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  1. Posted

    Pretty much what Austin suggested... I installed shelves in the closet in the room with all my video games. They're cut to the shape of the closet and extend the full depth.... I set up a couple computers on one shelf and then above that I have two shelves which are full of plastic rubermade type bins. Each bin has controllers for one particular system. Storing controllers is a pain in the ass and you need to keep things sorted and separated. You also should make a point of bundling the cords so they can't try to have an orgy in the box... Something like this can be good for that.

     

    Not that it's really needed, but this is a photo of the closet... it's a little bit messy because I'm in the middle of reorganizing.... obviously the huge controllers like those based off of arcade sticks or driving wheels don't really fit in the bins, but most everything else will.

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    If I were you, I'd just pick up a dogbone or two on eBay or on the forums. Is there a reason why you want them to be brand new? I don't think that any third-party controller is going to be as good as the official ones.

     

    I would prefer new because I'm tired of purchasing used controllers that are beat to hell, smell like cigarette smoke, covered in unknown sticky substances, or plain just don't work at all.

     

    Buying just controllers I've never had too much trouble with used stuff. Though if you do get some with nasty stuff on them, controllers for the NES aren't exactly super complicated to disassemble and reassemble. Just take the thing apart and clean the plastic parts nice and good.

  8. Posted

    I have two 1581's, two 1541's and two 1541-II's... when I had the 64 out I had the two 1581's with the two 1541's... now with the 128, I'm using the 1541-II's instead of the 1541's simply because they match the 128 better....

     

    When I first got the 64 I used all four disk drives when I was moving files...

     

    I had software for reading MS DOS format 720k floppies as well as software for decompressing d64 images to disk on a floppy in Drive 8, a 1541.. I put blank CBM format floppies in one 1581, and MS DOS format floppies with d64 images on them in the other 1581... and I put blank floppies in drive 9, the second 1541. I'd copy four images at a time between the 1581s and then decompress them to disks in drive 9. It was tedious and slow... I'm really glad I have a 1541 ultimate now.

  9. Posted

    I guess start each one at like 5 or 10 bucks and see where they go.

     

    As someone who was a major Apple 2 gamer back in the 80s, and I played alot of them, the only one I really recognize is the SSI title.

     

    You're sort of at a catch-22 with these though. They seem to be sealed. The problem is that, with these older floppy disk games, there's no telling if they actually still work or not. You really can't open them to find out, as that would mess with the value. I constantly find myself pondering buying another Apple 2C off of ebay, but then change my mind for that very reason.

     

    If only I could find a 5 1/4" Apple 2 disk drive that I could connect to a modern PC, so I could turn images into usable disks. =(

     

    I have never run into original software on double density 5.25" media that wouldn't read. You'd expect to find lots of disks that don't work, but it just never seems to happen to me.... 3.5" disks now... that's a bit different.

     

    By the way, you could always look into getting a compact flash interface card. You can load images onto the CF card and then write them to disk on the Apple II. Otherwise there's always talk of null modem data transfer, though I've never bothered with that... I just put stuff on CD R and load it on the CD 150 drive on my IIgs.

  10. Posted

    Today I was asked by my dad to stop by REPC to dump off a crusty old tape-drive that used to be for backing up the old 486. RePC is a local used computer recycler/store. I can't go in to get rid of stuff without finding myself browsing looking at what's up for sale.

     

    I found a box with label on it: Untested Odyssey^2 lot, $30. I looked in the box and saw that it had 5 systems, and a jumble of controllers and rf cables.. no power supplies.

     

    I have an O^2 already but the main controller doesn't work, so I bit, I took the box up front and bought the stuff.

     

    Anyway having untangled it I've found that I have:

     

    3 systems with hard wired controllers and RF cables.... When tested with an NES ac adaptor, they all worked, though one had bad picture quality. Not bad... three working systems.

     

    1 system which is supposed to have hard wired controllers but doesn't have any and has no plug at the end of the rf cable. Can't really test that... not without opening it.. maybe later this week... since I'm getting shafted hours-wise at work... out of school for the summer and my hours drop from 22 a week to 10. Ugh...

     

    1 system which has detatchable controllers, which were both in the box and a good rf cable. Has a different PS hookup.... will this work with... oh say.. an Atari 2600 adapter or am I going to have to track down one? It's funky... the controllers are silver with metalic tips on the sticks... I like the openings around the sticks, no "teeth".. so they slide around the edge nicer. I hope I can track down a power supply and find that it works.

     

    4 rf modulators from inside O^2 systems (how odd...)

     

    one chip plugged into a foam block:

     

    P8048 0046

    7838

    612191-I

    ©INTEL '77

     

    Now if I could just figure out what the heck I did with all the O^2 games I bought and NWCGE '06. I looked where I thought I put them and all I found were a couple games I found at goodwill. I'm really confused.

  11. Posted

    The Apple III was prone to spitting out it's chips and lifting it and dropping it 3 inches was the official repair practice.

    That's if lifting it didn't give you a hernia and it didn't crush your desk. (ok... so it wasn't THAT heavy)

     

    From what I've read this was mainly an issue in the first ones. Later revisions fixed this... but it's image had already been stained and this is what it's most remembered for.

  12. Posted

    The first computer my parents got was a WYSE 286. My dad bought it because it was the same as the computers being used at the company he was working as an engineer at. Presently it's upstairs on a desk running MS DOS 5.0 w/ Win 3.0. My dad sometimes talks about how he bought right when the 386's were coming out. I just remind him it's the only computer he's ever had that didn't die .... really... every other computer my dad has ever had always ended up having hardware failure that brought it down. The 286 just got old.

     

    The first computer I could call my own was an Apple PowerMac 6100/60 I got in 1995 on the grounds that I needed a computer that was compatible with my school work... it wasn't really that hard to move my homework between platforms... I just really wanted my parents to buy me my own computer and my best friends had Macs(and a IIgs with a crap load of games), the school had Macs, and I liked them. I sometimes wonder how I managed to get my dad to buy it really. Considering what all the big tech magazines said when talking about Apple at that time, sinking ships and what not... I seem to recall that he had a co-worker who was really fanatical about them or something, so that might have had something to do with it.

  13. Posted

    $30 USD is a hell of a deal for a CIB B&E creased box or not.

     

     

    Yep a nice deal. A lot better than his original BIN of $2500. Cheers to the person with the Balls to offer him $30. :thumbsup:

     

    Actually I offered him $5 because I was all like gee... lets low ball and see how fast I can get declined!.... maybe even a nasty response..

     

    but no, all I received was a counter-offer for $100 the next day.... so I was like .... hrmm... $30. within minutes I was notified my offer was accepted. So yeah... I now have a Porno game for the 2600... I never thought I was going to get something like this.

     

    I would say the seller was fairly reasonable to deal with. :D

  15. Posted

    I know, there is a marketplace here... but I figured maybe it'd be better to just post this here since it's a more localized forum section.

     

    Hey, So I've got a 25" Sony KV25XBR that I've decided I need to let go of one way or another... it'd probably be a really nice 25" RGB monitor if not for having what is probably(so I've been told) a cold solder joint somewhere on the vertical circuitry. When I got it it had a bad cone filter and had been in storage for a while... I got the cone filter replaced and it worked well for a few years... the CRT is in pretty nice condition.

     

    I originally got it with the intentions of making use of the analog RGB input on it, but I could never get time to do it... Eventually the screen started shrinking down to a flat horizontal line... It's been unplugged since it started doing that so it didn't have time to burn out or damage the CRT.

     

    After the problem came up I decided I was only going to get it fixed if I could get an RGB signal into it through the proprietary multi-rgb input on the back... this didn't work and I actually found that one of +5 volt pins didn't have any voltage... so there are probably more problems... bugger.

     

    Anyway if someone actually takes this thing, I'm including the little box I made which mounts over the rgb port by screwing onto a couple unused coax jacks... it plugs into the RGB port and has what I was trying to make a 9-pin VGA socket similar to that found on the original NEC multisync monitors... Has a switch mounted in it for switching between digital and analog RGB too.

     

    I'm giving this thing away free... but I'm sure you won't find a repair shop that will touch it for less than $150. I can also throw in a CD with schematics and service docs if you feel confident in working on it yourself.

     

    I'll probably end up taking it to REPC where it will end up getting recycled Sometime later in the Summer... in the meantime, if you find this post sometime between now and September and I havn't responded to say it's gone, then it's probably still available.

  20. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    I know. it was a bit much really. I didn't ask for it, I just told him he should have packed it better. It probably was the way I said it. I've been thinking about it on and off again at work(I was in a rush to get to work when I found out it'd been done) and I'm probably going to either send most/all the payment back or buy some other stuff... I don't think I'd be so likely to issue a refund on something unless it was sent back. That said, it still iritates me when people under pack things and they get damaged in shipping because of it. It was untested and the only reason I was bidding on it was because it looked like it was in decent cosmetic condition.

  22. Posted

    So I got an as is 5200 that wasn't tested for $10... I'd been wanting a 4-port one ever since I got my 2-port one back when I first joined this forum...

     

    ...unfortunantly it was a little under-packed and got damaged in shipping. The front bezel is busted and looks like crap so I'm in the market for a replacement part if anyone has one available. I'll pay $5 plus shipping for it... and I'll pay to have it shipped with some better care in packing than this thing got please.

     

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  23. Posted

    darthkur-

     

    I have that exact same NEC Video Monitor. Mine came with my Commodore 64, which was my first retro computer aquisition. A distant relative of mine had passed away and the setup was burried underneight some other stuff under the stairwell. I had noticed it on a previous visit with my mother and asked her to see if she could claim it when she went over to help her aunts clean out the Condo.

     

    I'm currently doing some re-organizing of my game room... I got tired of digging through video and power cables to find the right cable and decided to expand my controller storage a little and mix the cables in with the controllers to see if it'd make them easier to locate in a hurry... in the process I've made the mess even bigger.... so I just need to clean it up in here before I think of posting pictures.... I don't like posting pictures of my space in it's natural state. :D

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