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

if you dont check the Amiga thread, got these goodies from Amiga store for a recently acquired Amiga 1200.

https://imgur.com/a/RoJu6KU

 

You might want to look for something like this MiTAC / Trigon PB5500C for a fun build.
https://www.ebay.pl/itm/225590352394

 

thanks, what is so good about this one vs the other one ?

btw that link - its sold and cant find any other ones listed on ebay.

 

I can't get high res images of what you bought..

Terrible fire 1240? Ram? CF..

I often surf over to the terrible fire accelerators.. I have a a500.. I am very curious about how they work. I watched a lot of his youtube channel while he was developing them.

 

Images re-uploaded, hope it works ok now.

 

Yeah sorry I thought it was a Pentium with VLB and was still selling.

 

Have wanted to add a Tandy computer to the collection plus to play around with but struggled to justify the cost.

Today though, I was able to get the below boxed Coco3 for $80, which I could justify getting.

Have not given it a good clean yet but just tested it quickly and it is working well.

I am looking forward to exploring the Tandy Color Computer space.

If anyone has any joystick tips it would be helpful.

 

damn, thats a great find at 80 bucks

 

Joystick tips? Like how to adapt usb to joystick?

Hidman. Few pages ago someone made a bunch.

 

Myne_h more is it worth chasing down a Tandy compatible joystick or just ignore them and go a converter with a non-Tandy stick.

 

Man Tandy had some cool stuff, cool store that..

 

They were great. My copy of Their Finest Hour which I've owned since I was a kid came from our local Tandy store. I still rememeber quite vividly seeing it on the shelf along with rows of other games they had and picking it out for my parents as the game I wanted for my Birthday.

I'm pretty sure Tandy was also where I brought my first joystick for my PC, a Quickshot with an ISA Gamecard as our PC at the time didn't have a joystick port until I later put in a Sound Blaster which I believe also came from Tandy. So many good memories associated with that shop which I used for many years after that to get adaptors, cables, floppy disks etc until we got the internet in the late 90's which opened me up to a whole world of other computer buying options outside of where I lived.

 

Tandy were expensive though in comparison to Dick Smith where I grew up. Still though as a kid, they had some cool stuff. The owner of the store in Tandy looked like the dad from Alf.

 

One of my earliest Tandy gaming memories is to do with the Tandy Golf handheld game (link below).

A mates Dad had one and he brought it to school, I thought it was so cool.

This Tandy chat has now got me on a journey to get one of Golf games. Haha

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2354313...eutz9A3QH2&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

Loved those Tandy Catalogues as a kid.. so much stuff in them.. The stores were so tiny though. ( yet I dont remember them ever not having stuff from the Catalogue )

 

Agree, they were awesome.

Just had a look and quite a few are online for viewing, some links below:

87 Catalogue (love the old electronic kits on page 82, I still have one like them somewhere): https://archive.org/details/1987-catalogue_202308?

88-89 Catalogue: https://archive.org/details/te1988-89?

84 Catalogue: https://archive.org/details/1984-catalogue

81 Catalogue: https://archive.org/details/1981-catalogue

 

Tandy had some cool stuff, but I was in (probably below) the Dick Smith pricing band

 

I was below the pricing band of anything at that age LOL .

I did point to things in them [the catalogues] though, so via Birthdays and Xmas's I certainly acquired my fair share of Realistic/Optimus/micronta? (how's my memory going) branded "stuff" . They always had a real good spread of budget options for a given piece of equipment which was pretty cool.
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I first read the Tandy store owner looked like Alf, which would have also been acceptable.

Loved the Dick Smith/Tandy catalogues with tiers of affordable, then overpriced shit over the next page.

 

Picked up a GeForce FX5200 PCI the other day, will get it into the wife's retro PC over the weekend.

Her retro PC has been in storage for a few months, and while performing some routine maintenance to ensure longevity, I noticed the caps on the ATi Radeon 7000 PCI card that was in it were swollen. Performed a test boot with the card in, and I was getting artifacts in Quake 2 and poor FPS. Ripped it out and compared it against the onboard video and that performed much nicer with no artifacting, but no good for some of her games that require a proper 3D card. Few bucks on evilBay later, and she should be able to get triple digit FPS in SimCity now