AMenard

*** Apple IIe Platinum - Waiting on thegoldenband answer.

*** Amiga 1000 - Waiting on Save2600 for trade

Yeah saw it earlier, but that's way over my spending limit...

Hi, I'm getting rid of some stuff to make space for more stuff :-) In fact I've decided to concentrate on the 8bit world, especially the Atari and TI-99/4a. I don't need 3 PC so I'm getting rid of the XPS 8700 which is still a powerful machine. I replaced the PSU for a 650w because it was sporting an AMD RX Vega for a while. The Colossus card is one of the best, being able to record HD content with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. I've used it to grow my home theater collection since it can capture HD via components which isn't impacted by HDCP. You get it for free. The serial card is especially practical to transfer data to you old computers like the Apple II serie I'll even throw in a BluRay burner to sweeten the deal. I'm sure some of you could use a new PC that can run MAME and othe emulator perfectly all the while serving as a pvr for you cable\satelite service. Combine with Kody and it could serve you games and media for years! Added a few goody to the PC... -- Dell XPS 8700 ( Haswell i5, 16gig of ram, GTX745, DVD burner, BluRay Burner, 1x 128gig SSD, 2x 1tb HDD, Hauppauge Colossus HD capture card, RS232 PCIe interface card PSU upgraded to 650w ) ~ $300 s/h: $40 I would also trade for one of the following (don't be shy, I'm really easy to deal with. I'm not looking for a 1:1 ratio in value): - Original software (cart/cas/dsk) for either TI99/4A or Atari 8bit computer (boxed or not, but with manual if available, but I can lived without) - I'm starting my collection so even common titles are accepted as long as the quantity justify the trade (I'm easy to trade with) - i collect games, utility, applications, languages. Grade B stock is ok - A great time to get rid of your doubles and I'm no flipper, what I get I keep. - OSS Basic XE and OSS Mac/65 carts + discs and manuals for both (not looking for originals, repro are ok but must be tested and working) - I want to code on those machine and for this I need tools. I would also considered a complete Atari Macro Assembler package instead of Mac/65. - Working Epson compatible printer to use with my TI99 and Atari (one that I can still get ribbons for, so any epson mx/fx 80 or similar/clone would be great) and a printer switchbox (A-B). This will help me debug my assembly code. - Working 80 track disk controller + dual FDD TI99/4a PEB compatible kit (two 5¼ or one + a 3½") As they say, two drives is better than one. It could also be an exernal disk drives that daysichain with the drive inside the PEB. - Working Atari 1050 FDD with Happy or 2 "vanilla" 1050 with psu and SIO cables (Also applies to the Happy drive) - Atari **** Paymentis via Paypal. Shipping will be done the next business day or two as I've got to pack it and drive to the post office. Tracking and insurance is included. **** Shipping : If you buy you pay shipping. If you trade, I pay to ship to you and you pay to ship to me which seems fair to me. ***** If you need pictures just ask and I'll post some.

Collecovision cart?

The limitations only became apparent as the games became more complex. It wasn't really that much of a problem in the 8 bits era.

40" was about the max that could fit in a normal door frame, depth wise. Even my old Panasonic Gao 36" would leave me about 1/2" on each side when going through the door while moving. We even had to pass it througn a window once because the front door of my apartement was non standard...

communication over RS232 is a bit on the slow side compared to the way the z80 and the graphic chip dispaly works...

A big thank you to the person who said that I was looking for the PEB on facebook, and to this community as a whole! I wont forget it.

Yeh! He's looking at the shipping options and he'll get back to me for the ammount to pay. I thook the one with rs232, 32k and floppy. Oh, I'm going to have a nice Christmass if this deal comes true.

Waiting to be added to the group. Will ask if he's willing to ship. Quebec city from my home is an 8 hours round trip by car...

I have one of the last CRT that were on sale in my neck of the wood, an Ascent 23" that I've bought at Zellers in 2005 as an upstair TV for watching the news or general TV while eating supper... It has Components/S-Video/Composite/75ohms/Antena input and still works great for classic console except, supposedly, for Lightguns since it's a flat screen tube. It's way to big to be use as a monitor for my classic computers though. I still use my old A1080 for those. I would like to use my new LCD 19" HP monitors but none of the cheap upconverter (rgb & hdmi) that I bought give me a usable picture on them. I also have a quite dirty 1702 that I got with an equally dirty and bad shape C64 that I'm bringing back to life. The 1702 as a non-functional front composite input and its chroma/luma input are so oxidized that they barely take the signals in. The tube seems in good shape though so I may be able to bring it back to full fonctionnality after I finish with the C64 (I'm waiting for the cap for it from digikey).

I believe that the simple reason of why they stick with it is that for the vast majority it just work. And since many of the game studios were in europe, for the home computer side of thing at least, and they were programing for the sinclair, which many used the Kempston interface (Atari joystick standard), then it's what they were used to program for.

That's a nice parody :-)

Like the song says... Waiting is the hardest part...

Take a number... They're backordered and arcadeshopper doesn't know when the next batch is coming in.

My own personal experience regarding the importance of the Adam historically, is that it had almost no impact at all. It got almost no magazine and 3rd parties support compared to its contemporaries for example. And no one tried to compete with it, at least not to the extent of the Apple II/C64/Atari feud. It was also, for me, an ill conceived machine with its dependency on its printer for power and tape drive that could be erased by turning the machine off with a tape in it. It was just another z80 based computer lost in the sea of 6502 based home computers in its market. It may have had a better chance if it had launched and concentrated on the european/asian home market where the z80 was popular and many were developing on it.

I did saw the commercial on TV, but it was on cable and on US stations.

I'll try it. For the price i paid for it I won't lose much, beside I'm doing a recap job on it so I'll remove them first. It'll give me more room to scrub with the tool brush.

The only jag I ever saw back then was in a small computer store in Montreal.

Hi, For those who replace capacitors in classic system, do you replace all the caps or just the electrolitic? Would you also replace the regulators and bridge rectifiers for more modern ones?

I bought a TI99/4a NOS Editor/Assembler cart and manual, sealed. Now I'm looking for either a Mac/65 Atari assembler or Atari Macro Assembler cart and manual. I also want something similar for the C64/128 but I can make do with my final cart 3 for now, i think.

He did notify me before shipping, but it went to my old email adress that I used years ago when I ordered my SIO2Serial for some reason. The important thing is that he does ship your goods to you.

Hi, I've just bought the dirtiest C64 and 1702 I've ever saw. Although both are functionnal, they are in dire need of a bath. The C64 had some kind of spill on it and the power socket was lose inside the case. Luckilly, the spill wasn't acidic and didn't affect the traces and none of the cap leaked but I'm planning a full recap job on this one anyway. My question is: Has anybody cleaned a motherboard by immersing it in isopropyl alcohol? And if you ever did, how much time did you let it dry? Since this model as no socketed chip, it's the only way that I know that would at least reach under those chips.

I recently downloaded a couple of 6502 assembler books from Archive.org Most of the give the corresponding numerical value for each instruction. One of them, the one I got that is more Apple II oriented recommend to learn those value as to make the use of the built in monitor more efficient. Of course, compared to modern CPU, the 6502 assembler has less instructions/values to remember. The last assembler I used was for the 68000 when I was working on my Bsc at the university. But that's a good thing since it feels like I'm learning it for the first time :-)