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  1. Posted

    I'm working on my retro PC build right now actually, I'll pull the specs when I get home. It's awesome to see so many people on this board into it! My biggest challenge is finding a bloody case that will work. I want a period-correct case, but around my neck of the woods they're a pain to find. And yes, I am very OCD about having things period-specific. I'm weird.

  3. Posted

    Thanks to AcousticGuitar for the tapes he's sending me, I will get them recorded and posted on my channel as soon as I can. I am still looking for more tapes. I am almost done posting the Columbus commercials, only a few more to go.

    Is there a link to the channel somewhere? Sorry it's off topic, I just want to see the fruits of your labour!

  5. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    Hey all,

     

     

    My internal floppy drive on my vintage gaming rig decided to puke, so I need a replacement. I could to to eBay, but I prefer to deal with people here first. Anyone have an internal 3.5" floppy drive they don't need?

     

     

    Thanks!

     

    (Added the size of drive I need, thanks Osgeld!)

  7. Posted

    Would you consider selling the R4 card separately? I already have a DS Lite from a member here, but I've been looking for a flash cart to run homebrew. I just don't like the idea that every flash cart site out there wants a credit card.

  9. Posted

    Ran across this, I didn't read through everything, but at a quick glance it doesn't look like anyone else has posted the link yet:

    http://readwrite.com/2014/04/28/atari-et-dig-alamogordo-game-list#awesm=~oCLooMcnZvZCst

     

    There is also a link to their flickr site with higher-res photos.

     

    EDIT- I don't see any consoles, but there is a video touch pad amongst the debris.

     

    Great link, thanks much! Interesting to see so many other games, peripherals, and paper products along with the ET carts. So it was more than just ET carts that got dumped? I wonder why...

  10. Posted

    Someone already posted a bogus shit-encrusted ET on Gaame Gavel, claiming to be a "landfill replica." Oh well, at least they weren't lying about it. Here's the real kicker: they wanted a million dollars opening bid, and low and behold, there is a bidding frenzy. Current bid: 999 million! Trolls will be trolls... :ponder:

     

    http://www.gamegavel.com/item.cgi?show_item=0000940332

     

    I took the description as more of a joke than anything.

     

    I'm not any kind of expert (nor even that smart), but it seems strange that a company would simply bury so much stock to make room, or even if it wasn't selling. It would be one of the first times I have ever really heard of a company just throwing out that much of any product because it was overstocked, warehouse needed emptying, etc. To me it seems there's more to the story that we may never know.

  11. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    This definitely needs to be pinned!!! Great post!!!!

     

    I would add one more thing though...

     

    If you plan to ignore the rules of this thread, or scam anyone on AA, I hope you are prepared to get Shatnered!!!!!

     

    ***click to animate :-D

     

    attachicon.gifMC SHatner.gif

     

    You simply do not want the Shatner door-kicking your home at 2AM demanding to know why you scammed us hapless folks on Atari Age. It will end in tears for everyone!

     

    (I don't know whose in charge of pinning things, and I hardly want to ask for my own topic to be pinned, but this could be useful to at least direct people to so we don't have to answer the same question a hundred times every day.)

     

     

    This has been said above already but it needs to be said again: ENOUGH WITH THE OFF-SITE SPREADSHEETS!!!!! STOP MAKING ME GO TO GOOGLE DOCS!!!!

     

    Especially for Vectrex items- you could have a CIB Mr. Boston for only $50 shipped but if it's on some frickin Google Docs spreadsheet I'm not even going to bother looking or inquiring. Just take the extra few seconds to post a list of what ya've got!

     

    I saw a spreadsheet recently in a sale post, and it did remind me of how irritating and awkward they are to browse. Not a good selling tool!

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    This just seems like a really random way to collect things. I mean, you would have an assortment of everything from source code to business records to random bits of software to, undobutedly, p0rn. You have already mentioned about personal information, but copyright (and not just on software) is also an issue.

     

    It would be very difficult to organize this mass of material in a way that things would be easily findable. There is also the issue that would anyone want to access this type of material. To give an example from my own collection, somewhere on disk I have copies of (almost) every paper that I wrote during my undergraduate degree. Is anyone interested in my analysis of the bauxite industry in Jamacia, ca. 1990? how about the role of minor political parties in National government in France and England (ca. 1992)? I very highly doubt it.

     

    3,000 years ago no one imagined the pot sitting on the shelf in their home would be worth anything. Now archaeologists hunt for such artifacts and seek to catalog them. Or the woman who recorded thousands of news broadcasts over several decades. What people think in the present has no value, does not mean in the future it will continue to have no value.

     

    I already have sketched out a few ideas for organizing data that spans many types and genres. I believe there is a system that can be worked out to make sense of the data.

     

    Of course, there are issues of copyright and such. That is something that I am still considering.

     

    This topic is more of a discussion than a statement of intention to pursue such a project. Naturally there would be much data that is either inappropriate to archive (porn for instance). But I think there could still be valuable data to save for future generations. You don't know for sure that something as innocuous as a school report would mean nothing 100, 500, even a thousand years from now. Who knows what the world will look like then, and who can know what data will have been preserved and studied when we're all brains floating in jars ;)

     

    Perhaps this project is better in theory than practice, and if that's the case then that is okay! It's just me musing (sort of) out loud.

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  14. Posted

    Not sure why you say that. Star Wars licensed hundreds of products. This illustration is not directly for a movie or the action figure line up. To most Star Wars collectors this is no more important than the original painting to a Star Wars themed coloring book or a happy meal.

     

    It is however, directly related to what Atari collectors collect which is Atari cartridges.

     

    Consider this. He posted on the Star Wars forums first and those die hard Star Wars collectors sent him over here.

     

    Well I'm not an expert, I was just musing out loud I suppose

  15. Posted

     

    I was at VCF East a couple weeks ago and saw a presentation by Jason Scott about the Internet Archive. He is actively working on the software preservation part of the Archive but also spoke about the project in general. One of the big things he emphasized was not to worry about whether you think something would be useful to the Archive or not, just give it to them and people will can worry about the value of it later. So I think the Internet Archive would be a good place for this sort of data.

     

    So they would have use for a project like this? If so it would be an interesting thing to take on I think, but I imagine my biggest challenge would be just getting my hands on the floppy disks.

  16. Posted

    Hey folks,

     

     

    Anyone have one of those USB floppy drives they'd be interested in parting with? I'm transferring files from floppies, and I have an old HP machine that I've been using but the floppy drive seems to be fixing to die, and it would be much more simple to have the files on my main machine instead of transferring them to my old machine, then to my new one. I know I can get them on eBay and such, but I like to buy from members here sooner than strangers on eBay.

     

  17. Posted

    Recently I got about 25 floppy disks from a friend who said he found them in his grandfathers basement, who had recently passed away. My friend asked if I could pull any data from them and save it, which I did. What I ended up finding was really interesting, there was old software, archives of short stories his grandfather had written, a few games, his grandfather even had lots of letters that he had typed up from the handwritten ones he had sent his wife when they were dating almost 60 years ago. Really awesome stuff, and it kind of bit me with a bug to keep finding these floppy disks and save the data from being destroyed. Who knows what some of those old floppies may contain! I'm interested in saving and archiving the interesting data on the disks so it doesn't get lost forever.

     

    Now obviously there are a few challenges for this. Firstly, personal data. Some people may be concerned over what may be on old floppy disks, and to that I can only say that any personal data such as financial information, sensitive data, etc would be destroyed and not saved into the archive.

     

    The second challenge is simply getting the floppy disks. As I would quickly run out of money to pay for the floppies, they would be more on a donation basis, I would pay the shipping to get the floppies here. If the sender was interested in the information from the floppy disks, I would make a download archive available to them, or send them a CD with the data for a very slight fee to cover the CD cost.

     

    The goal of this project would to save data and make it available to everyone in a web-based archive. I'm not interested in stealing anything, making money, etc. As floppy disks physically degrade we're losing our chances to save bits of history from being lots, and that to me is a shame. I don't know if I necessarily am even able to handle a project like this, but I would be very interested in trying.

     

    Which is where I would need help. Primarily it would be needing help simply with acquiring floppy disks. Whether you guys know of people that have old ones, see them at thrift shops or garage sales, or even have them in your own homes, I would need help simply acquiring the actual disks.

     

    That leads me to my ultimate question: do you guys think a project like this would be worth it? Or do the Internet Archives negate this as a foolish idea? Their projects seem focused only on the actual software, as opposed to whatever other files may be stashed on floppy disks (user written programs, art, etc), whereas I'm interested in preserving whatever may be on the floppy disks. To me I think it could be a useful, cool project to save floppies before they vanish forever. Then again, it could be a very dumb idea and I simply am blind.

     

    What do you guys think?

  21. Posted

    I can still do just about all my daily computing from my old Amiga A1200, I love the OS and much prefer the keyboard to anything else I've typed on. Chatting on IRC, browsing my favourite websites, listening to streaming online radio, viewing my Twitter feed, using a package manager to keep my system updated, while logged into my favourite online game, Dynamite! I could also run my word processor and print from my Amiga too if I wanted.

     

    That's just awesome, I love it! I don't like to casually toss out definitive's, but I have to say you're probably one of a very few using hardware that old as your daily machine.

     

    Also, when I clicked the picture to make it larger, I noticed the cat and pissed myself for a moment.

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  22. Posted · Edited by TPA5

    I think it looks cool, actually. He states in the Kickstarter description that he is trying his best to contact the various publishers and get their permission, but like he said due to the age lots of them have simply vanished without a trace. Personally, I like the idea of a truly retro art coffee-table book.

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