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dang, capt. blood. I haven't seen that in years, and last played it on an old 386 sx.

although for a modest speed boost one can pull the 68000, socket it and put a 68010 in its place, it has some bug fixes and optimizations that sped my macintosh plus back in the day.

especially since looking at openDNS it also seems to function at a filtering service??? how much disk space are we talking about here? and what software does the forum run on? how much data transfer per month happens?? these are all questions that need answered before anyone can think of committing to making any hosting offers.

-sigh- am looking at a 1040 stf I picked up (as is) and there is no floppy happiness, get a little bee? icon on an attempted format, no floppy motor, no select light. looking inside, someone has fiddled inside it, U43, the mostek 68901 has a solder splash on it, and someone has drilled a trace and put a 100 ohm resistor from c86 to one end of R41, and then unsoldered one end of C73 and soldered the end of that cap to where the 100 ohm resistor is soldered. also someone has pulled and socketed U16, the yamaha TM2149F. any suggestions on troubleshooting the floppy? I'm suspecting the sound chip or the floppy controller itself, with no motor on action IIRC it points to the sound chip as the 1772 FDC does not have it's own drive select lines and the sound chip handles the drive select (I think)

Woo hoo! Thanks for that! I was concerned there weren't any. That looks to be a fine mouse, too - I can't stand when there's too many buttons - on the side, etc. Unfortunately, there's none of the adapters listed on Ebay, anymore. I bought 2 but wish I'd bought 3, just to have additional spares of stuff that might not be available in the future....which is the case, and now we're in the future! I messaged the seller and asked him if he's going to list more and he didn't reply. I take that to mean "no." He is listing Amiga adapters, however. They look better, too. They're a little bulkier, but in a good way, since they appear to have a nice case. Because the Amiga doesn't require the mouse to be plugged into a ridiculous under-keyboard cramped location, these look like they'd do quite nicely. The majority of the listing looks like the ST listing, so I assume (safe to do so?) that it would work with the same mice? Amiga listing: eBay Auction -- Item Number: 120645717527 I'm debating getting one, on the chance that one day I may try an Amiga again. is anyone who got one willing to open the heat shrink and take detailed pictures of the top and bottom, including chip id's? I have a feeling that a previous poster is correct in that it is just the ps/2 to ST adapter with a USB connector in ot.

looks like a server failure.... if you go to the root url you get ... "This index file needs to be replaced with a file from your backup. "

A Sony internal or external? single or double sided? if external, what model of drive is it?

have you heard back form him at all? I've gotten no response

i usually use some serious drive erasing software, after 10 or 12 passes with random patterns.... someone would have to have some serious hardware to read anything off the drive...

I try to avoid using abrasives. too easy to damage a trace or the contact. try DeOxit or another of the oxide cleaners, if you are really wanting to go all out, you can get a gold plating material and gold plate the contacts after removing the oxidation I don't remember the names of any, but there are some that you just apply with a special tool (looks like a foam head cleaning wand) or small brush.

here in the seattle area, there have been some real nutters posting to craigslist, $500 for a atari 2600 and 8 carts. no boxes for anything...

ATR8000 also has a Z-80 in it.

TMS4116 are MOS, TTL compatible DRAM chips. 16384 x 1, and were available in 150, 200 and 250 ns version. you can go faster but generally not slower. they are 3 voltage chips. Pin 1 is -5V, pin 8 is +12V, Pin 9 is +5V and Pin16 is ground. datasheet is available at: TMS4416 datasheet I'm about 90% certain that the chips in the 400/800 16K ram module are compatible. if your RAM chips are socketed, remove them one at a time and re-insert them, corrosion may have caused high resistances and made them seem to fail. the TMS 4116 crosses to NTE2117 if you have NTE parts available. here in the US, Unicorn Electronics sells the chip fairly inexpensively. I think they have a $25 min order though.

before you start removing chips, if you have a schematic, including powersupply, start by checking ALL voltages, also check your DC lines for AC Ripple look for bad capacitors in the power supply and on the circuit board. bulging electolytic capacitors, or ones that have obviously leaked something. a MC game is probably about 25-30 yrs old or so. voltages should (in my opinion) be within plus or minus .5 volts of their rating. a lot of supplies are rated +- 1v but I'm picky when checking voltages, do it carefully and with a load on the powersupply (even better if there are test points on the PCB for voltages)

Can you toss one of those 130XE's my way? Mine just died howd it die?

you can take some good quality contact cleaner and use that on the switches most likely.

Yep! The page has changed since this all kicked off last week. Nothing is for sale now. -sigh- that's what I get for coming in late on a thread...

This is the UV eraser I have. Does 4 at a time. I guess I am a hoopeless geek, as I currently ahve 2 8-10 chip erasers and am looking at a rather nice datarase brand (i think it is) one that does 100 chips at a time. I think i have 3 or 4 different programmers, all of them have good and bad sides to them, the most stable of the lot is a replacement I got on ebay for one that was swiped. a Xtronics Pocket Programmer. I still miss my Data IO model 29 programmer.

http://www.beeslife.com/colecovision/colecovision.php Your games are there too... unless he ahs changed something ont he page, there is nothing on that page for sale, he is offering them up for download but not sale that I can see.

if it is anything like the other ATARI->Centronics Parallel printer adapters I've opened up, it's an 8049 microcotroller inside with 4 or 8k onboard ROM.

You may want to ask the copyright holders how cool they think it is. I thought this particular game was basically abandon-ware and no one currently holds the copyright. Anyone know? no such thing as abandonware, someone somewhere holds the copyright.

parallel printer adapter, odds are it translates atari graphics printing into epson graphics like for the old epson dot matrix printers.

my G4 mini isn't up and running currently or i'd test

BTW: that is US flat rate shipping I think also canada is the same cost as us flat rate. How many kits can I get shipped for $4.95 priority mail flat rate shipping? at least 4 will fit into the box with packing materials. I need to see what the weight limit is for the small flat rate box

BTW: that is US flat rate shipping I think also canada is the same cost as us flat rate.