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@Guest2 I'm just booting up the P200 MMX. I will tell you soon.
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You can only store 4 hi-res images (1600x1200) on a floppy disk..It does come with a natty HTML wrapper for the images though with a smaller res image of the bigger image (320x240) for 'email'.
Image copying is quick. A standard file from a floppy drive.
Nice setup. 4 pics
It does come with a natty HTML wrapper for the images though with a smaller res image of the bigger image (320x240) for 'email'.
Image copying is quick. A standard file from a floppy drive.
What's the floppy write speed, from memory it was around 200kbps max so fast to copy the 3 or 4 pics of maybe 400kb each.
One of the reasons I thought I died and went to heaven when I got a single 100mb zipdisk and iomega zipdrive. I then binned about 30 floppys with my college work on in 2002. I never had any idea what projects were on what disk as some were not even labelled so spent the first 30 minutes of some practical sessions just trying to find the right docs/coursework/project work. Good (bad) times. I could then connect the zipdrive and use 1 disk with things called 'folders' ! imagine, multiple folders with many docs, all in once place!!
I just remembered, the Kodak camera my grandad had was a serial connection camera. It would take hours to transfer some photos and did something like 320x240 videos or maybe 400x300. The CF camera was a much later one, possibly ~2003
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Despite having moved on most of my hardware and disk games I bought a bunch of old games today 
The green game is Hostile Waters. The Enclave looks like some kind of 3rd person action game or action RPG I'd never heard of. Also I have somehow never played a Screamer game...
The green game is Hostile Waters. The Enclave looks like some kind of 3rd person action game or action RPG I'd never heard of. Also I have somehow never played a Screamer game...
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Enclave is pretty good iirc, nice graphics style. Decent buys!
It'll be interesting to see what the CT3900 and DB50XG go for - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184971809271
I emailed about the 'dont know if they work or not' and had this reply
I won’t be accepting returns if they don’t work as I’ve made it clear that these are to be purchased on the understanding that I don’t know whether they work or not.
The item is sold as used (which usually means not damaged and working) How would email poliy hold up if somoene won them and they were both DOA?
Everything I have know people to buy thats "not sure if working or not" has been not working
I emailed about the 'dont know if they work or not' and had this reply
I won’t be accepting returns if they don’t work as I’ve made it clear that these are to be purchased on the understanding that I don’t know whether they work or not.
The item is sold as used (which usually means not damaged and working) How would email poliy hold up if somoene won them and they were both DOA?
Everything I have know people to buy thats "not sure if working or not" has been not working
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Got that on watch
As far as ebay is concerned he has listed it as used so if it does not you can get your money back. Regardless of any crap thats written in the description. Only way to cover yourself as a seller here is to list as parts or not working.
Really, so they'll just ignore the description even if it says "this is not an item, you are buying a photo. Do not buy if human" or anything else like that when people sold pictures of 3080s for £700Got that on watch
As far as ebay is concerned he has listed it as used so if it does not you can get your money back. Regardless of any crap thats written in the description. Only way to cover yourself as a seller here is to list as parts or not working.
Probably is a genuine unable to test. Not everyone has machines with ISA slots to test nowadays. Even if he listed it as Parts/Not-working it will probably fetch good money.
I've bought a fair number of items not working, and they ended up working fine.
I've bought a fair number of items not working, and they ended up working fine.
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I dont know how those would end up, but I have been screwed a couple of times on returns for faults clearly described in the listing. eBay almost always side with the buyer in these scenarios.
@cee-S-dee his story is almost definitely true hes just opening himself up for trouble, I was simply saying that "I havnt test this" is not going to help you if the buyer then claims it doesnt work, if it was listed as used
@cee-S-dee his story is almost definitely true hes just opening himself up for trouble, I was simply saying that "I havnt test this" is not going to help you if the buyer then claims it doesnt work, if it was listed as used
I dont know how those would end up, but I have been screwed a couple of times on returns for faults clearly described in the listing. eBay almost always side with the buyer in these scenarios.
@cee-S-dee his story is almost definitely true hes just opening himself up for trouble, I was simply saying that "I havnt test this" is not going to help you if the buyer then claims it doesnt work, if it was listed as used
Oh I agree, he's deffo listed it wrong. Interesting to see what it goes for. I may have to put mine up
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From my experience as a buyer and seller, anything listed as used, no matter the description, opens the possibility for returns and Ebay will agree on this. Even if they state "no returns accepted". Maybe he is a genuine seller, hasn't tested it, but has a bad attitude of "why are you texting me, stop texting me!"
Don
"No returns accepted" isn't a thing, regardless of what sellers seem to think.
If it's listed as used then it's still expected to be working. The only way to deny returns for a non-working item is to list it as "not working for parts" or whatever the option is
If it's listed as used then it's still expected to be working. The only way to deny returns for a non-working item is to list it as "not working for parts" or whatever the option is
Thanks all.
I received this from the seller.
Ebay will not allow me to change the condition once the listing is active.
I have now explained the situation in full detail in the listing. I have also drawn this to the attention of the bidder and offered them the chance to retract their bid.
I received this from the seller.
Ebay will not allow me to change the condition once the listing is active.
I have now explained the situation in full detail in the listing. I have also drawn this to the attention of the bidder and offered them the chance to retract their bid.
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I was a fan of the Zip disk. When I was at Uni, they installed them in a few of the PCs.
In my nostalgic collection, I have a parallel unit I use with my Commodore Amiga 1200 and PC and an internal IDE zip drive in my P3 unit.
And today on gumtree was this beauty for £10.
In my nostalgic collection, I have a parallel unit I use with my Commodore Amiga 1200 and PC and an internal IDE zip drive in my P3 unit.
And today on gumtree was this beauty for £10.
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There's a guy near me who lists a bunch of zip drive stuff for £35 (each drive) every month or so.
I (used to be) hunting for a VGA capture card for ages to capture DOS footage and in the end I got a Elgato HD60 Pro (or something) and used it once! Anyway for some reason I bought this, and ISA capture card
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edit - looking at it more carefully it captures composite video with a VGA passthrough thing going on.
It came with a bunch of manuals for the bundled software but not for the card itself annoyingly. I did come with the VGA splitter cable. Now to assemble my 486 to give it a try.
I (used to be) hunting for a VGA capture card for ages to capture DOS footage and in the end I got a Elgato HD60 Pro (or something) and used it once! Anyway for some reason I bought this, and ISA capture card
:edit - looking at it more carefully it captures composite video with a VGA passthrough thing going on.
It came with a bunch of manuals for the bundled software but not for the card itself annoyingly. I did come with the VGA splitter cable. Now to assemble my 486 to give it a try.
Hope it doesn't have the click of death! That was a nightmare. A faulty disk could damage drive head, which would then damage every disk you put into it. Those disks would also give the click of death to any Zip drive you put them into. It was like a hardware breaking self-replicating virus.
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@Ravenger retro pessimist..
I haven't tested it yet. Even if it does, I've got the power adapter and parallel cable in the box as a spare.
I haven't tested it yet. Even if it does, I've got the power adapter and parallel cable in the box as a spare.
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@almoststew1990 That Video Blaster is awesome.
It's the kind of thing I used to see and yearn for the PC Magazines of yesteryear.
Here's an article I found on it:
http://banilsson.blogspot.com/2014/12/freeze-that-frame.html
It makes me laugh to think in this day and age you can capture video and edit the feed on your mobile phone vs a high end PC of the day, video camera of the day and the video blaster.
It's the kind of thing I used to see and yearn for the PC Magazines of yesteryear.
Here's an article I found on it:
http://banilsson.blogspot.com/2014/12/freeze-that-frame.html
It makes me laugh to think in this day and age you can capture video and edit the feed on your mobile phone vs a high end PC of the day, video camera of the day and the video blaster.
Listing has been updated a few times - https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184971809271
Just to be clear - you buy this as your own risk. I will not be accepting returns.
I have been informed that I should not have listed this as 'Used' and should have described it as 'For Parts or Not Working' - eBay will not allow me to change this on the listing.
I do not know whether it is working or not and it is not exactly 'for parts' either. So the item falls somewhere between these two states.
It was definitely working the last time I used it and it has been carefully stored since then - BUT if you have doubts or are unhappy with the description or want to return the item if it doesn't work, please do not bid.
I take it he can write whatever he wants but eBay will side with the buyer unless its listed as parts only? Sounds like rubbish saying eBay will not allow him to change the listing, why not just end it and relist as parts only?
Just to be clear - you buy this as your own risk. I will not be accepting returns.
I have been informed that I should not have listed this as 'Used' and should have described it as 'For Parts or Not Working' - eBay will not allow me to change this on the listing.
I do not know whether it is working or not and it is not exactly 'for parts' either. So the item falls somewhere between these two states.
It was definitely working the last time I used it and it has been carefully stored since then - BUT if you have doubts or are unhappy with the description or want to return the item if it doesn't work, please do not bid.
I take it he can write whatever he wants but eBay will side with the buyer unless its listed as parts only? Sounds like rubbish saying eBay will not allow him to change the listing, why not just end it and relist as parts only?