Post here everytime you get something new!

[RuneRider]

Last week I bought this Amiga 3000 on eBay for <Snip>. I managed to spot it literally seconds after it was listed so I bought it immediately. It just arrived a few days ago and came complete with the original keyboard, pregnant mouse, a spare tank mouse, and as an added bonus it also has an A2386SX bridge board and Ethernet board too! It's also the less common 16MHz variant which is neat. The power supply was dead but that was easy to fix by replacing a pair of shorted HV switching transistors and a blown fuse. After that the system booted right up and still works just fine.

Here's the sole eBay listing picture...

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There is unfortunately some battery damage to the motherboard and also a leaking VARTA on the bridge board too, but I'll get those cleaned and fixed up in no time. It's certainly won't be the worse battery damaged A3000 I've had to repair...

You were more decisive than I was. Good find.

 

[SaviorX]

Well, payday = buy (lots of) stuff I don't need day (well, 2 or 3 days), some Thrift shop stuff, some Dollar Store stuff (they got in more graphic novels, and a few toys) and a couple of Comic shop items (needed a couple more short comic boxes...)

Games/Gamebooks
Munchkin Zombies (SJG, 2013)
Lego Harry Potter - Hogwarts Game (Lego, 2010)
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Player's Vault (GW, 2010) (new/sealed)

CYOA #27 - The Horror of High Ridge (Bantam, 1983)
CYOA #59 - Terror Island (Bantam, 1986)
CYOA 'Young Readers' #16 - Dragons! (Bantam, 1984)
CYOA 'Young Readers' #17 - Wild Horse Country (Bantam, 1984)
CYOA 'Young Readers' #23 - The Polar Bear Express (Bantam, 1984)
FF#18 - Rebel Planet (Puffin, 1985)
Decide Your Destiny - Star Wars: The Clone Wars #3 - Tethan Battle Adventure (Grosset & Dunlap, 2010)
It's Your Call - TRON Legacy - <<Initiate Sequence>>

Books/Graphic Novels/Comics (lots of kids books this time around)
The Star Trek Compendium (Pocket Books, 1989)
School is Hell (Pantheon, 1987)
Asterix the Gaul (Orion, 2004) (~1961)

Mr. Sneeze (HC) (Penguin, 2008 )
Mr. Nosey (HC) (Penguin, 2014)
Mr. Tickle (HC) (Penguin, 2014)
E.T. The Book of the Green Planet (HC) (Berkley, 1985)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Random House, 1977)
Sport Goofy (Golden, 1981)
The Fox and the Hound (Scholastic, 1981)
Prehistoric Animals (Random House, 1978 )
Sesame Street - When is Saturday? (Golden, 1981)
Babar Learns to Cook (Random House, 1978 )
Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York (Scholastic, 1992)
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Scholastic, 1992)
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - The Secret Admirer (Golden, 1994)
The Kindles Find a Home (Scholastic, 1985)
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The Ewoks Join the Fight (Random House, 1983)

Justice League Volume 1 - Origin (HC) (RR Donnelly, 2012)
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection - Volume 11 - TNG: Intelligence Gathering (HC) (IDW, 2017)
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection - Volume 13 - Star Trek: Marvel Comics Part 1 (HC) (IDW, 2017)
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection - Volume 16 - TNG: Ghosts (HC) (IDW, 2017)
Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection - Volume 19 - Star Trek: Marvel Comics Part 2 (HC) (IDW,
H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)
Perseus and Medusa (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)
Robin Hood (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)

Spiderman #56 (Marvel, 1995)
Web of spiderman #88 (Marvel, 1992)
Avengers #385 (Marvel, 1995)
Iron Man #314, 315, 316 (Marvel , 1995)
The Incredible Hulk #427, 428, 429 (Marvel, 1995)
The Silver Surfer #103, 104 (Marvel, 1995)
Superman - The Man of Steel #43 (DC, 1995)
Action Comics #620 (DC, 1988 )
Myth Connections #3 (Apple Comics, 1987)
Comix #16 (MV, 1972) (Asterix cover)

CDs/LPs/BluRays
The Who - Who's Next (MCA, 1984)
The Who - The Kids Are Alright (MCA, 1979)
Bryan Adams - Reckless (A&M, 1984)
Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch (Columbia, 1992)
Pretenders - Pretenders (WEA, 1980)
Heart - Brigade (Capitol, 1990)
Phil Collins - ...but Seriously (Atlantic, 1989)
Def Leppard - Pyromania (Vertigo, 1983)
Def Leppard - Hysteria (Mercury, 1987)
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out (CBS, 1990)
Ice-T - Home Invasion (Rhyme Syndicate, 1993)
Ice-T - O.G. Original Gangster (Sire, 1991)
Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe (Reprise, 1987)
Bonnie Raitt - The Luck of the Draw (Capitol, 1991)
Dead or Alive - Youthquake (CBS, 1985)
U2 - Wide Awake in America CDEP (Island, 1985)
Madonna - You Can Dance (Sire, 1987)
KISS - Dynasty (Mercury, 1978 )
Barney Bentall - Gin Palace (Epic, 1995)
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (Geffen, 1993)
De-Lovely - Music from the Motion Picture (Sony, 2004)
Cheech & Chong's Greatest Hit (Warner, 1981)

Juice Newton - Can't Wait all Night (RCA, 1984)
Melissa Manchester - Hey Ricky (Arista, 1982)

The BBC Earth Collection (Planet Earth / Earth - The Biography) (BBC, 2008 )
House - Season Seven (Universal, 2011)
Mrs. Doubtfire (20thCentFox, 1993/2008 )
Robin Hood - Price of Thieves Extended Version (Warner, 1991/2009)
Rambo (Maple, 2008 )

Toys/Video Games
Star Wars - The Power of the Force - Detention Block Rescue (Kenner, 1996) (new/sealed)
Star Wars - Luke Skywalker (Jedi Exile) (Hasbro, 2017) (new/sealed)
POP! Television - Masters of the Universe - Beastman vinyl figure (Funko, unk.) (new/sealed)
Hot Wheels - Thunderball 007 - '65 Ford Mustang Convertible (Mattel, 2018 ) (new/sealed)

Legends Flashback Blast! (new/sealed)
Atari 2600 Stampede Cart. (Activision, 1981)

(7.5)

 

[Timtheloon]

Why do I do it to myself

Commodore 128D with its keyboard

Sadly it’s got a drive issue but hopefully it can be fixed

its a little more yellow than it looks in the picture

 

[RuneRider]

Why do I do it to myself

Commodore 128D with its keyboard

Sadly it’s got a drive issue but hopefully it can be fixed

its a little more yellow than it looks in the picture

Nice find. I hope to acquire one myself some day. We do this to atone for misdeeds in the past... or just for the fun of it. :banghead:

I'll be tormenting myself with a couple of Macintosh systems in a few weeks. Oh joy.

 

[SaviorX]

So, I got a headboard for my bed, came Tuesday... think I could find the bolts/washers/nuts that originally game with my bed frame... of course not, so I wound up having to go to Home Depot to get some, $7.00 round trip on the train now, for $4.63 worth of connecting hardware... so I decided to hit a couple of the thrift stores that are around there. also a new toy, procured for me by RuneRider, which was on my 'secondary' list of stuff to get if I ever come across it at a decent price, which it was.

Games/Gamebook
Cover Your A$$ets (Grandpa Beck's Games, 2014)
Monopoly - The Card Game (Hasbro, 2017) (unused)
Skylanders Universe - Pick Your Portal - The Trouble with Doubles (Grosset & Dunlap, 2013)

Books/Graphic Novels
Archie's Story & Game Digest #33 (Archie Comics, 1995)
Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014) (new)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (HC) (Stone Arch, 2014)

BluRays/CDs
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol BR/DVD/Digital (Paramount, 2011)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 BR/DVD/Digital (Warner, 2011)
Monty Python's Life of Brian (Sony, 1979/2007)
Point Break (Warner, 1991/2016)
Spiderman Homecoming BR/DVD/Digital (Columbia, 2017)

Billy Joel - The Stranger (CBS, 1977)
Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (Mercury, 1975/1995)
Cheap Trick at Budokan (Sony, 1979)

Other
Master Merlin (Parker, 1982) (boxed, working, with instructions, cheap)

and now for something completely different...

Aquarius Home Computer System (Radofin, 1983) (boxed/working) (post-Mattel, not a single reference to Mattel anywhere on the machine or in the documentation, Mattel washed their hands completely of this, almost as soon as it hit the stores...)

(4.0)

 

[SaviorX]

Just a small Thrift Shop run this week (South Calgary only, though I did go to the NE last week, as I had a medical appointment, but found very little that was interesting), some very interesting bits this time (for myself anyways)

Games/Gamebooks
James Bond 007 - Roleplaying in Her Majesty's Secret Service Basic Set (Victory Games, 1983) (boxed/complete, had this one when I was 15/16)
"All in the Family" Archie Bunker's Card Game (Milton Bradley, 1972)

CYOA 'Boxed Set' #2 (Chooseco, 2011) (CYOA #5 - Mystery of the Maya, #6 - House of Danger, #7 - Race Forever, #8 - Escape)
CYOA #1 - The Abominable Snowman (Chooseco, 2006)
D&D Endless Quest - Cleric - Into the Jungle (WotC, 2018 )

Books
Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back Storybook (HC) (Random House, 1980)
X-Men - To Stop a Juggernaut (Random House, 1993)
The Rescuers (HC) (Random House, 1977)
Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and the Bee Who Couldn't Find Honey Pop-Up Book (HC) (Ottenheimer, 1978 )
Wayne Gretzky: Portrait of a Hockey Player (Avon, 1983)

BluRays/CDs/LPs/Cassette
The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug (Warner, 2014)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes BR/DVD/Digital (20thCentFox, 2011)

Santana - Abraxas (CBS, 1970)
AC/DC - Back in Black DigiPak (Epic, 1980/2003)

Rick Springfield - Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet (RCA, 1982)
Irene Cara - What A Feelin' (Geffen, 1983)
Billy Ocean - Suddenly (Quality, 1984)
Paula Abdul - Forever Your Girl (Virgin, 1988 )
Peter and the Wolf Record and Book (Disney, 1968 )

The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) Cassette Single (Chrysalis, 1993)

Misc
Carrier Strike South Pacific 1942-44 CD-ROM for PC (DOS)(SSI, 1995)

PC/TV Genie Computer to Video Converter (VGA to VGA/Composite/S-VHS(S-Video)/Analog RGB via SCART) w/Remote
Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper 4"x6" 100-pack (unopened)

MD MaxiData 2S2D DS/DD 5-1/4" Floppy Disk 10-packs (x6) (new/sealed) (unusual find at a TS these days, and the price for them... well, I can't tell you, but it was loonie to find each one of these, and that's all you need to know...)

(6.0)

 

[SaviorX]

Well, as you can imagine, not much in the way of Thrift-shopping recently (about a month and a half now), a few bits from my first week in BC, way back in March, they all shut down about 2/3s the way through my trip (when I left Calgary, cases were still low here and ZERO cases on Vancouver Island, first case came (via Egypt) when I'd been there nearly a week...), so I never got to do a second trip around the 6 shops in Duncan (and one other had closed altogether).

I wound up ordering a few things I'd been wanting off Ebay (looking to complete the Avalon Hill Bookcase series of games from the 70s-90s, but theres a looong way to go on that, not to mention the similar Victory Games and 3M series)

Games/Gamebook
Starship Troopers (AH, 1976)
Conquistador - The Age of Exploration 1495-1600 (AH, 1976) (missing about 49 of 560 'counters' unfortunately, bought as part of a lot (+))
TV Wars (AH, 1987)
Regatta - The Game of Championship Yacht Racing (AH, 1979)+
Baseball Strategy (AH, 1973)+
The Collector (AH, 1977)+
Gold! (AH, 1981)+
Scavenger Hunt (MB, 1983)

The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (Wizard Books, 2009)

DVD Box Sets
On the Buses - The Ultimate Collection (VEI, 2006) (~1969-1973)
Two Fat Ladies Complete Set (4 seasons) (Acorn, 2008 )

Other
7x Craft Storage Cases from the Dollar Store (perfect for game pieces, counters, dice or small minis)

 

[miggymad]

Welcome to my Amiga family...

Welcome to my Amiga family...

A Vampire v4 Standalone

 

[trebb]

Purchased an A500 from ebay (impulse buy) Looking for plastic trap door replacements.

 

[SaviorX]

Well, things are finally starting to open up in the last week or so, yesterday and today were my first thrift shop runs in almost 3 months.

Games
Star Wars - The Interactive Video Board Game (Parker, 1996)
Star Wars - X-Wing Starter Set (FFG, 2012)
Pirates! (Ravensburger, 2005)
Make 'n' Break Compact (Ravensburger, 2008 )

Star Warriors (WEG, 1987) (ebay buy)
History of the World (AH, 1993) (ebay)
Tennis Card Game (Parker, 1975) (ebay)

CYOA #13 - The Abominable Snowman (Bantam, 1982)

Books/Comics
The Big Book of Peanuts - 70s (HC) (Andrews McMeel, 2013)
The Big Book of Peanuts - 80s (HC) (Andrews McMeel, 2014)
The Adventures of Tintin - The Shooting Star (Mammoth, 1990) (~1961)

Douglas Adams - The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide (HC) (Wings Books, 1989) (5 books, including 'Young Zaphod Plays it Safe')
Wonderful Book of Battles (HC) (Grisewood & Dempsey, 1981) (remember this one from when I was young)
Hanna Barbera's The Greatest Adventure Stories from the Bible - Samson and Delilah (HC) (Abingdon Press, 1986)
Heathcliff - The Fish Bandit (Marvel Books, 1983)

Star Wars - Darth Vader - End of Games (Trade Paperback) (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars - Vader Down (TPB) (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars - Princess Leia (TPB) (Marvel, 2015)
Star Wars - Rebel Jail (TPB) (Marvel, 2016)

Star Wars - Blood Ties: Boba Fett is Dead #2, 4 (Dark Horse, 2012)
Star Wars - Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison #1, 3 (Dark Horse, 2012)
Star Wars - Darth Maul: Death Sentence #1 (Dark Horse, 2012)
Star Wars - Dawn of the Jedi: Prison of Bogan #3 (Dark Horse, 2013)
Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic: War #5 (Dark Horse, 2012)
Star Wars - Lost Tribe of the Sith: Spiral #1 (Dark Horse, 2012)

The Uncanny X-Men #195 (Marvel, 1985)
The Punisher #5 (Marvel, 1986)
The Amazing Spider-Man #367 (Marvel, 1992)
Power Pack #1-4, 6-8, 11, 13-17, 19, 20, 23, 24, 26 (Marvel, 1984-86)

Blondie #212 (Charlton, 1975)
Yogi Bear #24 (Charlton, 1975)
Bugs Bunny #176, 181, 189 (Gold Key, 1976-77)
Daffy Duck #90, 95, 103, 106 (Gold Key, 1974-77)
Tweety and Sylvester #43, 48, 61, 62, 77 (Gold Key, 1975-78 )
The Inspector (and the Pink Panther) #6, 8 (Gold Key, 1975-76)
Porky Pig #70 (Gold Key, 1976)
New Terrytoons starring Heckle and Jeckle #40 (Gold Key, 1976)
Little Lulu #227 (Gold Key, 1975)
Andy Panda #12 (Gold Key, 1976)
Baby Snoots #20 (Gold Key, 1975)
Betty and Me #63 (Fawcett, 1977)

BluRays/LPs/CD
A Few Good Men (Columbia, 2007) (~1992)
The Lone Ranger (+DVD) (Disney, 2013)
Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom (+DVD) (Universal, 2018 )
Welcome to Marwen (+DVD) (Universal, 2019)

Robert Palmer - Riptide (Island, 1985)
Pointer Sisters - Break Out (Planet Records, 1983)
Billy Joel - Glass Houses (CBS, 1980)
Cliff Richard - I'm No Hero (EMI, 1980)

ZZ-Top - Eliminator (Warner, 1983)

Other
Nintendo Entertainment System (+PSU & Controller)
Electronic Hockey hand-held game

Star Wars - Qi'ra 12" Figure (new/sealed)

Verbatim 12x/700MB/80min CD-RW 25-pack (new/sealed)
2x velcro Computer Tie 4-packs

 

[RuneRider]

Some Interesting Disks

Some Interesting Disks

I picked these up with a large lot of about 70 original Amiga system/program disks. I now have full sets of system disks for 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 Beta, 1.2, 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4, 2.0, 2.01, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05, 2.1, 3.0 & 3.1.
Does anyone know if these four are rare enough that they should be archived?

I also have Amiga Pascal.

 

[vibros]

Hello,

i like to see pictures of rare items.
Anyway i can only say, maybe on the first release of the Developer CD (back in the '96) there is mentioned of this disks.
I am not sure.

Regards
Stefano

 

[miggymad]

Received this morning (June 19th 2020), the very latest 8mb RAM card from Amigastore.eu. Not available in-store at the time of posting this, but received as a free upgrade due to recent problems they had been having with chip suppliers.

Now comes with RTC and built-in wi-fi as standard.




Even came with a hand-written note from Maria in customer support - now that's a company I will be dealing with in the future!

 

[Hook]

Did a 12-hours round trip to pick up some goodies:

-Amiga 1000 with 1084S monitor, several mice, Amiga 1011 external drive, Amiga modem and roughly 1800 floppy disks.
-100% complete in box A500 early Rocklobster rev 3 board with "chickenlips" keyboard. Trapdoor 512k expansion, Matching serials on the box and computer.
-Upgraded Mac SE with 4mb RAM and 40mg HDD.

 

[Bryce]

Check the battery on the 512K expansion if it has one, before it leaks and ruins your day.

Bryce.

 

[Hook]

Check the battery on the 512K expansion if it has one, before it leaks and ruins your day.

Bryce.

First thing I checked. Luckily, the previous owner removed it.

 

[bartekmalysz]

This is my find this month:

https://imgur.com/a/RsEHfEB

386SX 20MHz, 2MB RAM, 43MB HDD 3600RPM, just got rid of MBR rootkit, which was more challenging in 2020 than I'd ever expect. The laptop has floppy drive, but out of 40 old floppies I found only 6 were usable and reliable

Unfortunately it uses proprietary floppy connector, so using gotek was not an option. It uses same HDD connector like Amiga, so I tried to repurpose my old CF and adapter, but the actual problem was configuring HDD in bios for CF:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchang...roller-for-cf-in-chips-leapset-117-r1-09-bios

I will be attempting to upgrade Ram to max 5MB the machine can take so time in the future:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchang...roller-for-cf-in-chips-leapset-117-r1-09-bios

I was not able to find much information about this particular model, but I know there were at least 2 variants of 386:

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/15041/is-this-real-commodore-c386sx-lt

My end goal for this machine is to run terminal emulator with Raspberry pi null modem inside, as there is enough space, so it will he used for SSHing into AWS if possible.

Unfortunately, the battery is completely dead, it takes some weird bulky pack, was jot able to find the cells, will try to build a circuits and replacement pack, if time allows.

Stay safe,

Bartek

 

[Aeberbach]

Here's my new toy:

It's time to find out what these FPGA things are all about.

 

[RuneRider]

Did a 12-hours round trip to pick up some goodies:

-Amiga 1000 with 1084S monitor, several mice, Amiga 1011 external drive, Amiga modem and roughly 1800 floppy disks.
-100% complete in box A500 early Rocklobster rev 3 board with "chickenlips" keyboard. Trapdoor 512k expansion, Matching serials on the box and computer.
-Upgraded Mac SE with 4mb RAM and 40mg HDD.

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Very nice acquisition. I'll be receiving a similar lot in a week or two. You now have me wanting it sooner.

 

[SaviorX]

This only going out once a month to do -something- really kind of sucks, been going out grocery shopping just to get out of the house... (I live right downtown Calgary, and there wasn't much for shopping where I am, and we just got a Real Canadian Superstore (one of the largest grocery chains here) 2 block from my house... literally been waiting 14 years for a half-decent grocery store...), but it was sort of thrift shop time again anyways (and a few other Dollar Store/Ebay things)

Games/RPG
Jaws (Ravensburger, 2019) (new/sealed) (on sale at EBGames)
Wrasslin' (Avalon Hill, 1990) (ebay)
Twixt (3M, 1962)
Risk 2210 A.D. (Avalon Hill, 2001)

Rifts Mercenaries (Palladium, 1994) (2nd, 1995)
Rifts Dimensions Book Two: Phase World (Palladium, 1994) (2nd, 1996)
Rifts Dimensions Book Three: Phase World Sourcebook (Palladium, 1995)
Rifts World Book One: Vampire Kingdoms (Palladium, 1991) (5th, 1997)
FF#28 - Phantoms of Fear (Puffin, 1987)

Star Wars Books
Star Wars Graphic Novel (Issues #1-12) (HC) (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars - Shattered Empire (HC) (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars - The Rebellion Vol. 1 TPB (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars - The Rebellion Vol. 2 TPB (Marvel, 2017)
Star Wars - The New Republic Vol. 2 TPB (Marvel, 2016)
Star Wars Marvel Comics Illustrated Version (Del Rey, 1977) (collecting issues 1-6 of the original Marvel adaptation)

BluRays/CDs/LP
The A-Team (20thCentFox, 2010)
J. Edgar (WB, 2011)
G.I. Joe - the Rise of COBRA (Paramount, 2009)

Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night (WB, 1987)
The Grapes of Wrath - Treehouse (Capitol, 1987)
Information Society - Hack (Tommy Boy, 1990)
The Police - Synchronicity (A&M, 1983)
The Power Station CD (Capitol, 1985)

Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman LP (Arista, 1982)

Lego Spider-Man Bike Rescue set (#76113) (Lego, 2019) (new/sealed)