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Been looking for books about the Gemini programme and finally found a printed copy of this book. Just started it and a great read already.


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Thrift shop / Dollar store time again...

Games/Gamebooks

Ratrace (Waddingtons, 1984)
Strawberry Shortcake Game Basket (Parker, 1981)
Valor of the Guards Historical Module 7 (MMP, 2007) (for Advanced Squad Leader, unused)

CYOA #18 - Return to Atlantis (Chooseco, 2005)
Sorcery! #1 - The Shamutanti Hills (Puffin, 1987)

Books/Comics

The Black Hole Storybook (HC) (Random House, 1979)
Return of the Jedi - How the Ewoks Saved the Trees - an Old Ewok Legend (HC) (Random House, 1984)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (HC) (Random House, 1984)
Indiana Jones Annual (HC) (Marvel, 1990)
Black-Adder - The Whole Damn Dynasty 1485-1917 (HC) (Penguin, 1998 )
The Children's Picture Prehistory - Dinosaurs (Usborne, 1977)

Asterix & Obelix's Birthday - The Golden Book (HC) (Orion, 2009)
Asterix en Hispania (HC) (Salvat, 1999)
Asterix - La Residencia de los Dioses (HC) (Salvat, 1999)
The Dandy Book 1983 (HC) (DC Thomson, 1982)
Beano Comic Library #50 (DC Thomson, 1984)
Beano Comic Library Special #13 (DC Thomson, 1988 )
The Twelfth Garfield fat cat 3-pack (Ballantine, 2001) (books 34, 35 & 36)

The Chronicles of Conan Vol. 1 (Dark Horse, 2003) (trade paperback)
Ms. Tree #34 (Renegade, 1986)
Maelstrom #2 (Aircel, 1987)
Star Wars #3 (Dark Horse, 2006)
Marvel Fanfare #26 (Marvel, 1986)
Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-ham #1, 4, 9, 10, 14 & 16 (Marvel, 1983-87)

Toys

Hook - Lost Boy Strike Tank (Mattel, 1991) (boxed)

Star Wars The Force Awakens - Kylo Ren figure (Hasbro, 2015) (new/sealed)
Star Wars The Force Awakens - Chewbacca figure (Hasbro, 2015) (new/sealed)
Star Wars The Force Awakens - Poe Dameron figure (Hasbro, 2015) (new/sealed)
Star Wars The Force Awakens - First Order TIE Fighter Pilot Elite figure (Hasbo, 2015) (new/sealed)
Star Wars The Force Awakens - First Order Flametrooper figure (Hasbro, 2015) (new/sealed)

BluRays/CDs

Home Alone (20th Century Fox, 1990)
Home alone 2 - Lost in New York (20th Century Fox, 1992)
Men in Black (Columbia, 1997)
Inception (Warner, 2010)

Billy Joel - Storm Front (CBS, 1989)
C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Sony, 1990)
INXS - Kick (Atlantic, 1987)
Miami Sound Machine - Primitive Love (CBS, 1985)
Prince - The Hits/The B-Sides (Warner, 1991)
The Proclaimers - King of the Road EP (Chrysalis, 1990)
Snow - 12 Inches of Snow (Atlantic, 1993)
Technotronic - Pump Up the Jam the Album (SBK, 1989)

Misc

Nexxtech 6' Shielded Audio Cable (1/4" M/M 24kt gold-plated) (new)
Access+ MEA-102 Cassette Head Cleaner + Fluid (new/sealed)

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Nice! Man I do miss my Neo Geo AES but I don't miss the prices! Gaming is a great hobby but I have limits on what I'm willing to spend on my hobby.

Haha, yes the plan is very much to use a flash cart / multicarts. Neo collecting is for lottery winners now!
 
New Toy

New Toy

I'm heading to Africa for the next two months and decided I wanted to try my hand at aerial video. Didn't want to spend too much, so this is what I picked up.

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Commodore 486 PC!

Commodore 486 PC!

I picked up this old thing because it was dirt cheap and if I squint I can pretend I still have an Amiga 4000!

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Inside it's a 386sx motherboard with a Cyrix 486slc CPU and on board VGA. A riser card gives it 5 ISA slots.

Unfortunately I haven't been able to get it to boot, so far no output from the built in VGA. The battery has made quite a mess but at least it was confined to one corner of the board.

I have hope that it will live as there seems to be some activity on the ISA bus. I think I'll try getting my hands on another video card and see if I can get a picture out of it.
 
A Coleco ADAM shall be mine!!!

A Coleco ADAM shall be mine!!!

Awesome!

Call me crazy, but I've been after a Coleco ADAM for a very long time. Feeling a bit p33d off that my Apple II projects have come to a (hopefully temporary) halt as a result of my untidyness borkng my system I thought I'd take a peek @ fleaBay before bed.
Boxed Coleco ADAM with 2 mins to go... bidding not too ridiculous... one quick snipe later and blow me if I didn't get it!
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Big Pile of Awesomeness

Yep, pleased as punch. I've no idea how I'm going to sneak this past my better half given it's size and a printer loud enough to wake the dead!
 
not posted for a while.

had quite a few new bits over the last few months.

mainly my 1st big box amiga A2000, A500+ and ACA500+

but most recently and an absolute bargain a kickstarter edition Picade.

12" screen and 8 play buttons differing from the retail 8" screen and 6 play buttons.

:)


oh! the small Nes is a double sized PI case my lad got, 3D printed from eBay.
 

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Ok, this is from last sunday:


This I picked up (together with 2 multiplexers and 4 Wyse terminals) last Tuesday.


The week before I hauled this in (that's a Spectravideo 328 never opened box, cassetteplayer and several boxed games for spectravideo, dragon and sinclair):


And in the beginning of Juli this came in:



And I'm going to pick up this in the next few weeks:


So, that makes 109 computers in my possession at this moment. Therefor I'm opening a HomeComputerMuseum in the Netherlands :)
 
Alrighty, nearly a month gone by so here's another thrift/dollar store post.

Games/Game Books

The Smurf Game (MB, 1981)
Tetris (MB, 1989)
Walt Disney's Peter Pan Game (Transogram, 1953)

CYOA #1 - The Abominable Snowman (Chooseco, 2006)
CYOA Space Hawks #1 - Faster Than Light (Bantam, 1991)
SwordQuest #2 - Quest for the Dragon's Eye (Ace, 1985)
Endless Quest #2 - Mountain of Mirrors (TSR, 1982)
Endless Quest #3 - Pillars of Pentegarn (TSR, 1982)
Endless Quest #4 - Return to Brookmere (TSR, 1982)
Club Penguin Pick Your Path #3 - Star Reporter (Disney, 2009)
Carmen Sandiego #4 - Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego (WPC, 1991)

Books/Magazines

Asterix et Latraviata (HC) (Albert Rene, 2001)
Asterix - Le Devin (HC) (Dargaud, 1972)
Mais Ou-Est Donc IDEFIX?!? - Livre-Jeux Asterix (HC) (Phidal, 2001)
L'Apprenti Schtroumpf (HC) (Dupuis, 1975)
Babar and Father Christmas (HC) (Random House, 1968 )
Whizzer and Chips Annual 1981 (HC) (Fleetway, 1980)

Pac-Man and the Ghost Diggers (Golden Books, 1983)
Omni Magazine Vol. 8 No. 3 (Dec, 1985)
Omni Magazine Vol. 9 No. 5 (Feb, 1987)
Omni Magazine Vol. 11 No. 11 (Aug, 1989)
Madballs #2 (Marvel, 1986)

CDs/LPs

The Honeydrippers - Volume One (Atlantic, 1984)
Robert Palmer - Heavy Nova (EMI, 1988 )
Tom Cochrane - Mad Mad World (Capitol, 1991)

Loverboy - Get Lucky (CBS, 1981)
Kenny & Dolly - Once Upon a Christmas (RCA, 1984) (one of my favorite xmas albums, along with Roger Whittaker, Bing Crosby, Boney M and California Raisins :p)
Popeye OST (CBS, 1980)
Mini-Pops (K-tel, 1982)
We're the Mini-Pops (K-tel, 1983)
Mini-Pops Christmas (Quality, 1984) (no, this one isn't... it was just there with the others :lol:)
Smurfing Sing Sing (PolyGram, 1980)
The Smurfs All Star Show (PolyGram, 1981)

Star Wars Toys

Disney Infinity 3.0 - Boba Fett (Disney, 2015) (new)
Disney Infinity 3.0 - Yoda (Disney, 2015) (new)
Star Wars - The Force Awakens - Finn (FN-2187) (Hasbro, 2015) (new)

Atari 2600 (M-Network) Carts

Space Attack (x3)
Astroblast
Armor Ambush

Computer Bits

Dell Latitude D610 Notebook (2Ghz Pentium M 760, 2GB DDR2 533 RAM, 80GB HD, 8x DVDRW, ATi Radeon X300 64MB, 14.1" Display, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, 802.11b/g Wireless, 56k v.92 modem)(Working - may need a new battery)
StarTech 6.5' Serial Laplink Cable (9/25 F/F - 9/25 F/F)
PCCW IBM AT Serial Cable 6' (9/F - 25/M) (new)
15x Memorex 8x DVD+R DL Discs
14x MF2HD 3.5" 1.44MB Disks

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Had to do a little grocery shopping yesterday, so I popped into another location of Dollarama to pick up a few things, and found a few more of the toys.

Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack Anakin Skywalker / Ahsoka Tano (Disney, 2015)
Fabrikation Star Wars Wicket Warrick 'soft sculpture' (Funko, 2014)
ReAction The Karate Kid - Mr. Miyagi (Funko, 2015)

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So, it's been a few months since I ordered any gaming stuff (almost 7, in fact - just after Christmas...) and Games Workshop has released new teams/players (Dwarfs, Goblins, Trolls and Ogres), pitches, dice, cards and rules sets for Blood Bowl in the meantime...

picked up:

Skaven/Dwarf 2-sided pitch
Dwarf Giants team (12 dwarf players)
Dwarf Giants block dice set


also a bit behind on X-wing ships, Imperial Assault figures and there's an Expansion for Rebellion coming out soon, as well. (not to mention Goblins, Trolls and Ogres for BB)
 

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Hey guys hows it all hanging !! :)

just want to show a picture of a parcel I was sent to help out a fellow amigan who lives in Europe and the seller would only post to the UK

He sent these atari`s in a box with next to no packing and the two Atari`s must have been doing the fandango in the box on their way to me :) and obviously they are both damaged.
Also I have never seen so much crap on retro items eeewwwww
So how not to send a package :

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Back home from a usually rubbish day at work to find this clogging the hall:

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Did I Order A Wardrobe?

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Surely Not A Bed?

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No, It's A Gigantic Pile of Awesome!!!

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So I Took It To Bits...

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...And Have More Than One Screw Loose

:D:D:D
 
VideoNuLA

VideoNuLA

Acorn's line of 8 bit computers are in my opinion wonderful machines and got better with every model... a shame they were always stuck with a maximum of 8 colours per screen. 16 colour modes were just 8 colours plus 8 flashing combinations... :roll:

Well the awesome RobC over on the *. forums has come up with a replacement ULA that does rather better, how about a fully programmable pallet of 4096 colours plus some very nice new modes with total compatibility and the ability to recolour existing games / software?

I got my latest rectangle of awesome through the post today and here it is in my Model B:

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VideoNuLA Top Centre
*DO NOT PUT IT HERE*
VideoULA socket NOT SerialULA socket
(FDD Upgrade Midddle Left)

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IntegraB Kindly Repaired By Bas
(Along With CF HDD and MMC, 64k ROM Mod, 'n stuff)

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10quid CoPro, by Hoglet & Co

(*. forum again)

I just wanted to express my public thanks to all the above, and more, who continue to add so much win to these machines. :thumbsup:
 
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Thrift/Dollar Store time again...tons of CDs this time around, every place I went seemed to have ones I hadn't got yet (and in fact, would have a few more, but so many were scratched to hell, including Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation, which is one I've been looking to find for a while now, such a shame...)

Games

Screaming Eagles (MB, 1987)
Sidewinder (Parker, 1983)
Patchwork (Mayfair, 2014) (unused)
Funny or Die (Hasbro, 2013)

Toys

Ghostbusters 6" Figure - Peter Venkman (Mattel, 2016 (new/sealed)
Ghostbusters 6" Figure - Ray Stantz (Mattel, 2016) (""/"")
Ghostbusters 6" Figure - Egon Spengler (Mattel, 2016) (""/"")
Ghostbusters 6" Figure - Winston Zeddemore (Mattel, 2016) (""/"")
Hot Wheels - Classic Ghostbusters Ecto-1 / Ecto-1A (Mattel, 2015) (new/sealed)

Disney Infinity 3.0 - Boba Fett (Disney, 2016) (new/sealed, decided to grab a second one of these since Boba seems to usually disappear fairly quickly...)

Books

Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels (Scholastic, 1998 )
Babar's Celesteville Games (HC) (Abrams, 2011)
Usborne World History - Ancient World (Scholastic, 2000)

CDs/LPs

Ace of Base - The Sign (Arista, 1993)
The B-52s - Cosmic Thing (Reprise, 1989)
Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish (Food, 1993)
Blur - Blur (EMI, 1997)
Blur - There's No Other Way (SBK, 1991)
Colin James - Colin James (Virgin, 1988 )
Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet (BMG, 1993)
Elton John - Reg Strikes Back (MCA, 1988 )
Genesis - We Can't Dance (Atlantic, 1991)
Harry Connick Jr. - Harry for the Holidays (Sony, 2003)
The Jeff Healey Band - Hell to Pay (Arista, 1990)
Paul Simon - Graceland (Warner, 1986)
Ramones - Ramones Mania (Sire, 1988 )
R.E.M. - Document (IRS, 1987)
R.E.M. - Eponymous (IRS, 1988 )
Robert Palmer - Riptide (Island, 1985)
The Smiths - Meat is Murder (Sire, 1985)
The Tragically Hip - Day for Night (MCA, 1994)
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power (Universal, 1998 )
The Tragically Hip - In Violet Light (Universal, 2002)
The Tragically Hip - In Between Evolution (Universal, 2004)
Various - Lump of Coal (First Warning, 1991)
The Who - Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy (MCA, 1990)
Various - Young Einstein Soundtrack (A&M, 1988 )

Night Ranger - Midnight Madness (CBS, 1983)
ABBA - Voulez-Vous (Atlantic, 1979)
Various - Rockin' on the Airwaves (CBS, 1981) (I used to love these compilations when I was a kid, we couldn't afford too many records and these (and ones from K-Tel especially) had a lot of the hits of the day on 1 album)

Other

Authentic Reebok Vancouver Canucks Jersey (I generally try to stay away from thrift shop clothing, but this appears very slightly worn/nearly new)

Imation 2HD 3.5" Diskettes 10-pack (new/sealed)
3M DS,HD 3.5" Diskettes 10-pack (new/sealed)


I have gotten a few duplicate CDs in the last little while, as it's begun to get difficult to remember what I have, but it kind of forced me to finally input the bulk of my collection to Discogs (and put the app on my phone)
it is here, if anyone would like to take a peek:

https://www.discogs.com/user/HarpoonX/collection?layout=big

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We need to change the title of the thread to "SaviorX's Thrift Store Scores" :D

Bryce.
 
We need to change the title of the thread to "SaviorX's Thrift Store Scores" :D

Bryce.

Maybe people could start scoring my scores, like a couple months ago, all that 80s RPG stuff might be 10/10, and the one from a few days ago, although fairly cool with a couple good games, the Ghostbusters figs and the Star Wars vehicle book, would maybe only be 7/10 at best.... :lol:
 
Another small thrift store/comic shop run (I had a 30% discount at one thrift store which needed to be used this week or it expired, and I hadn't gotten any of the sealed PotF Star Wars figs in a while and felt like grabbing some from the comic shop)

Toys/Games

PotF Han Solo in Carbonite (Kenner, 1997) (w/ film slide - "Han solo becomes the first human to be frozen in carbonite")
PotF Lando Calrissian in General's Gear (Kenner, 1997) (w/ film slide - "Lando is appointed to lead the Rebel assault on the second Death Star")

Episode I - Queen Amidala (Coruscant) (Hasbro, 1999)
Episode I - Chancellor Valorum (with ceremonial staff) (Hasbro, 1998 )
Episode I - Boss Nass (with Gungan Staff) (Hasbro, 1998 )

NDS - Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures (LucasArts, 1996)
NDS - Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (DSi, 1996)

Time Machine #5 - Civil War Secret Agent (Bantam, 1984)

Books/Magazines

Asterix et les Goths (HC) (Dargaud Canada, 1979)
Le Cadeau de Cesar (HC) (Dargaud, 1974)
Le fils d'Asterix (HC) (Albert Rene, 1983)
Asterix chez Rahazade (HC) (Albert Rene, 2003)
Asterix la Rose et le Glaive (HC) (Albert Rene, 1991)

The Family Circus Treasury (Sheed Andrews & McMeel, 1977)
Winnie the Pooh (HC) (Dutton, 1988 )

9x White Dwarf magazines (GW) (2010: June, Dec 2011: July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec 2012: Aug)

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Some nice acquisitions there!

I've tried on multiple occasions to get into the LEGO video games but I just can't. The animations and cut scenes are amazing but the gameplay is just about solving simple puzzles and collecting bricks, which is a bit boring to me. Maybe they get more difficult and exciting farther into the games but I never got far enough into them to find out.

Heather
 
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