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    good thing is that it does not sound like anything major is damaged, and its a good lesson for all of us ... even if it seems obious to you, its not

     

    I should have stated to put them back in the same orientation, its obious to anyone who deals with electronics in any level, but BOOM here we go cause its not obious to someone who doesnt mess with electronics, and thats my bad.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    You don't understand. The early reports about the Xbox One suggest that a game store will need to have special software on its computers that can transfer the rights to used games. Here's more about that:

     

    http://www.videogame...les_report.html

     

    They'll give that software to the big retailers- GameStop, Best Buy, and the like- but probably not the smaller businesses, like Joey's Hometown Game Store, or the skeezy pawn shop downtown. Ordinary gamers certainly won't have access to it... but man will it be glorious when some hacker cracks the system and embarrasses Microsoft in the process!

     

    no I perfectly understand they will need software

     

    put a permanent end to smaller game stores. None of them will be able to afford the computers

     

    bzzt wrong, dont play that heartache, computers are so disposable its very common place to fish them out of the dumpster (I rather shockingly do at my apartment complex, most recent being a 2ghz dual core 3gb AMD machine with a blue screen on boot xp install, thats how worthless they are, anything minor and its off to walmart)

     

    even the software wont be all that expensive, your hocking 4.99 used video games that sell to a niche in a 40 - 100 grand a month storefront, not buying your sale

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    yes you can, I did it to a sony watchman, though it takes some poking around, in a nutshell near the LCD screen you want to find the point where it converts the incoming signal to the RGB signal for the LCD, on my sony it was a composite NTSC to RGB converter chip, and since the RF circuits were on daughter boards I just removed them ... audio is just tracing from the speaker back to an amp chip

     

    http://hackaday.com/2011/10/03/hack-a-watchman/

  9. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    its ok it can be fixed (a wire might be able to be soldered on, or a replacement rom to be found or a simple adapter to use a generic rom can be cobbled up)

     

    I would be more than willing to take a crack at it, but its going to be a unforseen number of weeks before I get my plate clear

  16. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    video cable is easy enough, any yellow rca jack cable works

     

    the computer will do a basic power on self test, and there are utilities on disk, but of course to get them on disk you need a functioning computer or have someone send it to you, but if its still not booting it wont help much

     

    you can get replacement ram, but as I stated before, many times if you just take them out and put them back in it will spring to life

  17. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    if you have an 80 column card giving you the ability to display high res graphics, yes, there is the apple II desktop, which is a mac like file launcher and disk manager, or gem which is more like a full OS

     

    to awnser your other question the first apple with a gui was the LISA in 1983, then the mac in 84 the apple II desktop came about in 86 though other mouse applications existed

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    A used market is necessary for a healthy new market. I mean, seriously, how many people buy a new console and nothing but new games?

     

    just about everybody before the late 90's, on occasion you would find a small bin outside of EB with copys of last years sport games, or something in the traders post newspaper, but yea used games? there wasnt a funco and 2 gamestop and a game trader all within a 3 mile radius like there is today

  21. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    The FX-888 is essentially a re-design of the old standby Hakko 936 model, a soldering iron that's ..... The FX-888 uses T18 tips, where the 936 uses 900M tips.

     

    seems that's a no, but you can find just about any style tip in the appropriate size (from hakko)

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