Can you find south african releases of Ultima games? 😉
Sorry, my first question that comes to mind 😉

Welcome to our community!

Possibly, though they were never really my thing. I have a collection of around 400 older games (some big box, most just the jewel case or DVD cover releases), although I don't have and have never looked for any of the Ultima games.

Oh, and thanks for the welcome 😁

Fellow South African here (based in Cape Town).
What type and era games interests you the most?
Are you into vintage computer hardware as well?

jesolo wrote on 2020-04-19, 14:04:

Fellow South African here (based in Cape Town).
What type and era games interests you the most?
Are you into vintage computer hardware as well?

I'm originally from the Cape (Obs/Parow/Fish Hoek/Sun Valley for most of my life) and now staying up in Midrand.

I'm very much into mid to late 90s gaming, the likes of Age of Empires 1-2, Homeworld, Kingpin, Shadowman, Need for Speed II SE, Tomb Raider 1-3, Half Life, Daikatana (yes, yes, I know...), Quake 1-2, G-Police, Duke Nukem 3D and the like, but there are both newer and older that I really enjoy.

Commander Keen 1-3, Duke Nukem 2D, Bio Menace, Doom and Street Rod spring to mind on the older side, with Deus Ex, Quake III Arena, Far Cry, Battlefield 1942-4, and Assassin's Creed Black Flag on the newer.

I have some neat older hardware including:

• Celeron 300A that does 504MHz on stock voltage (although I don't know if this survived the Abit BH6 dying)
• Voodoo2 12MB SLI
• A vast collection of DDR1-3 performance RAM (some Winbond BH-5 that does DDR 580 2-2-2-5, Samsung TCCD that does DDR600 3-4-4-8, Micron D9GMH that does DDR2-600 3-3-3-9, etc)
• A chip from a Cray supercomputer (not sure exactly what it is as it was a gift, but the IC says SL56660 F 8122 Singapore on top)
• Winchip C6-200 engineering sample
• Handful of Abit NF7 boards
• Several dozen Socket 939 CPUs (I have quite a few results on HWBOT using them - same username as here)
• On the much newer side, an EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard with two Xeon X5690s

Socket 939 was my favourite platform for overclocking (air, phase change and liquid nitrogen), so most of what I have is central around that. It doesn't mean I'm not after a lot of older hardware though - I definitely want to expand my 3dfx collection, get my Slot 1 system up and running again, build another Althon XP system (I just need to put it together really - Athlon 2500+ Barton (have), Abit NF7 (have), 512MB Winbond BH5 (have pleeeeeenty of this), GeForce4 Ti 4200 (have), 160GB HDD (no spare drives), some ~350w PSU (don't have any spares) and an AOpen KF45B case (don't have and hard to find).

Hi ^^

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-19, 12:03:

Ask me anything 😀

what was your first computer?

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-19, 14:25:

[*]On the much newer side, an EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard with two Xeon X5690s[/list]

awesome :3

imi wrote on 2020-04-19, 15:00:

Hi ^^

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-19, 12:03:

Ask me anything 😀

what was your first computer?

My dad has been a programmer since before I was born, so there's always been a computer in the house with the oldest being an Oliveti XT. The first that was "mine" was:

• Pentium 120 @ 133 (I helped with assembly and screwed up the jumpers for 66*2 instead of 60*2 - it ran so it was left like that)
• Intel i1020/1020i motherboard - or something like that? Socket 7, 4x 72-pin SIMM, 1x 168-pin DIMM, 4x PCI, 3/4x ISA (no AGP), only onboard port was an AT keyboard connector with serial and parallel taken care of by riser cables (no USB either)
• S3 Trio64V+ 1MB PCI card
• 16MB EDO RAM
• 650MB HDD
• 4x CD-ROM drive
• Sound Blaster 16 ISA card
• Windows 95

Our first PC in the house was also an Olivetti computer (M19 to be exact). My father gave ours away many years ago and then last year I found one again in very good condition.

I'm a bit of an Olivetti fan myself with my favourite computer model being the M24.

My first PC was a Cyrix 486DLC 40 MHz (I still have the complete computer with monitor)

He sold his for R 100 or something in the early 2000s - good luck getting one for 20x the price now.

Welcome!

What's the retro computing / gaming scene like in South Africa?

x0zm_ wrote on 2020-04-21, 00:37:

Welcome!

What's the retro computing / gaming scene like in South Africa?

Thanks 😀

The scene here is relatively small. Those that have don't sell easily, so finding hardware is also incredibly difficult - anything older than 10-15 almost always needs to be imported.

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-22, 10:45:

x0zm_ wrote on 2020-04-21, 00:37:

Welcome!

What's the retro computing / gaming scene like in South Africa?

Thanks 😀

The scene here is relatively small. Those that have don't sell easily, so finding hardware is also incredibly difficult - anything older than 10-15 almost always needs to be imported.

Popped you a private message - join the local vintage computing group. Pretty sure someone can help you out.

Did you, in the late 80s and early 90s, have strange releases of original games for the local market? Here in Turkey a local retailer sold original games in Betamax casette boxes with Black & White manuals. They later went even cheaper and sold the games in plastic shrinkwrap with no boxes at all. I have an Indy 3 Betamax box VGA copy that I still have from those days. I always wondered what the original games market was like in other emerging market countries.

and I'd guess those are definitely not bootlegs? x3

imi wrote on 2020-04-22, 13:03:

and I'd guess those are definitely not bootlegs? x3

No they are not, they retain basically the entire original copy protection in the case of Amiga games for example. They were definitely licensed because only particular developers' games were in the market, USGOLD, Sierra and Lucasarts for example - but Gremlin, Psygnosis, Origin, EA etc. were completely absent.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-22, 12:55:

Did you, in the late 80s and early 90s, have strange releases of original games for the local market? Here in Turkey a local retailer sold original games in Betamax casette boxes with Black & White manuals. They later went even cheaper and sold the games in plastic shrinkwrap with no boxes at all. I have an Indy 3 Betamax box VGA copy that I still have from those days. I always wondered what the original games market was like in other emerging market countries.

That's before my time I'm afraid.

jesolo wrote on 2020-04-22, 11:33:

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-22, 10:45:

x0zm_ wrote on 2020-04-21, 00:37:

Welcome!

What's the retro computing / gaming scene like in South Africa?

Thanks 😀

The scene here is relatively small. Those that have don't sell easily, so finding hardware is also incredibly difficult - anything older than 10-15 almost always needs to be imported.

Popped you a private message - join the local vintage computing group. Pretty sure someone can help you out.

Thanks - I saw but can't reply 😀 Unfortunately I don't really do the whole Facebook thing.

One of us! One of us!

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-23, 17:14:

One of us! One of us!

You’re South African or a non Facebook user?

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-24, 18:43:

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-23, 17:14:

One of us! One of us!

You’re South African or a non Facebook user?

I actively avoid Facebook.