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  3. Posted · Edited by Mirage

    ALL SOLD

     

     

    First up, a very nice ImageWriter II, in original box with manual, power cable, and a cable to hook it up to a classic Mac. I hooked it up to my Mac SE, and it appears to work fine, but the ink is dried up, so I can't actually print with it. I got this in a lot with the Mac SE and a bunch of other stuff that was in great shape and all worked fine, so I'd be surprised if there was anything wrong with this. In really stellar condition, box is just a little dirty, but otherwise everything is sharp.

     

    Would like $25 for this, and/or trade, what do you have? Let's talk:

     

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    PANASONIC PRINTER SOLD!

    Next up, a Panasonic KX-P1090 printer. I don't have any way of hooking this up to anything, so you'd need to supply your own data cable and interface, but it powers fine. Got this in a lot of nice Atari 8-bit stuff. You can still get brand new ink ribbons for these!! So, this is a great classic printer to have if you want to use a printer with your Atari, Commodore, Apple, or whatever. In great physical condition.

     

    Would like $10 for this, and/or trade, what do you have? Let's talk:

     

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    Thanks!

  7. Posted

    Can vic-20 cassettes be played on a c64? Or is there no backwards compatibility?

     

    Aside from some simple BASIC software that might run without modification, or that you could make work with some mods, there's no backward compatibility to speak of. Memory maps are totally different, and obviously the screen size, as well as some more advanced graphics options on the 64.

  8. Posted · Edited by Mirage

    Looking for a Commodore PET. Any model (prefer 40 column/32k though).

     

    Will consider non-working.

     

    Let me know what you have! Thanks.

  11. Posted

    If anyone has a PET computer they're looking to sell, and wouldn't mind bringing it to the MGC, please let me know.

     

    I may or may not actually attend the MGC, but either way, I'm only a few miles away. I have some larger items for possible trade. Galaxian cocktail that has a bunch of restoration parts and parts to convert to a MAME machine, a TRS-80 Model III, and probably some other smaller stuff too (or cash of course).

  13. Posted

    got mine, review uploading now, i'll post a new thread when it's done. The only manual mistake i found, which honestly who gives a flying damn is "a unique" should be "an unique" again, who the hell cares, and also I did get the game to glitch which I show in the review.

     

    Actually, "a unique" is correct, so that's not the error. (Look it up if you don't believe me).

  14. Posted

    Got mine yesterday, finally just opened it. What amazing craftsmanship, Albert. Fine fine job. I'm going to try to get some time to myself this weekend to actually play this now. I remember wanting this as a kid, and never getting it... finally the day is here!!!

  17. Posted

    Our elementary school had about a dozen of them, so they were one of my first introductions to computers. (That, and the TRS-80's at Radio Shack). PETs were very popular in Minnesota schools in the late '70s and very early '80s. The librarian had a drawer of cassettes, and when it was our class's computer time, she would pull one out, and load it in each of our machines, usually before we got there, but sometimes I got there in time to actually see them load. We'd play Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, and some space math game, and others. But, I just wanted to program them. I got a few books at those school fairs, and asked to spend time after school with the computers, which I was allowed to do. Typing in those programs and games from the books taught me BASIC, and that was the start of it all.

     

    As the years passed, there always seemed to be a PET or PET peripherals around due to our school district having had so many of them in the past. When I was in Junior High, there was always one or two sitting in the corner, mostly unused (we had Apple ]['s and C64's by then), and even in High School there was always a random dual disk drive on top of a filing cabinet or whatever. I had moved on by then, but still thought fondly of the PETs.

     

    Later, near the end of High School, I caught wind of a pallet of PETs being sold from the school's archive. Only 17, I had no money nor anyplace to store them, let alone haul them, but to this day I wonder... what if?! Here and there over the next few years, I heard similar stories of caches of PETs being sold, but always passed on them.

     

    Today, I don't hear stories like this anymore, but it's still a dream of mine to own a PET. A couple years ago, there was a nearby church sale that advertised Apple and PET software. I was one of the first in line and made a beeline for the computer stuff. I did find about 100 PET educational cassettes and some Apple disks, and bought them all. I asked if they had any of the computers left, and they told me they were long gone, years ago.

     

    To me, the PET is the ultimate symbol of the classic computer. A bit retro, a bit futuristic, but completely magical.

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    Dual release: mp3-cassette-whatever, and regular binary file for use with the Harmony.

     

    Best of both worlds. The mp3-cassette-whatever release comes with a printed manual, cassette or cd insert, feelies, whatever, so it's like a special edition, whereas the binary is just the binary for those of us who just want to play the game without all the trouble and heartbreak of dealing with a real Supercharger (or, of course, for those who don't have one).

  19. Posted · Edited by Mirage

    It was all the Alpha Systems books, and some games manuals (but we're not talking about games manuals here, so just the Alpha Systems books).

     

    They've been posted on this site (AA) before. I'm sure a search would turn them up. I don't have the hard drive that they'd be on handy right now, but worse comes to worse, I could dig them up again.

  23. Posted

    I have a Supercharger with first 7 games CIB, but I'm thoroughly uninterested in using it, at all... ever... for any reason, including homebrews. Period. The games play on the Harmony, so why bother with it anymore? I would hedge a bet saying most would feel the same as evidenced by some other replies in this thread already. Do a fancy cart or mp3 release if you'd like, but I can all but guarantee you're losing most of your audience if you don't release as cart, or strongly preferably as rom for the Harmony.

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  25. Posted · Edited by Mirage

    What Keatah said. Make it known far and wide that you're looking for a TIA expert to take over that component. Then until that day comes, forget about it. Work on the other parts. If you don't quit, the rest of it gets better even though the TIA doesn't. If you do quit, the rest does NOT get better, and the TIA still doesn't! So, what difference does it make if you keep working, but don't work on the TIA? It doesn't. Set it aside. Keep plugging away and don't let the TIA woes stress you out -- at all.

     

    Stella is way too good to give up on.

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