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  1. Posted

    I have shut down two resellers in the last few years. I found the local auctions they were picking games up at and started buying the games at the auction before they had a chance to jack the prices up at the flea market. Its great, they just want the game at less than $5 so they can sell it for $5 and make money, I just want to shut them down and would rather spend that $5 with the auction company than these guys at the flea market. So far I have shut down 2 or them at the local flea market, and I have the third on the ropes.

     

    Well that's just dirty to me, buying at an auction and reselling is perfectly fine. I buy from vendors all them time and encourage others to support their local vendors.

    It's the folks who go to dirty tactics to keep others away or scam them who are the bad guys, not someone who just trying to make a few extra bucks.

     

    JMHO.

  3. Posted

    I bought an older Pentium 4 PC for dirt cheap, got a KVM switch, and set it up with Windows 95.

    It's sole purpose is to serve my C128D.

     

    I have a 1541 plugged into it, I have a null modem cable running to a Supra modem interface on the C128D. With this I run BBS Server to telnet into BBS's, and run GUI 4 CBM to read\write C= disks.

     

    This this has been (to me at least) a very economical solution to a SD or other device. Gives me a lot more flexability IMHO.

     

    Just my $.02 ;)

  4. Posted · Edited by Shephda

    I ended up getting an Amiga 2000 myself this weekend (I'm selling my 1200 in the marketplace). Mine has:

     

    Kickstart 1.3

    Workbench 1.3

    1MB chip RAM (Fat Agnus)

    8MB fast RAM

    120MB SCSI Hard Drive (upgraded it to a 1GB drive)

    Dual Floppies

    GVP a2000-hc+8 series ii SCSI and RAM Card

    Original Amiga Keyboard

    Commodore 1084 Monitor

     

    The case and keyboard are in great shape, no yellowing at all. I have a newer style Amiga mouse that I'm using with it now as well. I'm keeping it at WB 1.3 with no accelerator for now because I'm just going to use it to play games and I want to keep maximum compatibility. I might add a cheap 010 accelerator for a tiny speed boost in the future though or maybe a faster one if it has an on/off switch (some do I hear).

     

    BTW what is it with the little gap around the floppy drives? It's driving me nuts!

     

    Nice setup!

    The MMR 030 i have can be turned off via software, or you can leave it off an run it manually when wanted\needed.

    The gap around the floppy drives is to let the dust in. :rolling:

  7. Posted

    Here are a couple of better shots:

     

    a2k1.jpg

     

    And:

     

    a2k2.jpg

     

    Found a vendor and picked up a couple of keyboard extenders so I have the keyboard and mouse routed behind and over the drawer. This keeps the cables from streaching and binding.

    Nice little system:

    A2000, Rev 4.3 mobo

    Mega-Midget Racer 68030 w\2MB RAM

    3.1 ROMS

    Updated Agnus and Denise to 1M full ECS

    OS 3.1

    SupraRAM 8MB card

    GVP HDC +2 HD controller with 2MB RAM and a 3GB drive

    6X CD-ROM

    250MB Zip

    Amiga 1011 drive (pretty little thang) :)

  8. Posted · Edited by Shephda

    Yesterday was my "best day" of the wild game hunting season.

     

    Hit a couple of fleas and through the normal over priced PS and Xbox systems, the glod Zelda cartridge for $29.99, and a stack of E.T. for the 2600 priced at $10 each, I wondered across this gem:

    New, unsealed for $6. Going to hang on the wall and stay unopened.

     

    gcbatt.jpg

     

    Then, laying un-noticed under a vendor table was this:

    tg16.jpg

     

    No controller, but clean, has the dust cover, and works perfectly. $17!

    Got the game from a local store for $5.50. Snagged a controller from e-Bay for $14.95 shipped. Total for a working TG-16, $37.45.

    I'm ok with that! :-D

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    You have one of those! I have the exact same computer desk minus the cover (well sort of, mine has a cabinet at the top) that I use for my Apple IIe. I love that thing! I've been looking for another one forever, but never could find one. I never thought to check a thrift stores.

     

    That Amiga 2000 is very nice looking. If I didn't have my decked out 1200 I'd go for either a 2000 or 3000 I think.

     

    I found it a few days ago at a local thrift store, some of the veneer is a bit rough but then again I paid $7.99 for it. :-D

    I've been looking for a compact desk to fit in the living room and about dropped a load when I saw it sitting in the store, it's identical to the one I used to use. I had an instant flashback to sometime around 1988 when mine housed my "decked out" Commodore 64 setup. My son was 4 then and wanted to play Ghostbusters, I told him to let dad get a cup of coffee and I'd start it for him, as I was pouring the coffee I heard the game starting. I asked him if he did that and he said yeah. I made him show me and by God he knew how to load C= games at 4! That's my boy! :-D

     

    Thrift stores are a gold mine, I got the 250MB SCSI Zip drive there with a pair of disks for $10, the power center under the monitor was had for $3, I find all kinds of hard to find cables that come in handy for these old machines all the time.

  10. Posted

    I love all this Amiga talk. ;-)

    I broke down and bought an old school computer desk the other day at a local thrift store. It's the kind where the keyboard drawer pulls out and there is a slanted top that holds books. This is exactly like my very first one back in the late 80's.

     

    Anyway, got it cleaned up and moved my A2000 out of the basement, up into the light of the living room, and back in play! :grin:

     

    a2000.jpg

     

    Not the best picture, but it'll do for now.

  11. Posted

    Hit the fracking jackpot today!

     

    The jackpot is the complete 40 DVD set of Star Trek the original series. This is the set released in 1999. All DVD;s are mint and with their booklets. $29.99! :-o

     

    I love thrift stores! :thumbsup:

     

    Nice deal, I paid a small fortune for those when they came out, but at least I got $90 for them a few months back to cover the cost of the upgrade to Blu-ray. No complaints though, I love the show too much. :)

     

    Thanks.

    I love these thrift store gems, earlier this year I found the complete Space:1999 DVD set for $19.99. now if I could just find the complete ST:Next Generation set...... :)

  12. Posted

    Hit the fracking jackpot today!

    Went to a local thrift and found a game.com with two carts inside, Lights Out and Williams Arcade Classics, no pen. $.99

    Looks fair condition.

     

    The jackpot is the complete 40 DVD set of Star Trek the original series. This is the set released in 1999. All DVD;s are mint and with their booklets. $29.99! :-o

     

    I love thrift stores! :thumbsup:

  17. Posted

    Honestly, I find it a bit pathetic—almost creepy, sometimes—how badly some people in their 30’s and 40’s just want to be kids again. If you enjoy playing Atari, then that’s great—but please actually play it rather than just talking about it all time. If you’ve got a high score to brag about, I’d love to hear about it, but I don’t really care to hear story after story about how you played such and such a game “back in the day” when you were 8, or how you got Smurf for Christmas in 1983.

     

    Say that when you are 30 or 40, it won't be no where as creepy pup. :lol:

     

    ???

     

    Dude, I'm 35. And it's still creepy.

     

    Point taken. ;)

  18. Posted

    Honestly, I find it a bit pathetic—almost creepy, sometimes—how badly some people in their 30’s and 40’s just want to be kids again. If you enjoy playing Atari, then that’s great—but please actually play it rather than just talking about it all time. If you’ve got a high score to brag about, I’d love to hear about it, but I don’t really care to hear story after story about how you played such and such a game “back in the day” when you were 8, or how you got Smurf for Christmas in 1983.

     

    Say that when you are 30 or 40, it won't be no where as creepy pup. :lol:

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