Some STE questions from a noob

[soob]

Hi guys.

 

I've been lurking around these parts for a little while now, but I finally need a little advice on some prices. I'm in the Uk btw, so I'll be talking in pounds sterling.

 

I've been offered an STE for around £30, which seems like a reasonable price. The guy I'm buying from also has a monitor and printer that go with it. I don't particularly want those, as I'd rather just plug it into a TV for some gaming antics, but I might offer to buy them from him, then eBay them - so I was just wondering what they're roughly worth, so I can maybe make him an offer. I've been unable to find either on eBay, you see.

 

The monitor is a colour Phillips CM11342, and the printer is a Citizen 120D+.

 

The other thing I was wondering of course, is - is it worth using the monitor for gaming if I do buy it? Are there any resolution compatibility issues or anything like that? And does the STE plug into a TV via a standard cable like the STFM(which is the only ST I've had experience with)?

 

Sorry for the noob-ish questions, but I haven't had an ST since I was in my late teens(a decade ago ), so I've been out of the loop a while.

 

Cheers.

[FastRobPlus]

I sold a CM11342 new in the box for US $100 a year or two ago. It's a nice monitor becuse it can handle composite, YC, TTL and analog RGB, meaning it can be used with a C64, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST (with custom cable) Amiga (with custom cable) and C-128, plus it has the composite jack for generic input. A person with a large collection of systems could reduce monitor clutter by quite a bit using this monitor.

- That said, I seem to remember it's a little coarse at displaying the 640x200 resolution that the Amiga and ST desktops often run in.

Also - I'm speaking of the NTSC monitor. It's possible that the UK version has different ports or specs.

[soob]

Cheers for that.

 

I'm just trying to weigh up whether it'd be worth my while to pay the shipping on the monitor and printer, and taking the chance that I could make enough of a profit on them to make it worth it. Alternatively, it might be worth buying to keep from the sounds of it, since I have a load of older systems it sounds like I could use it for.

[soob]

I'll try and get the seller to take a picture of its connections.

Edited February 19, 2007 by soob