FastRobPlus

Good info. I have an XEGS and a 130XE that I'd like to have a better keyboard with.

You seem to have a fight brewing on your monitor.

Sounds like you are really passionate about all this. I'll leave you to interact with those who care to debate this stuff.

Only the STacy left. And a video key to let me hook it to a color video source. I appreciate the offer but the 520's 68000 is surface mounted, right? I don't think I want to attempt to desolder anything. You open these things up all the time - is the STacy's 68000 socketed?

Amiga was a viable graphics workstation into the mid 90s, and I did use one for that role in a fairly large software dev house.

I think the point is that Nintendo has carefully and successfully cultivated a perception that their next gen console is about game play and how games are interacted with, not about raw power. The (correct) point brought up was that Sony and MS have not wavered from their stances that their consoles are about power and polygon bandwidth, and so this kind of marketing would not fly with gamers if it came from those companies. Remember - we're all gamers first, fanboys sencond here on this collecting site. Or are we?

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I have an Amiga version of AdSpeed. Can I pop this into my STacy? Does the STacy have a socketed 68000?

It kind of makes you wonder about the numbers reported for older systems. Particularly the first and second generation systems from the time there was no standardized sell-through data collection. Pretty much all of the numbers must have been sell-in, and very subject to inflation.

Just to confirm - the XE can be improved with a kit, right?

You forgot the part about waiting until the 11th hour to change the name to something really silly!

Back on topic, there is a cool ST synopsis in Retro Gamer magazine from a year or so back. In it they interview one of the higher-ups at Atari UK who outines a lot of the reasons he feels the ST could not keep the early momentum it had gained. Personally, I think that things that kept the costs down early, such as no composite or RF output early on, single density drives, and tough expandability ended up slowing the machine's momentum.

Back on topic, there is a cool ST synopsis in Retro Gamer magazine from a year or so back. In it they interview one of the higher-ups at Atari UK who outines a lot of the reasons he feels the ST could not keep the early momentum it had gained. Personally, I think that things that kept the costs down early, such as no composite or RF output early on, single density drives, and tough expandability ended up slowing the machine's momentum.

Looking over the replies, it looks like the general consensus leans toward the 800XL. I'm surprised to see a polarized opinion of the 130's looks. I think it looks better than any other A8 except maybe the 1200, but it really is very subjective and a matter of personal taste isn't it? I wish the XEGS didn't have those pastel round buttons Is there a mod for those?

I thought that was a cool feature, but I really hates Gauntlet 3, which had you hold the system in portrait mode. That got really tiring on a Lynx 1.

Sounds about in line with the cost of the console (excepting the PS2)

I just wish they'd hurry up and get some of the classic game compliations from the V1 xbox working on the 360 in back-compat mode.

While it adds cost, there is also a rapid charger option for 360 that holds 2 of the wireless batteries. I ended up getting this becuse I have several wireless controlers. I think it came with a free battery which somewhat defers the cost. One nice thing: the last autoupdate seems to have improved the battery readout a bit. It used to be sort of useless for me, but now its just about spot-on.

Wow. 400 Pounds Sterling for a 130XE...

We aren't supposed to feed you anymore.

Yeah, saw that a while back. Isn't it odd how he plugs his new 8-bit and 16-bit systems and then leaves the studio like he can't get out of there fast enough?

Amazingly, the games really are dual format. Not just the V1 game playing in some kind of backcompat mode. I think this is the first and only set of titles outside the OXM magazine discs.

There is no built-in GUI in the Amiga. There are certain elements in the Kickstart ROM chip, but the GUI itself came off a diskette with the LOADWB command. Without that boot disk, you simply got either a (poorly drawn) picture of a hand holding a diskette (WB 1.x), or an animated image of a disk going into the computer (WB 2+). Interlacing the video to achieve high resolution was a hack; the display clearly flickered VERY badly when it was invoked. It was rarely used by anyone on a regular basis. The GUI up to and including WB 1.3 was also a hack; files that didn't have an icon created for them would NEVER show up in any folder or window. You'd have to drop to the CLI (command prompt) to get a directory listing to see those files. Quite frustrating with those seemingly empty yet full Fred Fish disks. No matter; the Amiga worked better working from the command line anyway. You had to do more than simply cut a trace and add the 512k memory expansion option. You also needed to upgrade the chipset; in paticular, the Fat Agnus chip needed to be replaced with a Fatter Agnus chip. Not exactly something you could walk into a store and buy, and certainly not cheap back in the day. This would leave you with no fast RAM, which caused problems with certain programs that needed it; so next you're looking at adding some fast RAM along with an external expansion solution for that memory, since your internal memory would be fully populated with that 512k expansion module. People such as yourself expressing how "Easy" it was only added to the frustration. There was nothing easy nor cheap about it. With the PC, all I had to do to get rid of that 640k limit was to boot with OS/2 which was technically superior to both Workbench and DOS. Not that I ever seen the 640k as a limiting factor, since DOS has been able to manage expanded memory for some time now ever since we had protected mode. OS/2? DOS? Are you sure you arent from Microsoft? Oh, wait...

You reconsidered how computer power is expressed and came to the conclusion that a 286 was more powerful than an Amiga 500?!? Is this a joke? My Amiga 500 had a full 16Mhz 286 inside it on a little $100 card for goodness sake!

Ok here is my Stacy. This is not the same one I bought from you FastRobPlus, It is a 1MB with a bright screen! I will take a pic of the screen when I have time.... I knew that. That's why I didn't ask for a pic of my Stacy. My only regret is selling that universal PSU with it. I like it better than the stock Stacy supply. Oddly, I came across and bought another Stacy2 with working HDD, FDD, etc. and snapped it up cheap. Still has a very dim screen. I may just send this one into B&C for a new screen. Stacys with good screens in the wild are very rare indeed. I got this one for $50!! Sold the other one for $230. There were bunches of Stacys (Stacies?) avialable mid-late last year on ebay and other venues, now they seems to have totally dried up again.