Your recent acquisitions, or what retro have you bought lately? - Page 25

Draxx · 28th June 2012, 8:38 PM

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Originally Posted by callan

I paid a visit to storage today, and, whilst digging through the boxes, came across these 2 babys - a Commodore PET 8296 and 8250LP dual drives.

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The 8296 seems to have some daughter board to it, I 'm hoping it's the expansion to 96K - and I'm looking forwards to getting all this going over the next month (free time is short at Chez Callan).

Still haven't found a few commodore bits (D9090, 4016, 4040 and B128) - and getting just a tad worried they might have gone astray in our "3 moves in a month" dramas in 2007.

I'll have to repair the keyboard (not shown) - in storage, the ENTER key snapped off. I have all the bits, and I think I may be able to cobble somethiing from a C64 keyboard, but other than that, it seems in pretty good nick. (aside from the spiders!).

Ooroo
Callan

Awesome, would love one of these in my collection.

dustar · 29th June 2012, 3:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by callan

I paid a visit to storage today, and, whilst digging through the boxes, came across these 2 babys - a Commodore PET 8296 and 8250LP dual drives.

image

The 8296 seems to have some daughter board to it, I 'm hoping it's the expansion to 96K - and I'm looking forwards to getting all this going over the next month (free time is short at Chez Callan).

Still haven't found a few commodore bits (D9090, 4016, 4040 and B128) - and getting just a tad worried they might have gone astray in our "3 moves in a month" dramas in 2007.

I'll have to repair the keyboard (not shown) - in storage, the ENTER key snapped off. I have all the bits, and I think I may be able to cobble somethiing from a C64 keyboard, but other than that, it seems in pretty good nick. (aside from the spiders!).

Ooroo
Callan

Cool stuff! Never had a Commodore in my younger jears, till last month; I scored my first C64. A short time after that, I got another working C64 from a colleague. Now I have to find out how those things work :-) .

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Originally Posted by ShaneHm2

Yesterday I went to the local council reviva centre and I scored about 35 Boxed Master System/ Mega Drive games for $50 and most of them had manuals and all are working

Nice, love the Master System. I tried to collect all PAL games, a few years ago, but stranded at about 200 games. Still more than 100 to go...

ShaneHm2 · 29th June 2012, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dustar

Cool stuff! Never had a Commodore in my younger jears, till last month; I scored my first C64. A short time after that, I got another working C64 from a colleague. Now I have to find out how those things work :-) .

Nice, love the Master System. I tried to collect all PAL games, a few years ago, but stranded at about 200 games. Still more than 100 to go...

If you were in Australia I would do some trades that I have duplicates of so then I can build up my collection as well

I only have about 40 or so of em so far.

dustar · 29th June 2012, 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ShaneHm2

If you were in Australia I would do some trades that I have duplicates of so then I can build up my collection as well

I only have about 40 or so of em so far.

You have to start somewhere :-) .
The last year, I didn't bought any SMS games anymore because I did not play with them that often. More into PC gaming ( '90s ) now.
But there is still a little place in my heart for the Master System :-).

EDIT: Today, I went to the recycling park for throwing old stuff away, when my eye felt on an old computer case.
Took it home with me and powered it on. The Win98 screen appaers and looks like there is an old Office ( 97 ) installed. The computer itself is a Pentium 100 Mhz with 24 MB RAM and 1,2GB Hard disk.

Draxx · 30th June 2012, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dustar

EDIT: Today, I went to the recycling park for throwing old stuff away, when my eye felt on an old computer case.
Took it home with me and powered it on. The Win98 screen appaers and looks like there is an old Office ( 97 ) installed. The computer itself is a Pentium 100 Mhz with 24 MB RAM and 1,2GB Hard disk.

WIN!!!!!!!!!

breech · 30th June 2012, 1:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dustar

..I went to the recycling park for throwing old stuff away, when my eye felt on an old computer case.
Took it home with me..

I think we are bad influences on you

dustar · 1st July 2012, 6:24 PM

I already had this deviation before I came to this forum :-)

the_cripple · 4th July 2012, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShaneHm2

Yesterday I went to the local council reviva centre and I scored about 35 Boxed Master System/ Mega Drive games for $50 and most of them had manuals and all are working

Score. My local one charges $5 a game, regardless.

dustar · 4th July 2012, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by the_cripple

Score. My local one charges $5 a game, regardless.

$5 is a normal price for a Master System game. A bit cheaper than were I live, here they ask mostly €5 for one game. Good when it's a rare one. The common games are better bought in lot; I've sold some of my doubles at €3 / pcs when they buy multiple games.

Eject · 5th July 2012, 1:45 PM

Sad pickup for me. Marble Madness for the Master System for $1 in case with manual. Its nothing special, its so hard to find anything where i live lol.

callan · 11th July 2012, 11:54 AM

My first Amiga - only took me 26 years to score one..

A rather "loved" box:

held an A500 (with 512Meg slow ram expansion, and RTC). As is traditional, the battery on the RTC has started to leak, but doesn't seem to have done any damage.

Warrantee seal is still intact - came with a second Floppy drive, too.
Not sure whether to keep the second drive for spares, or buy one of those cheap (authentic!), drive-less Commodore 1581 drive casings, and slip it in there...

Callan

Daft_Munt · 14th July 2012, 5:48 PM

Most of my legit Sega DC and Saturn games that have cases. The big VC2 case came with a different game.

Click to view full size!

AthlonMan · 14th July 2012, 6:00 PM

I finished my DC and Mega drive games collection the other day. In the process I bought 2 sets of new DC cases. The guys who sold them threw in copies of Metropolis Street Racer in each set (only the CD and the manual, no case, no back or front covers). If anyone wants a copy of the game (appears to be legitimate copy IMO -though I'm no expert) PM me and I'll send it if you pay postage.

callan · 31st July 2012, 11:39 PM

Visited storage again today, and came across 2 rather unique items:

1: a VIC REL cartridge. This connects to the user port of a Vic20, C64 or C128, and provides 6 relay isolated outputs, and 2 inputs. Apparently some dodgy clones are being made these days - this is one is from the period.

2: An ISEPIC.
This was a radical device. I bought it in 1985, my first ever overseas mail order. It was the first "freeze" cartridge for the C64. After preloading the cartridge with code, and filling almost all RAM with a recognisable memory pattern, you'd switch the activation switch, which hid the cartridge, and rebooted the C64.
Once rebooted, you'd load up your (copy protected) program, and start it running. With it running, throwing the activation switch again would dump out the memory, VICII and processor status to disk. A post-freeze process could than analyze the dump, compress it, whack a turboloader around it, and create a distributable pair of files of the original, copy-protected program. 'Twas awesome.
I used it as much for research as I did for cracking. (I preferred to crack programs properly, but being able to freeze protection schemes in action was very handy

)

The original box, manual and packing (and a 6526 CIA chip, which I must have secreted into the packaging, as it had antistatic foam!!!)

Closeup of the cartridge.

PCB:

Driver/utility disk.

Ooroo
Callan

xsive · 5th August 2012, 8:33 PM

Feels like forever since I posted here. Not much retro action lately; I'm kind of at a point where the only things I come across are stuff I have, crap I don't want or (on the odd occasion I find a shiny) priced way above its worth.

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Originally Posted by AthlonMan

I finished my DC and Mega drive games collection the other day.

I don't believe you. Pics please

5th July 2012, 1:45 PM	#370
Eject Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Brisbane Posts: 59	Sad pickup for me. Marble Madness for the Master System for $1 in case with manual. Its nothing special, its so hard to find anything where i live lol. __________________ Trades - MAIN: i7 2700k - P8Z68 Deluxe Gen 3 - 16gb 2133mhz Ripjaws X - GTX580 3gb LANBOX: i5 2500k - Z77N-WIFI - 8gb 1600mhz Corsair Vengeance - Graphics card needed!

11th July 2012, 11:54 AM	#371
callan Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: 2,725	My first Amiga - only took me 26 years to score one.. A rather "loved" box: held an A500 (with 512Meg slow ram expansion, and RTC). As is traditional, the battery on the RTC has started to leak, but doesn't seem to have done any damage. Warrantee seal is still intact - came with a second Floppy drive, too. Not sure whether to keep the second drive for spares, or buy one of those cheap (authentic!), drive-less Commodore 1581 drive casings, and slip it in there... Callan __________________ Wanted: Commodore 1571, and/or 1541/II disk drives

14th July 2012, 6:00 PM	#373
AthlonMan Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: QLD. Posts: 9,456	I finished my DC and Mega drive games collection the other day. In the process I bought 2 sets of new DC cases. The guys who sold them threw in copies of Metropolis Street Racer in each set (only the CD and the manual, no case, no back or front covers). If anyone wants a copy of the game (appears to be legitimate copy IMO -though I'm no expert) PM me and I'll send it if you pay postage. __________________ Pentium III 600Mhz \| 128mb RAM \| 18gb HDD \| TNT2 32mb \| 19" Sony Trinitron

31st July 2012, 11:39 PM	#374
callan Member Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: melbourne Posts: 2,725	Visited storage again today, and came across 2 rather unique items: 1: a VIC REL cartridge. This connects to the user port of a Vic20, C64 or C128, and provides 6 relay isolated outputs, and 2 inputs. Apparently some dodgy clones are being made these days - this is one is from the period. 2: An ISEPIC. This was a radical device. I bought it in 1985, my first ever overseas mail order. It was the first "freeze" cartridge for the C64. After preloading the cartridge with code, and filling almost all RAM with a recognisable memory pattern, you'd switch the activation switch, which hid the cartridge, and rebooted the C64. Once rebooted, you'd load up your (copy protected) program, and start it running. With it running, throwing the activation switch again would dump out the memory, VICII and processor status to disk. A post-freeze process could than analyze the dump, compress it, whack a turboloader around it, and create a distributable pair of files of the original, copy-protected program. 'Twas awesome. I used it as much for research as I did for cracking. (I preferred to crack programs properly, but being able to freeze protection schemes in action was very handy ) The original box, manual and packing (and a 6526 CIA chip, which I must have secreted into the packaging, as it had antistatic foam!!!) Closeup of the cartridge. PCB: Driver/utility disk. Ooroo Callan __________________ Wanted: Commodore 1571, and/or 1541/II disk drives

1st July 2012, 6:24 PM	#367
dustar Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Belgium, EU Posts: 109	I already had this deviation before I came to this forum :-)

14th July 2012, 5:48 PM	#372
Daft_Munt Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Hobart, La La Land Posts: 4,939	Most of my legit Sega DC and Saturn games that have cases. The big VC2 case came with a different game. Click to view full size!