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I'm in the Oakland area but have a car and don't mind traveling a bit really if there's some good stuff there.

Anyone in Pittsburgh know of some decent locations to find old consoles and carts, even old 8-bit computers and accessories? I'm fiending for a 7800 with Food Fight and Galaga lately but don't feel like playing with eBay, shipping, PayPal and other assorted stuff. I would mind beefing up my Jaguar collection either.

I don't know which iMac you have exactly; you should visit Low End Mac and find out. My G3 iMac can accommodate 2 512gb DIMMs and there is no on board ram. Video ram cannot be expanded in any of the iMacs to my knowledge.

Where the Jaguar or Lynx? Seems like you need a Jaguar below your TV more than a Flashback.

No, the G3s can go beyond 10.2. Macs without onboard firewire were dropped from official compatibility at either 10.3 or 10.4 -- I believe the former. That said, XPostFacto can get 10.4 going even on beige G3s. Any iMac with onboard firewire will run 10.4 without any hacks. You're forgetting that G3s were still in some Apple machines until the fall of 2003 when the G4 iBooks were finally introduced. Leopard may finally mark the end of official OS X support for G3s, who but who knows.

I think Activision is my favorite. River Raid and Enduro are two of my favorite 2600 titles. I might even like Enduro more than River Raid.

It would be easier to put a cheap DVD drive in a firewire enclosure than to crack open the iMac and install a new slot loading drive. OWC used to sell replacement drives for slot-loading iMacs; they exist, you'll just have to search. Getting an OEM part off eBay (despite the fact that you've already attempted this with no success) is another eventual option. There's plenty of freeware for Macs. Visit MacUpdate or VersionTracker. OpenOffice has a Mac port, though it runs in X11. I would also upgrade to OS X 10.3 at least; 10.4 should be fine. 10.2 was really considered the very first 'ready for prime-time' version of OS X, not in terms of stability really but general refinement; things only improvement from there on (even speed wise).

I owned a GameBoy and, like the GameBoy Advance, found it annoying to play in most conditions due to it not having a backlight. Once you added a light (the one I owned slid into the cracks on the top of the GB) you were sucking up just as much power as the GameGear or Lynx -- except without color. I also had a GameGear for about 3 months while a friend went overseas and let me borrow it. A few months ago I bought a Lynx and I'm pretty impressed with it. I think I appreciate it more than the GameGear or GameBoy, especially with the games I picked. My GameBoy Advance comes close due to its flash card; if someone develops a flash card for the Lynx I'd be a happy camper. The portable I lust after, and probably consider the best of all, is the Turbo Grafx Express. I never owned it, nor touched one -- but to me it was the ultimate portable for the TG16 library alone.

I have done this to PCs -- well mice and keyboards anyway. My Macs, however, have never driven me to destroying them.

YouTube link for those who can't get this WMV garbage working right.

Roxanne Shante "Queen of Rox" "I'm goin' upstairs I'm gonna play Atari." Jay-Z "Never Change" "But fuck y'all I needed money for Atari."

I had the SMS from 1988 with Hang On and Safari Hunt built in -- there was a startup sound for every cart inserted. This was a little awkward with the later releases (around the Alex Kidd in Shinobi World era) that had a SEGA splash screen -- so you'd end up with two SEGA splash screens on top of the other.

KVM sold. Other stuff still around (though I doubt anyone would care).

Yes. They were amazingly ahead of their time. Some of the things done in that demo haven't surfaced until recently in modern operating systems. OS X has its foundations in NextStep as well . . .

Is that Dick Gregory in that pic?

I bought the KVM below a month ago to switch between a new Mac Mini and my PowerMac: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16817107316 I sold the Mini to go toward my MacBook and no longer need the KVM -- so make me an offer. Money is good and so are trades. I'm looking for Lynx and Jaguar games or accessories. I also have one 256mb PC2700 DDR module (333mhz) taken from a PowerBook G4 and two 256mb PC2 5300 DDR2 modules (667mhz) taken from a MacBook. Let me know if you're interested.

I think I remember that.

Yep, I was there a few months ago. Definitely cool that someone reverse engineered the entire thing.

Well, a static graphic with CGA is one thing -- a game looking decent with it is quite another. There were some people who knew how to make things look acceptable though, but more often than not colors were just substituted from the EGA/PcJr version. When I moved from my c64 to a Tandy 1000 in 1989 I was very disappointed by the crappy sound and lackluster CGA graphics I was forced to use when Tandy 16 Color/PcJr graphics weren't available (which was just about every game except Sierra's). CGA sucks. It was for business machines who wanted a step up from green, not great graphics or gaming. At least on the B&W Macs games were made knowing that the majority of the audience was limited to B&W (until the late 80s, anyway), producing some works that looked decent, and weren't just downgraded versions of their color counterparts.

Just checked out STUN Runner on the MacBook; very impressive. Plus thanks for a UB version of MAME, it gives me something to do at work.

How does STUN Runner perform? I have a 2.0ghz MacBook here. When I tried playing it on my 1.4ghz G4 PowerMac it was pretty laggy.

I beat it on the Master System like 15 years ago. It didn't seem like it took more than an hour or two. I don't really remember there being 85 cities though, or many at all. Perhaps SMS version was different?

Why don't you plug it directly into the monitor's composite and audio input? By the way, it was only the early c64s that lacked Chroma out.

Did you build the monitor cable yourself? I remember building a cable myself a few years ago and connecting the audio out pin to audio in (c64 has an audio in pin on its monitor connector, not sure what for). The result was getting very low sound, but you would get sound. Audio out should be pin 3.

Anyone know of a way to run MAME at a decent speed on the Intel Macs, other than booting into Windows? I hate turning my noisy PowerMac on just to play one ROM.