| >Maybe PC collecting, restoring etc. will be as big a deal but it's just early on the curve still It is a fairly big deal for a lot of us, just in this room I'm sitting in I've got 3 vintage machines from the late 70s to early 80s, and 3 generations of Windows machines (95, 98, XP), alongside my work and personal computers. There are vintage computer fairs the world around, there are vintage computer clubs (ours here in the general Indy area meets monthly) the world around, there are numerous podcasts and some sizable YouTube content creators too. There is even a healthy level of developing new software and hardware for vintage computers and consoles. https://atariage.com/ is a quick look at (mostly, but not exclusively) Atari related for example. Then you have YouTube creators like: - LGR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ - Gaming Historian https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg - Modern Vintage Gamer https://www.youtube.com/c/ModernVintageGamer - Adrian's Digital Basement https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5dIscvDxrb7CD5uiJJOiw - 8Bit Guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww - Nostalgia Nerd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qPftDWPw9XuExpSgfkmJQ - This Does Not Compute https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp20NgOZHmgWdbQdHSxgjw - Noel's Retro Lab https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-SP1bYi3ueKlVU7I75wFw - RMC - The Cave https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroManCave - My Life in Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/mylifeingaming etc. A lot of the above channels have videos restoring vintage hardware, or doing dream builds with vintage hardware. Podcasts like: - ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/ - Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast https://floppydays.libsyn.com/ - Amigos Retro Gaming Network https://player.fm/series/amigos-retro-gaming-network-amigos-... - Retro Computing Roundtable http://rcrpodcast.com/ - Sprite Castle https://podcast.robohara.com/category/spritecastle/ - RetroMacCast https://retromaccast.libsyn.com/ etc Hardware and software developers/stores like: - https://retroradionics.co.uk/ (bought a brand spankin' new Joystick for my Atari machines from them in December, it's very nice) - https://atariage.com/store/ (you say you want to play Halo on your 2600?) - https://lotharek.pl/ - https://www.atarimax.com/ - https://newstuffforoldstuff.com/index.py etc There is also a very healthy vintage computer preservation community on the Internet Archive - preserving magazines, zines, newsletters, manuals, schematics, software, etc. - https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware - https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library - https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64 - https://archive.org/details/commodore_c64_manuals etc. |
If you don't mind my asking - do you know any channels or places that do full longplays of games on original hardware with no emulation? I try my best to find walkthroughs on games on youtube but they very rarely specify that it is using the original hardware. And Xbox og/360 longplays are the easiest because they haven't been emulated properly so almost all videos are on the hardware afaik.
Looking for 1997-2006 PC gaming and PS1/PS2. I guess I just like videos that aren't emulated and people like LGR only provide clips:P