MustangJeff
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New turntable arrived! Modern tech for retro audio media.
German made Clearaudio Concept
German made Clearaudio Concept
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johnboy
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Anyone ever heard or know anything about a Okey Dokey Sound Card
soeter04
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Got my self this from japan.
Nice set!
Have an FZ10 myself, not that many games though.
Also purchased something from Japan this weekend, which will be in transit for another week or two. Hope i don't jinx it by sharing some pics here already:
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Is "Okey Dokey" part of the product name, or would it be a creative QA pass sticker?
Got my self this from japan.
Nice set!
Have an FZ10 myself, not that many games though.
Also purchased something from Japan this weekend, which will be in transit for another week or two. Hope i don't jinx it by sharing some pics here already:
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Is "Okey Dokey" part of the product name, or would it be a creative QA pass sticker?
PC sound card based on the Atari Pokey?
this looks like a midi interface , notice the PC900v IC on the top right... the DB9 port is where the midi in/out breakout cable goes
I don't think that this can produce any kind of sound other than metronome... did you test it?
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johnboy
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Card was manufactured by Midi Land Pomona California Early 90's It is actually called Okey Dokey as appears on label top of card. It does have a yamaha ym3812 chip under silver label. That's all I know
soeter04
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Got some new games
Two Atari 2600 games, not in the best shape, but they're not that common.
Some games for the Colecovision
Five games for the XE. Bottom two still sealed. If only i had an XE
And some games for the 8-bit Atari Systems. Defender still sealed.
Two Atari 2600 games, not in the best shape, but they're not that common.
Some games for the Colecovision
Five games for the XE. Bottom two still sealed. If only i had an XE
And some games for the 8-bit Atari Systems. Defender still sealed.
This weeks random thrift shop finds, unfortunately it looks like the stores are really being picked clean these days, and anything that *might* be remotely worth anything having much higher prices on them (anything associated with Lego or MegaBloks being priced at nearly new prices...and you just know they haven't bothered to check the box actually has 2200 pieces in it...) (one store had about 10 AD&D hardcover reference books ranging from 1e to 3.5e (ie: someone 'donated' their collection), priced higher (50%-100% more in fact) than local second-hand/game shops would have the audacity to price them at)
at one of then there WAS a Sega Genesis/Sega CD as well as a Gamegear for relatively good prices, but absolutely no way to test them (no power supplies)
Books & Comics
Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology (Del Rey, 1997)
Star Wars - Jedi Academy (HC) (Scholastic, 2013)
Asterix et Latraviata (HC) (2001)
Stories of the Smurfs #2 - The Smurfette (HC) (Dupuis, 1978 ) (in fairly rough condition, however)
Stories of the Smurfs #5 - The Astrosmurf (HC) (Dupuis, 1979) ( " " )
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Book IV (First, 1988 ) ( " " )
The Topper Book 1993 (HC) (D.C. Thompson, 1992)
Star Wars: Boba Fett - Death, Lies, & Treachery (TP) (Dark Horse, 1998 )
DragonLance #11, 13, 16, 21, 25, 29, 32 (DC Comics, 1989-1991)
Advanced dungeons & Dragons #10 (DC Comics, 1989)
Cloak and Dagger #9 (Marvel, 1986)
X-Terminators #4 (Marvel, 1989)
Ms. Tree 3-D #1 (Renegade, 1985)
Red Sonja - She-Devil with a Sword #9 (Dynamite, 2005)
Wolfpack #7, 8, 12 (Marvel, 1989)
Games/Gamebooks
Free Parking (Parker Brothers, 1988 )
Warhammer 40K - Space Marines Codex (Games Workshop, 2004)
Star Wars Missions #7 - Ithorian Invasion (Scholastic, 1997)
Grail Quest #3 - The Gateway of Doom (Armada, 1985)
Battle Cards - 37 unopened packs (Merlin, 1993) (also (TM) Steve Jackson)
at one of then there WAS a Sega Genesis/Sega CD as well as a Gamegear for relatively good prices, but absolutely no way to test them (no power supplies)
Books & Comics
Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology (Del Rey, 1997)
Star Wars - Jedi Academy (HC) (Scholastic, 2013)
Asterix et Latraviata (HC) (2001)
Stories of the Smurfs #2 - The Smurfette (HC) (Dupuis, 1978 ) (in fairly rough condition, however)
Stories of the Smurfs #5 - The Astrosmurf (HC) (Dupuis, 1979) ( " " )
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Book IV (First, 1988 ) ( " " )
The Topper Book 1993 (HC) (D.C. Thompson, 1992)
Star Wars: Boba Fett - Death, Lies, & Treachery (TP) (Dark Horse, 1998 )
DragonLance #11, 13, 16, 21, 25, 29, 32 (DC Comics, 1989-1991)
Advanced dungeons & Dragons #10 (DC Comics, 1989)
Cloak and Dagger #9 (Marvel, 1986)
X-Terminators #4 (Marvel, 1989)
Ms. Tree 3-D #1 (Renegade, 1985)
Red Sonja - She-Devil with a Sword #9 (Dynamite, 2005)
Wolfpack #7, 8, 12 (Marvel, 1989)
Games/Gamebooks
Free Parking (Parker Brothers, 1988 )
Warhammer 40K - Space Marines Codex (Games Workshop, 2004)
Star Wars Missions #7 - Ithorian Invasion (Scholastic, 1997)
Grail Quest #3 - The Gateway of Doom (Armada, 1985)
Battle Cards - 37 unopened packs (Merlin, 1993) (also (TM) Steve Jackson)
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Most charity shops here in the UK check ebay, so bargains are quite difficult to find. Not all I must admit, because sometimes you get rarer games priced the same as the mundane ones. But it's definitely not like it use to be.
yeah..the ones here are starting to run 'auctions' on just about anything that looks like it might be old/valuable
even on things that aren't really...
i guess they are afraid they are not getting 'full value' for that merchandise they were given for free...
it's not surprising, though...as many of the thrift stores here now are part of large for-profit chains, with CEOs being paid in the hundreds of thousands..to millions...
even on things that aren't really...
i guess they are afraid they are not getting 'full value' for that merchandise they were given for free...
it's not surprising, though...as many of the thrift stores here now are part of large for-profit chains, with CEOs being paid in the hundreds of thousands..to millions...
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Ah, hoarders
Ah, hoarders
I've been into retro-gaming for a couple years now, and, after the 30th anniversary of the Amiga, I've been getting into retro-computing too. To feed my dirty habbit, I've been doing quite a bit of garage sale hunting. Last weekend I went to a garage sale that advertised on craigslist as "HUGE HOARDER SALE". It did not disappoint. There were a bunch of Atari 7800 games in boxes, so that by itself was worth the trip.
I talked to the guy a bit. He told me there was more stuff inside, but he hadn't had a chance to go through it yet. He did want to, "sell an $80 game for $3." Fair enough. A little more chatting, and he offered to let me have a look. The games were almost all common stuff, but there was a Mega Man IV, in the box... I told him to look up a price for that one, and I still got a really good deal.
The rest of the house... OMG. It really was like you see on TV. Boxes covering almost every inch of the floor and stacked to the ceiling in places. The guy told me that he thought it would take about two years to get the place fully cleaned out. Ouch.
In the kitchen (obviously) there was a big, big pile of computers. I started looking through that... and there was some weird stuff there. The most interesting bits were an Osborne 1, a Mac SE/30, and a DaynaFile.
I first saw the DaynaFile from this view, and I thought, "An external SCSI chasis. I can use that."
I picked up, turned it around, and almost dropped it. First of all, that's a 5.25" floppy drive in a SCSI chasis. That earns some serious WTF marks alone. Look closer... 360k.
Now I had to have it. I added it to my pile. I figured that after amortizing the total price over all the things I got, I paid about $1 for it.
Upon getting it home, I dissected it. Inside is a perfectly ordinary 360k 5.25" floppy drive.
The whole thing is controlled by a little 8031 microcontroller that bridges the SCSI bus to the floppy bus.
As if the whole thing weren't crazy enough... there's the date on the ROM. It's hard to read in the picture, but it says, "DAYNAFILE REV. 3.1 @ 1989". Yes... 1989. Why? WHY?!? Why did someone need a 360k 5.25" SCSI floppy drive in 1989?!? By that time Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and even most PCs had 720k 3.5" floppy drives standard in 1989. I understand wanting to read 1.2M 5.25" PC floppies or 1.44M/720k 3.5" PC floppies on a Mac, but 360k? For shame!
The bummer is that there's no powersupply for it. I found a user manual, which is filled with some serious lolz. '"Reading and writing files" is MS-DOS terminology.... Reading a file is the same as opening a document and writing a file is the same as closing a document and saving changes." Now I remember why I used to make fun of Macintosh users.
What the manual doesn't have anywhere in it's 122 pages is a pinout of the powersupply connector. The Internet says it uses an Elpac WM220... should be possible to rig something up.
Ah, hoarders
I've been into retro-gaming for a couple years now, and, after the 30th anniversary of the Amiga, I've been getting into retro-computing too. To feed my dirty habbit, I've been doing quite a bit of garage sale hunting. Last weekend I went to a garage sale that advertised on craigslist as "HUGE HOARDER SALE". It did not disappoint. There were a bunch of Atari 7800 games in boxes, so that by itself was worth the trip.
I talked to the guy a bit. He told me there was more stuff inside, but he hadn't had a chance to go through it yet. He did want to, "sell an $80 game for $3." Fair enough. A little more chatting, and he offered to let me have a look. The games were almost all common stuff, but there was a Mega Man IV, in the box... I told him to look up a price for that one, and I still got a really good deal.
The rest of the house... OMG. It really was like you see on TV. Boxes covering almost every inch of the floor and stacked to the ceiling in places. The guy told me that he thought it would take about two years to get the place fully cleaned out. Ouch.
In the kitchen (obviously) there was a big, big pile of computers. I started looking through that... and there was some weird stuff there. The most interesting bits were an Osborne 1, a Mac SE/30, and a DaynaFile.
I first saw the DaynaFile from this view, and I thought, "An external SCSI chasis. I can use that."
I picked up, turned it around, and almost dropped it. First of all, that's a 5.25" floppy drive in a SCSI chasis. That earns some serious WTF marks alone. Look closer... 360k.
Now I had to have it.
I added it to my pile. I figured that after amortizing the total price over all the things I got, I paid about $1 for it.Upon getting it home, I dissected it. Inside is a perfectly ordinary 360k 5.25" floppy drive.
The whole thing is controlled by a little 8031 microcontroller that bridges the SCSI bus to the floppy bus.
As if the whole thing weren't crazy enough... there's the date on the ROM. It's hard to read in the picture, but it says, "DAYNAFILE REV. 3.1 @ 1989". Yes... 1989. Why? WHY?!? Why did someone need a 360k 5.25" SCSI floppy drive in 1989?!? By that time Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, and even most PCs had 720k 3.5" floppy drives standard in 1989. I understand wanting to read 1.2M 5.25" PC floppies or 1.44M/720k 3.5" PC floppies on a Mac, but 360k? For shame!
The bummer is that there's no powersupply for it. I found a user manual, which is filled with some serious lolz. '"Reading and writing files" is MS-DOS terminology.... Reading a file is the same as opening a document and writing a file is the same as closing a document and saving changes." Now I remember why I used to make fun of Macintosh users.
What the manual doesn't have anywhere in it's 122 pages is a pinout of the powersupply connector. The Internet says it uses an Elpac WM220... should be possible to rig something up.
commodorejohn
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That's gloriously weird
Nice I wish we had garage sales here in the UK. Looking at all the computer stuff must've been pretty cool. Last night I actually soft-modded a spare Wii I bought at a car boot sale using Letterbomb, which went very smoothly thankfully.
I wish we had garage sales here in the UK. Looking at all the computer stuff must've been pretty cool. Last night I actually soft-modded a spare Wii I bought at a car boot sale using Letterbomb, which went very smoothly thankfully.
