Retro Geek
Cloudscout
– December 23, 2007 08:49AM
I know I'm not the only one here to dabble in old toys and technology. What retro entertainment do other people enjoy?
Commodore
Atari
Coleco
Intellivison
Pong
Merlin
Simon
Betamax
LaserDisc
CD-i
8 Track
Windows XP
Etc.
El Jeffe
– April 29, 2008 12:30AM
What a journey.
Tim Curry? That looks like Oracle's Ellison.
Madaracs
– May 19, 2008 10:00AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
I don't think
this is kosher.
WGWJP
What game would Jesus play?
Cloudscout
– May 19, 2008 10:13AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
They just want to bring religion to those godless Comm[ie | odore]s.
Cloudscout
– June 02, 2008 05:44PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
For me,
this is the holy grail of retro computing. The Mimic Spartan. If anybody here ever finds one of these things, I will pay handsomely. I have had an eBay search set up for several years now hoping that someone would sell one but no luck yet.
tliet
– June 02, 2008 08:05PM
Link pointed to a Canon MSX computer, I take it that you mean this thing:
http://www.applefritter.com/node/229.
I remember the advertisements with the clown in the 80s in Nibble. Nostalgia...
Cloudscout
– June 02, 2008 08:09PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Odd that the link would take you to that. I have tried the link on a couple of different machines here at home and they all go to the Mimic Spartan page. Weird.
That AppleFritter story has good background info. The HCM site has better pictures of the device itself, though. I remember those ads from my RUN magazines back in the old days.
tliet
– June 02, 2008 08:13PM
Hmm, I see what's wrong. I browse with Noscript and the page with Javascript turned on first shows the Canon V-10 briefly before switching to the Spartan page, odd...
Cloudscout
– June 02, 2008 08:33PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Madaracs
– June 03, 2008 06:16AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
I see a canon V-10 when I click that link, CS.
Madaracs
– June 03, 2008 06:19AM
Ooh! Scary! Scary! Don't we look mean? You can't see me! But I can see you!
Quote
Cloudscout
That's the opening music from "Goonies" in that video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifRPsd6rwoQ&feature=related
Which someone points out sounds a lot like:
Personally, I don't think it sounds like Rachmaninoff. But it's interesting nonetheless.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/03/2008 06:27AM by Madaracs.
Cloudscout
– June 04, 2008 06:12PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
This sucks. I was finally going to hook up the Amiga 500 tonight but now I can't find the hard drive for it. I'm beginning to fear it may have disappeared along with the VPN router I can't find. I could have sworn the hard drive was sitting in my office downstairs with the mouse and power supply but it wasn't there.
tomierna
(Admin)
– June 04, 2008 07:24PM
Hideously Unnatural
My Amiga 500 didn't have a hard drive. I booted from floppy and I liked it.
Cloudscout
– June 04, 2008 08:46PM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
I'm able to boot to floppy but I think there may be a problem with the video cable I have for this thing to connect to my Commodore 1902 monitor. It doesn't want to display anything unless I connect it with the composite cable which, of course, limits me to monochrome video.
I found a schematic for an Analog RGB->YPrPb converter that doesn't look too hard to build. I may have to make one so I can plug it into my HDTV and play Lemmings in full color. Heh.
El Jeffe
– June 05, 2008 07:05AM
What a journey.
how long do floppies last?
Cloudscout
– June 05, 2008 07:12AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Well, I have some that are 25 years old that still work.
John Willoughby
– June 05, 2008 07:13AM
Homo Sapiens Sedentarius
My floppies work until 30 seconds before I need them for something vital.
tomierna
(Admin)
– June 05, 2008 07:23AM
Hideously Unnatural
The Amiga's video output was higher-scanrate than the 1902 will support. The 1902 is just NTSC RGB. The Amiga is VGA. It's also SOG (Sync on Green) so that might complicate your conversion board.
rino
– June 05, 2008 07:54AM
In America, the only respectable form of socialism is socialism for the rich.
> how long do floppies last?
About 1/2 an hour or so?
I mean how long could this conversation go without someone butting in?
Cloudscout
– June 05, 2008 08:31AM
˙pɹɐoqʎǝʞ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos sı ǝɹǝɥʇ ʞuıɥʇ ı ?ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ʎɯ ɥʇıʍ ǝɯ dlǝɥ ǝuoǝɯos uɐɔ
Everything I've read says that the Amiga is NTSC RGB (or PAL RGB) and not VGA and that you have to use a scan doubler in order to output to a VGA monitor. That's why Europeans could use a simple cable to plug it into a SCART connector.
tomierna
(Admin)
– June 05, 2008 01:07PM
Hideously Unnatural
oh, you know what, i'm thinking of the Amiga 3000T we had. it had a switch to change it to a 31.5khz scan rate.
dammit - twice i've been wrong today!
