were pretty poor and rarely unique. Seems redundant with the Mac Classic. Macintosh G3 Tower - I just don't see enough unique games to keep this out. Most games are available on the PC. PCjr - Redundant since I have the old PC's out (one has a 5.25" drive and can be slowed down to play older games). The five or six cartridge games aren't worth keeping it out. What does everyone else think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 Id get a Spectre GCR so you can have the Mega STE out & play your classic Mac games on it - faster and in higher rez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 9, 2012 Author Share Posted May 9, 2012 Id get a Spectre GCR so you can have the Mega STE out & play your classic Mac games on it - faster and in higher rez I had one but I never used it since I already had the Mac Classic. I've got a soft spot for the old Classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 MSX2 is a nice system. Guess you're belt drive is broken, a common problem with msx2. Got 3 msx 2 and 2 with broken belt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkhan Posted May 9, 2012 Share Posted May 9, 2012 All of them. Duhrrr also, www.bas-ditta.info get a new FDD belt for the MSX, on the cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 A lot of the VIC-20 games made it to the C64, so I'd look to see if there were any must have titles on the VIC I want to play before including it. MSX 2+ does have some interesting titles and if I ditched the VIC I'd replace it with that. The CoCo 3 is definitely worth having for the unique titles. The Model III is huge and might not fit on a desk with anything but the Mac Classic. Anything doable on an old PC can pretty much be done with a new PC and DOSBOX. If you buy one of the really small form factor PCs that can attach to the back of an LCD monitor you might fit in another machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.golden.ax Posted May 10, 2012 Share Posted May 10, 2012 Arg, I don't do limits well. I can't help you. I'd tell you to set them all up, even if you had to double or triple stack them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted May 10, 2012 Author Share Posted May 10, 2012 A lot of the VIC-20 games made it to the C64, so I'd look to see if there were any must have titles on the VIC I want to play before including it. Well I do have the Vic-20 Multicart which helps since it has every game ever made on it. There are some amazing Vic games out there, hard to believe I know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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