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  1. I'm always willing to dump disks for poeple Can't promise return shipping, but if you include a return label, I'll send them back. Or, I'm pretty much available all the time if someone wants to bring them by personally (Central Texas.)
  2. TI-99/4a Wired Remote Controllers. Asking $20 + shipping.
  3. OK, now this is an interesting project.... Anyone think they could finish the work (and can afford the auction?) https://www.ebay.com/itm/295635836709
  4. I'm wondering when exactly it would be legal (or who own the rights & can give permision,) to reverse engineer & clone it? For the prices I've seen them go for, I'm unlikely to ever get one. But I could probably save up for a clone if it was available. I know clones of the Commodore 1581 drive are now available, and am saving up for one of those.
  5. So, unless there is a major breakthrough, we're looking a middle to late 2023 at the earliest (I would guess.) Thank you
  6. Got disconnected for a while... Sorry. Has an E.T.A. (even a ballpark) been mentioned yet?
  7. Shout out & some play scenes on "The History of Dragon's Lair" located at 13:52 (ish) in the video
  8. I don't have the funds to have purchased it, and it isn't something I particularly want anyway.... That being said, I would agree that the price is higher than it should be. So, either someone was desperate, or just plain ignorant.
  9. Um... Are you going to need a drywall repair kit??
  10. If he does another run, I'd want one too
  11. About the C64 - There is already a Dragon's Lair for the C64 produced in the 80's. I do not believe it was released by the current license holder, and there may have been 3rd party issues involved with producing a re-make.
  12. All methods of noise reduction are a trade off of some sort. Ferrite beads add resistance to the line. Capacitor filtering adds, well, capacitance to the line. Foil shielding adds physical restraints to the line. Extra ground lines also add physical restraints. They can all add extra latency. As for length, a properly shielded & filtered IDE (or SCSI for that matter,) cable can reach up to 10' before a repeater point of some sort is needed. In the case of SCSI, just having a drive somewhere along the length serves this purpose. Hopefully, as Hans23 pointed out, the age of the system will allow for more flexibility in this. Many of the designs in the late 70's & 80's showed the US's paranoia where EMI is concerned. Take the metal "tail" on the C64's dattasette for example. Only present on US models, and completely unnecessary. But, required by regulation back then. If someone is worried about signal loss, with modern components, an error correcting encoder/decoder circuit could be added to each end without taking up much space at all. But that's well beyond my capabilities.
  13. There are ways to reduce interference besides shielding. A bank of capacitors across the data lines, ferrite beads, extra ground lines (like an IDE cable uses,) are a few examples.
  14. I don't have one The only IC's I currently have available are listed above. I may have more, after I finish some mods I'm planning, but not at the moment. Curious about it, I did a search, and I did find one in stock for $40 at https://www.best-electronics-ca.com/custom-i.htm It's a fairly long list & order details are at the bottom. They have a lot of Atari stuff, but their page is H$@# to navigate
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