Rockin' Kat

This is kinda sorta maybe like an SNES pad... at least in general lay-out. It's a third party controller which was made in both SNES and Genesis versions, but the layout is much more like an SNES pad than a Genesis pad. http://www.gamersace.com/sega-genesis-programpad-6-aftermarket-gaming-controller-p-520.html There are some other pads on that store for the Genesis which follow a similar theme.

I have a couple of those wireless generation nex controllers... I wasn't really super impressed. The way rapid/auto fire was implemented was confusing and the round d-pad took some getting used to as it was a bit on the touchy side.

Man... I hope they don't release it as you played it. It just wont feel right. I'll probably still buy it because I'm a sucker for Sonic, but ugh... That sounds like a let down.

Oh wow! it's a poster in a game box! The creases add extra value! Seriously. I see this same poster in every saved search list I get in my email while looking for Sonic rental store posters. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310204298768 Oh, and we all know we need "good luck" when taking a buy it now.

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.

I'll be going to the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in September, so if anyone who's going or is somewhere on the way there should want it, there is that opportunity. [edit] Someone has laid claim to this TV set and is intending to pick it up at PRGE... so.... it's gone, assuming reasons don't occur for them to back out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

cutting a player out of one picture and pasting it onto a picture of a chair isn't very believable when the perspective of the two pictures are totally different. That and I thought one could still delete content in an auction if there were no bids yet. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 150437569508

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.

Ok, I have some shtuff posted, but not much... And no, that one with the floppies does not present how I talk normally... Maybe you should pass on the crap I've posted and just take a gander at my favorites instead... yes no? http://www.youtube.com/user/RockinBlueKat

It seems like all the email addresses on NWCGE.org just bounce back... including the one for requesting to join the mailing list. Is the mailing list not going anymore?

I regret giving my NES "Stereo" sound back in 2001. It's really pointless and means my NES has stupid pointless RCA ports in an ugly uneven pattern on the back. It's the same NES my parents bought back in 1987.

Maybe they should look into Google Checkout and see what the rules and regulations of it are. I paid with PayPal so I really wonder where this is going to go now.

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.

The good news is that it does work.... The really really really good news is the seller refunded the full payment for the item including shipping this morning.

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.

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.

The Sonic the Hedgehog Series... I've got all the games, a bunch of little plush dolls, the complete archie comic book series, DVD's of the animated cartoons, and this thing that I saw for $7.99 at goodwill and could not resist.

I like getting new games for my most current system. It's generally not a big enough savings for me to validate things like scuffed disks and missing instructions or cases.

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.