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I had a buddy back when we were kids that would salivate over my Genesis, so I would bring it with me many times for sleepovers, He had a game gear ... which had to be teathered to the wall when we would go on our all night marathons ... and a old tv in his room, never understood why he choose the GG cause I never saw him outside the house with it

the sidewinder gamepad is really good for sega gen and snes (and just about anything older), though mine is a old gameport model and not USB, my current computer does not have gameport so it sits in a box, so keep an eye out for that if looking for one good news is they made the USB model for far longer than the gameport model

been playing shining force half the night getting my arse whooped, game was easier back in the day ...

how bout switching over to wireless, my xbox1 logitech wireless controller works on the other side of the apartment? also ps2 is sync serial up until it hits your converter box, which is in essence acting like a repeater, so get a extention to it, letting it sit somewhere in the middle then use playstation extenders to the end goal

at a glance it just looks like a normal vga monitor, so you will need some form of conversion from pal to VGA

same here, by the time computers hit my schools it was all apple II+'s and 64's ... my mothers workpace at the time still had some tandy model 3's around... but I never even saw a pet until the early 90's in a thift shop computers just moved so darn fast in the mid 70's till the early 90's, roll the dice on which platform you were exposed to here it was almost exclusive to apple's and 64's (a 128 would pop up now and then), other places it may have been tandy land, etc, just in the US ... get outside the states and it turns into a confetti storm

that's not the point, your wimote doesnt have a cord going 6 inches away from the wall anyway to function while having to shove in batteries

I arranged a deal with Scooter83 for an Atari CX85 numeric keypad, sold as is for the cost I got it for here + shipping (which was less than I paid for shipping) Over a week later I asked if he still wanted it, which he did and pay pal-ed me the money, shortly after he posted a couple DEAD NES machines, I wanted one, and offered to send him the CX85 and refund the money via paypal if he would rip one apart and send me the motherboard, offer accepted. 20 days later, after asking if he ever shipped it, I got a USPS tracking number in return claiming that he needed money to ship it, though I paid for shipping + a little bit more ... headed 600 miles south of where I lived, in the same PM chain that contained my address. 3-4 days later I got a confused PM from another member asking if this was my stuff, and though at this point I count it as a loss, they offered to mail it to me from their house ... so yea, a deal that took almost a month to get out the door gets sent to someone not expecting anything at the wrong address 2 states away great patience and good luck to anyone who happens to deal with Scooter83

unless you got a screen in that thing you are paying for the power I got a dozen 6 volt 1 amp supplies for like a buck each on sale retail, now add in the low drop out regulator and the shockley diode so devices can run 5 volts with like 200mv head room and your talking ~ about 3 dollars worth of effort total over a grand total of 10 units, now scale that cost to 1,000,000 units ... your talking cents now how many quads of AA batteries have you shoved into that thing that has to be plugged into something anyway? my thinking is that, if the stupid thing has a cord, they are screwing you out of battery money, cause its that darn cheap for them to do it right the option is nice, the super joy III is a good example, runs off batteries, and has a single cable going out which breaks off to connectors, one being a power jack

printer / modem, whatever it is it looks serial and homebrew, or at least very small shop made

for an apple expert you should know your chip count is off by a 1/3, course you didnt even notice diodes on the main board after 30+ years so your opinion is questionable

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it depends, when your churning out cheap as possible in taiwan, you can expect some level of crap factor, that being said some of those poorly made machines still go strong power supplies puke out from age from any machine, but apple's seem to have very robust components, the most susceptible being caps, and its hard to argue with welded seam / lead caps that still work 30 years after the fact if they have no been exposed to abuse. any other machine I usually dive in with a iron and a digikey order weather they function or not due to the fact that that everything is nice n puffy, whereas I pulled a 86 mac SE face down in a mud puddle and other than a broken floppy disk works fine

the pet was a terminal that had enough brains to act as a computer, other than historic fact and ciroisty I have never felt the need to own one, though they were plentiful in the 90's

yea its valid, most of your systems have a common ground plane anyway, where it gets messy is when you have mixed power supplies or an especially noisy ground (like in a car). See ground is not zero volts, its the lowest point in reference to the circuit, so if you measure ground and +5 volts in your system its 0-5, but if you do that in reference to true earth it may be 0-6 or whatever. Ideally if you have everything nice and steady you want to connect grounds together so if ground A is 0.100 mv above ground B they will both reference to the same point, but if you have a situation where analog ground is 200mv above digital ground, then you have a earth chassis ground and you start mixing them it could take the 200mv from one ground and backfeed it to another ground that's less causing a loop

drop about 25 bucks off of it and include shipping I might be interested (coughloballcough)

yes that is a common failure caused by dead caps, and there are plenty here that can fix it including myself, though I dont generally keep recap "kits" around so someone who might be sitting on one and has more spare time might offer to do it cheaper and faster than what I would tell you ... entertain offers

I can help you with that problem

well I did my own softmod back in 2007 with a 250 gig WD drive, so I am good there, but what I want to do is be able to change drives without dealing with the whole lock / unlock crap and hoping a software boink on the disk causes me headache + I have another box sitting around I would like to do and get rid of and there is a fellow member selling Xecuter chips for a little under retail cost

I have a soft modded xbox and seriously considering chipping it, what advantages does a soft mod have today outside of labor just wondering, as I am trying to make an informed choice

on the Xecuter, is that 25 shipped and would you take 20 shipped?

http://www.mechanics...00_p_23396.html course it doesnt have a handle, but you can get those for like a buck at nearly any value store, being a standard quarter inch hex shaft

TMNT arcade game

that is your standard issue 76 in one game list on just about every famiclone for a list and what the games really are ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Player_Super_Joy_III#List_of_built-in_games ie Aladdin III = Magic Carpet, and TEKKEN is actually Karateka

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