Richtige Retrofan's kennen noch den alten IBM PC DOS 5150 und seinen bescheidenen entritt in die Computerwelt Ein Stück Geschichte die bis heute in den Köpfen der Computerenthusiasten fest verankert ist. Er war der UR PC der den Weg frei gemach hatte inn richtung modularität und expasion. Allerdings auch für Clone und billige Kopien des doch so robusten und augereiften IBM
Produkt. Währe es nicht schön wieder vor so einem leucht grünen Schirm zu sitzen und die längst vergessenen Befehle in DOS oder BASIC noch einaml auszuprobieren. ja es ist möglich und zwar ganz einfach auf einer Internetseite die den alten IBM PC einfach emuliert und es ermöglicht mit ihm zu interagieren Folgen Sie diesem Link um Ihre Retroreise in das Computerjahr 80-90 zu erleben!
http://www.pcjs.org

My favorite retro games sources:

Updated 02/06/2015 Home systems:

Every main retrosystem :
http://www.planetemu.net/

This site hs the most complete Software collection for every major retro systems like C64, Atari ST, Amstrad, Amiga bit also consoles like the NES, Atari 2600/7800 Playstation etc..
There is PC DOS software or games!

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PC DOS systems:

Champ Arcade Games - a collection of retrogame clones free to download

This site presents a list of all champarcade games free to download:

ChampArcade games

Mein Game Boy Köfferchen

Hallo Leute!

Heute hatte ich mal wieder meine kreative Phase und habe einen Koffer mit Schaumeinlagen für Zangen umgebaut, um ein paar von meinen Game Boy's darin aufzubewahren. Ich finde die sind doch sehr gut darin aufgehoben und schick ist es auch  ;o)

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This is an absolut fantastic old Mac OS 7 emulator that works right in your Browser

Run Classic Mac OS on a Mac Plus Emulator in Any Web Browser

Why not just give a try an click on the link:
Mac Plus with games & apps

This demo emulates a Mac Plus with a bunch of abandonware applications and games to check out.

Please check my new Youtube upload. Its a game from the Taito Legends 2 collection for the PS2 called Wild Western.

As Sheriff in the the Wild West, you must defeat the tain robbing bandits!

Here is a list of some usefull Web Links I found while surfing the Net

Hall of Light:
hall of light  search engine for old Games for Amiga

I uploaded a new video on Youtube
It shows how I connect my C64 to the S-Video input of a LED TV

See my new video upload: Bezerk on the Commodore 64:

This is a Speetest under Windows 8 with my Athlon II

Inside the Macintosh Classic

Today I decided to open my Macintosh Classic in order to replace the empty Battery.
This is not an easy task because the Battery is placed on the main Board wich has to be remove completely to gain access to the Battery.

To remove the Backcover from the Frontbezel, you have to unscrew 4 Screws (Torx 1,5).
Two at the bottom an two at the Top. I used a 3mm screwdriver with 15mm length to access the top screws  wich are way inside the plastic mold.

After this you have to remove the Hard Disk Cable, the Floppy Disk Cable and the powersupply-cable from the motherboard and also unplug the Memory extension at the left side of the chassis.

Now you can pull the motherboard easyly ouside the chassis and gain access to everything on the board. The blue 3.6V Battery is located at the top right. You can simply replace it by pulling it out of the holder pulling back a new one.

Here you can see the 2Mbyte RAM extension wich makes 4MB total with the 2MB on the Board itself;

After refitting everything to its place and closeing the backcase, I booted my Mac without problems.
The Date and Time, Mouse and Keyboard settings will now be saved after shutting down or removing the powercord from the Mac :)

Thanks for reading...

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Some good Links I found

 

 http://subjunctive.net/cmgptmosx/ 

http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php

The Internet Archieve

Grenier-du-mac.net

Great Wallpapers

Lenovo M57 Internet Speedtest

I recently got a lenovo M57 Workstation. I love the lenovo Workstations and particulary the Mini Towers like this one. This machine comes with an intel E6550 dual core 2.33GHz Prozessor and runs pretty fast under Windows Vista. (3GB RAM / 32Bit Vista)

Why Vista? Because its good!   I already have a Windows7 machine.
;-)




To start off, I installed Windows Vista with SP2 and all intel/lenovo drivers required to run this system.
You can find all drivers for this machine at: http://support.lenovo.com/de_DE/downloads/default.page?

After this I started a speedtest at speedtest.net to see how well it works on the Internet.

New Videoupload on my Youtube channel

I uploaded a new Video on my YouTube Channel

Frogger on the Atari ST:

http://youtu.be/47GFqMxW_pU

The next generation of realistic graphics in Computer Games

NVIDIA upgraded the 2002 Dawn-DEMO with enhanced textures and superrealistic hair movements with its GeForce-GTX Cards and DirectX 11

This looks great ! Althought I am a retro graphics fan I sure love this technological improvements;

see the demo: http://youtu.be/nOQeDuZnUZ8

and how great and realistic a face can look:

New Poll

Today I restarted a poll. I hadn't much luck with my last one because my Blog is not very popular unfurtunatly. But I like to continu to improve and to post things to my Blog that I find interesting.

So thank you to all visting my page and please leave feedback to the poll on the right side of the page:

Do you like Retrogames?

If so you should also visit my Youtube channel at : Retrobitter on Youtube

Internet Speedtest

This speedtest was made on my IBM Thinkcenter 3GHz Pentium4 machine using Windows XP Prof. (SP3) and Google Chrome browser.
The Internet connection is a 30Mbit VDSL Line connected via a FritzBox 7390 and a Hercules Wireless N USB Stick;

PowerMac 6100 restored and working again

For a few Weeks I got a low priced PowerMac 6100 from eBay. The guy said that it might work but he could not test the Mac due to the missing Monitor.

When I received the Mac I couldn't believe what I saw! The back bezel was broken at  several places, and the motherboard with the backside connectors where completely rousty. This Baby was surely laying in a dirty wet cave for a long time. Of course the guy from eBay took only photos of the exterieur an the Front Panel. The CD Cover on the front was loose because of a brocken plastic thing.

Otherwise the specs of this Mac are as follow:

PowerMac 6100

• Introduced on March 1997
• Mac OS 7.1.2
• PowerPC 601 / 60MHz  (first Mac with Motorola PowerPC processor)
• Storage 160MB HardDrive (SCSI)
• Apple 600i 2x CD ROM
• Memory 8MB on Board antother 2x8MB 72pin SIMMS (total of 24MB)

For full sepcs on the PowerMac 6100 see the following Link:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac/specs/powermac_6100_60.html

Connectors:

• 1 ADB
• 1 HDI-45 (Display Connector)
• 1 Geoport Modem Port
• 1 Apple Serial Printer Port
• 1 Ethernet (AUII) 
• 1 SCSI Port
• 1 Audio In an Audio Out Jack

So here are some of the first Photos of the Mac:

The inside with the HD, CD-ROM and Floppy removed;

At teh Right you can see the rosty back side connectors;






Inside look after replacing the Hard Disk and with the CD and Floppy drive installed;






Front view with the case mounted (I sprayed the case in white);



Back view with all the connectors and the new Bezel;






This is the refurbished PowerMac 6100 with an Apple Extend Keyboard II connected
Just couldn't resist to try Space Quest 6 on it; (works great!)






In my next Blog I will go into depth with the installation of the System as well as the special HDI-45 connector and all the Upgrades I installed.


Thank you for reading

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Some on Topic Web links...

• Retro Roms
• http://www.abandonia.com/
• http://www.coolrom.com/
• http://www.retro-kit.co.uk/
• http://www.classic-retro-games.com/
• http://retrowaretv.com/
• http://myoldmac.net/
• http://www.pixelships.com/index.html

Play Apple II and IIgs games right in your Browser

If you are like me an love playing old school games from the 80's and 90's then you will undoubtly like the folowing link to a webpage that allows you to play old Apple II and IIgs games right in your Browser.
All you have to do is to install the Apple II emulator plugin engine and choose a game from a big list of well known Titles.

have fun!

 Virtual Apple  (www.virtualapple.org)