MGustafson

I just did the Easy composite mod yesterday. Highly recommend it. Piece of cake

Just finished this mod, cut out R3 and pulled audio straight from between the two resistors shown elsewhere on here. Used the floppy power connector trick also. I put the two plugs facing down on the back left side of the conssoe and used the three resistor setup off the transistor, made it into a nice little bundle. Only change I really made is the two resistors to ground connection. I ran a wire from them to the ground on the video jack with the assumption that grounding the video amp circuit to the video jack would create a little better ground. Had an issue at first with no video, but realized it was that the floppy power jack fit slightly loose, I put a bend in the pins that it's on and voila, much better connection. The video issue had me panicked, but after I wiggled it the signal came through the tv just fine. It works wonderfully on both my 32 inch lcd AND on my 65 inch that's mounted in the living room. Very slight ghosting, but I took a lot of care soldering the transistor connections and trimming excess leads of AFTER soldering. My first run had some slight color issues and more ghosting, but I went through my connections and found a couple sloppy spots I cleaned up with side cutters and a knife. Must say the playing this on our living room TV is quite the treat. I think next time I will try to add a quick disconnect to the audio wire, plus put the amp circuit on a small board that I can mount in the groove on the left side. I'm planning on keeping the jacks mounted to the case, which is the reason for the disconnect so basically if I have to tear it down or if the board dies for some reason, I can reuse the mod in another console with only about 10 minutes worth of work. All in all I'd say this was a 3 out of 10 in difficulty, and that's with my lackluster soldering skills, but everything is VERY easily done and I already have people wanting me to do it for them. Buy yourself a resistor kit so you don't have to scrounge, a dual wattage soldering iron (mine is a 20/45 or something around that) and a bag of the transistors, once your friends see it work on a modern TV they'll be wanting one two so you can probably make your money back on the equipment in no time. I spent about $25 and the resistors work a work write off since I use them all the time there. Now my next steps will be replacing the power (I want to experiment with a USB power source from a phone charger) plus a LED swap and probably a custom badge for any consoles I work on. Then on to the controllers.

these things are awesome, I have two I use with a short BASIC sound generator for sampling.

IMHO I have a 130xe 800xl and 1200xl. To start I'd suggest going for the 800xl. Never had one go bad (I have 6) and they can take a beating. I have one I bought at a yard sale thet looked like it had been run over. The shell was cracked and the keyboard was barely held in however the internals were all good and it works to this day. I've also never had any software that didn't work on it that I really wanted to run (due to the lower ram). The design also matches most of the hardware you will get for it as opposed to the XE line I only had one 130xe and I still can't figure out how it went bad. It's got no cosmetic damage and is clean as hell but one day it just quit on me so it's left kind of a bitter taste in my mouth for the xe line. Besides that they look flimsy and aren't nearly as cool looking as the xl line. I also have a 1200xl that I love but the downside is that it has issues running some programs and is extremelly rare to find. I found a listing on Craigslist and drown 100 miles to buy it off a guy at 2am just to make sure I got mine.

it's an ste, but I'm not looking to ship it. I just wanted to see if I could make a quick buck at a buddies yard sale. if anyone is in the area and interested the sale goes on till 5:30 tonight or I could arange to be here with it later on, dropping the price to $35 if you show up at the yardsale and if you buy both sets I'll make it an even $50.00

Image 19 on the link looks like it has an Atari version of the IPod clickwheel.. Just thought it was funny as hell..

1040st with a sc1224 monitor (monitor still has box and foam) only thing needed is the power cable (basic computer power cable)

I'm selling a few things in Puyallup this weekend. 1 ST setup with mouse and monitor and software 1 600xl setup with tape drive, 1050, controllers, 2 monitors (1 might not be working) only thing missing is monitor cable. 40 bucks per set get off on Pioneer exit of 512, turn north, turn right at school (spinning) turn right on 1st street, about halfway down on right.

I have a buddy that picked up a SNES store sign for $25 bucks a couple weeks ago and I can't find any values for it online. It's the light up neon with the long black plastic box and just "Super Nintendo" in trans-red plastic. The closest thing I found was this old EBay auction but it's for the NES version not the Super. Otherwise it's identicle: http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-VINTAGE-NINTENDO-...1QQcmdZViewItem Any info would be great. Also if anyone in the Tacoma, WA area is interested he may be looking to resell it. Gustafson.M@gmail.com

BPA83S1200 83 S DA 000423 113 Guess that makes mine the oldest The "3" on "113" is in blue pen

The enclosure is from the 1064?!? The 600XL 64k memory modules. Any chance these enclosures are floating around out there empty our do I have to rip apart a 1064? If that's not what it is then what can be used? Surely not a power brick enclosure. Awesome idea though.

I just got my second 410 yesterday. I never use cassette drives but it came with a huge lot. Now I have both versions of the 410's, the smaller Taiwan and the bulkier Sunnyvale one which has the handle on it. Which one of these is rarer and would it be worth enough that I should sell it? I'm into all the 8bit hardware but I really don't need a pair of 410s laying in my closet if I could make some scratch off it. ~Mike

I know that I prefer to buy PD software in sets. I almost never buy singles of these unless they're something I'm missing. I have bought mixed lots of a couple from here couple from there deals.

Thanks for the welcome and the info. I was kind of afraid that the accessing of the floppy over and over was a bad sign but I'm more hopeful now I'm US so I will need to get a monitor. I saw the PeST interface and I think if I can't get an ST mouse locally then that's what I'll go with. The ALT-(arrow) tip will help alot to start with. For peripherals which hard drives were made specifically for the ST and which one is the prefered? I'm not loaded but whats a hobby good for if you can't blow some cash now and again eh? With an ethernet adapter would it provide net access? That would be sweet. I love killing a few nights tinkering with this stuff. I'm also interested in the music aspect of the STs and would love to get some sort of a starting point on that. Thanks again and it feels good to step up to the big (16bit) leagues...

I think it'd be great if the made their own brand of Motherboards/Video cards, but they'd have to do something kick-ass with them or they'd just be another company in a vast sea of crap. Hell even if they just made a custom heatsink on a vid card shaped like the logo then it'd be cool. They should've partnered with a hardware company to do this. LOL, they could even make a bios for a MB that would let you select to boot the system as a true Commodore and then run games and carts from an external USB Floppy drive/cart slot combo unit.... now that'd be fricking sweet.... and probably not too expensive for them to get going....