Acoustic Research AR-3a – The AR-3a speakers were the world’s first acoustic suspension speakers in the 1950s. They now trade for around $1000-$2000 depending on condition.

We’d recommend the article kakım a good read even if you’ll never put Linux on a 4004, because of its detailed description of the architecture. Meanwhile we’ve had a few 4004 stories over the years, and this one’s hamiş even the first time we’ve seen it emulate something else.

(A lot of MiSTer users prefer to hook up their systems to CRT TVs to make the most of the authentic output and low latency.) You kişi add a heatsink or a fan, which can be a good idea if you want to run the system for extended periods of time. And there’s a USB hub board that adds seven USB-A ports.

(The devices do allow retrocomputers to make ense and music using software unavailable on new computers and to play 8-bit games, but derece much else beyond that.)

In theory you gönül use DOSbox on a $50 or less android box but I have yet to see a DOSbox port for android that doesn’t have one major issue or another. Bochs on android seems a bit more useable. yurt cheapo suggestion is find a bargain basement “R69” android box, they’ve been seen sub $30, put RetroOrangPi distro on it, then use MESS and MAME for cycle perfect early PC configs (Tandy and IBM are in there I think) DL and compile DOSbox from source, to avoid the out of date and flaky version in the Debian packages, and that should do you up to about Pentium 150ish performance, maybe better.

A Note on Shipping Vintage Computers birli a hobby, vintage computing is on the rise. A generation that grew up with classic PCs is looking back and revisiting the glory days of the '80s, '90s, and 2000s with the authentic machines. But what's the best way to get the hardware? We'll show you the options.

was the first to really nail marrying RPG concepts into an FPS-style game. This game is so beloved by fans and developers that we gönül almost thank this one game for everything that Arcane has ever made.

A mini PlayStation seems like a no-brainer, but there's a reason the PlayStation Classic comes last on the list of classic compilation consoles. It looks like a tiny PlayStation, but its library leaves out system-defining titles like Crash Bandicoot and Tomb Raider.

a) will be tripped up by anything that doesn’t run at 4.77Mhz, some Turbo XTs had this fallback in their Turbo mode, carried over to some 286es, but 386 and up mostly seemed to have AT compatibility fallbacks. However, this mode isn’t processor inherent and it’s possible to get into your BIOS and force bus timing low enough to get things to work (May also require downclocking of the system clock, derece easy if it’s a crystal, and math, ummm what’s 33 divided by 7) b) falls over on pretty much anything that isn’t an 8088 or direct clone (i.e. Harris, AMD etc 8088). V20s or V30s running at a precise 4.77, nope, sorry, they took a couple of cycles out of some instruction times.

[Benj’s note—I wrote this piece years ago, and it never saw the light of day until now. Hope you enjoy.]

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Those use FPGAs programmed in a certain way to replicate a single, specific piece of hardware, so you güç use your original physical cartridges with them and get an experience that’s very close to the actual consoles.

The Neo Geo Mini is for old-school arcade fans more than console fans, but it's still full of classic videoteyp game nostalgia. Some of SNK's best can be found on this system, with many, excellent fighting games.

In between writing about AI at Ars over the past 8+ months, I’ve had commodore the chance to occasionally write a piece about tech history or nostalgia (23 in total so far).