An Amstrad Mega PC is shown with a Sonic the Hedgehog cart inserted and being played on screen. It's a slimline horizontal 90s beige box of a PC with a slightly unsettling beige 3-button Mega Drive controller.

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1. Coffeehound RetroSharka (sharkabytes@oldbytes.space)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 12:10:21 UTC Coffeehound RetroSharka

   Good morning, Fediverse!

   Greets come with something that was a bit of a droolsome thing for a teen Sharka seeing them advertised and demoed on Bad Influence: The Amstrad Mega PC!

   DOS gaming AND Mega Drive gaming? All wrapped up in the beige-iest of boxes and controllers?

   Damn cool then and still today!

   The PC side clocked in at a 25mhz 386SX, 1MB ram, and 40MB HDD - not the snappiest of specs for 1993, but there was some wiggle room for what it came with. And at a price of £500-600 in the UK, similar to some of Amstrad's other budget PCs, it was a viable option for a best-of-both-worlds and to get in on DOS gaming without forking out a thousand or more.

   #Retrocomputing #Retrogaming #DOSGaming #PC #videogaming #90s