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Buying Amiga Forever from Cloanto gets you completely legally licensed Amiga kickstart rom images, AmigaOS workbench disk images, preset configs, and a bunch of software with easy launchers (for windows - while the suite is windows-oriented out of box, the rom and disk images of course work fine on linux/macosx uae).

Here's the pc version of retropie. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Debian/

If you stick with windows you can jnstall emulationstation, which is the front end retropie uses. You'll have a few more options for emulators. On a PC you can add full Mane whether you're using Linux or windows.

Seeing as it was on a school computer, could it have been Challege of the Ancient Empires ? It was part-educational software.

It would help if you linked to the actual device you were looking at. If you mean the atari flashback, then you don't need anything. It has HDMI out, which will work just fine on any modern TV.

At first I was going to tell you to use the rca cable jack on the side but you have a dirty/ damaged cartridge.

You can open the cartridge with this

The contacts on the board can be rubbed clean with an eraser.

Just be careful not to damage the board components.

Or use some alcohol and swab.

The contacts 8nside the nes could be worn or corroded as well.

It's easy to open the console up and clean/bend the contacts slightly so they are tighter on the cartridge.

Also....get an rca cable

Searching for "bad.exe", I can only find Bad Street Brawler, which doesn't help. The Train game sounds to me like it could be Railroad Tycoon, that has a lurid green backdrop.

Foregone is a fast and fluid 2D action-platformer packed with legendary loot and stunning pixel art. Collect an arsenal of powerful weapons and unravel a compelling story of regret and conspiracy as you slice your way through hordes of enemies to save Calagan. Available now in Early Access on Epic Games Store.

You can get that right this minute for free on PC. It's on a variety of abandonware sites Needs dosbox. You should be able to run it fine on a modern machine. High recommended if you enjoy Doom clones. It's a suspenseful game, but if you want the Alien as portrayed in the original film, mysterious and practically invincible, you'd obviously need to go modern with Alien Isolation. I also highly recommend that, as well.

But Alien trilogy is a great choice. Best Aliens game I can think of from the 90s.

> I'm not sure where you'd find the file. I think there have been some efforts ongoing to archive Flash games, but I don't know enough about those efforts to point you anywhere in particular. > > Here's an article about how you can use Adobe's offline Flash player to load the game once you have the .swf file: https://www.howtogeek.com/438141/how-to-play-adobe-flash-swf-files-outside-your-web-browser/ > > EDIT: Looking into it a bit more, Wiz 3 is listed on the Flashpoint Game Master List: https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/datahub/Game_Master_List, so you might want to check that out.

Thank you so much! I'll try. Here's hoping this old macbook can.

Why should we teach you when there are dozens of tutorials on the Internet? And even if we did direct you to the one we'd recommend you use, wouldn't you just end up watching some Hyperspin rando on YouTube instead?

Here's an introductory guide on the DOSBox Wiki, which I expect you to have tried looking for already:

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Basic_Setup_and_Installation_of_DosBox

Is your wife dead set on having accurate emulation? Or is she the kind to just enjoy playing games that she had when she was growing up?

If she just wants to play Gameboy games, I think the LDK Vertical might be a good fit for her: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QGZX6QB/ref=sr_aod_dp_ttl

I am going to get the negatives out of the way first; this thing will struggle a bit emulating anything that isn't Genesis/Gameboy/NES. You'll probably notice slowdown or other glitches if you try to run SNES (although a few games do run alright on it). A lot of GBA games run just fine on it, but you will definitely run into some titles that will give you some issues if you play a lot of games on the system.

You might also want to change the firmware which might be a bit daunting if you're not familiar with that kind of stuff. It isn't hard to do and there are Youtube guides for it, but I know some just want to play it right out of the box. I personally never used the stock firmware so I don't know how it runs or what games it comes with, but adding roms to these things is actually pretty easy.

And I think the biggest problem with the device is that the screen scratches pretty easily. Once the backlight is on it's not too bad, but if your wife is one of the people that gets annoyed by not having pristine devices, then that's another strike against it.

There are other options out there too that are more expensive but have better performance, but I honestly wouldn't recommend anything that says it has hundreds games preloaded on it. The really cheap ones that claim to have a bunch of games are definitely not worth it; they have terrible build quality and usually don't even have Gameboy games.

If you have any more questions, feel free to let me know. I know that there are a lot of people that hate dedicated emulation handhelds, but I think some people go a bit overboard. A controller and a smart phone don't quite emulate that nostalgic feeling in my opinion.

Most "emulator handhelds" are complete pieces of shit because they're usually unlicensed and running code that isn't even supposed to be sold commercially. Please for the love of God do not buy one. Especially one that comes with games preloaded, because those are most certainly being sold illegally.

I know there are people on certain talking about this or that Chinese handheld, but believe me, they're all garbage. There are 100% free emulators online that do the same job far better at no cost because they aren't written with the intent to sucker people like you out of their money.

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-White-PC/dp/B00005B8G2/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=gameboy+advance&qid=1606801422&sr=8-6

https://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-SP-Platinum/dp/B000087H7T/ref=pd_sbs_63_2/141-5348879-3472968?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B000087H7T&pd_rd_r=e9eb74c3-e16e-4433-8884-8e8f56aab441&pd_rd_w=EdQja&pd_rd_wg=TZlHf&pf_rd_p=...

Both of these will play original Game Boy games perfectly, as they are backwards-compatible. You can even play them in grayscale by pressing Left + B as you boot, something that I doubt any of those trash emu handhelds even bother to implement.

Oh, if OP meant an original 2600, then you're correct. They just need one of these and a coax cable to go from that adapter into the coax antenna-in on the TV. That's assuming new TVs still have analog tuners... I'm not 100% sure they do.

Really, as /u/thelatestmodel said, just get one of the flashback consoles. So much less hassle, and you get a shit-ton of games built in. If you get an original 2600 it's going to cost a small fortune to get a decent collection of carts going. Not worth it unless you legit are a collector.

You can get DosBox Turbo for Android - it worked quite well when I played around with it some time ago. I got it to run Commander Keen really well!

True, though playing N64 Quake II using this would probably be a pain in the ass considering that the D-Pad moves and the joystick turns.