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Retro PC Gaming   I can remember walking into a Game Shop as a kid and walking around, looking at the games on offer for the various computers of the day. There had been computers around for decades, but they were starting to be available to have in the home. The Spectrum, the Dragon, the Commodore 64, the Vic 20 and the BBC Micro. Not to forget the mighty Amiga and Atari ST. There were games galore, some on cassette, some on disk, and most were rather expensive, especially the big name companies.  Sometime later, the Personal Computer (PC) came into the price range of the mainstream user, IBM did a deal with Microsoft and Windows became the standard Operating System for the PC. Games started to get better as the equipment got better, processors got faster, memory got better and faster, graphics cards designed with gaming in mind were appearing in shops, with their own dedicated memory on board. I remember the first PC I bough