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    I did just that for the past couple of years, and that is why I finally came public about it. I understand that people have real live's and that this is about material objects that's why I have not sent Sloopy any hate mail, but again it has been years, and the communication has been minimal, so it is little wonder that I have became concerned and decided to finally voice my concerns openly and in the forums after all this time.

    Anyhow, if real life is giving him the shaft then fine, I understand that, but an apology and a lengthy letter explaining circumstances in a bit more detail would have been nice. Anyhow, thank you for doing just that, especially considering this is not your problem. I'll go back to waiting patiently again.

     

    You should take this up privately with Sloopy, and keep it that way. It's in very bad taste that you bring this up publicly in the forum. He hasn't ripped anyone off. He is just taking forever. The poor guy bit off more than he could chew, and then his ex-wife yanked his teeth out completely.. He is trying like hell to get his life sorted out, and his first priority after food, room, and board, is completion of the obligations he undertook before all of this happened. He is in an IRC channel on irc.freenode.net, channel ##atari, 24-7.. You could easily get DAILY updates from him if you wanted to. Sloopy is not Zaxxon.. He's not hiding and avoiding anyone.. So cut the guy some slack.. LIFE HAPPENS..

     

    Oh. and btw, I am waiting on the ENTIRE VBXE from SLoopy (which he is in the priocess of working on RIGHT NOW).. Not just the adaptor board.. I sold the ENTIRE VBXE that you sent to another customer and used the money to order the newer and CORRECT version of the kit from Sloopy (it was either that, or send the board to poland for an exchange. At the time noone knew Sloopy was gonna have a personal catastrophe). I told you this the last time we discussed this privately.. This is really noone else's business, but since you decided to make this an event of public presidence,let's set the record exactly straight..

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    Ya it's like this... and mind you, I've been trying to be understanding and keep my mouth shut publicly, but it's actually been a LOT of months, years in fact.

     

    I sent a 130XE which I botched up to Metal about 3 years ago. While he had it, I ordered two VBXE's, so I mailed the one down to Metal to install while he had my stuff. He then needed some sort of adaptor which Sloopy was supposed to send to him, and he is still waiting.

    Mind you, I told Metal to hold onto my 130XE till Sloopy mailed the adaptor, but that's been FOREVER ago.

    In the mean time, I had Sloop work on a couple Atari's for me, which he did and I was happy. I then had an Amiga 600 which I mailed to him to have recapped because I was having audio issues, but never received it back, I only get messages stating that he's having personal issues.

    I then later get aPM from him asking me for $60 to help him with a situation. He said if I could do that, he'd call it even, recap the 600 and mail it back to me.

    Well I sent him the money, but never heard back about my 600. I watied a while, then wrote him because the warrenty on an expansion I'd bought for my 600 was about to run out, and I needed the 600 recapped also so I could see if that was causing issues with my expansion as well as the audio.

    Well again I got a message talking about personal issues and this and that, but insuring me that he'd get right on it. Well my warrenty expired, I moved a couple times, and finally after 6 or so months wrote again (a couple weeks ago in fact), and here he is saying he just moved and that the 600 is in storage and that he'll fish it out for me...

     

    ...still waiting for a reply.

     

    Not very happy to say the least.

    So you've gotten the VBXE and are waiting on an adapter now? I took FastRobPlus' spot in line - and I've been waiting since September 2012 with no update of any kind, and certainly not the VBXE.

     

    Still if he's working through the list - then I'll get it eventually. But- the main thing is, I don't want to have to work with daily complaining in order to get the thing. I'm not going to do that.

     

    Well I am so glad that there is another VBXE pre-order! Good news. I ordered an incognito from Candle - and I could not be more happy with that experience.

     

    Candle is awesome. Also I just ordered a Side 2 from Lotharek via ebay, I can't wait for that!

  5. Posted · Edited by Syfo-Dyas

    I'm still waiting to receive my machines back with the original one. Again, sloop, supposed to send an adaptor to Texas so Metal can finish the task....

     

    ...been MONTHS now. Would be nice to check out even the original.

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    I have a few XBOX's laying around that I do not have the original drives for.

     

    What I would like to do is install a temporary MOD chip on then long enough to flash the internal Eprom of the mother board and set up the hard drive.

     

    To do this I really want to avoid a solder based solution, as there would be too much risk in soldering the wires and unsoldering them only to solder them agian to another mother board.

     

    So I'm wondering, are there any stores in the States or Canada that still sells these combitions such as the Xecuter 2.6 with Pogo adaptor, or other models?

     

    If not, does anyone have one they could sell that they are no longer using?

     

    Thankx!

  24. Posted · Edited by Syfo-Dyas

    Hello, I have not been very active in the community as of late because all of my Ataris are out being repaired, or waiting to be shipped out for a repair when my Amiga is returned to me. In fact I have one Atari that has been in Texas for about the past three years.

     

    On top of all of this, am I also between jobs, I need to move for the second time this year, and I really need to raise some money to establish an apartment as well as try to set things up to go back into school.

     

    It does not look like I am going to be able to do anything with my Ataris any time soon, and I really need to raise some cash, so...

     

    ...I am highly considering selling my 1Mb RAM expansion for the 600Xl (desinged by Candle).

     

    If anyone is interested and would like me to post photos I can do so. I just wanted to post in here first and see if there is any interest.

     

    The SDrive Nuxx would of course need to be assembled first, and a housing would need to be purchased.

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