Introductions - RVG Forum

Hello from Canada

retrocanuck — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:06:31 +0000

Hi there,

I'm originally from the UK and moved here years ago, so I grew up in the commodore/spectrum/amstrad/amiga years. The scene here is a bit different, a lot of the consoles, I don't see very many amigas or atari STs around here (canada), but I haven't been looking too hard on that.

Anyway, Its nice to find a place like this. Thank you.

Hello again... !!

dcultrapro — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:38:02 +0000

Thought I'd drop by again and say hello... hope everyones good and still loving the Retro life! Not sure if many members will remember me... but yeah... its been a minute :D I'm still loving retro gaming, but ended up selling a lot of my older stuff when my son was on the way... anyway hope everyone's well

Hello again

Carlos — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:23:45 +0000

Hello Everyone, I am Carl and I used to live here, it’s been a while.

How you all doing?

Well hi there! :)

DeadFleshRetro — Sat, 08 May 2021 17:27:37 +0000

Hi everyone, my name is Chris Dymond and, as Derek Andrews already mentioned in his intro, I stream and create content as DeadFleshRetro (a nod to the venerable and beloved ZX Spectrum keyboard, of course :)

I started trying to fix up and repair old 8 bit computers about 3 years ago, as a fun hobby to do with my son Flynn. Neither of us knew anything about micro-electronics really (I was always more of a software guy than hardware), and so it was fun for us to learn together, for a while. We refurbished a couple of Acorn Electrons, my old ZX Spectrum, a few Commodore 64s, and a bunch of consoles as well - some Atari 2600s, a Videopac G7000, a Nintendo DS, a Playstation 2, etc. As I've learned more over the years, it's really gripped me! :)

Flynn's interest has always been sporadic - he's only just 11 years old now, and has ADHD, and so naturally flits between interests rapidly - but when the lockdown started last year we thought it would be a fun thing to begin streaming old games running on original hardware that we had worked on. We had just finished building a house extension with a videogames "snug" when the first lockdown started, so we bought some gear and started figuring out how to stream. We ended up doing over 20 livestreams together, usually on Sunday mornings from 11am (UK time).

We stopped doing it last October, as Flynn wasn't into it any more, and I was concentrating on other things, but I decided to start it up again about a month ago, as I'd begun to get increasingly interested in the Signetics 2650 family of consoles, and the realisation that there was an entire British videogame console industry in the late 1970s and early 80s that is largely forgotten. I started collecting (broken) APVS 1292 consoles to try to assemble a complete set of British produced machines, from Radofin, Acetronic, Prinztronic, Rowtron/Teleng and Videomaster/Voltmace. I then also discovered the Hanimex HMG2650, which is a British/Australian clone of the Emerson Arcadia 2001, which uses an evolution of the APVS architecture.

The Hanimex is the first machine that I've been able to convert to Composite output, and can now livestream through my AV stack in the "Snug". I'm working to get other machines converted so I can show those as well.

In the process of doing this, and streaming on Sunday mornings I got in touch with Derek, who is working on ways to make it realistic to begin coding on these platforms again, and I really want to help him do this - it would be great to take some of the existing games which were produced at breakneck speed to hit a market that was beign disrupted by much more capabile machinery, and see what they could have been and what the underlying platforms are really capable of delivering.

And so we looking for anyone who collects these platforms, codes on them (or would like to), and especially anyone who used to work for any of the firms involved! And if anyone has something they would like to contribute to our work and content, please get in touch!

Let me know here or at DeadFleshRetro@gmail.com and go check the streams out if you're into this stuff - it's niche, but I think it's really fascinating to explore :)

Cheers everyone, I'm really looking forward to being part of this community and seeing if anyone else is as interested in these machines as we are!

CD

DeadFleshRetro is on...
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC21J52nwWMdnsBUyk2sXn8A
Twitch: http://twitch.tv/DeadFleshRetro
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeadFleshRetro
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DeadFleshRetro

Voltmace Database fan here

sig2650 — Wed, 05 May 2021 01:11:54 +0000

Hello from Nova Scotia, though I am originally from the UK where amongst other things I worked for Voltmace where I programmed a couple of games for them. I pretty much forgot all about for several decades but am getting back into programming, mainly on an emulator, but I now have two Voltmace consoles that I am working on getting running on modern tvs. I have recently teamed up with Chris of Dead Flesh Retro https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC21J52nwWMdnsBUyk2sXn8A to try and promote interest in the Interton/1292 APVS family of consoles.

Hello

ninjamaster — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:47:54 +0000

Hello , I'm new here . My name is Guglielmo from Turin (Italy) and I have been a lifelong fan of Capcom particularly the Resident Evil,Street Fighter,Onimusha series.

I grew up playing and adoring the Pc Engine and SNES,I really have good memories of these consoles.

My fav RE games are:Re 2 (Psx),Re (gamecube) and Re Rebirth (Gamecube)

Happy to be here ^^

Greetings and Intellivision Info

Intv Prime — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 16:04:16 +0000

Hi all! Here to represent Intv Prime, a small collection of folks making games and tools for the classic Intellivision console.

Wanted to make two quick mentions for anyone interested:

1. The Intellivision Virtual Expo is coming on November 21 (http://go.pkg.cc/ive2020), which is a collection of online sessions from 21st Century developers and publishers putting out new games and content. Hosted by Intellivision Revolution. We are also organizing some live-play Intellivision game streams. Fun!

2. Intellivision Day will be here on December 3 (http://go.pkg.cc/ipid2020), where the worldwide Inty-fan community commits to play any game in the catalog to celebrate the "birthday" of the console. Fun!

If you've got the time, and your disc thumb is strong, please join! :)

Thanks.

Ciao gente!

rantonio — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 15:25:20 +0000

Hi everybody!
Here is Antonio from the '90!

The best game I ever played? I think it is FTA (Faery Tale Adventure) though I just used to kill everything moving to begin with. ::)
Later, once I started understanding a little bit of English, I could actually appreciate to the fullest the complexity of the storytelling!

What do I do now? Mostly program and design embedded electronics!
See you around! ;)

Hello Retro Gamers!

HDN — Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:15:59 +0000

Hey everyone! I'm HDN. In August, I joined atari.io after I saw a No Swear Gamer giveaway. That was my first ever forum experience. Soonafter, TrekMD PM'ed me wondering if I wanted to join this forum. Since I was such a newbie to the whole forum thing, I declined at first as I wanted to get the hang of it first. Fast forward to today, I was looking through my old PM's and I realized that I never ended up joining! So here I am!

Anyways, my story begins after many other people's. I first started playing my dad's SNES in 2010 and have been addicted to retro gaming! I'm only 15, but I've already developed a deep appreciation for these games and their history. Mainly, I'm a massive Nintendo fan, but I'm also pretty big on Atari and the second generation of games in general(a lot more so lately as a member of the I/O and AtariAge). I enjoy Sega for what it's worth, but I'm not a huge fan. I don't think much of non-Nintendo modern gaming like whatever Sony and Microsoft are doing, but I'm up to talk about almost anything game related, ESPECIALLY retro stuff.

Recently many of my video games are held hostage in my mother's closet, but I hope to get them back soon!

I can't wait to talk to everyone here! Hope you all like retro gaming as much as I do!

Presentation

gabrielm — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 06:12:39 +0000

Hello everyone around here I have just registered in the forum I came to you browsing the web and seeing the site without hesitation I decided to register since I am addicted to games and old consoles I still have my ps1 in excellent condition and I hope it works be able to share information of interest with you