Sunday, January 26, 2003
I'm in emulation heaven.MESS the Multi Emulator Super System is a truly wonderful program based on the mame32 engine. I've had this piece of software sitting in my emulation folder for a couple of months now, and due to a lack of system roms, had considerd it fairly non-functional. Until last night that is....
First I found this site containing a whole pile of working system roms, followed by this site containing more roms, and quite a lot of software to run on several of the systems.
I could list all of the machines I'm now successfully emulating on this laptop, but the list is rather long... like around 200, but a few of the real gems and curiosities are as follows -
APEXC, from around 1957, this thing is freaky. No keybaord, monitor, or anything else that seems to make any sense, but a few flashing lights. Odd.
The 1975 MOS Technologies KIM1, which looks more like a glorified calculator, having just an LED display and small keypad.
Chess Champion MK2 from 1979, a dedicated chess computer.
Assorted apples, Nascoms, Ataris, Commodores, Orics, Tandys, Texas Instruments, and a whole host of other machines I've never even heard of.
My personal favourite though is a fully functioning Vectrex games system with a full set of working games.
Whoohoo!!! :-)
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Steve 11:51 AM [+]
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