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  1. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    hakko, tons of tips, and reasonably priced, even brand new, and a million knock-offs

     

    have not been impressed with weller in a while, they have seriously nice stations... for serious applications like millitary and industry but seriously, 60 bucks for a wood burner on a lamp dimmer?

     

    http://www.jameco.co...10001_146595_-1

     

    I personally have an XYTronic, and its a great soldering tool, and I gave like 45 bucks for it, BUT since place I bought it from seems to have gone under the only place I have found tips for it is jameco, and I frankly dont like jameco cause of past issues with UPS only shipping, or minimum order dollar amounts or face a fee crap... they dont do this now, but the only thing I have ordered from them in 3 years was a couple new tips and a brass sponge

  3. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    its just like any other apple II, cept you get all the most popular cards hardwired in and no expansion ports (video, mouse, serial, disk) ... also there are a ton of games for the II series

     

    if you do get it, do yourself a favor and make sure it has a 5.25 inch drive, there is a //c+ which features an accelerator, and a 3.5 inch drive on board, but 99% of apple software is on 5.25 (you can attach a 5.25 inch drive on any of them)

     

    also keep in mind the 8 bit II series is a pretty primitive system, the video can get pretty high res, and you can do double buffering on it, but its got a low color depth, sound is almost non-existant

     

    its not like pluggin in a commie or atari computer, which were beefed up video game consoles with keyboard

     

    look up apple II games on youtube to see if its something you are interested in, if all your interested in is games ... as a practical computer though its pretty awesome

  6. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    So the 720 will just be a PC in a fancy box?

     

    the last 3 generations of consoles has been a PC in a fancy box

     

    dreamcast and ps2 are arguably the last from the ground up dedicated game machines, Gamepube and XBOX were a powerPC-ATI and Celeron-Geforce, all three last gen were just power pc and video + special OS, this time around they are going back X86 (which honestly MS pick a damn platform, maybe you can have some sort of backwards compatibility)

     

    For decades, arcades showcased the best of the top notch hardware dedicated to gaming, that ended in the late 90's with the death of arcades (again) and the super fast rise in PC horsepower thanks to fierce competition between intel & AMD, ATI & Nvidia & 3dFX

  8. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    Goldeneye or Perfect Dark -- neither, was hard core PC gamer by then

     

    Ocarina of time or Majora's Mask --neither, I dont get into 3d zelda, if I had to pick Majora's Mask, just cause I played it longer so there must be something there

     

    Pokemon Red or Blue -- blue

     

    Tetris or Columns -- Columns

     

    GameBoy or GameGear -- GameGear, battery life may have sucked but at least you could see your games without wrenching into some painful positions to get the light just right

     

    Super Mario bros. or Sonic the hedgehog -- sonic

     

    SNES or Genesis -- GENESIS DOES

     

    Street Fighter or Tekken -- Street Figher

     

    Mario Kart 64 or Crash Team Racing -- Crash

     

    Blast Prossessing or Mode 7 -- draw the faster clock speed and lower color depth meant sega games would haull ass, especially in big number games, but then there's F-Zero and its hard to argue against that

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  10. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    yep ... I have had a lot of good luck with retrobrite as long as your not using the stuff so strong it instantly peels your skin off (that's where a lot of people seem to run into trouble with splotches and whatnot) seal it with some UV protector clear coat and you are good to go (even though things like my mustard yellow IIC has not tanned any faster than it did originally, it has tanned slightly)

     

    and if you regret it, crap man they SOLD nearly 50 million of the things (who knows how many were made), with almost half of that being the USA model, its not like you just sprayed a Van Gogh with 409 and wiped it off with a oily rag

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  11. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    is is mac os 9.2 or X?

     

    there is a pile of stuff that will run on it very well in 9 as its an older OS so theres years of backlog from the entire PPC family ... theres a bunch of stuff for OSX as well but now your reaching upto the multighz G5 era where the original imac's can be a bit lacking in horsepower

     

    course theres not much stopping you from getting them both and multibooting, maybe even toss some linux on it

  13. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    the machine will only draw what current it needs from the power supply ... if the supply can not provide that current it will shut off or burn out ... sometimes in a nasty way. If it provides more, the circuit will consume what it needs and you have a surplus in the supply, which ultimately means less heat at the supply, which is not a bad thing

     

    so unless something is fried and shorted out, its not a power supply problem anyway,

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    I never found that "it just works", and my first job at age 15 was as a pc tech in the "386 is still a pretty darn powerful machine" days

     

    BUT, you could buy random crap and eventually make it work by plugging it in, or fussing with it for hours on end, other companies had a lot more limited selection but it was going to work out of the box at a premium cost...

     

    cheap, powerful, easy

     

    pick 2

     

    for example, after the PC "won" ...I remember back when looking at radio shack papers selling 386 SVGA systems on credit for less than 100 bucks a month, then turning around and looking at a macworld where they were hocking 8 bit greyscale graphics cards for nearly 800$, almost the price of a tandy box (no monitor)

  20. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    Airbuster, not the most technically impressive thing ever on the SG, but a heck of a game that keeps real tight with its arcade parent

     

    course I am a thunder force junkie

     

    edit: maybe a lot less traditional for a SHMUP, target earth.. its really more like super contra as its a side scroller mainly stuck to the ground, but if your a fan of shoot em up its a good assult of constant bullets and oh crap, 3 lives doesnt help either

  22. Posted

    I know on my electronics machine win 7 is snappier and more responsive than XP (notice I did not say faster) course it consumes 4x the resources doing so

     

    just for the record the machine is a athalon II x2 2.5Ghz 4gig ddr2 800mhz ram, IDE disk drive and onboard nvidia 7 series video (which sucks, but I dont need my 9600GT to look at a pdf)

  23. Posted · Edited by Osgeld

    I think they go much easier post 486, less exciting as well, but by then everything was standard, cpu, bus, video, hard drives ... anyone can go out, buy random parts from a store and have it work, no so much in the 386 days when you might have bought a hard drive and needed a new controller card cause it was IDE or RLL and you got a SCSI drive

     

    or you bought a new video card to find out it was not compatible with your practically brand new EGA screen

  25. Posted

    I find myself incredibly angry after reading that, because I know that they are the ones who drive the creation and publication of new games as well as the suppression of games which do not meet their narrow and shallow desires.

     

    I remember when U4 was new, and I didnt think it was that much fun either, to be fair I really never liked any of them

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