[kiawe_fire]

I grew up during the monolithic Windows XP / 7 era, so vintage computers (especially 80s) has fascinated me.

Glad I’m not alone!

Haven’t acquired any myself yet, but I’d like to. In fact I’m glad to hear you’re having fun with the C64 since I figured that would be my first one.

Recommendations?

The lisp machines are really cool, and I believe the MSX has been mentioned.

However one that I keep coming back to with fascination is the Sharp X68000, a Japanese computer based on the Motorola 68k.

It used hardware very similar to late 80s and early 90s arcade games, and in fact has excellent ports of things like Street Fighter 2.

But the whole aesthetic of it, along with what it could output for graphics and sound - as an outsider, it looks like it was way ahead of the US and UK computers of the time (the closest contender being the Amiga).

Would love to pick one up and try writing some code for it someday, although I expect I’ll need to brush up on my Japanese.

[albertkoz]

I got my first computer in the early 90's, so for the very same reason vintage computers fascinate me. I started with C64 as it's cheap and got amazing community around. To this day, couple of brand new games are released every year. Mine got wifi card and SD card reader. I actually got already 3 different commodore64 models, as I couldn't decide which one I like the most. Amigas are great, but they also are getting expensive. I bought my c64 for 50 Euro with the cables etc.