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Name:
Steve
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Retro gaming. Vintage computers, retro video games consoles and old handhelds.
Classic games.
Classic games.
About Me:
It's more a case of me speaking my thoughts while playing the games, many for the first time, and most for the first time in a very long time... so it's all a little spontaneous and random.
Predictably, as I never practice before recording, I usually play very badly.
Please do not send me messages offering to buy or sell old systems.
I don't do sub4sub.
I don't give away free games systems or software on request.
I do try to help with technical or historic advice when I can.
I have another channel, which largely acts as a vlog, which can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/user...
I have another website associated to that channel, which can be found at
http://www.benwaysworld.co.uk/
My Collection:
Computers -
Acorn BBC Micro Model B
Acorn Electron
Amstrad CPC464
Apple Macintosh SE
Atari 600XL
Atari 65XE
Atari Portfolio
Atari 520STe
CGL SORD M5
Commodore PET 8032
Commodore VIC20
Commodore 64
Commodore Plus 4
Commodore C16
Commodore Amiga 500
Commodore Amiga 1200 Tower
Dragon 32
Eaca Video Genie
Enterprise 64
Jupiter Ace
Mattel Aquarius
Memotech MTX512
Oric 1
Oric Atmos
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ 48k
Sinclair ZX Spectrum + 128k
Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2
Tandy TRS-80 CoCo
Tandy TRS-80 CoCo2
Texas Instruments TI99/4a
Toshiba HX-10 MSX
Consoles-
Amstrad GX4000
Atari 2600 Heavy Sixer
Atari 2600 Vader
Atari 2600 Jr Rev A
Atari 2600 Jr Black
Atari 7800
Atari Jaguar
Colecovision
Commodore C64GS
Grandstand SD 070
Grandstand VEC / Fairchild Channel F II
Mattel Intellivision
Microsoft Xbox
NEC PC Engine
Nintendo NES
Nintendo SNES
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo 64
Nintendo Game Cube
Panasonic 3DO
Philips CDi 210
Philips G7000/Magnavox Odyssey II
Radofin 1392
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive Mk1
Sega Mega Drive Mk2
Sega Mega CD Mk1
Sega Mega CD Mk2
Sega 32X
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
SNK Neo Geo AES
Sony Playstation
Sony PS1
Sony Playstation 2
Vectrex
Handhelds-
Atari Lynx II
Bandai Wonderswan
Gizmondo
MB MicroVision
NEC PC Engine GT
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Nintendo Game & Watch - Ball
Nintendo Game Boy
Nintendo Game Boy Pocket
Nintendo Game Boy Color
Nintendo Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP
Nintendo Game Boy Micro
Sega Game Gear
Sega Nomad
Tiger Game.Com
Watara / Quickshot Supervision
Oh yes.... Benway is not my actual name.
Country:
United Kingdom
Hobbies:
Computer and video games, and collecting retro computers and consoles. Photography, recording electronic music, and lots of other stuff.
Movies:
Bladerunner. LOTR. The Good The Bad And The Ugly, The Matrix, What Dreams May Come, It's A Wonderful Life, A Matter Of Life And Death, Gone With The Wind, Bringing Out The Dead, Day Of The Dead, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, Naked Lunch, anything by Davids Lynch and Cronenberg, Quentin Tarantino or John Woo.
Music:
Afro Celts, Tori Amos, Bauhaus, Belly, Big Country, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Can, Nick Cave, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, The Cure, The Damned, Dead Can Dance, Death Cab For Cutie, Depeche Mode, The Fall, Four Tet, Front 242, Peter Gabriel, Lisa Gerrard, Goldfrapp, Kristin Hersh, Joy Division, Laibach, Led Zeppelin, Leftfield, Love and Rockets, Low, Mazzy Star, Molotov Elysian, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, Pixies, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters Of Mercy, Sonic Youth, Swans, Sugarcubes, Talk Talk, This Mortal Coil, Throwing Muses, Tones On Tail, U2, Underworld, Velvet Underground, Yeah Yeah Yeahs... and a lot LOT more besides.
Books:
Isac Asimov, Iain Banks, Greg Bear, William Burroughs, William Gibson, Harry Harrison, Robert Heinlein, Ursula LeGuin, Julian May, David Zindell, plus assorted non-fiction history, psychology, and biography books
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First three days were hell, then I was just a moody bastard for a week, then it got harder.
For a good couple of months I didn't trust my own judgement on anything at all... felt quite unhinged.
The only thing I find difficcult now is if my stepson leaves an open pack unattended by the back door. I don't give in to temptation. It'd be crazy to, after the hell of quitting, but it's hard.
I doubt I'll ever consider myself a non-smoker... just a smoker who's choosing not to smoke.
That's good news Ste. ( And well done mr StarSeeker5000 :)
Sir Clive is a big hero of Mine, so i was on the side of the ZX Spectrum. It certainly brought affordable home computing to the UK, thanks again Steve.
In terms of versatility, expandability, and shear processing brute force, the BBC.
As a games machine, the Amstrad.
As a cheap everyman's computer the Spectrum.
Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference... but if you want the computer that best represents the British way of doing things... ie. on the cheap and a bit of a bodge, but it does the job and everyone has one... the Spectrum wins hands down.
I'm having an argument at work and we have narrowed it down to 3 candidate, ZX Speccy, BBC Micro or the Amstrad CPC 464. Now we need an experts opinion.