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  2. Posted

    I have a friend who was really pissed off because FYE bought out Suncoast with plans of either turning them into FYE's where they are not already and closing the ones where FYEs are already located.

     

    Suncoast carries a lot more merchandise per square foot of sales floor than FYE and had a lot of anime and other movies and stuff....

     

    FYE sucks.

     

    Last holiday season I received an FYE gift card as a secret santa gift at work. When I got to the FYE I bought some games with the card.... they would have been horribly over priced if not for the fact that they were "on clearance" and when I got the register I got a speal about how they're moving locations... but oh... they won't carry video games anymore after they move to their new location elsewhere in the South Center mall in Tukwilla.

     

    No loss there. That's probably like one onf only two or three times I've ever been in an FYE.

  5. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    I will try to add all people in the list tomorrow, should be a lot of work though :D

     

    As long as you keep your Wii system up to date whenever nintendo sends you update alerts, you should be able to use a USB keybord to enter the numbers.... just plug it into the back of the wii... USB keyboards now work in shop channel and in the message board(but not in the internet channel yet unfortunatly).

  7. Posted

    I don't even bother with WEP. Encription slows down the connection. I just turn off SSID broadcasting and turn on MAC address filtering. So a user has to know the ID of my router and be able to fake a MAC address they don't know off the bat. Sure there are ways one could get through this, but with the three or so other networks around me which are completely open, I just don't see mine grabbing that much attention.

     

    The Wii is the only wi fi device I have which can do WPA anyway.... my PowerBook is too old to accept any card capable of something beyond 802.11b and WEP and the DS also can't do WPA of cource.

     

    I did have my SSID broadcasting off but then I read and found out for myself that your router's signal is boosted even further if you have it on.

    I wouldn't mind knowing just how they say that would work that way. I'd think signal strenght would rely entierly on the size, power, and directional focus of the antennas.

  9. Posted

    Hey, that sucks about ebay now allowing you to promote other online payment options such as google check out.

     

    So, as a seller, how do the fees on your google checkout compare to those on PayPal? I'll never accept credit cards on paypal because I don't like the fact that in order to do so you have to accept paying fees on ALL transactions. You'd think they make enough cash off of screwing people by locking their accounts over "suspiciouse activity" and all the interest they accrew on balances users leave in their accounts.

  10. Posted

    The CV and SMS both had trackballs, which are just upside-down mice. So I think it's safe to say they allowed for one.

     

    I did not know the SMS had a trackball.. know offhand of any games which supported it?

     

    ...oh there was a mouse released for the Genesis... but that's not 8-bit..

  11. Posted

    Well, you can use a Commodore 64 mouse on anything that can use an Atari 2600 joystick.

     

    The 1530 model emulates a joystick as it is.. you move left and it sends the left button signal to the system.. same for other directions...

     

    The 1531 model is a real mouse, but can be put into joystick emulation mode by holding down one of the buttons when you turn the system on... I can't remember which one though.. but there's only two of them... just try each one and see which one it is........... though I think it was the left button.

     

    Won't be variable speed though.

  14. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    I submited a scan of a very similar photo off my NES box to old-computers.com stupid scans a few years ago.

     

    I think the kid at the side of the TV is blissfully admiring the lovely faux wood grain paneling on the side of the TV set while waiting for his turn. Most marketing pictures that show people playing game systems are painfully retarded.

  15. Posted

    I have three. rksmile.gif

     

    I grabed one at an NWCGE event last year off a table with a free sign on it... only to find that I'd actually grabed two when I got home.

     

    the third one came with my Adventure II for 5200 cartridge...oh... there was also an Adventure II magnet in there as well.

     

    I have the two I got at the NWCGE event on the fridge.. the others are still in the bag with the game cartridge with my other 5200 games.

  16. Posted

    *snip*

    How much did all of that run you?

     

    Oh golly..... how much did it run me.... ummm.... my reciept totals at Tukwilla RePC have had a way of being higher than expected ever since they started putting out the good stuff.... I think I left behind stacks of Apple II floppy drives, A TI 99/4a in box, and a few Apple //c computers...... oh as well as a few Apple color composite video monitors..... and lots of other odd things that just tempt me way way too much.

     

    Anyway that lot lets see here:

     

    um.... $83.47 after sales tax....before that it ws $76.65

     

    I can't remember exactly what I paid on each item.... I just know they seemed like ok prices per item... I ripped the tags off as soon as I got things home and the reciept just lists all the items as "Vintage As-Is" in the description column.

     

    On other notes... it sounds like it might not be too hard to fix what's wrong with the Atari 800.

  17. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    well... on 800 it's a socket at the end of the cable to the pins on the board and when I had it open....it looked like it was about as firmly seated as possible..

     

    I tried pressing really hard on the non-functional buttons when I first found the keys didn't work... That didn't do anything.

     

    so.... these 4051's........ their's two of them in the 800, 800XL, and 130XE? How would I identify them? If it's just pulling out and plugging in socketed IC's that's certainly something I can handle that as long as I can find them.

  18. Posted

    Hey I just picked up an Atari 800... I played some of my cartridges on it.. seems to work ok... then I turn it on without any cartidges and it brings up some "memo pad" thing.... so I start typing... and find out that the only keys on the keyboard which appear to work are:

     

    I

    L

    tab

    reset

    option

    select

    start

     

     

    Just enough to run games.. but rather dissapointing to me otherwise....

     

    I turned it off and popped the bottom off and could see no connections that looked like they were loose... mind I didn't remove any boards..... wasn't sure wher I would start... nore is there really a whole lot I can do other than try changing out the keyboard with another one (gun-shot trouble shooting style)..which I don't have access to.

     

    This computer has three 16K RAM cards and one 10K ROM card in the expantion slot...

     

    I'm just wondering if anyone has seen a keyboard failure like this before in the 800... where just the system buttons and maybe a couple alpha keys work and everything else is just dead.... and if it's likely to be something other than the keyboard it self.

     

    I already have a 130XE and an 800XL so I'm not sure if I should even bother or not with this....

     

    I hate it when things I find turn out defective.

  19. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    I went into a local used computer store looking to get rid of some junk and ended up buying more stuff than I got rid of.

     

    Found it all in the AS IS section....

     

    Note all the letter I's and L's on the TV.... aparently the keyboard on that Atari 800 is screwy... it only registers I L tab reset option select and start. none of the other buttons work...... though it does play games and work with the joystick... I find it funny that some of my XE game cartridges that say they require an XE or XL system to run seem to work ok on this 800..

     

    inside the 800's expantion compartment are three 16k cartrdiges(two are just bare cards, one is in its cartridge housing), and one 10K ROM cartridge.

     

    oh... all the boxed games are for Amiga....

     

    ...and that thing in front of boxed games... it's a Kensington Mac System Saver... it snaps onto the top of the Mac 128K, 512K, 512Ke, or Plus. It is a surge suppressor... and also it has a fan in it which pulls air up through the Mac when in use... in an effort to better cool the system since these first models didn't have any fans and relied on convection cooling(which probably wasn't enough given how many older Macs I've seen with video issues due to cold solderjoints on the analog board)

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  20. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    Hi,

     

    I have a CC3 for my Intellivision, but I do not have any duplicate cartridges canibalize for a cartridge shell to put the CC3 in.

     

    I'm looking for a cheap common INTV cartridge... needs to be one with the door and phillips head screws on the back(not one with the security screws, or the one with no door at all)

     

    Would be shipping to 98042.

     

    Thank you.

  22. Posted

    Well I've edited my wanted post to be looking for a composite video/audio cable. I hate soldering. My hand always gets shakey and I end up making a big mess.

     

    Though I think I might just stick with the 130XE in the long run.

  23. Posted

    I started a post in another forum on another website.. but since it seems to have gone from a "this sucks" thread, to an "I'm trying to figure out something weird" thread, I figure I oughta bring it over to a busier forum.

     

    first message

     

    My 800XL would appear to be defective. I just hooked up an s-video cable I bought on ebay so I could do away with the RF output... and what I got was black and white... yep, no chroma, just luma... so I thought maybe my cable was bad.. so I pulled out a boxed 130xe I had up on a shelf........ nope... cable is fine... 130xe gives color... so, I've put away my 800XL, with a sticker on it that says "defective, no chroma output"(I tag anything I put away broken).. and have my 130xe hooked up...

     

    This sucks though... cuz the 130XE looks weird sitting next to the brown and beige tape and floppy drives... and finding tape and floppy drives which visually match t he 130XE is not very easy.

     

    *sigh*

     

    second message:

     

    So weirdness ensues you see....

     

    Cuz now when I turn my atari 130XL on.... I have to swich my Commodore 1084's source switch from separate(chroma/luma) to composite and back to separate to get color. And when I hook my little sony executoy mini tv to the composite output on my switch box, I get black and white.... normally the switchbox is able to take s-video inputs and put out an acurate signal on the composit output.... I mean it works for my 5200's video mod, and all my other consoles.. but these Atari computers are just being weird... I wonder if it's possible there's something wrong with the cable I bought.

     

    A note: I have a request for a chroma/luma/audio cable up in the wanted section.

  25. Posted · Edited by Rockin' Kat

    I'd sure like to find one of those Atari to TI game port adaptors.... I have a bunch of of games and the power supply, the AV cable doesn't seem all that hard to pick up either... but I've posted wanted messages for a game controll adaptor in the past and never gotten any replies.

    I've been tempted to make one a few times. It's a simple project.

    But every time I start trying to solder connectors, I end up with scorched fingertips...

     

    Oh don't I know it. I know I often reach for the soldering iron without actually looking at it... once or twice I've grabbed the wrong end... full in palm wrapped fingers in a quick grab... AW FUCKBALLS!!!

     

    I could probably make one my own.... but I HATE making cables with the soldering iron, and the ones made usiing crimpable parts and a crimper aren't always as durrable which isn't so good for a game controller... also though I don't know the pinouts.

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