Quote from: vapourminer on Today at 07:52:42 PM

Quote from: Hueristic on Today at 05:32:34 PM

The issue I seem to remember with the later Tandys were they cost a shitload and their latest model that I remember looking at at the time still had CGA so you had to do a EGA upgrade on it right out of the box. Was that the T1000 (Cyberdyne model) Huh

Funny you have MFMs around, I made a living off of converting MFM's to RLL's, can't remember how many st-225's I converted to st-238's. I remember having to goto Ms-dos from cpm for games on my Zenith 5150 back then. I'd love to have that old system now just for the gold recovery, That whole board was gold including all the trace lines!

yup still have my ST225 that i bought a RLL controller card for (came with a MFM controller).. took the ST-225 in MFM mode from 20mb to 30 mb in RLL mode or something like that. presto instant 30% increase.

had an paradise EGA card in my IBM XT, kinda funny the card had 1 meg memory and the computer itself only had 640k. (going from memory on some of those numbers) but yeah tossed in an AST 6 pack card for expanded memory and persistent time/date, an original soundblaster with 4 watts speaker level outputs and a rotary volume control in the slot plate, no amp needed.

some of the best games i can remember were on that IBM XT and later an AT. wing commander, mech warrior II.. man until doom and later GL quake nothing could touch those early games for me.

edit still buying 30 dollar chunks

I used to love starflight/art of war and a ton of others I can't recall anymore. I remember being blown away when I found I could hack the palette on the cga. And upgraded to evga just for warlords. Me and a buddy spent untold hours on warlords and I still to this day spark up a game of warlords 4. A few years ago we still had 4 guys playing warlords 4 pbem. I should get int ouch and get another game going.

Yeah Wing commander was the shit but they really killed it with those crappy story lines and linear play.

IIRC I got the Evga card from Zenith/heathkit store for like $150 and it might have been a paradise but my memory is faded there.