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So I got one of them GAEMS Vanguard Portable monitor carrying case for games consoles, I remember seeing them when on deployment visiting one of the US Naval bases and thinking to myself "I really want one but they are just too much".

I bought it off eBay after putting in a very cheeky offer which I didn't expect the seller to accept, but to my surprise the seller did, it doesn't have its original PSU and one of the clips was broken. The seller also sold it has faulty due to some weird screen cliches on certain colours which was also shown in the listing but also stated it could also be because of the PSU used for testing it.

I fixed the broken clip with araldite and filled in the gap with more araldite to give it extra support so hopefully it will be rock solid. and Clip seems to function well

I've stuck my PS3 Slim in it even though I believe this one is actually for a PS4 it works quite well me thinks.

On testing (a good few hours) with a suitable PSU I found the screen to be spot on and no screen defects the seller was eluding to.

I don't really need one now, my Navy days are far behind me, but I like it so I got it. Anyway here are some pictures of it.View attachment 2557052View attachment 2557049View attachment 2557050
Very nice! What is the screen size on that, Tim?
 
Very nice! What is the screen size on that, Tim?
According to this link 19"

 
I bought Retro Gamer Ebook Mags for 12 issue in one year work out £1.15 per issue.

You can get it from pocketmags and they doing cyber week offer.

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Just got one of these cheap portable soldering irons ... It's going to come in very handy for those quick jobs like a capacitor replacement or joint reflow.


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Nice! Wouldn't mind one of those. This reminds me of the WOW stick screwdriver security bit set I have.
 

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Got some new cabinets to display some of my retro games, etc. WiP, need to unpack and do a shelf of Amiga games. It's the IKEA Billy with Oxberg doors. Might setup some lighting too.
 

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I like the display cabinets in the first picture . What's that car you have up on top, it looks pretty big. Is that gas powered? (y)
 
I like the display cabinets in the first picture . What's that car you have up on top, it looks pretty big. Is that gas powered? (y)
That's the Merc Lego Technic F1, I got it last Christmas. I still need to put the stickers on it lol

(It was on the shelf in the picture before I put the doors on!)
 
This is most of the good stuff from a haul yesterday. GVP T-REXX II (4060) works like a champ in my A4000D. 128MB on board. Once I go ahold of GVPSCSIC and set synchronus transfers, was getting consistent 9.5-9.6 MB/sec out of my RaizinMonster SCSI-to-CF drive with 95% CPU availability. Like a lot of others, cannot enable burst read for the onbaord RAM, but still a nice fast card. The Fastlane Z3 is rev. 2.2 hardware (not the newest), but fully populated with 64MB 60ns RAM. I pulled the 27C256 ROM chip from the board to see what rev. the firmware was. Turns out it was old as well, 5.1024. Waiting for a few OTP ROM's to be able to update to ver. 8.5 and see if I can get it into play. It is really clean and has the installation manual and hardware. Dropped the A3640 in just to make sure it worked; AOK there. Sunrize AD1012 loos failry clean for its age, but have not tested. Kind of a cool, fairly rare serial port card, one I would want just becasue of its name, "Triceratops Mark II"... :). GVP 1230+ (first generation JAWS accelerator), with one GVP 4MB SIMM-32 installed. Has 40Mhz 68EC030 with 40MHz 68882 on board, both clocked accordingly. No way to test that one, no A1200, but it looks immaculate for the age. Something kind of cool - the SCSI add on kit for a CS MKII, and the 53C94-2 version, not the FAS216, which is nice. Now, all I need is a CSMKII :)... An OpalVision card in great shape, an A2091 that is in fair cosmetic shape with 2MB 70ns RAM installed, with the 04 PROTO SCSI controller chip and 6.6 ROMs. Had to pull the metal bracket, as it was damaged and I will probably have to trim it down. Might perform the SpeedGeek jumper mod, update the controller chip, and burn some new firmware, just for the fun of it? Two OLD networking cards, Hyda Systems Amiganet cards, in good shape. Two A4000D daughter cards, one in good shape, the other with one damaged Zorro slot, but functional. A rev. B A4000 motherboard with the tradtional battery corrosion, but not as bad as some I have seen. The CHIP RAM SIMM socket has both retention tangs broken off, three of the small SMD caps popped off from cold solder/corrosion during cleaning; you could tell they had leaked a bit. A single, small, SMD chip capacitor on the bottom side of the board also came of during cleaning (I WAS gentle, but, again, corrosion or cold joint). Original KS 3.0 mask ROMs. Socketed Buster 11. Looks solid, but needs hese or Acill's treatment sooner than later. Annnnnd... Two sets of DPS Personal animation recorder cards, and two other DPS cards. They look important, but no use here... Just window dressing :) ...

Let me know what you think.
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I got myself a Greaseweazle V4.1 the other week as I realised I could not only use it as a tool to prepare disks from my PC for my Amiga, but also elevate my emulation goodness when I use WinUAE.

Using my 3D Printer and Esun PLA-Matte Light Khaki printed a nice model from Makerworld.

My Sony drive is a bit too long and also my floppy cable is a bit long, the Greazeweazle has some odd design choices for mounting the connector, it all makes it so my case doesn't go neatly together, but I've commented on the original model about that.

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I got myself a Greaseweazle V4.1 the other week as I realised I could not only use it as a tool to prepare disks from my PC for my Amiga, but also elevate my emulation goodness when I use WinUAE.

Using my 3D Printer and Esun PLA-Matte Light Khaki printed a nice model from Makerworld.

My Sony drive is a bit too long and also my floppy cable is a bit long, the Greazeweazle has some odd design choices for mounting the connector, it all makes it so my case doesn't go neatly together, but I've commented on the original model about that.
Nice. I was wondering if anyone is willing to provide a service/product of AIO GreaseWeasle board+3.5 FDD for all us unfortunate that do not have access to a 3d printer and wouldn't mind to pay.

Has anyone compiled FloppyDriveBridge for MacOS or Linux and FS-UAE (I am never going to install Windows and don't want to run WinUAE via Wine) ?
 
squeezing every mb/s out of the standard A3k SCSI with the "WD33C93 Turbo Interposer" (https://github.com/reinauer/wd33c93).

SCSI Bus now clocked at 20MHz

For me, it was only a slight speed increase, but only from about 3.7MB/s to 4.4MB/s. But it's why we do these things. ;)
 

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