Osgeld

The apple II stayed on the market from 77 to 92, not sure how much more time it would have required

what does the 69th post win?

I have a model M as well, and yea most things have a serial number if the maker gives even the tiniest hoot about quality or warranty

it should work, I have done much worse connecting stereo to mono devices with Y splitters

the MS basic book, for what version?

lol

I dont even have a colecovision (though I did when I was a kid)

well in all fairness they only made a handful, there cant be many of the 30 or so million they made left out there /sarcastic tone

never have warmed up to 6

here's one I did, though complicated since the electronics are inside the VCR head, but its a mouse chip, an IR pair from radio shack, and a pattern printed on paper, and instead of trying to line up tiny little slots it uses reflection Spinner-Jog-Wheel-Inside-of-a-VCR-Head.pdf

good deal

sorry had to work last weekend

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

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

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

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

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

its funny cause I have or played just about all those games on their original platform Yea I have the same one on PC, much better than any console version (though road rash 3d on PS1 is still pretty fun)

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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