Rockin' Kat

Have you considered having someone bid on them for you who can relay it to your address? I've done that for people a couple times.

On the last day of my Senior year('02) in highschool I brought my Commodore SX-64 and some games to school and set it up at various times during the day since there wasn't much going on. I was pretty much letting anyone who asked play a game on it. A lot of people were coming over to see what all the fuss was about in the Corner of the Cafeteria under the stairs. It was lots of fun.

You don't have to buy them from eBay... you can always buy them direct from the source if you wish.... shipping will be a little high since I think they only ship with UPS though. http://http://www.mcmelectronics.com/ http://mcm.newark.com/NewarkWebCommerce/mc...SKU=83-3785&N=4 They require registering an account to make purchases. Registration is free.

Sweetness. That Marquee lamp shade is a pretty cool idea.

Except for that fun time when pins break... that and it wears out quicker the second time around since they're allready fatigued. I've bent pins in the past just to just to have the connector still not work very well. Personally I think the replacement parts are cheap enough that it's not worth the bother to bend the pins.

I'm running this on a Dual processor 450Mhz G4 with OS X and Firefox and it works ok for me.

Keep the lemmings away from me, they're evil!

Hey, A few months ago I was in Tacoma when I found this store called "Video Game Fantasy" I bought a bunch of NES games at $5 each... I spent $100 there..... Anyway about a week ago I went back to get more $5 NES games and all I found was a sign and an empty store front. This Sucks, I finally find a used game store locally with good prices on NES games and it dissapears!

Those are just screen covers. I think VGKing is talking about the actual video display being cracked.

I got this card reader for $3.80. http://www.tigersurplus.com/details.htm?pr...oductid=1H-2299 To order it you have to go back to the main page at http://www.tigersurplus.com/ and scroll down till you find "SanDisk ImageMate USB MMC Card Reader"

Ah man, that sucks! Unfortunantly, you can't do that. I've seen working Nomads go for anywhere between $40 and $80 online. If you can't get help here, you might want to try over at GamesX.com or something. I have a Nomad, but I'm not going to sell it.

May I ask what that game was? It was Big Foot, a monster truck game. It had two different modes... part of the game was birds eye view and part of it was side scrolling. The birds eye view part of the game was ok, but the controlls for the side scrolling part made no sence.

I usually use sniping software so I can cancel my bid if something else comes up that I'd like to spend my money on more. That and I always seem to be at work when the auctions I'm following end. As far as the few times where I've bid on an auction early rather than sniping I have gone back over it and over it wondering if I should have bid.... but usually I never bid a second time because I always set the Proxy bid to what I felt it was worth to me the first time.

The first Game I ever got with the Acclaim logo was a used NES game that looked like it might be cool.... when I got it it was almost unplayable and no fun at all.... After that, every other acclaim game I've gotten has either been a present or been part of a large lot of games.... only once have I played an acclaim game and not felt it sucked. I won't be missing Acclaim.

My first game system was the NES. I've had the same console since 1987.

Any RCA A/V cable will work fine for that. The only usefull video out put on the //c is it's composite video jack. The other monitor port doesn't put out a normal monitor signal so it isn't very usefull unless you a special monitor or adaptor for it.

What 3.5" stuff is he going to be able to use? I could swear most 8 bit Apple II games were on 5.25" anyway..... Mostly it's only 16 bit IIgs stuff that used 3.5" floppies. Personally I only use real 5.25" floppies for multidisk/side games. other than that I just run them from disk images on the hard drive using a special loader program on my IIgs. I hate notching disks. It's a big pain because I have to use a regular hole puncher and I hurt my hands well before the hole puncher actually managed to go all the way through the disk(and I've had hole punchers that broke instead of going through the disk). If I had an actual notcher that might be a different... Eventually one of these days I'm going to install switches in my 5.25 drives to manually dissable write protection so I never have to notch another disk again.... eventually.

speaking of getting more computers, what I'd really like to be the next computer I get is an Amiga 2500.

same here........ could sumone please explain? Methinks they be ignoring the non-keeners. WTF is a friggin keen? is Commander Keen was a side scrolling platformer. The First ones were all MS DOS games. My mom used to play Commander Keen a lot back when we had the 486.

Actually that's just part of the FAQ..... this is the main index page for the FAQs: http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/A2FAQs1START.html

Well, I've seen info about reading disks but outside of a difficult to find controller card I've never really seen much about writing disks with a PC. http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2DSKETTE.html#007

Maybe you should check out http://www.floppydisk.com. They sell blank floppies in bulk. I've been meaning to give them a ring and buy some 3.5" DS/DD floppies from them for a while now.

Well, I'd suggest starting with the CSA2 FAQs and links page when you need Apple II info... it's been a very usefull resource when I've needed to figure something out with my IIgs. Anyway, the easiest way to get software on an Apple II involves an older Mac (just old enough to have a built in floppy drive) and an Apple IIgs with both 3.5 and 5.25 drives... of cource, my IIgs has a hard drive and an ethernet card so I just download stuff on the IIgs and put it to disk that way instead. There are other ways that I'm not really familiar with, but I can tell you up front that you can't write an Apple II disk in a PC's 5.25" drive. Older Macs can write 3.5" ProDOS floppies which is why they make a nice Apple II accessory.

If I can find mine I could probably scan it for you. I might have to go to the storage place to get it though. I was going to say underdogs but apparently they don't have the documentation on it yet.

Ok.... since somoene didn't like computers being listed in the console thread, I figured why not start this one. Anyway, Apple IIgs Apple //c Commodore 64 Commodore SX-64 (luggable C64) WYSE 286.