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  1. Posted

    13 hours ago, retroillucid said:

    I can tell you this
    If CollectorVision get this game, we'll make the rom file available to all the CV fans just like all other prototypes we got  :)

    This thing is going to go for a goddamn fortune.  I sure hope you get it but I can't imagine you could ever make a profit if you did.

    Amazing!

  4. Posted

    I am surprised no one has yet replied to your generous offer.  I am a long-time ColecoVision (got mine in a deal Coleco ran whereby you could get a Cabbage Patch doll - which were hot at the time - IF you bought a ColecoVision.  My sister wanted a cabbage patch doll and this is how my parents accomplished it, probably in 1984?  Maybe even 1983).  

     

    My Mom also eventually got a Coleco ADAM, which was our family's first computer, and which I still have and use as my ColecoVision.

     

    I don't necessarily have a lot of questions - others on here have more knowledge about what needs to be / should be asked - but your grandfather did great work being involved in the development of this product, that much I can say!

  5. Posted

    On 12/25/2020 at 10:37 PM, christo930 said:

    I'm in Philly.  I got my printer from a little computer shop called "Some Hole in the Wall" which was in NE Philly.

    WOW, August of 94 for a Commodore printer is LATE.  I somehow ended up getting a Software Hut catalog and it wasn't really that far from what I recall, somewhere around Chester.  They were still around and still selling Amiga 1200s when I bought my 1200, which I ended up getting used on EBAY sometime around 2000.  I think it was a special kit with some included software for $199. But I found a 1200 with an 030, expanded RAM, SCSI and a SCSI CD for slightly less money.  Software Hut was around selling commodore games for a long time. They were big in Amiga though.

    You sent me down memory lane with your post.  When I got my Commodore 64 , which I got from a former Commodore employee I might add, one of the things that I got with it was Volume 4 of the Commodore Buyer's Guide, which I still have - and in the back of which I scratched down the directions to Software Hut, from when I called them to see if they had the printer in stock.  My mom took me.  It was right down by the Philly airport: 313 Henderson Drive, Sharon Hill PA 19079 to be exact.  Have their old phone number too.

     

    Thinking about that and seeing if I could find the place on Google maps again led me to this website, which chronicles the trip two guys took there to fix a Commodore Amiga 4000T:

     

    "Software Hunt" (nightvzn.net)

     

    Also led me to read this old article about the "return" of the Amiga in 2000:

     

    THE RETURN OF AMIGA - Chicago Tribune

     

    Nice to see there are still Commodore folks in the Philly area since we were the home of Commodore after all (the Bahamas notwithstanding).

  6. Posted

    On 10/26/2020 at 2:18 PM, wolfy62 said:

    Only if you have nothing better to do with $30.k.

    I have that same game shrinkwrapped and in the same condition I am sure,but not graded.

    I cant imagine mine being worth more than $200. US Dollars,just as a guess. 

    I don't know man, He-Man collectors are nuts.  I post on He-Man.org from time to time because I grew up in that era and have some nostalgia for it.  Try throwing yours up with a reserve price you think is crazy (if you want to keep it), say $500, and see what the bidding gets up to.  I would bet a well-written ebay ad would go well over $200 for a sealed version of the game.

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  7. Posted

    On 12/20/2020 at 10:46 PM, christo930 said:

    I have a 1581 drive I bought back around 1991 or2. I think it was $149 (Software Hut. I think it's still around).  Right around the same time I found some Commodore BBSes and was able to fill up disks with games that I didn't even know existed. The great Giana Sisters, Pac Mania, a hack of Great Giana Sisters that was made to look like SMB, Frantic Freddie and a bunch of other games.  I had several disks of games I downloaded from Q-Link. I was with them right up until they went down. Unfortunately, they were kept in my basement and became unreadable.

    I also had a printer, but it wasn't a Commodore printer. It had the interface built in.  I threw it and a lot of other computer stuff  in the trash about 20 years ago. I wish I hadn't done that.

    Where are you from christo?  I got an MPS 1200 printer for my Commodore 64 for my birthday, I believe, in August of 1994 from the Software Hut, my one and only one purchase of original, new-in-the-box equipment from the time (I came to Commodore late in the game).  I was 16 at the time.  At the time I didn't realize what a big deal the Software Hut was in the world of Commodore.  I am from the northern Philly suburbs.

  9. Posted

    23 hours ago, motrucker said:

    I've been using Commodore 8 bit hardware since most of it came out. I have had consistent bad "luck" with the 1084 and it's variants. I  have gotten much better service from the Commodore 1080 monitor with both an Amiga, and the C-128. The 1080 does not have stereo sound output, but that shouldn't be a problem.

    I even prefer the 2002 to the 1084. I generally have much better performance from the 2002, and rarely have any problems.

    The problems I see most on the 1084, are bad flyback, and the on/off switch failing - there are others, but these two seem to happen a lot!

    So, I would recommend changing the monitor you use.

    If you go with the 1902, they work rather well, but be careful of the 1902a - they usually aren't as sharp, and can have problems.

     

     

    Thank you for all of this advice.  I appreciate it; I am taking my time looking into various options.

  14. Posted

    So it looks like my Commodore 1084 monitor is either fried or on its very last legs. I would think of moving away from that particular format, but from what I can read alternatives that provide full service for a 128 are hard to come by and tend to be as expensive. I would really appreciate anyone who could point me in the direction of a working one.

  15. Posted · Edited by mozartpc27

    I will add that of course if I can reliably fix the one that I have that would be fantastic too.  In addition to the one I have (a 1084) that is semi-working, I also have an old 1084S.  That one didn't last long at all after I purchased it, so I took that one to be repaired, but supposedly the issue was a Flyback transformer, and I was basically informed flyback transformers for these monitors were effectively unobtanium.  On that one, the picture cut out and never came back.

     

    On the semi-working one I am now looking to replace, the picture is cutting out, although it comes back - unfortunately the cutting out is becoming more frequent, and the time to come back is taking longer, so I suspect the same issue - a failing flyback transformer.  If you have any expertise/experience with this, does it sound right?  If so, I am not sure what is to be done about a failed/failing flyback.  I still have the other one I could fix, if it were fixable.

     

    I can also add, by way of information, that on the one I have currently that semi-works, the problem is much more pronounced, it seems, if I use the "Wi-Fly" modem, which I have had for a few years now and that was developed by and purchased from a user on another board.  But I am not sure if it is the modem itself or running DesTerm.  When I have the modem plugged in and run DesTerm, it seems the problem is more likely to occur, and it takes longer for the monitor to recover when it does.  For example, this afternoon I used DesTerm briefly, and while it worked during that process the monitor cut out soon after and did not seem to be on its way back, prompting this post.  Now, I have it unplugged, and while the monitor cut out once, it restored itself immediately, and has been stable since.

     

    This follows a pattern I noticed on Thanksgiving, when I tried to use DesTerm and the problem was bad (I was actually attempting to post on this very forum from my 128 but couldn't get the monitor to work long enough to allow it), then later just used GEOS and it was fine.  At that time I do not believe I bothered unplugging the modem, as I have done now.

     

    Could all be a coincidence I suppose, but since the modem is obviously using radio waves, my limited technical knowledge has me wondering about RF shielding and the like.

  16. Posted · Edited by mozartpc27

    So it looks like my Commodore 1084 monitor is either fried or on its very last legs.  I would think of moving away from that particular format, but from what I can read alternatives that provide full service for a 128 are hard to come by and tend to be as expensive.   I would really appreciate anyone who could point me in the direction of a working 1084 or 1902.

  18. Posted

    Game store near me had one for sale last time I was in, over a year ago.  Wonder if they've moved it by now.  Never did inquire as to the price.  Didn't have one as a kid so there is no nostalgia value in it for me, so I would never be able to justify the likely price.

  21. Posted

    On 11/16/2013 at 11:38 PM, Omega-TI said:

    Click on image to get full 6,000 X 4,000 resolution

     

    My Setup.JPG

    This and other posts like it with that hot little framed TI logo have finally inspired me to do something similar, albeit with my Commodore system, since that is the one I have permanently set up (I have a TI system, but only so much room for permanent set ups I am afraid).

     

    Thank you guys!  Even though Commodore is my main jam I continue to see this as the best retro computing board on the net.

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  22. Posted

    Years ago, in 1995-1996, well after the days of the PET, I was a junior in high school, and my high school had a rarely used science lab that had, as I recall, around a dozen PETS sitting on tables, unused, and basically waiting to be tossed.  Even then I was very much into Commodore and I only vaguely knew what they were, since my love had been the 64, and I thought to myself, “You know, those are just sitting there clearly never to be used again.  I should ask for one.”

     

    I was a kiss-ass and very book smart and thus popular with teachers and administrators, and I’ll bet they would have given me one.  But I never did.  A few years later, after I’d graduated, there was a rather serious fire in that portion of the high school, nobody hurt but plenty of property damage.  If they were not tossed by that point they were almost certainly destroyed.

     

    The moral of the story: always ask the question.

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  25. Posted

    3 hours ago, NIAD said:

    There is no big secret to the CV version, just imagine the Intellivision version that was released with improved graphics and sound.
     

    Easy enough to do since you can download the rom image and play on an emulator if you don’t own the Intellivision. And therein lies the hypocrisy of it all, you can download the Inty version from numerous sites all over the Web!

     

    Far too many games available, both legacy and homebrews, on the CV to be concerned about this. If it eventually is shared with the community, great, if not, who cares!

     

     

    As a child of the 80s, my favorite toys were basically ColecoVision, He-Man, Super Powers, Transformers, G.I. Joes.  Having the He-Man game on ColecoVision would be totally rad.  Don't think I need much more reason than that!

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