OldAtarian

Is English your first language? mPlayer REQUIRES a 68030 or faster processor. That leaves out all ST, STe, and Mega machines, in other words, most of the TOS compatibles in existence. Your assertion that you could possibly be running it on a standard STe is BULL. It's funny how you think an 8mhz CPU is actually capable of decoding video on the fly. I had a DVD decoder card in my 80mhz 486 machine because it couldn't do video on it's own and that's a helluva lot faster than an 8mhz ST. "It requieres a 68030 (mini) and a 256 colors display: * TT and Falcon with or without a graphic card. * machines running Aranym with a 15 bits display mini. * clones as the Hades or Milan." I think the author of the program knows what it runs on and what it doesn't run on.

Then I leave myself exposed to snipers. If an item worth $500 only has bids to $400 and I drop my second bid then the snipers will zoom in at the last second. I leave myself a $100 cushion against at least some of the snipers if they know they have to beat $500 instead of $400. I may be in there sniping a bid higher than my max myself if it's something I want badly enough to overpay for. A once a decade buying opportunity is definitely worth being in there fighting for no matter what it costs.

Ummmm...the year? 1984! The video game crash was in full swing! Who the hell was going to be stupid enough to get into selling games in 1984? In 1984 I was buying games retail for 25-50 cents each. The stores couldn't get rid of them fast enough. Why would you pay their prices for them and why would anyone want to buy them from you?

The last Mac OS X to include PowerPC support was Leopard ( 10.5.8 ), which is still quite relevant. Snow Leopard (10.6.x) is the first Mac OS X that is Intel-only. Considering that Apple is still shipping some software that supports Macs back to 10.4 (the 2004-2007 era OS), I would expect that the PowerPCs will be relevant until around the Mac OS X 10.8 timeframe. FWIW, I have a Dual 1GHz PowerPC G4 tower (from 2002) that's still in use. Apple isn't supporting PowerPC anymore. Any software they ship that still runs under Tiger only works with Intel. The first Intel machines shipped with 10.4.4 or something like that.

It is easy to hate something that aint good. I do however collect the model that used the switchbox cause I want the good BIOS and 4-ports insted of just 2. I was'nt so hard to modify the 5200 so I will do it over and over again And just why, exactly, "ain't" it good? Keep in mind you'll get thumped if you say it's dangerous.

Who said that?

Exactly my point. Anyone selling anything really rare or valuable is going to be bombarded with side deals. I don't like side deals because I don't like the shadiness of the whole thing. The guy with the Intellivision games got robbed, plain and simple. The side dealer stole value that didn't belong to him by making a lowball offer to end the listing. I'm not doing that. Do you want some sneaky S.O.B. to win the listing or do you want to have fair chance at winning, too? All I am doing is making sure that others at least have a fair chance at winning and making it harder for the sneaky side dealer to take advantage of people. If someone wants to unleash the big guns and outbid me, then fine, that's fair but what the side dealer does is not fair. It's not fair to the seller, it's not fair to the other bidders and it's not fair to ebay.

If I have a bid of $500 in, why should I wait several days for it to be bid up by people who aren't serious in the first place and just looking to get something cheap? Maxing out my own bid keeps the children away and lets the adults get on with things. If you have a $500 bid in, why raise the price to $475 (or whatever amount you have in mind) and end up paying more for an item you possibly could've gotten for $450 (or perhaps much less)? How do you know what amount other people are going to bid? How do you know that anyone else will bid at all? How do you know whether other bidders are "serious" or not? What difference does it really make anyway? In either case, what advantage does artificially raising the price give you? "Scaring off" other bidders? Okay fine, you've scared them off. In doing so, you've also guaranteed that the final price will be at or near your maximum bid, thus ensuring no bargain (for anyone else, but also for you). I can't think of any instance where this 'technique' of yours would be advantageous. It's advantageous when the next item like it won't show up for another 5 years. When was the last time you saw a 1400XL on ebay? I've NEVER seen a complete 1400XL in the 11 years I've been online, only the occasional proto motherboard and I think I've seen maybe 2 of those, and they were in 2000 and 2001 if I remember correctly. That's where the advantage comes in. Bidding it up early discourages a lot of people from competing against me. If someone really thinks that 1400XL proto is worth more than whatever it was I bid on it they are welcome to it, but they aren't going to get it for $5 I can guarantee you that.

That's where they keep the nuclear wessels.

Its simple. The Spectrum was a hell of alot cheaper and so were games yet it played exactly the same games and often did them better too. I owned a Spectrum because it was affordable firstly and secondly because when I played on a C64 I didn't like its horrible muddy graphics. I know, Brits preferred 'bleeding' graphics and grating sound (pulling out your own toenails sounds almost better than sound on a Spectrum. Actually, it's almost more fun pulling out your own toenails than playing on Speccy). Yeah, you're right, the Spectrum was so horrible that's why the Iron Curtain countries chose it as the one to copy instead of the C64 or any of the "better" computers that they could have chosen from. There were dozens of companies making Spectrum clones and they still were at least up until a few years ago. I'm not sure if anyone still makes them now. The Soviet era Spectrum clones have even been starting to show up on ebay in the last few years. C-64 better than Speccy? Oh, c'mon, did you ever have Spectrum? This is a good computer, actually propably the same feeling that 64 and A8 offer! Maybe it keyboard sucks, but this is awesome gaming computer! You totally misunderstood my post. I was sarcastically defending the Spectrum, even though I never owned one. They didn't get much exposure here in the US. The company that distributed the Sinclair computers here (Timex) left the market not long after the color machines were introduced. Color Spectrums are actually quite rare here. I did find a ZX-81 not long ago but I don't have the power supply or anything else that goes with it so I have no means of testing it. Those were actually sold in greater numbers here than the color ones and even they aren't that easy to find anymore.

Back when I had an 8mb machine, you needed 16mb to get anything useful done. You really noticed Windows bloat back then a lot more than you do now. Memory sticks today are huge and cheap, back then they were small and expensive so trying to keep up with the Windows requirements was a total pain. I was always one Windows version behind everyone else because I could never afford to keep up. I also had machines with weird memory configurations like 48megs instead of 64 or 112 megs instead of 128. My first PC that I built didn't even have a hard drive. I used a Syquest 44mb removable drive as a hard drive. I had carts with Windows 3.11 and carts with OS/2 on them.

Wait, they gave the game machine the enhanced cartridge port, but left it off the 64k computer? WTF?

If I have a bid of $500 in, why should I wait several days for it to be bid up by people who aren't serious in the first place and just looking to get something cheap? Maxing out my own bid keeps the children away and lets the adults get on with things.

Wrong. That's not how it works at all. Like I tried explaining earlier, if you had bothered to look, If the bidding is at $100, I can stand up say $500 any time I want to and that's what the bid will be. If anyone wants to better my bid, they are more than welcome to, but most of the people in the room probably won't even try.

I want Red Dead Redemption on Jaguar CD. Who's going to write it?

Looking at some of the sellers recent buys I come to the conclusion that they are either a teenage girl or a very strange teenage boy. eBay Auction -- Item Number: 250724623135 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 260675934943 eBay Auction -- Item Number: 260627109287

Math Grand Prix is one of the rarest CIB Sears titles. $205 is a bit high - I thought it would top out around $150 - but it's in nice shape and rarely shows up in auction. Don't forget about that CIB Sears Checkers eBay Auction -- Item Number: 250730513365 for $186. What about Sears Superman Pic label CIB? Are there any known CIB/NIB? The last time I heard anything about that there weren't more than 3 known at the most. here's a pic of it http://www.atariguide.com/4/404c2-varSm.htm

I definitely agree with this. There's no legal or whatever obligation to tell a seller "hey, that game I just won is worth a million times what I'm paying for it", but there is, in my opinion, a moral one. I've actually had this happen where I informed the seller of their mistake. In the end, they let me have it for the price I paid. I, of course, was keeping it anyway, but I always feel bad for the seller that's uninformed and just trying to make some money and had the potential to make more than they ever dreamed, only to see that shafted by some scum waiting under the surface to convince them to sell for much less with a "deal" that seems incredible on the surface. Ebay is also a special case in that in a true auction, you can actually bid what the item is worth but if there aren't enough bidders to push the price up to that point, you win for less. There's nothing immoral about that, either. Auction has been a legitimate form of trade since ancient times. You made the best offer you could for it, it's not your fault that nobody else bid it up to that point. Shilling What ya gonna do then??? It wouldn't matter. I would have been prepared pay to the high bid price anyway. That's one of the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition, never bid more than you think an item is worth. So the seller has a second account, you bid it up to your high price, or what you think it is worth, and the seller uses the second account to see how far you will go, and you bid it to your max and then stop..Correct? Close, but not quite. The few times I've done it I would make my high bid with my main account then immediately underbid it with my second account to max it out. If anyone bids higher than what I think it's worth, they can have it. If I think something is worth $500 and I don't want to wait around 7 or 10 days for the bids to go that high, I would have no problem putting in a $499.99 bid with a second account. If someone else thinks it's worth more than $500, I walk away. I don't really see what the problem is. Ebay gets paid fees based on a final value of at least $500. If I had not bumped up my bid, it might have ended for a lot less and Ebay would have lost money. It happens in real auction houses all the time where someone jumps the line and makes a crazy high bid for something they want badly enough. If the seller shills me, though, that's a different story. I'd report that in a heartbeat. I might even cancel my bid. If I wanted the item that badly, I would have bid it up myself rather than letting my max bid ride. There's a big difference between me inflating my own bid to scare off the small timers and being shilled by the seller to find out my max bid. What it all boils down to, though, is how badly I want the item whether I bump my own bid or not. I think in over 500 items won, I've done it twice maybe 3 times at the most. I don't do it for items that come up for sale every day, only the rare stuff that might be years before I see another one. If a 1400XL proto or 1090 expansion box came up, I'd do it, but not for most other things. For most other things, I'd make my high bid and let it ride. If I happened to be online at the the time a listing ended, I might even snipe it with no guarantee that I wouldn't be outsniped. I lost one recently where I sniped it at 4 seconds and the bid didn't take because a lot of other people sniped at the same time I did. It's not the same as a side deal because I never collude with the seller in any way, for those items I just make sure the bidding gets high enough early on where most people would have to think twice about how badly they want the item before bidding against me. You make stuff too complicated What's complicated about it? Log in with account A, make high bid. Log in with account B and underbid slightly the max bid from account A so that the high bid rises to the top. Nothing complicated about it at all. And as I said, it is not like I do it for every single listing and it's not collusion with the seller, either, because the seller doesn't even know it's being done. The seller just thinks he got two very high bids that were close to each other. As far as I'm concerned, anyone who would have bid less than that wasn't serious about having the item in the first place or they would have bid more.

Or they host sites that send out a lot of spam.

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Its simple. The Spectrum was a hell of alot cheaper and so were games yet it played exactly the same games and often did them better too. I owned a Spectrum because it was affordable firstly and secondly because when I played on a C64 I didn't like its horrible muddy graphics. I know, Brits preferred 'bleeding' graphics and grating sound (pulling out your own toenails sounds almost better than sound on a Spectrum. Actually, it's almost more fun pulling out your own toenails than playing on Speccy). Yeah, you're right, the Spectrum was so horrible that's why the Iron Curtain countries chose it as the one to copy instead of the C64 or any of the "better" computers that they could have chosen from. There were dozens of companies making Spectrum clones and they still were at least up until a few years ago. I'm not sure if anyone still makes them now. The Soviet era Spectrum clones have even been starting to show up on ebay in the last few years.

3.1x requires a 286, I believe, because it uses protected memory. The 8088/8086 can't do that.

And we all saw how successful that strategy was. They heavily marketed the ST in Europe and it was a hit. They did no marketing in the US, and it was a flop. If I wasn't already a member of the Atari community before the ST was released and didn't know someone who bought one before I did, I probably would have got a PC instead. It really was a bad idea, though, when you consider the fact that the US consumes more goods and services than the next two largest economies combined. Tramiel chose the wrong market to ignore with the ST.

Wasn't the only failure for Microsoft. Like Nintendo with Virtual Boy, Microsoft also had something called "Bob" that was supposed to be some super user friendly OS. It never caught on. No he means Microsoft Bob.

Submarine Commander is rare?