Is that 25pin header a standard pc lpt port?Quote:
Originally Posted by fitzsteve
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Is that 25pin header a standard pc lpt port?Quote:
Originally Posted by fitzsteve
It's a SCSI port, not a printer (parallel) port. The size of the connectors is the same though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElectroBlaster
Sorry what I mean is the actuall header/fly lead. I thought it was one of those old headers from the socket7 pc board days, then re-purposed for the blizzard scsi, hence having a pci plate. (great way of exposing scsi to the rear of a tower conversion)Quote:
Originally Posted by McVencoIt's a SCSI port, not a printer (parallel) port. The size of the connectors is the same though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElectroBlaster
I need to check my spares but I think the headers on these were wired in such a way to be completely compatible with scsi stuff.
I did this years and years ago, need to get all my stuff out and have a proper look.
Yep, scanners often used that interface in the old days. Some were parallel, but SCSI was faster. Might cause a bit of confusion and I don't know if it could actually cause damage if you connected a par device to a scsi port or the other way..
I recently bought this from Amigakit but was a bit dissapointed to find the 25pin header is not metal but just all plastic, I guess they had to source whatever they could get at the time:
http://www.amibay.com/picture.php?al...pictureid=3093
So I have decided to hunt for some those old pc header flyleads. I actually found some NOS stuff hidden away in storage earlier but I need to take some time and pull them apart to check the wiring is correct! I also bought some metal A1200 scsi mounting brackets from Amigakit. Once done it all should look like it did back in 1995 (I never should have tore it all down)
found this today in a charity shop, it really pays to be nice and get to know the people in them as they now hold games in the back till i come on in, so as soon as i walked in she pulled it out for me:
http://i1339.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3ae2d4d1.jpg
i also bought every grand theft auto game on ps2 (bar vice city stories) too as they were all in brand new conditions with maps etc - good day so far
Have been keeping my eye out for a nice cover for my miggy and saw this linked somewhere - either on here or perhaps EAB (to an ebay BIN).
Quick service and good cover - its slightly deep but as my miggy is raised thats no problem.
Actually have now ordered another one for my secondary miggy!
sort of my 'holy grail' as far as collecting these Star Wars Miniatures goes...
finally got one with some christmas money.
AT-AT Imperial Walker
this thing is 13 1/2" / 34cm tall - 16" / 41cm long and 6" / 15.5cm wide (at the base)
the 'normal sized' snowtrooper at its feet in the last photo(s) is 1 1/2" / 4cm tall
Now that's pretty cool:cool:
I think my first words were, holy c**p, where am I going to put THAT! :thumbsup:
Guess I'll be looking at what I can sell tomorrow to make space :lol:
http://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/...ps0410dc9d.jpg
http://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/...psc18c7ce0.jpg
:lol: They are a tad large ain't they. Looks in VCG though.
My latest addition to my ZX family - astonishingly good condition - the bonus was the included fitted and working 48K Speccy :)
Never seen one before, boxed with manuals. Must have been well loved ..... or never used :)
Three new cages that I'll put my computers in and will hopefully disrupt the radio transmitters and stop the NSA spying on me while I am offline... I've seen those black cars at the end of the driveway innocently parked up.. :wooha:
(and if that fails, 3 new cages for my rodents ;))
http://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/...psab7df263.jpg
Got these today:
http://www.fitzstevesamigaworld.co.u...1/P1050968.JPG
Plan is to replace the dead floppy drive in my A1200 driven by my Blizzard SCSI Kit, many thanks to Roy Bates for making up the cable for me :thumbsup:
These are also extremely useful as cages for diving with sharks.Quote:
Originally Posted by sir_beaker
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...one-wrong.html
Heather
A new import Game for my collection (WonderDog) I think this was originally included with the Victor WonderMega (or was it the JVC) the paperwork shows the Dog so I figured it would go nice with the collection.
Also a USB-LAN adapter for my A4000 so hopefully I can get her online via my Deneb USB :)
Got this C128 for almost nothing. I don't have any PSU for it so at first it will donate the SID and CIA chips to broken C64 units. I'll get replacement chips later if I get a PSU.
http://plazma.kapsi.fi/pictures/temp/C128.jpg
I got this badly yellowed C64c almost for free.
I bought it for few euros untested. Just powered it up and no faults found. Joystick, keyboard, cartridge and sound works. Have to test more as soon as I finish my DIY diagnostics cartridge+harness+dongles.
A good candidate for serious case modding :)
http://plazma.kapsi.fi/pictures/temp/C64C.jpg
I love this thread. I've got to start going into charity shops more. They always seem to want X£ for PS2 games tho, like whaa, i get 'em for X£ at the car boot!
I received these 2 covers a couple of days ago from a chap called Riggz on WOS forums. If you want some making he can do custom designs as well, very cheap for a cover too. @CrazyC - looks to be the same guy who made yours as well mate, he showed me that design.
@DojoDan
They're really nice, I might have to drop him a line :thumbsup:
Hes joined here too steve
Here's my latest gaming purchase, a Super Everdrive for my NTSC SNES. I haven't bothered with one of these before as I have most games I like on cartridge anyway (I always prefer to play the real thing over emulators) but I had stumbled across some Zelda and Mario World hacks I wanted to try out but it seemed silly to pay $40 each for custom cartridges when for the price of a few I could pick up one of these. It will also let me play some of the PAL only games that you can't get for the NTSC SNES such as Sensible Soccer and Morph.
Currently playing the Mario World "Return to Dinosaur Land" hack, it's bloody hard compared to the original but I'm enjoying it. Nice to play a "new" SNES game :)
Nice clean example of the Snes :thumbsup:
My current Acorn Electron setup, trying out the HxC at the moment. Thanks to TC for your patience with all my questions :lol:
http://i1336.photobucket.com/albums/...ps201579bf.jpg
Looks fantastic Beaker Buddy:thumbsup:
whats that on the back of the electron??
mine only had a tape drive :(
Thanks :D
On the back of the Electron is a Plus 1 and PRES Plus 3 disk interface from Ray that TheCorfiot upgraded to the final versions of the ROMs :thumbsup: I've also got dual floppies from Ray that aren't in the picture.
Very nice sir_beaker :thumbsup:
You must have quite a collection :)
Must.. Get... More... Space...
Look what I've got, only 6 or 8 years after I started really wanting one!
Trs-80 model 4. I've written out some ldos and lsdos disks and it works fine! Ok apart from the occasional corrupted display on boot and the CPU caps need changing, and the drives make a bit of a racket :) It's in remarkably good nick!
Very nice, I was just looking at a picture of the model III in this months "Back to the Eighties" feature in Retro Gamer last night :thumbsup:
I hope your security's good mate as there's one or two of us here thinking about robbing you house:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by iainjh
Very nice mate, though I gotta say am well jealous:dry::lol:
BB
last week i bought a wii off morcar which had all the port covers missing, faulty dvd drive and missing most of its screws however it softmodded and does work with usb hdd.
I decided i'd recase it but as its missing screws too it was gonna be more than it was worth so i decided to look for a dead wii and try and recycle the case.
I came across a wii listed as completely dead, no power with cables, 2 remotes and 2 nunchucks (nice spares) and ended up getting it cheap.
Its just arrived and as listed it had no power at all. To test if it was the wii or the power cable i plugged my wii in with the new cables and that also had no power. After checking the plug i found there was NO FUSE :picard both wii's now power up fine.
So it seems i still have the one with screws missing and poor condition case and now i have another fully working inc dvd drive (which had Wii Sports in)......
Nice one. Gotta love those faulty deals on eBay that turn out to be something simple :)
The common one is Amiga with a faulty floppy drive that works after you run a Disk cleaner through it :cool:
Yeah buddy, it was nice and simple but now i still need to find a donor case :lol:
Why not soft mod the new one?
Oh i will buddy but i still don't like having the other one with screws missing and looking shoddy
I've got a spare Wii which I've never got around to testing I'll see if it works or not and let you know. If is jigged then you can have for parts. Just remind me though if I haven't got back to you as I'm suffering from chronic airheadedness at the moment:picard
BB
I have a new in box first generation Wii. I'm going to hard mod the console then put it back in the box for a backup. While it won't technically be new anymore, it will be as close to a 100% reliable backup for the one I use on a regular basis. :)
Great that you managed to get a fully working unit! Be sure to play Skyward Sword if you get a chance. It has to be the best game ever for the Wii and it shows how good motion controls can be.
Heather
Been busy the past days, got the soldering iron out and finally assembled a petdisk, an micro-sd card interface for the pet!
Had a few issues getting it going, primarily dirty contacts on the pet edge connector and Mac OS X not really writing fat 32 in a standard way... Then a change of cards and all works perfectly. ! Mike at bitfixer was super-helpful too ! :) :)
Ooh tell me more, I wouldnt mind seeing that petdisk on saturday...Quote:
Originally Posted by iainjh
TC ;)
I seem to be getting more and more into Spectrum nowadays. :)
I just received DivIDE 2k11 from Lotharek today. Nice piece of kit, I must say. Playing games with the Speccy just got a whole lot easier. :)
Nice Protek, same as my 128k setup :)
I'm a big fan of the new DivIDE and Angry Space Invader!
As it happens I also got another Speccy today, it's a bit 'well loved' but cleaned up OK!
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=56723
I just picked up this magnificent Mitsibishi Diamondtron Diamond plus 71 17" CRT monitor for a small single digit number BIN on eBay - it was only a 10 minute drive from where I now live so I'm stoked!
I'm hoping that it will work natively with my a1200 but it's in storage till we find a rental property to move into. :)
http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/01/29/gy2a2yru.jpg
Diamond Plus 71
H: 30 - 69 kHz, V: 50 - 130 Hz
From http://www.mitsubishielectric.com.au/2346.htm
Course I guess you never know till you try ;)
Yep, already knew the specs but from what i've read Diamondtron's seem to have a history of working with funny sync rates - for single digit $$ Im not bothered if it doesnt work natively as I'll just use a VGA Video Converter.Quote:
Originally Posted by DutchinUSA
This model is quite flexible, unlike many modern LCD's, in that it supports Analog RGB; TTL H/V & C Sync.
Can't go wrong with small single digit numbers :thumbsup:
Quote:
Originally Posted by DutchinUSA
Indeed, I've been able to test it on my little HP MicroServer (can't live without it!) and the PQ was pin sharp with great colour so now I'm anxious to test it on my Miggy! :p
Thanks, Steve! Your +2 setup is like my +3 setup, up to the broken pin in the IDE adapter. :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by fitzsteve
Got this lately. It was included with a laptop (that it doesn't fit into??), but it's OVP is cool and the chip itself looks really slick, so it will be used to decorate my retro area :)
Bryce.
Nice! I can remember wanting a 387 math co pro very badly back when I used to do 3d rendering with povray as it was sooooo slow without one!
This little beauty delivered today....