Rockin' Kat

I've always just wetted an old cotton t-shirt with alcohol, stretched it over a butter knife, and used that to clean cartridge ports... works pretty well. Just gotta watch out you don't catch the pins on the shirt or rag... and don't use a shirt you have intent to wear again... you'll put holes in it. :-P

The first game I bought for my Atari 2600 was Astroblast. Someone had conveniently stuck it in the Atari 2600 I found on my first ever trip to Goodwill.

You don't need to reemove the screws on the connector.... you have to slide the top half of the case away from the connector as you lift it up.

Well, in that case, I'd say just go right over to the GOAT store and buy car adaptor from them for $5. The one they have can be switched for use with either original Game Boy or Game Gear. It's the one I have for my Game Gear and it works real nice from my own experience. Just click this link to go right te the page I'm talking about. http://www.goatstore.com/info.php?id=331670

And that's model 2 Genesis power supply, not Model 1. [i want my edit button! wah!}

The Game Gear uses the same power adaptor as the Sega Genesis. output from A/C adaptor: 10VDC 0.85A and polarity is center positive. The Game Gear itself is actually rated at 9VDC

Cool, that looks great. Reminds me of that Mario quilt I found at Wagners and couldn't buy (they wanted well over my budget for it)

check this out. In the future I'd recomend checking out the comp.sys.apple2 FAQs when you have a question first, as they contain lots and lots of information and are easy to navigate.

It wasn't till I saw Miles Tails Prowers' post that I realized this was an old old OLD thread.

If that's AtariAge's Booth..... I think I read in a thread about a certain mod board that Alex was going to buy a bunch of them to install in Atari 2600 consoles for taking to a classic gaming event.

And 9 times out of ten, I've found that "busted" VCRs just need a good head cleaning with some alchohol and q-tips.

Commodore Monitors don't do RF. They'd need a TV tuner to do that.... The 1702 does composite and chroma/luma. In order to hook up an Atari 2600 you need to either modify the Atari for Direct Audio/Video output, or you need to hook a VCR or tuner box up to the monitor and then hook the Atari to the VCR or Tuner box. Commodore Video monitors are very very nice monitors... especially considering how old they are. I got mine through ebay.... didn't have to pay shipping because I made a point of watching for auctions that were close enough to meet the seller in person. My Commodore monitor is a 1084. It's a very nice monitor. Does Composite, chroma/luma, analog RGB, and Digital RGB.... pretty sweet really.... I use it for my C64 and all my game systems and sometimes watch TV on it....(I mean once you hook a VCR up for the Atari...why not use it for TV too?)...and eventualy I intend on getting an Amiga of some sort.

It's a seat pad so your butt doesn't get sore from sitting on hard stadium seats or bleatures.

Hey.... I was just reading through a through a few threads about people being ripped off or receiving stuff that wasn't as nice as they were expecting...and I was wondering just how many people have been dissapointed with an e-bay auction and not said a word of it? Anyway... my most dissapointing auction was my very first ebay purhcase. I found a Commodore 1541 floppy drive.. picture looked great and like new and the text description didn't have anything to say to the opposite, so I got my dad to make an acccount (I was 16 at the time) as soon as he got home from work and took the $10 BIN on it. I waited a few days and one day when I got home my heart sank into my stomach. There on t he front porch was a ratty, dirty, bulging box "honey baked hams" or something like that it read on it, and it was addressed to me... So I picked it up and took it in side. I put it down on the floor and cut it open with my house key....what I found inside was a ruddy looking 1541 wrapped twice in thin bubble wrap crammed corner to corner in a box that wasn't nearly big enough for it. The drive wasn't at all like the one in the picture.. this one had a big crackley "refurbished by commodore" sticker on it... a spraypaint stencil school district logo on the side and a pice of dried up masking tape reading "room 8" on the front. It also had a floppy disk mounted in it. I grabed the flip lever and it wobbled in my hand...wha? it's loose.... so I go and rotate it...and the disk doesn't pop out...so I pull...the floppy won't budge. I went and e-mailed the seller about the issue but after waiting several hours with no reply I got impatient and hooked the drive up as is to my C64 and loaded some kind of fish tank program off the floppy disk.. when it loaded properly I decided to try opening it up.... I ended up fixing the flip lever and getting the drive to work properly within a matter of minutes and the seller did get back to me...almost a good two days later. The seller did offer to replace the drive but having gotten it working I didn't want to wait any longer just to have a working 1541 on my C64 so I ended up just saying no thank you and leaving a neutral over the crappy packing job and the drive not being near as nice looking as the one pictured since a replacement was offered. It's obviously not a big ticket item, nor was it the worst possible outcome..but I sure wasn't exactly thrilled about it considering I didn't have a job at the time and on average took me a week to get the $20 to pay for the auction and shipping(yes... $10 shipping)

That wont help you too much. You need an older Mac(it's gotta be beige) running classic Mac OS (os 9 or earlier...but no older than os 7) with an internal floppy drive. OS X doesn't have the ability to read/write Pro DOS and USB floppy drives won't work with DD floppy disks unless you format them for MS DOS.

I hate inding boxed games in a thrift store and opening each one to find that none of them have games in them... now that just bugs me. I just bought a bunch of Genesis games at my local goodwill today... but 6 of the boxes I found were just that... boxes... but I still bought them... at 20 cents a peice figuring I'd just buy loose games to match up with them. I also hate it when I find something I want...having to go get money..coming back in and find that someone SMASHED it while I was running accross the street to bum money off my mom at the Safeway. This happened to me a couple times back before I got a job. I found a *very* nice JVC X eye back before I had a Sega CD labeled for $7... stupidly I put it back on the shelf instead of asking a casheir to hold it behind the counter for me.... ran accross the street to borow some money and came back..and someone had riped the CD door off the system and poored some strange oily gunk into the cartridge port. I've also found cracked Sega CD games at times... it just frustraights me.

Also, there is lots of software on the IIgs that can handle binary files and other apple II image and compression formats. In my opinion, it's the easiest Apple II to get software onto after you've downloaded it. (especially if you have a Mac running OS 9 or earlier and an internal floppy drive since it would be able read and write prodos disks..3.5" disks only though.)

You should check out What Is the Apple IIgs? It has games and lots of other software with reviews box scans, and screen shots.

I've never seen a Rev C go over $60. But then as I said, the prices on Apple II gear do tend to jump around a bit... there isn't always a good means by which to compair things. When selling stuff for Apple II it's really just a mater of your luck as far as what you get for it. I'd really suggest the use of a reserve when selling apple II accessories. Anyway, I'm sure someone thought it was really great timing. I got my Apple high speed for $87 with a BIN... I was just following a Rev C auction by running a search for apple scsi cards everytime I wanted to go to it..when an Apple High Speed card showed up with what I felt was a fair BIN so I took it. Since it wasn't that much more than what the Rev C was at.... the auction was only going for a minute I thiink the first time I ever used an Apple II it was to learn touch typing in the 3rd grade. I also remember playing numbermunchers and other games... either that or it was playing games on a friend's Apple IIgs... I'm not sure which came first for me. I can also remember almost getting caught playing games on the school computers that this friend had smuggled into the computer lab during recess...which I can assure you were not educational games.

yet again I think of something more to say and can't edit it in... Oh.. but what model SCSI card did you sell.. usually the only really popular ones are the Apple Rev C, Apple High Speed, and RamFast because they have the least compatibility problems and whatnot. If you look in the CSA2 FAQs (as linked in the links section of my website) you'll notice that they only recomend those three and mention a few that they recommend avoiding...

Not sure where the $200 came from! I sold one a few months ago, and only got $40 for it. It was mint, with manual! Maybe just bad timing, but I would have loved to have gotten $100+ for it. I thought it sounded a little off.... Of cource with apple II stuff the prices do tend to go a little all over the place since there's so little demand that there isn't allways an easily comparable past auction to look at.

I wish I could edit this into one of my previous replies... The CFFA interface card I was talking about cost $105 so if SCSI cards really are usually around $200 for sure, then I'd defenatly recomend considering out the CFFA card instead of getting SCSI. By the way, their order form says it requires at least a //e enhanced, but the main page says it should work with earlier Apple IIs now as it has been changed a little to make it work with earlier apple IIs....they probably just havn't updated all pages to represent that.

$200 plus for a SCSI card? They've gone up allright if that's the case.... When I got my Apple High Speed SCSI card on e-bay a few years ago it was like $90. If they were that expensive when I got mine I'd be going on Usenet in comp.sys.apple2.marketplace and trying to find someone with one for sale that way first for sure. When I got my SCSI card Apple Rev C's were going for around $60, Apple High Speeds were going for about $100, and RamFASTs were going for around $150.

oh yeah.... You can't see it in that picture(link in "irc"), but I have a 350MB SCSI hard drive hooked up to the IIgs, which is what it boots to..... Actually you can see the hard drive in this picture: If I were doing it over I'd probably get one of the new CFFA interface cards instead of doing SCSI.... then I could have had the choice of either an internal IDE hard drive or a compact flash card (yes, a compact flash card like you use in a nice digital camera) for a bootable drive.... but now I figure.... with SCSI I can use a hard drive, my 2.2GB ORB cartridge drive, and a CD-ROM drive(which does actually come in handy if you know what to use it for) so it doesn't really make sence for me to change it now..... And that CFFA card I'm talking about is compatible with most Apple II models, not just the IIgs. If you're interested in gettin gone you can order one here.

I have an Apple IIgs and an Apple //c I never reallly use the //c that much but I do stuff on the Apple IIgs all the time.. mostly I just stick to GS specific games but I do at times play 8bit games on it... Anyway.. in addition to gaming I sometimes use my Apple IIgs to go on irc. Mostly I've been playing downloaded stuff on it... I really need to get some boxed original copies of games for it.