found an Apple II Plus at work, has issues

[found an Apple II Plus at work, has issues]

good deal

[Mac LC II software and mouse]

sorry had to work last weekend

[ebay and smoking]

anything I bring home gets taken apart and inspected, dirty gross stuff gets a bath, gentile dish soap and hot (not too hot) water for the plastics, and 90% isopropyl with a horsehair brush for the boards

[Static Damage to Data?]

I am sure its possible, big enough zap will leave a small mark on your skin, imagine iron particles

[how do you classify a "bad" console?]

that was a fairly large problem with mostly sony in my experiance CD player back in the early to mid 90's

 

"push here" it says on the corner with the clickly latch, 6 months later of regular use you bent the door a quarter inch out of whack and the disc would clack against that spinny thing on the lid

 

I had a shelf unit stereo, two discmans and a freaking PS1 all do it ... a walkman did it as well, maybe sony just did not have decent ME's at the time

[how do you classify a "bad" console?]

on the same token as the nes slot, how many people played their playstation 1's upside down cause the stupid door warped

[Why was the IBM PC so successful?]

I have a gen 1 pentium 90 laptop with a full ceramic chip inside it, it has a plate of aluminum bonded to it which then uses the back of the keyboard as a spreader, so no they dont need a fan with really well thought out heatsinks ... though it runs hot enough you dont want your lap anywhere near it and has actually left damage in wooden tables along the way (its freakin HOT)

 

first CPU I remember seeing with a heatsink was my parents 486/dx2 66 but no fan

[how do you classify a "bad" console?]

You don't want to play the best version of Road Rash available? You don't want to play the enhanced port of Wing Commander with updated graphics and voice acting? You don't want to play the greatest spacefaring RPG ever (Star Control II)? You don't want to play one of the only real successors to Ballblazer(Battlesport)? You don't want to play any of the many, many excellent PC/Amiga ports? Alone in the Dark? Syndicate? Lemmings? Cannon Fodder, Out of this World?

 

There's actually a decent number of good games on the 3DO. Many of them are ports from other systems, but they're still good games on the 3DO.

 

its funny cause I have or played just about all those games on their original platform

 

You don't want to play the best version of Road Rash available?

Yea I have the same one on PC, much better than any console version (though road rash 3d on PS1 is still pretty fun)

[Can you replace PowerBook display capacitors? I'd like to hire you.]

sort of, I know its a pain to break down the screen and get to all the caps in question, then I cant seem to find a list of values ... which is not good when finding replacements

[Can you replace PowerBook display capacitors? I'd like to hire you.]

labor and shipping are going to be your two most expensive things, I can eventually do it but the bench is booked for an unforseeable future. Here is the scary thing though, what happens if someone goes though all the work of doing that and it does not fix the problem.

[Steam stinks so bad]

Its an arguable point, whats harder, dropping events into Unreal or Unity, or writing machine language for a processor less than 5 years after the CPU on a chip was invented

 

yea the games are much more complex today, but the tools are much easier to use and have had decades of polish

[Xbox One to cost $499]

I dunno, "next gen" games are just current pc games in hd on a console

 

that being said its entirely possible to upgrade to a Xbox 1 level machine for about 500 bucks, but new from scratch not quite yet (not counting display cause the xbone doesnt come with a display)

 

me for instance would run about 200-350 bucks, reusing about 300$ worth of parts already in the box, but I only have a 1280x1024 display so there is not much point in that

 

the wife's i7 machine which can easily excel the proposed xbone specs, was around 800 and that needed everything cept hard disk, dvd rom and power supply so about 150$ reused.

[how do you classify a "bad" console?]

my idea of a bad console is the 3DO, cost a pile of money, controllers are meh and there is not a single game I would actually want to play on it

[Xbox killed the used game]

People need to go read a EULA, because too many if you don't understand what it is that you're paying for. If you buy a chair, then you own that chair. It's yours to do with as you wish. When you go buy a game (or any piece of software), you are buying the right to use it.

 

No I bought the game not just the right to use it, its only AFTER the SALE that it is disclosed to me that it is not the case, that is bait and switch.

[Steam stinks so bad]

I know that on the PC whatever games I acquire today will work 10 years from now just fine. They are mine, and Big Corporation isn't gonna take them away.

 

apparently you missed my rant on having to pass 4 online checks just to start GTA4, and what about all those steam games, you HOPE those validation servers will be up in 10 years from now ... if not your a filthy pirate in the eyes of the publishers

 

I have already been bitten by them, my favorite rant is tiger woods golf for palm pilot, I still own a palm pilot, I still own the CD with keycode, cant activate it, game wont run, havent been able to since 2002 server is gone (less than a year after I bought the stupid thing)

 

so much for "owning it" thanks EA, 40 bucks in the crapper for a game I only got to play 3 times

[Steam stinks so bad]

yea, its not any better over here, its worse cause least on the console side its mostly transparent, I am so sick of being treated like a thief for buying a game, GTA 4 is a good example

 

install from disk, provide CD key, pass suckurom, install social club, log in, game boots, sign in to GFWL, if your internet studders for a second game locks... for a boxed retail copy

 

they have patched out social club and constant internet as a requirement, suckurom is still there and games for windows live, but games for windows live can be patched out with xliveless oops there I am using a third party tool to avoid a login for a single player offline game, if I dont sign in I dont get my save files and if I do it takes sometimes minuets and multiple trys for it to work ... thank you hackers now I dont have to deal with that with anything that wants GFWL logins (fallout 3 is another)

[Steam stinks so bad]

I have 2 games that I bought at retail store that reqire steam, one being a shitty D&D game, which once I install it off of disk wont let me play until I download the 2 something GIG file of the exact same data

 

I really hate this online shit, only bought 1 game from steam, got some free ones from video cards and everything wether its steam, GFWL, Origin wants to constantly NAG NAG NAG

 

its enough to start me pirating just to avoid their BS ... and it kills me that their game is worthless enough to be given away in bulk with a video card but they want me to jump though hoops of fire to play the thing cause its so precious

[Eye on Coleco, But Many Questions]

there's a border around the screen to ensure overscan of crappy tv's available in the 80's would not cut off the edges, think like a C64, if you make them puke green and your main screen is blue it just looks awful

 

make them black

[Xbox killed the used game]

A car is a complex mechanical device that exhibits physical wear, and if you do not buy from a certified dealership the car companies are not raising a fit over every corner lot

 

The car is sold, its none of the makers concern anymore what you do after that (aside from warranty) if you take it back to the dealership for a new one then great, that dealership gets to sell it again and the maker gets a small slice if they are a part of the certfication process. BUT! GM for instance is not installing lock out codes if you buy a used car from some guy in the paper and holding the goods in ransom for a special code rendering the product inoperable.

[The Intellivision prize thread. Post 1000 wins fabulous gifts!]

wut?

[SOLD: Atari 130XE & 1050 Drive for Sale]

what would shipping to the states be without 150$ insurance on a 65$ part? I know most shipping agencies include 100$ insurance directly off the bat, and how are you getting this quote, its a solid state machine that doesnt weigh that much ... you dont have to treat it like a flight recorder

[FS: Macintosh Classic (Have an extra now)]

Wish I coud, I have a dead performa 200 (classic 2 with a different name) and would like to upgrade my B&W from my rev 1 SE, but I have 3 orphened macs at the moment, and its months between the urges to play with one of them ... been over a year for my powermac

 

its a fine looking box, might want to post on macgui, and the comp.sys.mac.vintage usenet group for more exposure

 

also 68kmla.org, those guys will buy just about anything to horde it away

[Insanely great vector game emulator: AAE]

since this was dug back up ... there is more to vector emulation than just a bloom effect on everything. vector displays are drawn in a connect the dots fashion which gives you the other 2/3rd of the effect, one is line wobble as the trace goes from point a to b to c and then there is the dot that it produces when it goes from c back to a

 

that's why your missiles and the corner of the ship get bloomy with the slow delay phosphor and the intermediate points - phosphor traces don't

[Altair 8800 Clone Computer]

Id love to put one of these together but its not in the budget, meantime I have been collecting a bunch of SRAM and a couple cpu's (8088 and a 6809) feeling a homebrew coming along sometime in the future

[Colecovision in FPGA]

one way to do both is to only have the important parts mount in the CV case, and run ribbon to the front connector and joystick ports