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i hope no ones angry when i post some classic arcade space shoot em up screenshots here.just to let you remember the good ol' daysto start off just a few, i think i don't have to comment them

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Yes good memories there Potsmoke! For me though, this was the bomb

Any one know of a good front for Mame I like to revist some these old arcade games.

Frontend for mame?i use MAME32but i think this is the most recent one [url]http://www.mameui.info/[/url] is that your machine geraldine? or a pic from one of the arcade nutheads, you find in web? i know some have entire collections of arcade machines, crazy, really crazy.a unstarted task of mine, since im not bad as a carpenter, also envolved in electronics, i allways wanted to put mame on a (not so)old PC of mine as a single thing, then fix it up in a arcade like shell with a tubescreen of course, and some heavy buttons to hammer on. :lol:this (phoenix) and 'cresta was the first games i really get addicted to, i guess it was the docking sequence what makes me addicted to mooncresta.and would you believe me i could play, aged 15 of course, mooncresta's 7&8 stage (where the missiles drop from the top) with a covered screen, just by the stereo sound of the game.RIGHT ON!

"potsmoke66" wrote:
btw, is that your machine geraldine? or a pic from one of the arcade nutheads, you find in web? i know some have entire collections of arcade machines, crazy, really crazy.
Oh I WISH Potsmoke I could be that crazy and have my very own Defender arcade machine in my home <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_lol.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> You are correct that there are people out there who have their homes full of them. These genuine machines go for crazy money these days. If you still have an Amiga up and running, look out for Oblivion, a great Defender clone. <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

I was actually wondering if putting a collection of ROMS in the download area would be legal for me to do? I know most of these games are 20+ years old but some companies will still whine about it. But it is also another way to archive the past for others to enjoy later on in the future :)I have been having the hardest time tracking down info on old games and whether they are abandoned and can be legally hosted for free on a website. So if anyone knows of any good websites that show lists of games and that are abandoned or released as freeware do let me know. So I can gather them up and post them here.My all time favorite is Galaga and i remember chatting about FunSpot here it is one of the largest classic arcades in the world here in my home state of NH and (30-40mins from home) and love going there and playing the oldies.

potsmoke66 wrote:
Frontend for mame?i use MAME32but i think this is the most recent one [url]http://www.mameui.info/[/url]
Cheer's potsmoker66 will have get down to downloading some rom for it.
Darkone wrote:
I have been having the hardest time tracking down info on old games and whether they are abandoned and can be legally hosted for free on a website. So if anyone knows of any good websites that show lists of games and that are abandoned or released as freeware do let me know. So I can gather them up and post them here.
Not sure about the legal aspect about hosting old games,but there are a lot of sites hosting old game,maybe you need to put in some sort of disclaimer to the effect that you will remove the game if any one objects it being there.Have a look at http://www.abandonia.com/enand http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

Yea, I agree with Pinback, just put in a disclaimer, so if there are any legal objections, it's easy to pull the offending material. If all else fails, you could always provide links to other sites who provide "demos", ..........if you get what I mean As for building your own full on arcade machine, there are loads of sites on this, here is a link to just one of them http://arcadecontrols.com/arcade.htm

Yeah I know. I might just go ahead and do a little over time. I just hate seeing games disappear forever because a company doesn't want to give up the distribution rights to a 10-30yr old game that they don't make any money on any more. Thought about making packages for each of the game types like Atari, Coleco, Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Nitendo and Genesis games that are only space related and make one download with all the roms in them. It's a little project but would be a great archive of the space games in the future. Then work on the PC related ones.

That's a very ambitious aim Darkone. A Space Sim Smithsonian online forever! :girlcrazy: Yea, I can picture a very bored crew of a real star ship in the far future (Darkstar?), wondering, "what you want to do tonight?" says one. "Hey why don't we look at those crazy retro space games they used to play 100s of years ago in the ship's database, you know listed under some site on what used to be laughingly called the internet. Space Sim Central, I think?" says the other. "Yea why not, I've tried all the holo deck programs already and it's just the same old rubbish that I can't be bothered with plus the drinks have no alcohol, BORING!!", says the other in a strangely Homer-a-like voice. :girldrunk: Hey, you never know, it could happen. Wonder what they would make of our posts on here? :girlhaha:

If so Geraldine I want to download my subconsciousness to a computer and be the virtual tour guide to the past :)Yeah that is a long term goal is to do my best to archive everything and start with the oldest and work forward while there is still places to get the downloads from. And as long as I am able to run SSC I will renew the hosting every year and even if I couldn't I would pose something to the community to ask for help. But SSC is in a nice niche place and hopefully be around long enough to be in someones spaceship archive when there making long distance runs to Pluto It would be nice someday to celebrate a 25th anniversary. Just that feat alone will be a big one (heck yeah because i'll almost be retirement age by then... i'll have to make a name change from DarkOne to OldOne... hehe). And I might need a super computer to house all the software and archive the site. In 25 yrs there could be tens of millions of posts in the forums.Never mind the fact that will we even be sitting at a computer to surf the net by then? Or will everyone have an implant that streams content directly into your brain...? Be like the matrix.oh btw Galaga for the win....[hsimg]http://blog.arcadetables.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/galaga-screenshot.jpg[/hsimg]

Darkone wrote:
Yeah I know. I might just go ahead and do a little over time. I just hate seeing games disappear forever because a company doesn't want to give up the distribution rights to a 10-30yr old game that they don't make any money on any more. Thought about making packages for each of the game types like Atari, Coleco, Spectrum, C64, Amiga, Nitendo and Genesis games that are only space related and make one download with all the roms in them. It's a little project but would be a great archive of the space games in the future. Then work on the PC related ones.
Excellent idea,but you might not want to do Saga/Nintendo as they are quit protective of there copyright.also you need to put links to the emulatorgood site for finding many old 8/16 bit games.http://www.thegamearchives.com/?val=0_2_1_0_0_1_1_0_5_0_0

Have a look at this. While watching it I had a stupid grin appear on my face <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//icon_redface.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':oops:' />[url]http://www.youtube.c...h?v=EqxfDnmRB1M[/url]

Thats amazing ,wonder what his electricity bill is like.

this get's my eyes popping out wow, a electronic dreamland (for a arcade addicted like i was),i never thought this thread will get so much attention, but on the other hand i knew, everybody must rember ityes, copyrights are a problem, for some of the rom images i spent nights to find them in the most unexpected places where you can search for e.g. there was a very big list of images on, believe me it's true, Buenos Aires tourist's information page, in between all the ad's for hotels, casinos, pools, and i don't know, was a little thread for home entertainment, if you went there there was the thread for the mame rom images, i guess then (~2000) it was the most complete list i found.of course nintendo (foremost) and sega still watching over their games like argos, but arcade, except sega of course, they havent made. there is only one nintendo mario coin op i remember, and it's the battle scene you find in supermario (p vs p).original donkey kong belongs to namco (which stands for nintendo of america corporation?), i guess, even if nintendo is the copyright holder now.funny to read sometimes the piracy warnings: "IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME OUTSIDE OF JAPAN THE YOU ARE INTO A SERIOUS CRIME", funny to read when you sit at home knowing that you should own the original machine before you can play at home anyway.personnally i guess to they should free that stuff, but i know nintendo still makes money out of it when they release some old stuff for the mobile phone, they had and have still the hardest business behave, every game that has started to sold less has been taken from the market, no possibilities for retail or off price. sony, sega, any you can buy after a certain time for the half of the new price or even less, nintendo never, full price or nothing, bandits in my eyes, a real piracy.further they kept their games locked up good, waited for the next handheld and released the same crap again, now they sell it for the mobile, next will be when you have you console on your watch they will release supermario again, i'm shure.30 years selling the same game over and over again wait, next will be a console in your sun-glasses, so you can play with the glove while jogging through the forest but i must say i also have no idea how or where to get the information, which rom images are free (if any at all), i guess some have bought copyrights it's still a business as long as there is a market for it, even when they are only interested in the brand, i guess. NAMCO imo would still sound good, so you can buy this brand for your own purpose, even when you are not interested in the 30 years old coinops they made, they belong then to you. (remember what has happened to the brand AMIGA, you can never sell any computer with that name no more, they sell cheap plastic crap for home or office use under that name now )but those people would make money from a piece of ...., i don't have to tell you.finally if i count all the money i dropped in to the slots of flippers and space shooters, i would own them anyway (not the game, the company i ment). i wasn't the best player at all and had allways to spend a lot money to reach scores like some of my friends did, or i never reached it anyway, two of them was able to play on the "easy" machines like "gyruss" for 4 hours with one credit and they wasn't finished then, but bored or tired.

found a defender PC version[url]http://forgottenroots.de/index.php?way=game&gid=371[/url]

I also uncovered an Amiga version of Defender called Oblivion. This was the best version of Defender I ever came across. Not for the faint hearted! I had to dig through my coverdisks to find the right one, but here is a link for an ADF file, the disk you need is "B" http://amr.abime.net/issue_337_coverdisksAlso here is some info from The One Amiga magazine in which the game originally featured, have fun!

thanx a lot geraldinehavn't visited this thread since long i knowsounds impressive (and old...)no, in fact the other game they was talking about "cybernetix" i had (i guess it's ashes now, but i knew then i could get all back via web now) and played it even very oftenbtw, got my miggy back home now (both)good to know she's not longer gone astray oh, yes, do you know any address where i can get some A4000 hardwarei broke my scsii emulator chip for the A4000, since i don't know... (poor mans cd-rom drive solution)the thing was back then i had no web (of course not) and the amiga stores was about to close then, anyway there wasn't many in switzerland, two to be exact, in a wide circle around zürich.i still have broken cd32 i guess (not confirmed) in the box and for shure a communicator (confirmed) there's a little story story behind the cd32 i boughta big discounter here re-imported them from GB and dumped the price for it completely (SFr. 200.-, ~150 euro now, price on market before ~ SFr 400.- )but they never sold a piece of software for it, stupid no?i had to travel elsewhere then to get some games for it (usually i don't order things, i like to see what i buy, old fashioned, i know and first of all, i hate bills)more history,the first A500 i got as a leftover from a friendthen i bought me a second-hand A2000 from someone who thought that it is no "real computer" (is a pc a real computer?) the second A500 which still lives on i found on a construction site, yes its true, we was doing up a copy shop thenthat poor machine was pushed into a dark corner, complete with the monitori asked, and yes "of course take this rubbish where you like"i guess if i never give one computer away it will be exactly this A500, i saved her soul from beeing wrecked (still some pink color sprinkles from the copy shop are on top of it)

Hi Potsmoke, yes that link for Oblivion contains even more wonderful stuff on that site, glad you liked it! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> Now to your question about obtaining Amiga bits. The best place I have found so far is Amibay, link, [url]http://www.amibay.com/index.php[/url] The site is run on a very strict basis to ensure all trades are carried out fairly and honestly. My own 4000 has been dead for 10 years, but thanks to that site, I am almost there to bringing her back to life. There is also lots of handy hints to carry out repairs yourself too and one last bit of advice concerning the 500+, 2000 and 4000 Amigas, take the battery out right now! After all this time, they leak and could destroy the motherboard circuits with acid! <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//shok.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':O' /> The one in my 4000 very nearly did, but I got lucky and got it out just in time.As for Cybernetix, here is a link for another ADF file, look for the cover disk that says Shepherd on it, left hand side of the web page, second one down, Cover disk number 85b [url]http://amr.abime.net..._241_coverdisks[/url] <img src="'[url]http://spacesimcentral.com/forum/public/style_emoticons//wink3.gif[/url] class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />