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  2. Posted

    Congrats!

     

    If you need to invert colors on the CoCo 3, hold ALT and press Reset.

    http://www.blitter.com/~nebulous/coco.html

     

    As for the CoCo 2, you might end up having to press reset 5 or 6 times before it switches colors (luck of the draw).

     

    The bulk of the CoCo 2 software out there is 32K, so no rush on adding more RAM to it (plus, BASIC only accesses 32K anyway).

     

     

    If you can find them, try to locate an adapter to allow you to use DB9 joysticks (like the classic Atari stick) on the CoCo. There were a number of brands available back in the day. And if you're tech-savvy, it's apparently really easy to just make your own adapter. I had one custom made, and the guy that did it said it was simple to do.

     

    Not sure about high scores on Sailor Man. Is the diskette write-protected?

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    I am now the proud (semi-proud? scared?) owner of a huge storage closet filled with Apple II stuff. What I've found so far:

    Two Apple II+s

    One Apple IIc+ WITH the Apple LCD display and original carry bag. The LCD is dim but shockingly still works fine.

    Six Apple IIgses

    Two Imagewriters and one Olympus dot-matrix printer with an Apple serial port (anyone have some continuous feed paper and a ribbon refurbishing kit?).

    A disassembled Mac Plus with two analog boards marked "bad" (guess the previous owner didn't dare replace board components?)

    Loads of RGB and tiny adorable monochrome Apple monitors

    Mice, keyboards, cables, expansion cards, and lots more I haven't yet been able to sort out.

     

    I imagine there are lots of rotten caps and otherwise inoperable machines in there, but my plan is to fix them all, or as many as possible, and return full systems to operation. I'll be popping in here a lot to chart my progress and ask questions, there's lots of stuff in there I can't identify and it'll take months to sort it all out. Just wanted to introduce myself!

     

    You might be surprised at just how much of it still works fine. Those machines are actually really rugged.

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    Thanks very much for creating a document for this. I read the entire thing.

     

    But because my brain is too feeble to understand all of it, I guess I need an example for my particular case.

     

    I have a 128K CoCo 3, a disk drive, and the CoCo Flash unit.

     

    Sadly, I don't have DriveWire and I also don't have a Y-cable or a MultiPak.

     

    How would I add two 32K games to the flash unit. For example Cashman and Time Bandit (you could pick any two 32K .bin files for your example).

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    Why?, are we not supposed to express our opinion, what has this anything to do with the hunting season. The web is full of vendor reviews and not all of them are glorifying, that's life and we have to accept it as is, otherwise if one's skin is too thin, they shouldn't be in business in the first place. Funny thing is, it is not the vendor who is objecting to criticism, it is the "other" people who have no financial, business, or legal ties to him :)

    Your statement is a pretty strange one. First, why should the vendor be expected to give an answer to your impatient and unrealistic attitude to a niche hobby business? Do you actually think he's just raking in the cash and has tons of money to hire support staff? And the idea that people who have no financial, business, or legal ties to him being supporters of his work is totally normal. They're called customers.

     

    Satisfied customers.

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    if i have business, i taking care about my customers = communication, ordering, etc, etc, etc..

     

    is year 2017, not 1971.. in 1971 if someone have business, job, family and no time for business, it was ok.. but no in 2017.

     

    if i dont have time for my business - i close it.. huh?

     

    this is critique, not trolling.. i dont critique to you:)

     

    Well if that was the golden rule of business, then that would cancel out three-quarters of the homebrew/retro-hardware business out there.

     

    Is that what you want?

     

    This is a 'hobby' for people with a certain amount of patience.

     

    Perhaps a dose of realism is required when critiquing people who make stuff like the AtariMax products. Have you sat down and done the calculations for how much product a person would have to manufacture and sell to just barely pay the bills and have you considered the size of the customer-base? This is a niche market so you're lucky to even have products like this available at all.

     

    Speaking from my own experience as a customer, the AtariMax cartridges revolutionized the way I use my Atari 800 and 800XL machines. I use it very often and I'm certainly glad it exists.

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    For years now I've been hoping to see a series like this for various retro computing platforms (Atari 800, Apple II, TRS-80 Model III, Fujitsu FM7, C64, VIC-20, Atari ST, TI-99, SG-3000, X68000, Acorn, BBC Micro, Color Computer, PC-88, Spectrum, Adam, etc...).

     

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOT5j3ELi5BaSrb24fJEKvTqlRK4fg9wS

     

    In this case, it's for the Amiga.

     

     

    If others decide to make YouTube tutorial series' like this, please let me know. There are a bunch of platforms that I'd like to learn.

     

    And if someone can recommend a free video screen-capture utility that is Windows Vista compatible (and doesn't contain viruses), I may actually do more of these. Oh, and maybe an app that can add captions since YouTube is no longer offering annotation and captioning services as part of their site tools.

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  18. Posted

    Try to find the 1.5GHz model. It is tricky because it was labeled a 1.42GHz unit. It was a "silent" upgrade by Apple, but it adds significant upgrades. Namely the faster 1.5GHz PPC and 64MB of video ram (as opposed to the 32MB in previous models):

     

    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac_mini_g4_1.5.html

     

     

    I found mine for $50 :) I would say this model would give you the best experience in a Mini for MorphOS...it does for me :)

     

     

    Until I can get a video review together, check out Dan Wood's review which pretty much touches on all of it:

     

     

    Wow!

     

    Pretty phenomenal.

     

    There are apps in MorphOS that do the kinds of things that I've been nagging M$ for over 20 years to include in Windows. Things like being able to click on a DLL and see all the apps that use it.

     

    Amazing to see that some of the old Amiga productivity apps run natively inside MorphOS.

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  19. Posted

    Should also point out that the seller tried to make me send the thousand pieces back and he would consider a refund, I told him thats not acceptable, he escalated it to ebay and they refunded me in full within 10 minutes..... so that was at least something. Really hoping I can get some life out of this....

     

    I'm glad you got a refund.

     

    The seller sounds like a real schmuck.

  25. Posted

    The closest thing I can think of that happened to me was when I purchased a physical modeling synthesizer from eBay and had it shipped by UPS.

     

    UPS left it on-end at my door in the middle of the winter and didn't bother to ring the doorbell or notify me that it was there. From what I could tell, it looked like they must have slammed it down onto the ground pretty hard because when I opened the box the end of the board that was on the ground was shattered with a nice crack extending up toward the LCD screen.

     

    Having said that, I've never seen anything so thoroughly destroyed in transit as that poor STE.

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