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    WTB Amiga A500

    The lead went very well. I got both an A500 and a A1200 from the same guy, so I'm not looking for an A500 anymore.
  2. Lios

    WTB Amiga A500

    For me, it's more about getting enough data to feel pretty safe spending x amount on something without there being a good chance outside of dumb luck to find it at lesser y price a week later. A pair of unsold bundles on ebay isn't much to go by for pricing on a loose, bare bones a500, but in terms of what they're selling for on ebay in europe right now, the asking prices are double or more for the few stateside listings. Now if several months down the road, it's the same story after exhausting every resource I can think of, or I'm finding dozens of offers at the same price point, that's a different story. I don't mind haggling and waiting for a better deal on items. I already have more projects than I have time for as is, anything more is just bonus if I find a good deal. If not, I haven't really lost anything for not having found what I personally consider a "good deal"
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    WTB Amiga A500

    By luck, I've sourced a local seller for a not fully tested NTSC A500 with Rev 6a board for sale at a reasonable price. Meeting with them tomorrow, will update if I get it. If that falls through, I may have another lead through a friend I honestly just want something I can put a gotek drive into and load up OCS games from that. I already have an untested power supply, 1 or 2mb ram expansion (side bus and not trap door iirc, will have to dig it up out of storage to confirm), some mice, external floppies, and a pile of boxed software. New aftermarket trapdoor 512kb expansions don't seem terribly expensive if needed. I'll probably get a mister at some point, but I love tinkering with original hardware, and it's often really the only easy way to test odd/obscure peripherals designed for original hardware. I also have a pile of amiga floppies with unknown contents to go through. I don't mind spending the money for fun toys here and there, but I don't want to get ripped off. It's just hard to gauge what a US located A500 even goes for, between a few not selling BINs on ebay, and not much in more recently sold auctions. Sellers have some idea of what one is worth, but I'm not finding the buyer data to back it up so far. Just looking up Amiga computers on ebay that are available to US buyers right now returns less than a dozen listings for any model of the computers, period. Many are untested/parts ones too. Funnily, I find Atari ST and 8 bit stuff all day long, at pretty good prices at that. Hard to tell if that's because in difference between supply or demand for either Amiga or 16 bit atari computers.
  4. Lios

    WTB Amiga A500

    After having an ebay purchase cancelled on me for an A500 from an Italian seller who it seems did not realize they were marked for international shipment, (none of their listings show for USA now after refunding my order due to a "problem with the shipping address") and only seeing a few boxed with many extras/rarer variant A500s from US sellers, I figure I'd try my luck on some forums. I haven't done deals for retro games/computers on forums for many years, but I do have an ebay account with positive feedback and have made several deals in the 2000s on neo-geo.com, pcenginefx.com, rfgeneration.com, and digitpress.com's marketplace sections, as well as on here if there's any question to my legitimacy. I honestly can't even tell what the market rate for a bare bones A500 is. The ones that pop up seem to largely be the rarer and later models, or come with a ton of extras and/or mods, expansions. Completed, sold listings on ebay are all over the place as well. I just need a plain vanilla A500. I have an NTSC A500 power supply, mouse, and external floppy drives, just no amiga to game on. Forreference, before tax and shipping, I was paying 160 euro for a pal, stock A500 in pretty good cosmetic condition with a power supply and nothing else, tested powering on and reaching the kickstart screen. I would gladly pay this for a stock, bare bones PAL A500 in good working order, so long as the shipping doesn't end up costing more than the unit itself, or close to it. I do prefer a pal unit, but will consider ntsc. I will also consider non functioning units, depending on the details and price. I do live in the US, out of Washington state, so US seller preferred, but depending on shipping costs, overseas is fine as well.
  5. I'm trying to identify this board I picked up in a haul of various old computer items. I'm not familiar with which computer it belongs to, but I did find this old thread My board is comparatively less complex, as you can see in the attached pictures. Any idea for certain which computer/interface this connects to? I don't have a Coleco ADAM and am unfamiliar with the expansion ports on it
  6. Just recently picked up a Microvision with one of the worst rotted screens I've ever seen. I'm very interested in one of these.
  7. I figured I'd give this a shot; is there any interest in e3, e5 v1/v2 era Xeon server equipment? I have a lot of 8gb and 16gb ddr3 ecc registered server memory, chassis from pizza boxes, 1u to 4u jbods. Most of the boards and chassis are Supermicro, though I have a few Dells and other misc. On the high end, I have some e5-2620, e5-2650 v1/v2s (would need to double check on the v2s, I have v1s for sure), that's dual 6/8 core, threaded cpus in a board, up to 384 GB ram, several removable drive bays. I have a number of 480GB SSDs and 1-3TB SATA drives, enterprise/datacenter grade. Please keep in mind that this is all used equipment, I can provide readouts of SMART data on the drives as I know some may have a number of power on hours. I also have boards that will fit an ATX case, and the e3 cpus will fit in many Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge chipset boards if you want to build a beefy workstation. I'm looking for 80s-90s non PC compatible computers, game consoles and oddities. Especially interested in imports, MSX, PC88/98, Sharp 68000, FM Towns, Amiga, Atari 16-bit, Tandy computers and real oddities. If you're interested, let me know what you have. I'm aware that I have few posts despite being a member here for years, and I mostly just lurk the Marketplace. I can provide pictures of anything there is interest in, just let me know what you're looking for. I'm located in the Phoenix area and ideally this could be locally arranged, but I'd entertain cross shipment depending on what's on offer.
  8. Would these work in other computers/consoles that use a TMS9918 series VDP that outputs YPbPr, or is this specific to the Colecovision and Adam?
  9. Do you have any references or transaction history? I'm interested, but leery of the low post count and no record of past transactions.
  10. Put me down for one "Assembled device - $50". How much would shipping be to 85225?
  11. I bought an Atari 800XL computer in rather excellent condition. Communication was great, everything was packed to survive a nuclear holocaust, and he even undercharged me on the shipping. I wouldn't hesitate to deal with grips03 again.
  12. Why not both? That way you can bump the thread when you have an update, and people who enter on page 1 will have the most updated info as well.
  13. I've thought about the f18a, but being VGA kills it for me.
  14. I've seen Yurkie's mod, but I'd like something that doesn't require an upscaler (especially a specific one) and keeps as close to what's output natively by the VDP as possible. If I wanted it converted to RGB, I already have my own external solutions for that. Also, Yurkie doesn't appear to offer a DIY kit, which is exactly what I want.
  15. Color me very interested in this as well, I've long been meaning to add a component mod to my Coleco and this pre-made board looks perfect.
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