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What retro things have you done today?
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I picked up a Sony Trinitron KV-14T1U recently for my SEGA Saturn, great condition with the original remote and swivel stand.
Unfortunately when you feed a 60hz RGB signal the image is offset and the service won’t allow adjustments unless fed a 50hz signal.
Grabbed a Wii off eBay for peanuts which has allowed me to do a quick adjust as below:
I am going to use the Wii to run the “240p Test Suite” and tweak the geometry further but pretty happy right now and the image quality over my Panasonic TX-G10 as well as the extra size is excellent.
Unfortunately when you feed a 60hz RGB signal the image is offset and the service won’t allow adjustments unless fed a 50hz signal.
Grabbed a Wii off eBay for peanuts which has allowed me to do a quick adjust as below:
I am going to use the Wii to run the “240p Test Suite” and tweak the geometry further but pretty happy right now and the image quality over my Panasonic TX-G10 as well as the extra size is excellent.
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Loved that game. “Arcade quality” 
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Found this on my desk when I arrived today, loft clearout from a friend.
I'm a little bit more dubious on the cassette player, quite hard to test without chewing up one of my very limited tape supplies.
Give tape heads a good clean and the rollers. Tape is easy to test, buy a blank cassette tape then type in a relatively short basic program save it to tape. Load it back in. That Make A Chip is on tape too try that.
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I recently picked up some old PC's which i couldn't pass on for the price (i don't need more PC's). I didn't know what was in the PC's but i was after one of the cases in the auction. One of the PC's had a Q9550 in it which was nice. One was a i3 2300 machine, and the other machine was a 1156 PC with a i5 760 and a nice Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 with 16gb of Mushkin Blackline 1600mhz DDR3. I picked up a Xeon X3470 CPU for dirt cheap so I'm going to have a go at Overclocking it and see what it can do. I never had a S1156 platform so it will be a bit of fun.
Don't know if its classed as retro yet, but it certainly is old.
Don't know if its classed as retro yet, but it certainly is old.
I feel ya mate. I've sold more than I've bought over the last year. Still got a good bit to sell, mind. I have the machines i want, and just listing the stuff i don't want when i can be bothered
I had that moment about 6 years ago and cleared out a lot of games in my collection that I wasn't really "sentimental" for or I knew I wouldn't play again and you know what? I didn't regret it, I made just under £2500 clearing games out alone!
I've had a resurgence in the last couple of years but keeping my purchasing to meaningful minimum of titles I truly care about and mostly for the PC.
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I’ve been slowly doing the same but I still have far too much stuff. Hard to get rid of some of it because I don’t want to give it away. And then occasionally I’ve bought more stuff, like an addict.
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Collected these over the past few weeks. Tv works. Not tried the Hifi yet. Suspect there no value in the PCs
Sort of retro, ive put my old biege and yellowed case back into use as a sort of sleeper PC
inside is i5 9400, 32gb DDR4, 512gb M.2 , RTX3050. New Old stock sata dvd with beige bezel. you cant quite see in the image but ive put usb 3 ports in the side. I sprayed just the bezel and base of a dell 19" monitor. its a bit rough but looks ok as long you dont get to close. I also found some new oldstock dell speakers on ebay that slot into the under side of the monitor.
mainly used for youtube, email, web browsing and copying files to my multipi console. The RTX3050 is overkill but i had it spare.
inside is i5 9400, 32gb DDR4, 512gb M.2 , RTX3050. New Old stock sata dvd with beige bezel. you cant quite see in the image but ive put usb 3 ports in the side. I sprayed just the bezel and base of a dell 19" monitor. its a bit rough but looks ok as long you dont get to close. I also found some new oldstock dell speakers on ebay that slot into the under side of the monitor.
mainly used for youtube, email, web browsing and copying files to my multipi console. The RTX3050 is overkill but i had it spare.
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I hate flippers.
I saw two Apple IIe's with monitors and disk drives on marketplace, untested and dirty, for £250.
I ummed and ahhed about it because that is a great deal, they are worth a few times that in working condition, but I already have two Apple II+'s and monitors and whatnot, so I decided to be sensible because my money would be better spent on other things.
Two days later I see someone else has re-listed them for sale, they have wiped them over with a damp rag, not even bothered to test them (they will need a couple of PSU capacitors replacing at the very least), and are asking £700
If you're going to buy old stuff to resell for profit, at least clean them properly, service them, test them, split them into lots, and advertise them for a fair price. The brazenness and laziness annoys me I guess.
I wish I'd bought them now, even if they would have only ended up on the shelf in my cupboard after getting repaired.
I saw two Apple IIe's with monitors and disk drives on marketplace, untested and dirty, for £250.
I ummed and ahhed about it because that is a great deal, they are worth a few times that in working condition, but I already have two Apple II+'s and monitors and whatnot, so I decided to be sensible because my money would be better spent on other things.
Two days later I see someone else has re-listed them for sale, they have wiped them over with a damp rag, not even bothered to test them (they will need a couple of PSU capacitors replacing at the very least), and are asking £700
If you're going to buy old stuff to resell for profit, at least clean them properly, service them, test them, split them into lots, and advertise them for a fair price. The brazenness and laziness annoys me I guess.
I wish I'd bought them now, even if they would have only ended up on the shelf in my cupboard after getting repaired.
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I've just had my N64 RGB modded and the image through my Rad2x cable is fantastic! I've spent a fair few hours this weekend paying the usual suspects (mario 64, Goldeneye) and also a.bjt of Snowboard kids 2, I played the original to death back in the day, I never knew a sequel existed until years later!
I've been using my trusty old Everdrive64 V1 but I've just ordered a Summercart64 as the ED is showing its age in terms of features and I can't justify the cost of the newer models
I've been using my trusty old Everdrive64 V1 but I've just ordered a Summercart64 as the ED is showing its age in terms of features and I can't justify the cost of the newer models
That reminds me of the first time I ever used a proper RGB scart cable...
I had just got a TV video combi for my bedroom which had one of those new fancy SCART sockets on it, I didn't know much about it at the time other than it meant you didn't need to tune in a picture. Fast forward a short while and whilst browsing for a Playstation game to rent for the weekend I noticed they were selling PSX Scart cables so I thought meh why not and picked it up.
I was completely shocked at how amazing it made my games look! So sharp and the colours just popped! needless to say that where possible I always went RGB from that point on