Tuxon86

I also found out that price tends to go up each time a youtuber makes a video about a specific model. Jazzflashcat released a video on a 1200XL recently...

How’s Forth on the Atari anyway? What’s the plus value in learning it over plain assembler, or C?

The top Forth experts seems to hang out in the Ti-99 subforum...

I bought an Epson Actionprinter 4000, a couple of years back, the kind still used by business to print carbon copy bill/invoices. It has dip switches to make it compatible to just about every older epson printers, including the MX/RX serie. I use it with my C64 presently since I don't have a centronic interface for my atari 130xe yet. Will have to find an old centronic switchbox when i do get one...

They work for the normal keys, but the function keys on the C128 are of different length. I fixed my F7/F8 last year and it stick a bit higher than the rest but I can live with it as long as it work.

Hey, this thread has the merit of having me inaugurate my ignore list with its first entry... There’s that at least.

I'll dig it out and get back to you.

I think I’ve got it in the big floppy lot I got this week (950 A8 floppies). Let me know if you need it.

That's what I found out using my cheapo. For Amiga and ST I had good luck with some model of Acer 19" and Asus that do work with both with a simple cable/adaptor via vga.

That, and the fact that this poster introduced the whole IBM bull... in a thread about Commodore and Atari 8 bit... In short he's trolling and flamebaiting.

It didn't... It was the cheap clone market that did that not IBM. If IBM hadn't done a rush job with the 5150 and instead took their time like to produce the closed up, locked down, machine they wanted, the PS serie, history would be quite different. Heck they almost went with Ti for their processors...

Have you considered going with a Retrothink 2X?

Beside, those are the wrong aspect ratio. This is why I didn't get one myself and instead hunted for a 1024x768 (4:3) monitor instead.

Like I said, they used two different internal for that serie, one is compatible the other isn't.

Is that a Dell 2007? There were two model of that one. One that did sync and the other not. That's the problem with Dell, they use different parts on the same model line... The one I got is: ViewEra V151HV 15" Black Monitor Works great in SVideo with both my 130XE and C64

I've found a 15" 4:3 LCD that had composite, svideo & vga input on ebay last year. Brand new, works like a charm. They pop up once in a while on ebay, many are used for security monitoring. I also got a cheap Hier (sp?) 15" LCD TV with composite, VGA, HDMI on order (old discontinued model but NIB) that I'll use with composite only system (NES, A2E, Ti)

Except nobody used it like that back in the day. And that setup cost way more than what the vast majority of people were willing to spend on a home computer. You're comparing two different markets. And lastly, I don't see anything in that demo that couldn't be done on other contemporary machines with similar specs.

And without RS, Apple, Atari and Commodore to demonstrate to IBM that there was a new emerging market in the personnal computers, IBM would have skipped it. The 5150 was a rush job, brillant but reactionary. They goofed in their approach by going with off the shelf and open architecture that was easilly copied. We benefited by it since it gave rise to the cheap clone market, but they tried to go back on that when they introduced the PS/2 line and MCA. None of the four had the finances or brand recognition to compete with IBM either in the business world.

IMHO, I think a big part of the work on the C64 is being done on demo more than games per se these days. Not saying there isn't any here, but the SID is so fun to play with. I had both back in the day side by side as I do now. I did use the C64 more as a game playing machine and the 130XE more as a programming machine since I also had a printer on the Atari and had less trouble with Atari Basic than with the CBM one. This always has been a silly fight to have. They were different and neither was superior to the other in the hand of competant coders. Me, I don't have a team. I enjoy both and I do my best to help preserve them. I'm trying my best to get back into 65xx Assembler and to learn both system the best I can. If I ever publish anything I'll try to support both.

Got my floppies today... here's what about 900 floppies looks like Even got a brand new sealed box of new floppies. The guy threw in one box of manuals, a box of untested joysticks including the infamous "the stick", and a koala pad also untested but with soft and cart. There's also about 5 or 6 carts.

It was a great monitor for the time. Was it the best money could buy, no... And except for the few fortunate to have been born in a rich family, no one bought top of the line color TV of fancy fine pitch monitors for their kids to hook up a C65 or an Atari 8bit. Most of us made do with second hand fuzzy B/W or beat up color TV. The 1702 was way better than what most of us had. The 1080/84 were also great. I used mine up until 2010 to watch TV on in my home office with an old VHS as a tuner.

Bought a +/- 950 A8 floppy disk lot. Will be picking it up this afternoon. I also placed an order for a second Happy from Atarimax for my second 1050. I also bought an sio2pc/usb and a copy of Ape to convert those 950 or so floppies to atr. I'll post them on my Google Drive once they're done, with a spreadsheet of the content. I'll also do my 1k+ C64/128 floppies (.d64, .g64, .nib) and also catalog them for archival on my Google Drive. This and cycling will be my major hobby this spring/summer.

I was “doubling the time” as I had both a c64 and a 130xe. I gamed on the c64 and coded on the 130xe. This lasted until I got an XT clone for college. Both the 8bit paid for the XT.

Hey, at least it would’ve had a better colour palette... 🙂

Both sucked compared to the CoCo/4A