Rockin' Kat
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I've got a Sony Beta Hi-fi, an RCA selectavision(CED) player, a Pioneer LaserDisk player, and a Zenith VHS Hi-fi...
I also have two fully working Sony betamovie cameras which I have used in the past year.
I got my RCA selectavision with a bunch of free records. I was "helped" with the loading and didn't even know I had it untill I got home and found it in the back of my station wagon. It came with an extremely boring two-disk startrek movie and the Graduate. Since then I've found several movies for it while thrifting... and bought them because they were cheap... my selectavision player has some really weird problem... it's an RF output only model and it seems that after playing a while the signal to the TV will start to drift in and out which is very annoying... I wish I knew how to fix this.
I have a fair number of Laserdisc movies, I seem to find them a lot at pawn shops for not too much.... I wish I had a player that could switch sides automaticaly, but still, it plays pretty nice. Better than VHS that's for sure.
I never find anything betamax other than old un-opened blanks.. so the only stuff I have for it is stuff I've recorded with it.
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If I were visiting my relatives in Spokane, I'd go for that so quick.
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I saw this being talked about else where and emailed them... I posted the reply over on the other forum...
http://www.vintagecomputing.com/forum/inde...opic,594.0.html
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Hey Jibba - where is that RGB mod you're going to do? Done it before? I'd love to at least do an S-video mod on mine. THanks for any advice!A stock NES has no way of putting out S-video or RGB, but there is a way to get RGB out of an NES. This URL might be usefull.
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Some of you people are being very silly...
Personally I want to know what happened to their wireless controller projects damnit. I sent one of my wireless controllers in because it was behaving weird and when it came back they had thrown in a beta of a usb adaptor that had two four position switches...
Switch one:
ch1 ch2 ch3 ch 4
Switch two:
SNNS, NES, Atari, Genesis
I have it hooked up to my Computer and have used it to play emulators in the past with my messiah wireless NES and SNES controllers.
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When I was in highschool I got a 5200 from a friend of mine.
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Hello,
I have a few old game systems which can output Analog RGB. I also have a Sony PVM-1340 which can accept Analog RGB through four BNC connectors, R, G, B, & Sync. I have plenty of BNC to RCA adaptors.
In my search for a way to connect the two, I found that it is fairly easy to find ready made SCART cables for the systems I have from European eBay sellers.
I don't really know much about SCART cables other than that they carry a lot of different signals in one cable, which happen to coveniently include Analog RGB, and stereo audio.
My question is, can I use the following three devices in combination with said SCART cables and Phono to BNC cables to hook up the Analog RGB output to my Sony PVM, and the stereo audio output to my stereo system? It seems to be esspcially hard to find an adaptor that provides both Analog RGB outputs *and* stereo audio outputs.
RGB Plus Sync RGBS Scart Adapter : SKU RGBS-SCART-ADAPTER
Scart Adapter with Breakout : SKU AD007
Scart Coupler / Joiner : SKU AD008
Or perhaps this combination?
1.5m Scart to 6x Phono Video & Stereo Audio Cable : SKU VA010
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... I played through the Sega Master System version all the way to the end once.... and the N64 version...
It's defenantly more fun when you have someone else playing.... I managed to get someone to play along on the Lynx vesion once.
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Unable to test it.. I bought it anyway... and it turned out to work so so so fine... No worries.. the washed out looking colors are just a video tape that wasn't recorded with proper white balance... or night vision... it was a bunch of old stuff from just messing with the camera.
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Can Different TOS versions be loaded from floppy after starting up? It would appear I'm reading that some games won't work from some versions of TOS.
I think I'll probably take you up on those TOS 1.4 ROMs or 1.04 whichever one you ment to say.
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I'd go for that. I really would.. even if half the games were games I already had and as long as they're not in totally nasty condition.
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Is there any reason I shouldn't want TOS 2.06?
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I'm guessing I can't upgrade my 314 by replacing the drive mechanism in it can I?Yes you can upgrade the drive to 720k easily. Just replace the mech. I used a Chinon FZ 357 and hacked the drive case for it to fit. Works great.
So it's just like when I bought a High Density mech for $5 to upgrade my Apple 3.5" drives to superdrive(apple's name for HD floppy drives) when external Apple super drives were going for upwards of $60 on ebay? YES! That is totally what I wanted to hear!
I live in Tacoma btw and can help you out. I might have a 720k drive I could sell you, along with TOS 1.4 for your 520STm...I might take you up on that... I actually am going to Tacoma to make a trade for a color ST monitor... if I can ever get a time set with the other person.... hopefully this weekend... Saturday if I can help it actually. .... I don't suppose theres a possibility I could trade anything with you for stuff? I've got lots of stuff... I don't have a catalog of it ready, but I may put one together this weekend.
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Hi,
I have a 520ST^M... a 520ST with a built in RF modulator and soldered on RAM chips.... how do I tell what version of TOS is on ROM?
And while I'm at it... I'm investigating upgrading the RAM on this thing... and theres some upgrade board but it's supposed to be easier to install if the MMU and Video Shifter chips are socketed.... but I don't even know what I'm looking for.. anyone who knows, want to mark them on a copy of the huge picture I've atatched?
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I'm looking for a Dual monitor switch for changing between a monochrome and a color Atari monitor on my Atari ST.
I'm also looking for An Atari SF-314 double sided floppy drive for my Atari ST. Two would be awsome.
Kent, WA 98042
[edit] damn it.. I forgot this place had a separate section for wanted items.[/edit]
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Okay.... so I got the computer out again to show it to someone. At first it was doing the blank disk thing, but then I moved the floppy drive up ontop of the monitor because I didn't have anywhere else to put it..so it was pointed upward some... I put a disk in it and turned the comptuer on and it showed t he directory of the disk.. and then I was able to take several disks and put them in and see directories.
Then it had problems opening a program. It complained about corruption or something so I chose retry and it successfully loaded the program. It was some kind of music composing software. I tried to make it load one of what I guess were track files.. and it proceeded to quit out to the desktop. I opened the program again and tried to laod a file again and it crashed with a blank screen with two little bomb icons in the lower left-hand corner of the screen.
..Most of these disks are marked specifically as single sided. Can I get an external double sided floppy drive for the ST? I sure didn't find much on ebay.
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I powred it up... It says every single floppy I have has 0bytes used. Somethings' not right.. I tried using a cleaning diskett(and yeah, I taped over the top side opening so as not to rip off the pad on the non-used side) to no avail.... not even the NOS game I picked up reports zero bytes.
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...And now I have an Atari 520ST^M..... and I still know very very little... I also have a Floppy drive model SF 354... which from what I can see having taken everything appart to clean it up is a single sided drive.
And I got a box of floppy disks.
I got it all on freecycle after purhasing a sealed ST game at a thrift store prompted me to try posting a wanted message for an Atari ST.
...once the case finishes drying I'm going to put it all back together and turn it on. ... oh I got a black and white monitor with it.... I'm going to have to do something about that.... because I demand color!
Anyway. I want to play games, have some kind of mass storage.... and I guess maybe look into RAM upgrades for this thing.
I was really hoping I could find some big website with FAQ's and links for the ST line like what the Apple II has, but all I found on google were a bunch of small pages with lots of broken links and small tid-bit pages on huge computer museum websites like old-computers.com that don't really go into a lot of detail.
Oh... also.... the person who gave it to me pulled it out and powered it up just before I got there and said something about not being able to load anything from the floppy drive.
So yeah.... I am now an owner of an Atari 520STM and I'm almost totally cluless! Yay!
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The first game I ever actually got to the end of was Rampage on Sega Master System..... and the SMS version only gives you three lives...
I haven't played my SMS much lately, but I do like playing games on it.
What I'd really like to do though is hack some NES pads to work with the SMS.. maybe make a set that have switches in them to switch the second fire button between pinouts for SMS and 7800 control ports.
... I do have the joystick controller which I've been meaning to try out... maybe once finish re-wiring my game setup... I had to pull all the cables out so I could move the cabinet for the AC/Heating duct cleaners.
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Here is a Mac for her to collect:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=300252074405
... That's not the original mouse.... it's too gray looking and not enough beige.....
It's a cool setup though.... but that near $2000 BIN.... no way man. I got mine for less than $100... $20 for the computer(probably would have been around $60 if not for the ingraved ID number), $5 mouse, $5 keyboard, $5 for the printer... boxes and documentation are cool.. but not *that* cool.
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Ground Kontrol in Portland is supposed to be pretty good. In all honesty the only arcades I've been into in the last few years were Game Works and the game room in the run down God Father's Pizza place near the store I work at.
Game Works was ok. It's a pretty big place.. two stories, a bar.. you can pay for time with infinant credits, or you can pay by the game.... no coins or tolkens, you get a card which you insert into the arcade machines.
There used to be a little arcade called nickles which had $2 admition and credits were two nickles.. but it closed down a while ago... total bummer, it was loaded with old 80's arcade machines.
Google maps comes up with about 206 results for the "Seattle Arcades" ... Some of them have reviews.
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My sister just slapped a handful of thumbnails in her email response, knowing her she probably has an online shrine somewhere. Its pretty odd to think I got her into computers when I gave her my old WebTV. I've no doubt the way she is headed she will sooner than later get every version of Mac ever made, including the classics. I'm waiting to see if she scores one of those weird Seinfeld 20th anniversary Macs. I think her collecting style takes a different course than our retro-gaming thing, she's not getting back in touch with the 80s, she's completing a product line.Why collect different colors of the same machine, why surely you jest, have you not owned a telegames 2600, a Vadar, a heavy sixer? Dont even get me started on those N64 variations
Maybe she should get some forum accounts at Apple Fritter, and the 68k Macintosh Liberation Army. Lots of extreme Apple collectors at those places.
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Hi,
I just now got around to installing the video mod I bought for my INTV from 8bitdomain.com
click here to download the installation manual.
So I'm to the part where I reasemble things... I've put the regulator board back in the case and now I have to reconnect a blue wire from the logic board back into the regulator board. Should be easy, it's just one wire... but it's a two prong plug and both pins on the regulator board appear to go to something and only one pin is going to connect to the wire. But still... I have the instructions with lots of very detailed pictures....
...My regulator board uses a layout different from the one in the intellivision used to make the instalation manual photos!
the plug physicall fits either way, so now I do not know what to do.
Anyone here wanna open their INTV and see if they have the same regulator board as mine and if so, which way the cable plugs in?
And I thought I'd finish this tonight.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Attatched photos are ones I took of my INTV regulator board.
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When did you get your first DVD player?
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The first player I bought was the one that came in my Dual G4 PowerMac that I bought in 2000, which is still my main computer now(processor and other upgrades making such still work).. When I got it my parents rented some DVD's and we watched them my bedroom.
It didn't take long for my parents to decide it was time to buy a DVD player.... which ultimately turned into a new 36" HD Sony Wega TV replacing the 25" RCA colortrak 2000 console TV that had been our main TV since 1980 because it only had RF input. We hooked the DVD player to the VCR and found that using the VCR as a converter didn't work well with the copy protection.