ApolloBoy

Also suggest you start a thread in the forums. Get lots of comments. And offers for your existing hardware too.

@joeatari1 Will do, I currently have it in storage at my parents' place so I'd have to dig it out and look it over. I've done quite a few mods to it including a Unibios install and S-video output. I also replaced the original 270-degree DIN port with a 262-degree one so I could use model 1 Sega Genesis RGB cables with it. 

@Keatah I'll probably start a new thread for this stuff since I have some fairly interesting hardware that I'm willing to let go of. My gameplan at this point is to ditch systems I haven't played in a while and replace them all with a MiSTer setup since it's matured quite a lot in the past few years.

Mister is a good alternative to piles and piles of stuff. MiSTer is the "mame" of FPGA projects.

How can I do it on mine?

@Simius still has some SOPHIA boards for sale if you PM him. The GTIA on the XEGS isn’t socketed though so there’s a fair amount of desoldering to do. I also used an 8-pin mini-DIN as opposed to the DE9 connector that the SOPHIA board comes with since it’s easier to mount.

once you get those fumes in your nose hairs, you'll be smelling that smell for days!  lol

I hate tantalums.

Blackhead!

If you're sitting at a desk or relatively near your screen, gaming on a 13"-20" CRT is ideal IMO.

Cool, what did you get?

Here's the pic I took after laying them out...

I never ditched them either, but I rarely use disks these days. Too slow and unreliable. Mainly I used my drives to dump disks to disk images.

That said, the occasional disk game on the Indus is fun. Particularly ones that require disk swapping.

What you say is true, and I also use them for dumps as well, and with 2 happy 1050's and 2 Indus GT's I can do 4 at a time in syncromesh and ultra speed modes. But especially multi-disk games is what I use them for. If it's a single disk game I generally load an .xex from an SIO or cart device. I do still have some original floppies for some many of the .xex's though, just to use the disk drives a bit more once in a while; because I'm a hardware guy and I get as much joy out of just putting hardware to use as I do the software it loads, (and I don't mind the load times, but I do at least upgrade for fastest tape & floppy drives) And yes, half my hardware hobby time is spent on drive up-keep, but I enjoy it all the same. But I love playing my Atari multi-disk RPG's and Synapse Electronic Novels and Omnitrend's Universe on multiple floppies.

But sooner or later the floppies (and part for the drives disappear) will die and new sources are already scarce, so one day I probably will be converting some floppy drives into more modern equivalents, but keeping the form-factor.