Craig Cole's Video Gaming & Pinball Blog
Showing the kids what home video games were like in our day, compared with the games we played at the arcades. (December 2011)
Games
Paperboy by Atari, Moon Cresta by Nichibutsu
Craig, Chris, Dave, Pete and Steve at the r3play 2011 retro gaming event. Attended both the Saturday and Sunday, stayed overnight in blackpool (lots of beers and a bit of Karaoke).
Had a brilliant time, the event gets better each year. We lost Dave early days to the Pinball Alley, mostly ‘The Addams Family’ machine. I was so lost into the gaming that I just forgot to take many pics or vids. We good to meet some of the folks from Jammaplus forums, and some of the cabs. Sweet. Managed to get to quite alot of the talks this time around, really interesting. This event needs to be on Monthly.
Again, all with big grins on our face all day long.
The DivIDE Interface with a CF card running on a ZXSpectrum, allowing me to play the games with the original hardware, but with current media and fast loads.
DivIDE is an ATA (IDE) interface which takes your ZX Spectrum computing to a whole new level.
As the time takes its toll on ageing media such as audio tapes or diskettes, many ZX Spectrum enthusiasts simply stick to emulation for better reliability and comfort. With divIDE you can put your software collection to a hard disk, CD-ROM or even CompactFlash card and experience your favourite games, demos and utilities the way the were meant to be run – and even better. Using existing firmwares, many users find their Speccy box again a live platform – time for you to make the switch? ;]” (quoted from http://baze.au.com/divide)
Craig and Chris, at the r3play 2010 retro gaming event. We had an awesome time, we both had the biggest grins on our face all day long. Great time on the arcade machines, Chris was blown away with the Cave shumps, I had a blast on the Amiga (set highscore on Project X). Chris went old school with a gaming session on the BBC Electron, playing a newly released game. I played Craig Tempest 2000 for the Jaguar at R3play 2010. Whilst the creator watched us Jeff Minter. using a modded controller they did for the game.
