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If nobody local takes care of you, let me know. I can ship you one.

That is a great picture! It looks like they are under the bleachers in a gym or something, though. Strange.

The core that is used for MiST (and Turbo Chameleon) is pretty good. It runs at VGA or 15Khz, and seems very compatible... I've played with it a good bit without noticeable problems. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles (by a long shot) of something like Altirra, but it is a nice stand alone solution.

I've never had a softmod fail before like that, but there is another way. You can do the hot-swap method... when you turn on the XBOX, it unlocks the drive. If you leave the drive powered on and swap the IDE cable to a running PC carefully, you can use xboxhdm to rebuild the drive. None of this is an "easy" fix, though. https://xbox-hq.com/html/xbox-tutorials-161.html No reason to get upset about it. An old XBOX isn't worth more than $20. They are cheap and easily found and generally easy to mod, but many of them have problems now after 15 years, so there is risk. The tools are old and take old computers with IDE and CD drives to hack them... They make a really nice box to play old emulators on though. Not so much anymore for watching video because everything is HD and they don't have the horsepower to decode anything above 480p.

Yeah, this stuff is everywhere. It's probably like the story of the Feds getting Al Capone for "tax evasion". This was something else... nobody has 1.2 million in cash selling arcade games, at least not in 2017.

I went to 8th-9th grade in Geneva, OH around 1984-1986 and we had a lab full of TI99/4a's with tape drives. There was also a few machines with PEBs that were reserved for bigger projects. I developed several hi-res drawings using graph paper and remapping the character graphics (things like the school mascot, an Eagle and other characters). I even later went back and added crude animation to them by remapping the bitmaps directly in "real-time" using BASIC.

Because Jack Tramiel stopped the Japanese from taking over the home computer business in America. He identified it, and beat them.

It also looks like the aspect ratio of the label is stretched a little on one vs. the other. It's really odd to compare them. The robot on the right label is "leaning back" more than the left.

The ARM CPUs in the Pi (all of them, although of course newer ones are faster) are really, really slow. (Really). They are designed for power efficiency, not speed. Anything that lets them do modern things (play back video, audio) is done by only with GPU assistance. So, if you are not using the GPU functions to draw your screen, it will be miserably slow. It can be compared maybe to an early 2000's CPUs... so almost 20 years behind in raw speed. https://www.jwhitham.org/2015/04/relative-speed-of-raspberry-pi-pi-2-and.html Think somewhere between 20-30 times slower than even a 2007 Core 2 Duo, or more. From the FAQ ... "Overall real world performance is something like a 300MHz Pentium 2" but I think even that is being generous.

Yes, with an adapter for your NES Everdrive, or just a Famicom Everdrive, and an AV mod, it's a nice setup. There are some jailbars sometimes, but you can mod that away also at the expense of removing a little clarity to the picture (it's a trade-off). The controller cord *is* short and they come out the back of the console (it's a dumb design). You can remove the controller connections and add NES replacement ends to them and use the adapter mentioned above, or you could use NES controllers if you prefer.

Apple lied in their marketing? Say it ain't so... They are infamous for it. Look at all the ads saying they were the "#1 Computer" and such nonsense in the late 70's. They never were the top seller, never.

Cool idea... Laser Blast hack for Intellivision.

Not enough power, for openers. Atari won't run reliably on only 7.5v, even stock with no add-ons.

The best way is to find a beat-up II+ and use the keyboard...

If you end up stuck with it, I have some IIgs motherboards. You could clean up the case and use one as long as the power supply is OK.

I don't remember anyone saying "tapes" or "cartridges". They were always "games".

Don't bother trying to go through eBay to handle this. What you CAN do is buy one and then file a mail fraud form with USPS. This would be a real crime, and one or two of these will end his reign quickly. https://about.usps.com/forms/ps8165.pdf "Misrepresentation of product or service"

I tried to run my 800xl with a BASIC cartridge and it doesn't work properly. I had a bad BASIC ROM that I removed. Eventually I had to just replace it with a rewired EPROM. It seems to work, you can get to READY prompt and all from cold boot, but a lot of things break or act funny...

I tried searching and could not find "street pricing" for the Apple IIe/IIc in 1984 (or any year). I tried looking for ComputerLand ads. I don't know if they were able to be sold mail order in places like Computer Shopper. I think only Apple dealers could sell them, and they were bound to sell for MSRP. If you can find something solid other than hearsay, it would be great. It's easy to find pricing for Commodore and Atari, since there were sold in retail stores.

The C64 was only $595 for about the first few months. By mid-83, it was $295, by late 1983- $219, and in 1984 they were below $199. The disk drives were $199-249, and most people didn't need/use the monitor. So a whole C64 setup was less than $500 and the cheapest Apple was $1295... That's why there are at least 17 million C64's out there in the US, and only less than 5 million Apple II's that started selling 5 years before the 64 (and most of those were thrown away by the schools that bought them many years later). Anyway, it is a nice computer for the late 1970's but it remained too expensive for the average family to own one. It made no sense compared to the other options.

Ah... I got fooled by it.

I've never seen this case design before. What is this?

Since this has come up so many times, I would think he would want to perform this record again to show it is possible. If it was only possible on a pre-release at the game show, but not on the released version, it should not stand as a record. Since there are so many people at 5.61, it's most likely that 5.51 is either a typo and/or a blurry screenshot. And the ones shown to be impossible (Fathom?) should be removed. It could be it was a pre-release version of the game.

Nice find!

They leak. They all leak eventually. Cut it off... who even cares if it knows the time/date. https://www.google.com/search?q=iigs+battery+leak&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYuZXdk_fUAhUEMyYKHemRB7UQ_AUIDCgD&biw=1536&bih=853&dpr=1.25