Short movie set in 1986 Ireland, what retro console/computer to use

Steve X2 · 15-01-2012 09:00PM

waveform wrote: »

The Amstrad colour palette looks very impressive on the emulator videos, far richer than the c64 colour pallet.

Is it as good on the real deal hooked upto a colour Monitor?

It's a shame that anyone who I knew that had one, had the ****ty Black and green screen for it!

Edit: I just noticed it lacked an RF output, and could only be used with it's own monitor!

Bastards! Talk about proprietary lock in!

We had the cancer giving green screen and then I got the one with the black and white screen later.
That green screen sure was something.
My eyes looked like this(:eek:) after a few hours on it.

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zero19 · 15-01-2012 09:51PM

I had/have a colour screen and a green screen for my 464, it's tough at the top. :pac:

Sparks43 · 16-01-2012 09:44AM

waveform wrote: »

Now that the best system has been chosen...

you need to decide the game that will be played!

Boulder Dash is the only game that can be picked

Anything else i hunt you down Steve:pac:

Steve X2 · 16-01-2012 10:51AM

Sparks43 wrote: »

Boulder Dash is the only game that can be picked

Anything else i hunt you down Steve:pac:

Don't worry Sparks, I've got you covered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJOUUp9BrnQ

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CiDeRmAn · 16-01-2012 01:32PM

Sorry to be so late to the party here.
For my money the optimal computer for an 86 setting will depend on context...

People whose parents bought there Christmas presents without consulting them? Atari 2600
Dumb people with more money than sense? Sinclair QL
People who went on Murphys Micro Quizm? Enterprise
Rich people? Commodore Amiga
Comfortably off people who didn't like Knight Lore? C 64
Normal folk who are cool and stuff? ZX Spectrum
Poor sad b@stards? Still using a busted ass ZX81....

DinoRex · 16-01-2012 06:39PM

I reckon about 90% of the kids I went to school with in the 80s had a C64.

You'd get the occasional kid with a hand-me-down spectrum though.

And yes a rich kid with an Amiga. (I had to wait until 1990 to get one of them)

Cedrus · 16-01-2012 06:47PM

Wasn't there a BBC one knocking around as well?

DinoRex · 16-01-2012 06:48PM

My school was filled with BBC Acorns anyway.

Dr Bob · 16-01-2012 07:02PM

DinoRex wrote: »

I reckon about 90% of the kids I went to school with in the 80s had a C64.

You'd get the occasional kid with a hand-me-down spectrum though.

And yes a rich kid with an Amiga. (I had to wait until 1990 to get one of them)

I'm pretty sure it was a town by town/area by area thing.
Ton of people in my suburb had c64's , I knew of ONE guy with a spectrum , a fair few with 800xl's(I'm pretty sure Peats were selling them cheap )and a smattering of rich kids with STs. Never saw an Amiga or an Amstrad computer until years later.
Yet other people here living in the city as me at the same time existed in a world swimming with the rubberkeyed ZX , loads of CPCs , a drought of C64's and a lack of Atari's lovely 8 bit machine..?

CiDeRmAn · 16-01-2012 07:07PM

Swords was a tough town in the 80's.
We rolled with the Spectrum back in the day.
Sipping red lemonade, eating Pink Panther bars and chillin' watching the colour clash..

There was a few C64 owners but I reckon they were actually Malahide people who got lost on the way back to daddy's Bentley!

At least we could share a laugh and kick Oric owners!

FutureGuy · 16-01-2012 07:07PM

In 86, I had been rocking my Atari2600 for a few years. I think I got a ZX Spectrum in 87.

FutureGuy · 16-01-2012 07:11PM

DinoRex wrote: »

I reckon about 90% of the kids I went to school with in the 80s had a C64.

You'd get the occasional kid with a hand-me-down spectrum though.

And yes a rich kid with an Amiga. (I had to wait until 1990 to get one of them)

Me. Thanks English Uncle!

Deep Thought · 17-01-2012 12:42PM

Harrier Attack on the ZX Spectrun 48K

Love it

http://youtu.be/tINCmHev6eY

A2LUE42 · 17-01-2012 12:50PM

Did anyone else have one of these? I've never met anyone else who had one.

MITSUBISHI MSX COMPUTER ML-F80

http://www.infideals.net/siteimages/10/0/2/100276/915696/f_451636.jpg

A2LUE42 · 17-01-2012 12:53PM

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=782

komodosp · 20-01-2012 04:10PM

Commodore Amiga? In 1986?

Steve X2 · 20-01-2012 04:18PM

komodosp wrote: »

Commodore Amiga? In 1986?

First Amiga was out in 1985, the Amiga 1000.
But not many people had one in Ireland.

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eddhorse · 20-01-2012 08:46PM

Deep Thought wrote: »

Harrier Attack on the ZX Spectrun 48K

Love it

http://youtu.be/tINCmHev6eY

Ahh my eyes. How did we see after playing those games....

I wonder will the future kids look back on 2012 at our high definition games and think that the graphics are terrible and pixelated !

Back on topic, for the film id go for a NES seeing as it was released in Europe in 1986 and Mario.

You want the majority of people to recognize your effort in planting something like this.
Not just the retro folk in here.

Myrddin · 20-01-2012 08:54PM

eddhorse wrote: »

I wonder will the future kids look back on 2012 at our high definition games and think that the graphics are terrible and pixelated !

Retr0 does that already sure

o1s1n · 20-01-2012 09:32PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Retr0 does that already sure

Retr0 in 2022 -

'I can't believe I thought 60fps 1080p was acceptable! It looks like dated vasaline covered mud!'

niallb · 20-01-2012 09:54PM

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Did anyone else have one of these? I've never met anyone else who had one.

MITSUBISHI MSX COMPUTER ML-F80

There were lots of MSX machines around (Dragon 32 mentioned in the last page was one too).
Spectravideo had one with a built in joystick in the keyboard which might look good on screen or cause an injury to a zombie.

The Oric 1 looked very cool, but didn't really catch on here as much as in the UK. Really loud sound.
The Sord M5 was another interesting one that didn't get much use outside Japan as a home computer, but you'd come across them in Ireland
managing telephone systems and running lifts years later.

Commodore 64 / Vic20 is definitely the best bet by 1986,
but the spectrum was probably more popular in lots of parts of the country.

Dr Bob · 22-01-2012 06:35PM

niallb wrote: »

There were lots of MSX machines around (Dragon 32 mentioned in the last page was one too).
Spectravideo had one with a built in joystick in the keyboard which might look good on screen or cause an injury to a zombie.

The Oric 1 looked very cool, but didn't really catch on here as much as in the UK. Really loud sound.
The Sord M5 was another interesting one that didn't get much use outside Japan as a home computer, but you'd come across them in Ireland
managing telephone systems and running lifts years later.

Commodore 64 / Vic20 is definitely the best bet by 1986,
but the spectrum was probably more popular in lots of parts of the country.

I had a sord M5 , rubbish computer but at age 9 I taught myself BASIC solely through the awesome manual that came with it.
...and if you're talking about computers/consoles that'd do damage to a zombie..well this is something I have actually contemplated...;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib0NMVuBzi0

Spacedog · 22-01-2012 06:59PM

For a classic, 1986 era, C64 title, I'd go with Dropzone...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTpt69sTiY

-looks and sounds the part,
-dated 1984,
-regarded the grandfather of bi-directional side scroller shooters.

what is the plot, themes of the film, perhaps we can suggest something that has some duality of meaning as well as being bad ass retro.

fish fingers · 27-01-2012 12:58PM

A2LUE42 wrote: »

Did anyone else have one of these? I've never met anyone else who had one.

MITSUBISHI MSX COMPUTER ML-F80

http://www.infideals.net/siteimages/10/0/2/100276/915696/f_451636.jpg

I had two of them

Was very difficult to get games for it. Chuckie egg was my favourite. Its only now you can see it was much more popular in the far east.

A2LUE42 · 27-01-2012 01:33PM

fish fingers wrote: »

I had two of them Was very difficult to get games for it. Chuckie egg was my favourite. Its only now you can see it was much more popular in the far east.

Chuckie egg, I'd forgotten about that

Myrddin · 27-01-2012 01:35PM

fish fingers wrote: »

I had two of them Was very difficult to get games for it. Chuckie egg was my favourite. Its only now you can see it was much more popular in the far east.

Steve?

fish fingers · 27-01-2012 01:39PM

EnterNow wrote: »

Steve?

No, Seamus

Myrddin · 27-01-2012 01:40PM

fish fingers wrote: »

No, Seamus

Close

Steve buys two of everything too

Steve X2 · 27-01-2012 01:56PM

I'm trying to refrain from my x2 purchases lately.

It's very difficult

I just bought 2 Casio F-91W watches last night(I'm retro all the way guys). And for those that know this watch I'd like to make it clear I'm neither a hipster nor terrorist.

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o1s1n · 27-01-2012 02:46PM

You do know that if you bought one of each product instead, it would leave you with more money to buy something else?

Just throwing that out there....

Short movie set in 1986 Ireland, what retro console/computer to use

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