sheath wrote:Hardware doesn't become "retro" for me and neither do games. Either the hardware was of good quality and captured my attention when it was new and afterward or it did not. I keep things that allow me to play games I like in their original form. I dislike things that alter original games into inferior "versions", with worse or better graphics or sound. If it weren't for "retro" gaming being financially cheaper than modern gaming I probably would have stopped picking up games almost entirely sometime in the last ten years.
You think like me. Gold is always gold, shit is always shit.
By the way, I'm feeling like a goddamned old man reading some of the stuff here and I'm just 19. Pentium 4 retro, seriously?
I always give my old computers to my mother so employees of my parents company can use them as office machines. My old Pentium 4 machine is there (I used to play Oblivion on medium settings on it) and my old 1 Ghz Celeron machine with 320 MB RAM (actually a former 633 Mhz, 64 MB RAM machine) and they are still happily being used. Windows 7 is useless, memory hogging piece of shit unless you need to play the newest games.
By the way, when it comes to productivity, a Mac Plus was tested to be better than a modern dualcore in terms of office use http://hallicino.hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plu … elieve_Who_Wins
As for browsing, well, I played tons of old online Flash/Shockwave games on my mom's office Pentium 100/32 MB RAM/S3 Trio system. She used internet banking on the exact same machine without problems, although Java loaded slow on that machine. That was in 1999-2004 As long as you are not visiting Youtube or Facebook, a very old machine is OK for browsing and doing things that are actually useful.
But to not go too offtopic, for me, everything older than my first "modern" computer is retro. That is, anything older than a 633 Mhz Pentium III based Celeron.
Anyways, Youtube is a shame. I viewed Nuttyprofessor on my Celeron 633 in 720x576 with less artifacts than "HD" Youtube videos.