8bitbay.com - my site

[Matej]

Hello friends.
I started https://www.8bitbay.com its not so cool as amibay, sellmyretro more simple very easy to use but I will be happy if You will support my project. Also tell all Your friends! Main idea was to have marketplace like mini ebay for 8bit computers but I have added Amigas etc too.
Currently it support whole Europe, USA...

 

[HanJammer]

Very cool idea. Although I don't really get why there is "MS-DOS" and "PC Windows" category.

There should be just IBM PC compatibles category and that's all.

 

[Matej]

Very cool idea. Although I don't really get why there is "MS-DOS" and "PC Windows" category.

There should be just IBM PC compatibles category and that's all.

Czesc! Will rename Windows to Modern PCs! Thank You. Nice Amiga 2000 btw! Still coding & tuning website.

 

[veetya]

Hi,

Good idea for the straight&easy site. I also feel like "MS-DOS" or "Windows" might be a bit misleading.
If you counted it as a small advice, I'd rather name it maybe like "486 and older" or "Socket 3 and older", newer h/w could go automatically to "Modern" PCs then.

Just registered, seems a promising place, good luck!

veetya (aka h4rry)

P.S. /me likes simplicity

 

[SaviorX]

technically (virtually) every PC was a windows PC, Windows 1.x only required a 8088/8086 with 256k of RAM.

PCs are more easily divided by era. (short of dividing everything in it's own category anyways, systems, motherboards, video, sound, etc)

at this stage I'd consider anything older than a PII as 'vintage/retro' (P1-MMXs are now more than a quarter century old, except for the very last versions). PIIs, PIIIs and single core P4s are kind of an intermediate (and don't seem
to be worth very much, though I think PIIs might fall into the retro category shortly, they'll be 25 years old next year), anything dual-core (excluding older dual/multi-processor systems of course) and better would be considered 'modern' imo.

that of course doesn't even touch how to divide up things like expansion cards (of which there were easily tens upon tens of thousands...), ISA, VLB and MCA would no doubt be 'vintage', what do you do about AGP (1x - 8x) and PCI , PCIe is of course 'modern'

it's tricky, in part because there was/is just so much stuff.

 

[Matej]

So I made MSDOS (for 386, 486, 586) and Modern PC for core duo, quad... will tuning site more tomorrow. Please register.

 

[HanJammer]

So I made MSDOS (for 386, 486, 586) and Modern PC for core duo, quad... will tuning site more tomorrow. Please register.

I would just leave it at "Vintage PCs" (which implies things at least 20 years old) and simply PCs (it's hard to say Pentium 4 for example is Modern, but it's not vintage as well). Or just ban anything not counting as vintage (otherwise you will be flooded with all sort of Socket 478, Socket 754, early PCI-E and similar cr*p in no time).

I wouldn't add MSDOS because it's just one OS that runs on PCs like that - others being even as old as CP/M. Not to mention MSDOS still runs perfectly fine on my Ryzen 9 based PC.

Also kudos for not using word "Retro" anywhere but in context of remakes as it's exactly where it should be used (people nowadays seem to mistake it with vintage while "retro" in context of hardware basically means the same as "modern hardware stylized as/reminescent of old hardware"

 

[Matej]

Fixed! I renamed to Vintage PCs and Multicore PCs. I think CoreDuo etc is modern. While even 700mhz Duron can be vintage PC build.