Tac1+

[Tac1+]

 

The second photo is of a connector for the original Apple II joystick connector which is on the motherboard.

 

Oh, no kidding. I just popped open my GS and there it was. That's an odd place for a joystick connector. It functions the same as the 9 pin game port then? Mutually exclusive with the external game port I'd imagine.

 

Yeah the internal game port was there in the GS for the whole backwards compatibility thing with the Apple II.

 

This might explain it a bit better then what i could http://rich12345.tripod.com/OPHP/gameport.html just scroll down to pinouts or read to that point.

 

but they do share some of the signals.

 

Depending on what connection you used have you tried the other connection to see if its a connection issue causing the drift ?

[Was browsing ebay when i seen this (Magic sac+)]

Man, I remember these from "back in the day". The looks on Macintosh users' faces when they saw your Atari ST running Mac OS on a larger screen at roughly the same speed as their crazy expensive Macs was priceless! I did not own one, but a friend of mine did so I was able to play with it quite a bit. Not sure which version I used, it may have been the Spectre GCR. Pretty damn amazing for the time.

 

..Al

 

Yeah it has been amazing on seeing what people had old hardware doing back in the day, heck even today i still get amazed seeing what people are doing on older hardware. I love looking around and seeing and reading about old vintage hardware.

 

Even though i do not own a Atari computer, i still thought it was worth mentioning

[Was browsing ebay when i seen this (Magic sac+)]

Hello

 

This ebay listing is not mine but i figured i would post about it here in case someone was looking for one.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 380231020393

 

i only hope i didnt break any rules on posting about this here.

[Apple 2 stuff price check]

More people would look if it was posted in Classic Computing

 

Even though 2 of those say Atari 16k

[Your First Computer]

including a voodoo 5-6000 board!

 

 

Your joking right ?

 

sell that thing on ebay, or at least let someone here give it a good home at least. No one benefits if you throw it away.

 

What do you mean you cant even get postage for the stuff.

 

I would gladly give you postage for the voodoo 5 6000

[Jaguar Price Increase?]

I need to buy another jag as the one i use to own broke and eventually stolen/lost (either got lost during a move, or someone took it) either way i would have had to buy another one.

 

The prices for a Jag are a bit high here lately.

[If it has red lights....it can have Red Ring Of Death]

It is a little bigger front to back. Look at the gallery. The PSU is still external so the cable still has a brick on it.

 

Awesome, at least if the power brick fails you wont have to ship the unit to MS just to fix it. I like the external brick better then a internal one.

[If it has red lights....it can have Red Ring Of Death]

Ohhhh hot damn.

 

Now your White HD drive sort of looks out of place next to the new 360.

 

BTW, how much more quiet is this thing when you compare it to the old 360.

[C64 Instant Repair! (by lifting it up a few inches and dropping it)]

The Apple III was prone to spitting out it's chips and lifting it and dropping it 3 inches was the official repair practice.

That's if lifting it didn't give you a hernia and it didn't crush your desk. (ok... so it wasn't THAT heavy)

 

LMAO

[The "unidentified game from your childhood" thread]

You could search through the FTP archive above. AFAIK, it's the largest collection of Apple software in a single spot...and it's still leechable if you want to download in your sleep (right-click, copy to folder).

 

Another place of possible prospecting http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/

[I knew it was too good to be true]

(CLING STICKER: using any adhesive on a child or pet is not recommended by MS and will void your warranty)

 

 

Mendon

 

DAMN IT!!!!!

 

I just did that with a friends kid that would not stop trying to pick up the 360. the kid is now stuck to the wall using super glue.

[I knew it was too good to be true]

But I don't know how to implement that on a disc tray?

 

Both the slot load and the tray load use a cap that is magnetically held in place on the spindle, which holds the disk onto the spindle.

 

the Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS1, PS2 slimline, and maybe a few others have a clip (3 or 4 balls) on the spindle that the disk snaps onto to hold it in place.

 

the disk in the 360 is spinning at such a high rate of speed any movement can dislodge the cap that holds the disk in place causing it to grind the eye. The only way to solve the issue is to make the magnetic cap allot stronger.

 

It isn't as much of a issue on the PS3 because it spins at a much slower speed.

 

Ever try to turn something that is spinning that fast, it fights you because of the cintrifical force of the spinning disk. ever seen a motorcycle wobble

same concept on whats happening when you tilt something spinning too fast.

[Your First Computer]

I wrote my first basic programs on the TRS-80 Pocket Computer. (snip)

 

WOW dude, it would have been better if you at least used paragraphs. I could hardly read your post.

[I knew it was too good to be true]

WOW, what a dumb ass, no wonder the 360 got the rep of scratching its disks. Its dumb asses moving the system during play that scratch the disk.

 

hell the same thing could be said about the RRoD or overheating. if your stupid enough to put the system in a spot that don't allow air to move its going to overheat and eventually give you the RRoD. i foresee these still getting the RRoD because of dumb asses like that.

 

Why in the hell could they not just move the camera. what morons.

[IBM PC AT]

I owned the IBM PC 5150 a while ago (luckily for me it was local pickup) because it was heavy.

 

http://abcresellers.com/store/product8.html

 

If you thought that was bad, i use to own a IBM PS/2 Model 8560 TOWER it had a few upgrades in it (a 268 to 386 CPU upgrade, Ram upgrade, and so on), i was forced to let it go for free. you could use this thing to crush cars with. The tower alone was like 40-44lb in stock form, and with the upgrades made it around 50-60lb (not including the monitor).

 

http://abcresellers.com/store/product177.html

 

just using that site for reference, wow the prices.

[Favorite Apple // Games?]

Karateka is a must, That was my first ever game on a computer (and the first time i ever used a computer), it was a IIe with a green screen.

 

Hmm, yeh karateka, it was weird, about that time, the Apple II line started to decline. And all sorts of disarray entered the market. Well I disposed of all my classic machines at the time, except the Amiga (for sale) and Apple II collection (not for sale)..

 

BBS's also fell by the wayside too - about then.

 

I think it was because the market was over saturated with so many different types of computers which hardly none was compatible with each other, unlike today.

[Favorite Apple // Games?]

Karateka is a must, That was my first ever game on a computer (and the first time i ever used a computer), it was a IIe with a green screen.

[The Return of.... DUKE!]

"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum"

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

 

LMAO, i remember that movie. They Live (1988)

[I am officially finished with Xbox 360]

My friends first gen 360 (Xenon) gave up the ghost a few months ago, not because of the RRoD, but due to the DVD drive failing. He plays the thing every day for hours on end.

 

He replaced the drive and its still going strong.

 

what he did was lifted the console off what it was sitting on (about a inch or 2), never ever put it on the floor (carpet).

 

Kept the dust out of it by using a vacuum and a can of compressed air for electronics.

 

after long periods of play he would let the system idle at the dashboard for like 20 minutes before turning it off (to avoid the thermal peak)

 

when you have a play and charge kit and have a recharging controller plugged in when you turn the system off the fans remain on and the controller remains charging but everything else turns off, which cools the system down without having to worry about the thermal peak.

 

always had it on its own table not around anything that would generate heat or trap heat.

 

The same friend also has a PS3 that has the YLoD issue and the Blue ray drive failing, luckily within the first year.

[C64 Instant Repair! (by lifting it up a few inches and dropping it)]

What i did was clean the contacts and found a way to keep the chips in their socket (something that wont keep you from removing the chip from the socket). like using 3m double sided tape (between the chip and the socket) or maybe a dab of hot glue. got to love chip creep.

[Apple 2 stuff price check]

Other then using ebay as a point of reference, other then that i do not know where one could look.

[Do you remember the first emulators you ever used?]

Yep the dos version of ZSNES on a old P1 200mhz MMX PC.

[N64, PSx,....what is the best USB Pad?]

Id rather get a USB adapter to use each controller with its own system, then to use only one controller for all the emulators.

[Your First Computer]

MY first computer was a C64(it was given to me) it also came with a 5.25" drive and a lot of disks, I loved that computer.

 

unfortunately i sold it to make some money.

[Need help with Dreamcast Dream Blaster light guns.]

so the buttons and everything work but wont shoot in game.

 

Are you using a CRT TV or a HDTV (LCD, Plasma, or other non CRT based TV).

 

these guns wont work on non CRT based TVs because the light guns require the scan lines on the CRT to work from what i hear.

 

if you are using a CRT Based TV then something else is wrong, does a standard controller work ? are you sure you have everything properly set up ?

 

if you do then the guns could be at fault. my light gun works fine so far.