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  1. InfernalKeith
    The problem is they come up for sale so infrequently, there's little frame of reference. When I used to do Ebay a lot, I listed a stack of them once and sold a couple boxed Moonbeam games quickly for $40-50. The rest went up multiple times, never got a bid. If you're looking for more hardware or to increase your cart collection, putting them up for trade here in the forum might net you a less stressful, more fruitful experience and "keep them in the family" so to speak.
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    I've gotten them from a variety of sources over the years, and some were in storage. Is it more likely that they may just need cleaned? All of them (as far as I remember) worked for a time, and then just stopped reading disks that they'd previously read. I'm going to try cleaning a couple of them tomorrow and see what happens.
  3. InfernalKeith
    Nope. The minute one of these is back up and running, I'm back to wasting my life playing Toy Bizarre.
  4. InfernalKeith
    Thank you for the info! I'm bad at hardware stuff but I'm realizing I need to just suck it up and give it a try. I have eleven of the damn things, it's not like it's the end of the world if I goof up one or two of them. Coming soon: Ebay auction for a giant box of smashed 1541's.
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    There's no Del Taco within 70 miles of home. I passed one tonight on my drive, got too excited and ordered way too much. Can someone wake me in six months? :P

    1. InfernalKeith

      InfernalKeith

      I'm a Bell fan but Del Taco's better on all fronts IMO. I only ever had Taco John's and Taco Casa one time each, didn't care for either of them, but it's been long enough that I'll probably revisit them next time I'm in a place where they are.

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      We used to have 7 Taco Johns here (But only 2 Taco Bells)...as they (Taco Johns) were born in Cheyenne (International Headquarters is here), but their main draw is the potato oles...And a cool Breakfast thing they do with potato oles, plus eggs, peppers, nacho cheese, shredded cheddar, tomatoes, onions, sour cream etc...Sometimes I think you will miss whatever your town does not have...We used to go to this cool taco place in Nebraska called Tres Amigos that had a salsa bar and served beer, b...

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      ...but otherwise resembled Taco Johns :)

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    What's a system you didn't know until it was retro? I have an Intellivision and an Atari 800XL, never used them as a kid, now they're mysterious and weird to me.

    1. HoshiChiri

      HoshiChiri

      Never even heard of a Bally Astrocade until I joined up here. Still never seen one. I know if I do someday I'm gonna react like it's the flippin' Jade Falcon.

    2. InfernalKeith

      InfernalKeith

      I had an Astrocade early on but never thought I'd find one as an adult. I hardly ever play it but I'd be sad if it wasn't there with the other soldiers.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      The only thing I can think of is the Japanese equivalents of things, so I'm not sure if they count...Famicom, Super Famicom, Mega Drive and PC Engine...

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  7. InfernalKeith
    Bump. $20 plus shipping.
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    So in my hoard of Commodore stuff I have a total of 11 drives. Mostly 1541's, a couple modified, with a few 1571's. As of last night, all 11 of them no longer read disks. I'm not a big "open stuff up and fix it" guy, I tend to lose parts or forget how things went back together. I live in northwest Ohio, USA and travel for work a bit. I'd love to find someone who'd take my 11 drives, fix/align some of them, and keep the rest as payment. Failing that, I'd pay cash to have it done. Is anyone out there good at this and somewhat close to me? Thanks! Keith
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    Crystal Garden ZIP file attached to original post. Like I said, I'm not sure anyone's gonna click with this game, but if you want a weird, kinda slow, immersive, long-ish BASIC game with some interesting strategy elements, give it a chance. I haven't even attempted to compile it yet. I may do that next. It's a hard game. There's a strategy and a way to at least have a chance to win, but it takes some play time to get familiar with it. I look forward to your thoughts on it. Keith
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    Crystal Garden title screen The game is beginning. The player and the Visible Foe are in opposite corners, the gems are colorful, and the Garden looks fairly balanced. A number of turns later, you can see the player approaching the top right corner and first portal. Black squares have begun to infiltrate the Garden. This screen shows the indicator on left, which the player is about to use to shift a row horizontally. He has reached the first portal and is heading for the second, in the lower right corner. In a different match, you see that the black squares have wreaked a lot more havoc. The player has had trouble getting to the first portal, and the longer the match goes, the more black squares there are to contend with. Later in this match, the player and Visible Foe have each reached the first portal, and are heading for their second. The player is in trouble here. His score is far below the Visible Foe's, and his paths to the second portal are growing harder to navigate with each passing turn. Shortly after I took this screenshot, the Rogue Foe appeared and, with so much black space to work with, quickly found the player and ended the game.
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    Guess who brought back this old TI BASIC beastie from the dead? I'm play-testing it now and will start a new thread for it when I upload it, hopefully Monday. It's turned into a strange strategy game, I'm not sure how many will be into it, but it's been fun to finish a long-dormant project and see it take a shape I never envisioned ages ago. See you soon. Keith
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    Pete, my wife's family is from Ashtabula, my father-in-law still lives in Geneva. I'm sure that stuff's long gone but it'd be fun to find a yard sale or surplus shop with all those 99/4A's in it now...
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    CDs, vinyl, floppy disks, cartridges, tapes, VHS movies, 9-pin sticks. Here to the real stuff you can put your hands on!

    1. doctorclu

      doctorclu

      Yeh I am having difficulty in this digital release age... I like to collect things. :/

    2. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      CHEERS!!

  14. InfernalKeith
    Bump. All but Bally Pin still available.
  15. InfernalKeith
    Clean, tested, working, clean battery terminals. There's no sound - I remember sound from back in the day, but could be remembering wrong? $30 plus shipping and it's yours. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks! Keith
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    Our schools were TRS-80 country when we first got computers, in 1981 or 1982. The very first computer I ever put my hands on was a Model III. I typed a "guess your number" program in out of a library book and kids stayed after school to play it, because no one else had bothered to learn to do anything with these machines. There was a definite air among our teachers of "ugh, I guess now we have THIS thing to deal with." By junior high we had Apple IIe's for a computer literacy class, which split time with a typing class that still used manual typewriters (ugh). I could "hunt and peck" more than 40 words a minute (and still can) but the teacher insist I use the home keys, so I barely got through that one. Later, we learned Instant Pascal on IIc's. Meanwhile at home, my uncle and one or two friends had 99/4A's but almost everyone with a computer in their house in my town had a Commodore 64. I dunno if it was our mix of department stores or what, but I never saw a single Atari computer as a kid, and very few CoCo's (although our Radio Shack was popular).
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    Took a break to unzip and give this a couple spins. It looks fantastic and the play is pretty quick and intuitive. I didn't have time to play enough to the harder levels yet, but I look forward to spending more time with it this weekend. Great work! I really like little touches like the cursor "typing out" the words when you're setting up the score fields, etc.
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    I dunno if this is a weird side effect of age and nostalgia, but I find that I'm not turning CPU Overdrive on when I play games like this as much. I like the slow, deliberate pacing you have to force upon yourself to move in "BASIC time." I think it adds to the atmosphere of the game. I'm dealing with that with the thing I'm trying to finish up now. It's a slow-paced game and I like it that way, but I have a feeling most people are gonna be driven up a wall by it.
  19. InfernalKeith
    This is strangely hypnotic to watch...
  20. InfernalKeith
    20+ levels? Man, I suck. I think I've gotten through 6 or 7, tops...
  21. InfernalKeith
    Been working on some long-dormant projects in Classic99 lately, and also going through and revisiting other people's programs that have been lingering on the drive. I wanted to give Adam a shout-out and bring this game to the attention of anyone who's recently joined the forum. This is such an elegant little game, it works well within the limits of XB and it contains scads of atmosphere. I went down the rabbit hole playing it for quite some time today!
  22. InfernalKeith
    Plain binder TI Writer and Editor/Assembler are outta here!
  23. InfernalKeith

    It's Model I Day! My TRS-80 lot is on the truck! Now to figure out where the hell I have room to set it up.

    1. InfernalKeith

      InfernalKeith

      It's getting to be tough-call time. Does my sad little Mattel Aquarius NEED to take up real estate permanently? :)

    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      If you switch to emulation all you need is fake-estate.

    3. InfernalKeith

      InfernalKeith

      you get that blasphemy OUT OF MY BASEMENT

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  24. InfernalKeith
    Just let me know guys. They're bulky but should be ok to ship via Media in the USA.
  25. InfernalKeith
    Bump. Still got these taking up a lot of real estate. $5 each if you're interested.
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