[Noisebridge-discuss] Trying to figure out the name of an old computer

[Felipe Sanches]

based on info from this website: http://nonmess.retrogames.com/
it looks like MESS has some "preliminary" emulation support for it (whatever
"preliminary" means...)

mess:
http://mess.redump.net/


On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com>wrote:

> Got it!  It was the Panasonic JR-200U.  The game I was thinking of was Joe
> Junk Man.
>
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=553<http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1630>
> http://www.armchairarcade.com/neo/node/1630
>
> Man, and to think my mom threw out all that stuff as worthless when I went
> to college.  I miss waiting half an hour to play a game.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org>wrote:
>
>> perhaps an MSX?
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX
>>
>> There are several models of MSX made by a multitude of different
>> companies, each one with a different look.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Robert Fletcher <lobatifricha at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  Back when I was a kid my mom brought me home an old computer and I was
>>> trying to remember the make of it, but it's gone now and I haven't had any
>>> luck finding it online.  I was wondering if anybody here might have an idea
>>> what it was.  It was one of the old keyboard computers that you had to hook
>>> up to your TV.  It had blue rubbery keys and you had to load up games
>>> through a tape deck.  The only game I can recall was something like 'Tommy
>>> the Trash Collector' or the like, something similar to Pac-Man.  Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rob
>>>
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