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Picked up a Dreamcast at the weekend - Very cheap - it was boxed and very white!
Also got a PS2 Fat Boy SCPH39003 which has cleaned up really well - excellent condition under the grime - together with two official controllers and the funny little camera - very pleased with this as it was dirt cheap also.
Got my new PC speakers through the post earlier this morning :)... I wanted a pair of semi-decent speakers that don't take up my desk, so i opted for a pair of 'Creative Gigaworks T20' speakers, and WOW!! These things are loud for their size and the sound quality is on another level compared to my other speakers (which i thought were ok, but too big!).
Very impressed :thumbsup:
I used to have a set of those and I agree they are a really decent set of Speakers.
Stupidly I sold them during a mad moment but I have since replaced them with another Creative pair and they are also really good although they probably don't give such a big sound. They look good set up with my A1200 though.
Our new iPads were delivered friday. My first time with a tablet, but enjoying it so far :)
The bass output on the T20's is immense considering the size of the cones! I have to turn the bass down... I think these would put most 2.1 setups to shame :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I got a premium bond payout :) 25 Pounds :) wonder where I`ll spend it...
And bits for lightgun project arrived
Got my Everdrive MD (Thanks Amineo), a brand new shiny Apple Ipad 2 and some Panasonic cordless home phones today so i don't have to keep running downstairs to answer it lol.
Finally found a USB to 9 pin joystick adapter. Now I can use real joysticks in WinUAE instead of cheap and nasty PC gamepads.
:lol: i share your anger, how humiliating that LG (LuckyGoldstar?!) seem better for retro consoles.Quote:
Originally Posted by AmiNeo
But then i can't have an LG tv in my lounge:picard
So I'll have to find a way round it, maybe i phone samsung for advice:)
Today, the postal Lady provided a few goodies:
First a small box for OWC. OWC (for those that don't know) is a great On-Line Mac store.
I know, I broke down and bought Win7 Home Premium and Parallels desktop 7 OEM.
I tried Oracle"s Virtual box, but I could not get anywhere with it with XP Pro on my iMac. I bought it because the new Adobe CS5 subscription (every time I use it, I have to re-enter my serial number) really ticks me off, and I want to go back to CS2 and Dreamweaver 8.
I also got a box of Amiga Goodies for an ebay Auction I won a few weeks ago.
A DBK Multi Start 2 Expansion Board and it came in a Amiga OS 2.4 Rom upgrade kit.
I will be starting a tread on A2000's and I have 3 Refurbs to do in the next few months.
What's wrong with LG? They've come a very long way since the Goldstar days and are just as good, if not better than Samsung at the moment (i feel Samsung TV's and PC monitors have dropped in quality over the last few years)... LG are currently one of the top electrical brands out there!Quote:
Originally Posted by Snoozy:lol: i share your anger, how humiliating that LG (LuckyGoldstar?!) seem better for retro consoles.Quote:
Originally Posted by AmiNeo
But then i can't have an LG tv in my lounge:picard
I've had my LG TV for the last couple of years now and it's still trounces over some of the latest models from other manufactureres when it comes to picture (and even sound) quality! It uses a nice S-IPS panel with 2ms response time... Great colour accuracy, detail and speed! Perfect for gaming :thumbsup:
Both Samsung and LG are Korean brands, so i wouldn't be surprised if they share components (lots of companies use panels and other components from different manufacturers). Even the highly rated Dell Ultrasharp IPS monitors (and others including Asus) use LG panels, so they can't be that bad :wink:
Having a nice big TV from LG is nothing to be ashamed of :cool:
I suppose it depends on your point of view but LG to me has always been a budget brand like Goodmans etc. I prefer Samsung, Sony, Toshiba etc.
I would think of LG as being like Hyundai/Kia or Skoda, you know the cars have improved but you still don't really want one :lol:
Interestingly, before LCD TV's were commonplace, Samsung was very much a budget minded brand like LG was. They only really took off and made a big dent on the market by being Microsofts TV of choice for the Xbox 360 launch.
LG just never seem interested in marketing their products, which I think would explain why it's still seen as a budget oriented brand more than Samsung.
I used to be picky about my brands, but nearly every large compnay uses items from rivals to the point that it feels like we're all buying the same device with a different Case and tweaked GUI. (Android phones spring to mind here)
It always make me laugh when I see opinions about brands like this. A lot of so called budget brands are manufactured in the same factory by the same people using the same components as the big brands. The only difference is they stick a different badge on the front and then stick £200 extra onto the price tag.
Well Samsung and Sony have developed their lcd screens technology in collobaration with each other over the past decade so i somehow doubt that LG is sharing in that level of technology:)Quote:
Originally Posted by -Acid-
Anyway i think we are diverging from the thread topic
Been at the (now annual) Retro Gaming Exhibition (Retrospelsmässan) here in Gothenburg, picked up these beauties for a decent price even though I arrived a bit late. They sorta underestimated the number of people coming so I had to stand in line from 11.45 to 12.45-ish, thankfully the line was full of other retro nerds so I had some people to chat with. :lol:
First find: Sega Arcade Stick in good condition for £xx, very happy with this.
This baby should work fine with my Amigas and C64 too I reckon.
Pounded away a bit at Castlevania and Thunderforce III with better precision than a gamepad, that's for sure.
(my brain is programmed with joysticks, what can I say)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30...ck_massa02.jpg
Was also persuaded to buy this Playstation 1 bundle by a seller for about £xx:
Console, power+AV leads and two cotrollers. Also picked up that Duke game for another £2, what the hell. :)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30...S1_massa01.jpg
All in all plenty of good deals to be had if you wanted hardware, they sold loads of NES/SNES bundles for reasonable prices.
Software/cartridges were sold more at a premium imho, but most of the sellers were professional stores (at least part time).
Same guy also sold Sega Saturns for a killer price, but I was too late to the show to get any of those. Oh well! Still very happy.
PS. Now I know why the PSone controller was so cheap, some oxydization on pad left, R1 and R2 so had to break out the isopropyl alcohol and some cotton swabs.
Working awesome now. ;)
Love the arcade stick, v nice
Candle from atari age etc has made a very limited number of 'incognito' boards for the Atari 800. Will makes it XL compatible, with ultimate 1mb board and a SIDE (flash HD) built in.
I'm lucky (so lucky!) to get one as a prototype tester, hopefully I'm not breaking any implied rule with it as its not available en mass... but here is a pic as mine arrived today! I do have a few sm resistors to change and a link wire to attach... I am v v happy. Awesome!
He is a very clever chap is candle! :)
@Retrograde
Nice finds there, but can you edit out the prices please :)
(It could be seen as price driving, but I know you don't mean it that way)
Enjoy the new toys, especially the Arcade stick :thumbsup:
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Originally Posted by cknott
Hi cknott, I was thinking of getting one of these. Do these get picked up automatically by WinUAE or do I have to mess around to get it working?
a nice new set of shelves to put my most used machines on:)
nice little corner there justin :)
Just a quick few photos before work. I got my haul in today. 2 - Toaster units, 1-A4000 and 1 A2000 (reserved for SaviorX). Plenty of boxes of books and boxed games etc. Yes thats a boxed PAR and a boxed VT upgrade 3.x.
I will try to get better photos soon, but tomorrow I got to box and ship 2 CDTV's. BTW, this is just round one of this haul, the original owner still has to go through al his floppies. I also got a few monitors, but I did not bother to take a photo of those.
:drool::inlove: Epic haul there. Jealousy kicking in...
Thanks, it is costing me a lot though, I have to work 7 shifts a week for the next month to pay for it, but I have my A4000 VT back!.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gouldin
Nice snag Quarkx!
Shame there was never a true PAL vt :( such a lost opportunity.
thanks, and Newtek still honours the lifetime warranty on them (at least they did 3 years ago- had a dead one and they fixed it for free).But just think, there are some Cool pal stuf you guys have that never were made for NTSC ( such as the Paloma IV TV Card) for one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfy
Some way better photos with the "good" camera. I just love that PAR box graphic!
What is caged in the left of the photo, in those black cages? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
3 Dumbo rats mate, Cookie, Grover and Oscar:)Quote:
Originally Posted by moijkWhat is caged in the left of the photo, in those black cages? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
ah, like the furry friend in your avatar with the big ears. cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin3 Dumbo rats mate, Cookie, Grover and Oscar:)Quote:
Originally Posted by moijkWhat is caged in the left of the photo, in those black cages? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
Quote:
Originally Posted by moijkah, like the furry friend in your avatar with the big ears. cute.Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin3 Dumbo rats mate, Cookie, Grover and Oscar:)Quote:
Originally Posted by moijk
yeah, that one is Cookie:D
Some more quickie pics.
This guy has a lot of animation and 3d Packages also, and he kept most of the boxes in nice condition. There are a few lightwave and Toaster VHS tapes there. I always wanted Comic Setter, and was excited when I saw the box and ad on packs, sadly those and movie setter are the floppies that are missing:mad:
I am getting another load from him though.
2 more Amigavision sets -I have to find that wanted thread.
Still a few more boxes to go through.
Nothing retro, just a Panasonic DMP-BD30 to replace my knackard BD60! Now I can watch Blu-rays again :cool:
Need to stuff my mod chip in next to make it full ABC region free :D
My Core grafx arrived.
needed a little bit more of a clean and dettox than I'm used to, but now its just clean and lovely :)
hadnt realised the turbo gfx pad doesn't fit the core. More expense, gotta order one. At least the jag PSU and av-lead I just made up work A-OK! phew!
OK, not quite computer related but still. MEERKAT!
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g7...t/IMAG0414.jpg
*squeee*
They look radically different to the MK1 !
10 out of the 25 chips i orderd arrived today.
came with lpc rebuilds too. so i cracked out a 1/2 dead motherboard to test one.
Works just fine too :)
I'm a bit curious about the last pic. is that the chip working?Quote:
Originally Posted by ShambleS1980
Lol, yes :P
or atleast my daughters face when i came back after installing it.
the pic just before that is the working chip.. "i should have taken a pic of the tv showing the boot screen. But that wasnt entierly needed lol."
i was particularly happy to have it working on that board because honestly. that board really should not work at all.
anything that could go wrong to it has gone wrong to it, its a practice board, and i had to do some work on it to get it to a point where it may have even tried to boot lol.
but it was the only spare 1.6b i had, and the 1.6/1.6b install is the most annoying one to do. its also the least compatable with most chips. so i figured its the one i should test it out on, then i could be confident to sell them individualy or install them for others.
having said that. the fact that the board was 99% dead before i started means if it hadnot have worked i would have had to find a 1.6b board to properly test it.
:thumbsup:
Received my pre-order for the book "The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga"!
Heather
amazon.co.uk ships this book in a couple of weeks to us who was foolish enough to preorder from there. however i don't get time to read it before june anyway. looking forward, the atari 2600 platform book in the same series were just amazingQuote:
Originally Posted by SkydivinGirl
Got an Apollo 060 (which is really an Apollo 040 with the upgrade) and 64MB RAM.
Unbelievable speed! I never owned an '060, back in the day. I really wish I'd managed to save up and buy one. It's absolutely amazing. It's like running WinUAE on a reasonably quick PC.
Doom runs butter smooth, which makes my nerd centre fizzy with overstimulation. :thumbsup:
I have to get an 060 accelerator at some point! Congrats :)Quote:
Originally Posted by HonestFlames
I got something "new" today... Someone had just thrown these baby's out! :wooha:
http://s14.postimage.org/9g864e7st/IMG_1065.jpg
Some ones trash is another ones gold :D
Just received my A3000 from Germany:
http://s019.radikal.ru/i609/1205/ab/4774582046fat.jpg
Where is the LIKE or +1 button :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan
Lost somewhere... I'll put button from A1200 - have some spares.Quote:
Originally Posted by moijk
we had to remove the like button on this site.....
it was used (abused) so much that it got broken.... sadly all the kings horses and all the kings me - couldn't put the button back together again...
I'm new here so do not know whether was or not this button here :)
But A3K is pretty alive..
Very nice :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ivan
That looks in perfect shape :cool: