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Me too on the regular list. Thanks!

Profits. The C128 cost about the same to manufacture as an Amiga 500 but sold for much less, thus generating less profit. The 64C by that time was cheap enough to make that even at its lower selling price it made more money than the 128. Commodore was also simplifying its product line due to limited resources. If you wanted an 8bit games machine, you could buy a 64, if you wanted 16 bits and better productivity, you bought an Amiga or PC-clone. Not much software of any type was being produced for the 128. Having said all that, I love my 128 and consider it the best 8bit machine ever made.

That's a purty one! You've been looking for a PET for a while, haven't you?

Wow,that one rings a bell but a quick google/ebay search turned up nothing. Got any pictures?

BITD, my C64 setup was pretty basic: C64, 1541, 1701, repurposed Atari joystick, and Star Micronics printer w/ cardco interface. Now, however, I've got tons of oddball stuff.

Very cool. The skills of demo coders always wow me.

I've heard the story differently, that the Arcadia was one of several systems based on, and licensed from, a Philips design. Some quick searching turned up this ( in the 'History' section) http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=arcadia I always found the system's murky origins to be one of its more fascinating aspects.

I see the auction is still up. Guess they're not paying attention.

I'll take one, purple please with Pokey&YM. If for some reason purple not available, red's fine.

That is a beautiful collection, and must have been a real pain to acquire. How many of the 43+ console variations do you own?

I'd say print buffers were fairly successful in the 8-bit business market, though maybe not so much for home use. We used to lug Kaypros around at work as portable data loggers, and the buffers were very useful as they allowed us to send a report to the printer then get on with making data backups or whatever else we needed the Kaypro for without waiting for a 20-page report to come out of the very slow dot matrix printer.

None of these existed when I was a kid. Stoopid poll

Very Nice! What does the CMD CONSOLE cart do?

See post 3503 above for how to check your spot on the retroHQ list, which is what I was referring to. Not sure how to check position on the AA list, but as I said, I'm not worrying about it.

I'm pretty far down the list but am content to wait for AA to start selling them. I am curious, though, about roughly how many of these have been sold or pre-ordered, if you don't mind saying?

The Digital Press rarity guide I was using back in the late 90s gave Sears picture Adventure an R4, and I know I found my copy in the wild at some thrift store or garage sale. In fact, I found all the Sears variants (except Superman) in the wild, so I doubt that any of them would rate above an R6 (I hardly ever found anything rated higher than R6). Not sure why there are so few showing up online. Maybe because collecting these label variants is too much of a niche to draw sellers out. They tend to use sites like pricecharting, which doesn't track A2600 label variants, or gamevaluenow, which does but lumps all Sears variants into one number, to determine if what they have is worth selling.

Nice! That's the only Sears variant I'm missing.

Do you have Superman? The Sears picture version of that is quite rare.

So is selling counterfeit goods, but they have no interest in enforcing rules that cut into their profits.

Interestingly, this somewhat contradicts what I'm hearing. All Goodwills, and other thrift stores, are still closed in my area but some donation sites are open. A story in the newspaper said that those donation stations were being overwhelmed as many people have been using the lockdown time to clean out closets and garages. Goodwill sells most of its games online, but other thrifts don't so I'm hoping for a surge of stuff to eventually make it onto the shelves once the stores reopen.

Local pickup only. Probably wants to be paid in cash, too.

Where's the Synergy?

I've picked up, on occasion and when free/cheap, boxes for systems I didn't yet own. Having the boxes gave me incentive to find the matching systems.

I don't see a 4K module in your set. Part of the upcoming hardware photos?

I'm not close. Have 12 of the carts (plus the two RAM expanders), only half of them boxed, and none of the cassettes. As I don't use ebay, I'm not likely to get any closer so I'll just have to be satisfied with my AquariCart.