Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️

VGA Visions of a terraformed Mars in the 33rd century - and a pair of pursuit fighters on the tail of an Imperial spy.

📺: Frontier: Elite II, David Braben/Gametek/Chris Sawyer (who fixed a LOT of Braben's bugs for the DOS release), 1993

#DOSGaming #Frontier2 #Elite #DOS #Retrogaming #retrocomputing

A textured 256-colour VGA bridge over a grassy flat plain with starport buildings and a factory beneath a blue sky.

A screenie of the game with a pair of texture-mapped polygon Federal Fighters flying by in formation through space

A screenie of the Mars Starport starting point with a terraformed and snow-capped Olympus Mons in the background rising above a starport and a Federal Fighter in third person.

A snap of texture-mapped towerblocks rising to a blue sky.

Like 30 August at 18:47 | Open on oldbytes.space

Delta Wye

@SharkaBytes I saw Stuart Ashens saying this was a video game with one of the fastest Game Overs ever - you could crash on takeoff and end the game in about one second.

30 August at 19:12 | Open on mstdn.social

Coffeehound RetroSharka 🏳️‍⚧️

Good morning, Fediverse!

Greets come with something that was a bit of a droolsome thing for a teen Sharka seeing them advertised and demoed on Bad Influence: The Amstrad Mega PC!

DOS gaming AND Mega Drive gaming? All wrapped up in the beige-iest of boxes and controllers?

Damn cool then and still today!

The PC side clocked in at a 25mhz 386SX, 1MB ram, and 40MB HDD - not the snappiest of specs for 1993, but there was some wiggle room for what it came with. And at a price of £500-600 in the UK, similar to some of Amstrad's other budget PCs, it was a viable option for a best-of-both-worlds and to get in on DOS gaming without forking out a thousand or more.

#Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #DOSGaming #PC #videogaming #90s

Good morning, Fediverse!

Greets come with something that was a bit of a droolsome thing for a teen Sharka seeing them advertised and demoed on Bad Influence: The Amstrad Mega PC!

DOS gaming AND Mega Drive gaming? All wrapped up in the beige-iest of boxes and controllers?

Damn cool then and still today!

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An Amstrad Mega PC is shown with a Sonic the Hedgehog cart inserted and being played on screen. It's a slimline horizontal 90s beige box of a PC with a slightly unsettling beige 3-button Mega Drive controller.

Like 5 Aug 2023 at 11:42 | Open on oldbytes.space

Scribblemacher

@SharkaBytes the ad says you can connect a Mega CD to this as well. I assume a 32x would work as well. Could this machine create the mightiest Tower of Power? :cat_think: