thanks to mr Nintastic on retrocollect these arrived today, all in brand new condition, virtua tennis was a freebie too, nice surprise too![]()
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thanks to mr Nintastic on retrocollect these arrived today, all in brand new condition, virtua tennis was a freebie too, nice surprise too![]()
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Roland MBD-1
Had my eye on this at Music-Go-Round for a few weeks, and I finally got a chance to test it out. It only does bass and drums, but it does them quite nicely - and, miracle of miracles, the drum sounds are properly articulated (i.e. rapid successive hits on one piece don't just trigger the same damn sample multiple times over!) I'm pleasantly surprised, as even a lot of newer multi-purpose synthesizers don't get that right; you usually have to get a dedicated drum machine for that.
I'm afraid I've become a bit infected in the brain with the idea of "going hardware" for my music hobby...of course, it would take me a good long while to save up for a Moog Voyager and I'll never be able to afford a Mellotron, but if the virtual tonewheel organ module they have there turns out to be any good, those would be pretty much the only instruments I couldn't do in hardware...
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/X5DR, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Proteus/2, Oberheim SEM
"'Legacy code' often differs from its suggested alternative by actually working and scaling." - Bjarne Stroustrup
Thought I'd share my recent acquisitions.
Bought a GBS8220 and also received an Apollo 040 card, along with this A1200 tower. Cleaned it up, tidied it, mounted the GBS internally. set up an SD IDE hard drive with CWB Lite and some customization (still a WIP).
Set everything up as you can see it in the last photo
All my machines now go through an audio mixer I got for my birthday which is awesome too.
Machines from left to right are:
A1200T - 040 32mb Ram, GBS
A1200D - 030 64mb Ram, Scart
Spectrum +2A - Zetr0's CF IDE internally, Scart
Raspberry Pi
Macbook
PC - Win 7, dual touch screen
Just out of view: MAME arcade![]()
Couple of Amigas and C64's and a couple of consoles and handhelds.
Just picked this up
14" of B&W fun
TNOG.ORG - Games nights, in Manchester
Got this today... I am planning on losing a LOT of time to this baby, lol
Famicom Everdrive courtesy of the Everdrive group buy.
Now to mod a Famicom shell for the pcb...
Somebody stop me! I'm having a mad ebay spree and buying a load of old Star Trek PC games... So far i've bought Generations, Klingon Honor Guard, 25th Anniversary and Voyager: Elite Force (and i'm still hunting for others). These should go well with my retro DOS/Win98 PC
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I'm not really bothered about collectors editions as i just want to play the games (i used to have a couple of them years ago, but never played them much).
These are the Star Trek games i've bought so far:
Borg
Klingon
Harbinger
Hidden Evil
Klingon Honor Guard
25th Anniversary
Voyager: Elite Force
Generations
Final Unity
... It's going to take me a while to finish them all
EDIT: I can now add The Fallen, Judgment Rites and Voyager Elite Force expansion to that list too![]()
Last edited by Powerpie5000; 28th April 2013 at 21:53.