What retro things have you done today?

@Kurgen That is a lovely setup. I'm loving the Zip drive.

Right. Today is the day to at least start reducing my collection. It's not a yard sale. I want value for money. I'm loathed to sell on eBay or Gumtree. Members Market is a possibility.

In the ideal world, it would be collection only and at least I can show the buyer a working product.
 
!bluetonic! said:
@Kurgen That is a lovely setup. I'm loving the Zip drive.

Right. Today is the day to at least start reducing my collection. It's not a yard sale. I want value for money. I'm loathed to sell on eBay or Gumtree. Members Market is a possibility.

In the ideal world, it would be collection only and at least I can show the buyer a working product.
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As you are not in any hurry you can start as you wish and slowly branch out to the lesser liked methods of selling. Gumtree is even worse than ebay in my experience for time wasters. With ebay you could wait for an 80% off fees weekend and then list for collection only etc. Far less chancers when face to face sales are involved.
 
!bluetonic! said:
@LewisRaz Thank you. I was thinking the same.

Give your mobile number for a video call and you can have first dibs.. :)
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Aha :D

I wish I was in a position to buy more but I am at a similar stage myself. Trying to clear out the hoarded stuff. I have only my main retro machine out as it does see regular use. Begun the process of clearing my loft so i can be boarded properly and used to store other interesting projects. Still have my wardrobe full of towers and even 3 of them in the bedroom! much to the bemusement of the wife.
 
KraniX said:
I'm watching this great video on how to set up an A1200.

Just received my Pi400 and want to turn it into an Amiga as never owned one as a kid.

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Great watch :)
Im interested in the Pi400 too but seems like hassle setting it up to play different amiga games. I want something similar to the a500 i had as a child, stick a game in and it loads up.
The a500 mini seems like a much simpler solution, just needs a keyboard and was thinking a logitech k400 would be good.
Add in a Speedlink competition pro joystick and it *might* be perfect - all depends if it really does “emulate perfectly” and whdload works well with save and load states
 
LewisRaz said:
Aha :D

I wish I was in a position to buy more but I am at a similar stage myself. Trying to clear out the hoarded stuff. I have only my main retro machine out as it does see regular use. Begun the process of clearing my loft so i can be boarded properly and used to store other interesting projects. Still have my wardrobe full of towers and even 3 of them in the bedroom! much to the bemusement of the wife.
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Same here. I realized that I have too much stuff plus more stuff from other hobbies. I want to clear out a room that is full with stuff and it would be my dream to have that as my retro computer room .

I'm going to be taking a load of stuff down to CEX next week I have lots of Sega mega drive consoles, games plus accessories and master systems with more games and play station 2 consoles in blue and other bits and pieces. I would put them all on ebay but I have so much other stuff to sell, I just need it gone sooner rather than later, besides space is more valuable. I've literally hoarded two lorry loads worth of stuff it will take me months to get things shifted.
 
I'm testing out some old hard drives I found in my attic that I didn't even know I had.

I have a question some might be able to answer. I've just been testing out an old IBM PC doesn't have the ability to boot from an optical drive. It can only boot from Network, Floppy or HDD these options are not changeable in the BIOS. I'm just wandering how I could boot into a Windows 98 CD via the floppy drive without using MS DOS 6.22 as that would only give me 2048 MB or using another computer to partially install Windows 98 before swapping it back to complete the install?

Edit: No worries I've figured it out.
 
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Retro6 said:
I'm testing out some old hard drives I found in my attic that I didn't even know I had.

I have a question some might be able to answer. I've just been testing out an old IBM PC doesn't have the ability to boot from an optical drive. It can only boot from Network, Floppy or HDD these options are not changeable in the BIOS. I'm just wandering how I could boot into a Windows 98 CD via the floppy drive without using MS DOS 6.22 as that would only give me 2048 MB or using another computer to partially install Windows 98 before swapping it back to complete the install?

Edit: No worries I've figured it out.
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Create a 98se boot floppy using another machine
 
last night i learnt that insomnia and ebay are NOT good......4:40 something this morning I became the proud owner of an AGP X1950 Pro lol. Says its a 256mb on auction but the stickers on the rear blatantly say 512mb so fingers crossed its just not the wrong image! It was up for £27 buy it now which seems a really good deal vs. normal pricing i thought? tested working too

Also message from friend whilst he was in his loft, found an ABit AW9D-Max board with a Q6600 in it, do i want it? Yes please!
 
I've been trying to install a Sound Blaster CT4700 PCI 128 card for the past 2 hours and can't get any drivers to work. I've downloaded 10 drivers from different sites most of the drivers are the same. I tried the generic sound blaster drivers and those didn't work either. I bought this sound card a few months ago from ebay. I believe the sound card is ok but the drivers are not working or incomplete.
 
Day off today so have been chilling reading a few more pages of this great book. Time to order an A500 mini. Emulation setup takes all the fun out of Amiga gaming

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phatboy said:
last night i learnt that insomnia and ebay are NOT good......4:40 something this morning I became the proud owner of an AGP X1950 Pro lol. Says its a 256mb on auction but the stickers on the rear blatantly say 512mb so fingers crossed its just not the wrong image! It was up for £27 buy it now which seems a really good deal vs. normal pricing i thought? tested working too

Also message from friend whilst he was in his loft, found an ABit AW9D-Max board with a Q6600 in it, do i want it? Yes please!
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That's a good price for the AGP model, at least it works! You can find them sometimes at auction around 15£, but I got a lot of them AGP and PCI-E not working, as well as X1800s and 9800 Pros. Something is wrong with these ATI cards...I think I'll stay away from them in the future.
That motherboard is really nice, you should be able to do some nice OC on it.
 
manisses said:
That's a good price for the AGP model, at least it works! You can find them sometimes at auction around 15£, but I got a lot of them AGP and PCI-E not working, as well as X1800s and 9800 Pros. Something is wrong with these ATI cards...I think I'll stay away from them in the future.
That motherboard is really nice, you should be able to do some nice OC on it.
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Exactly what I thought, hopefully it is what the seller says! I have had a mixed bag of luck in the past too. have a fully working 9800 Pro XXL from the MM on here + an Abit 9550 UGuru which I was really happy to get hold of as just don't really come up but i am not sure if it is working 100%. On flip side I was given an immaculate X800 Pro AGP by a friend all boxed....powered on once and then decided it didn't like life anymore :(. I have a feeling the weak point on the later cards is that bridge chip as they are effectively PCI-e card emulating AGP to the correct connector.

Looking forward to doing something with the AW9D, definitely dual card, from memory these are only ATI crossfire compatible because of the chipset out of the box but there is a hacked driver that allowed SLI to work on them up to the 7xxx series NV cards. Always fancied a pair of Reference 2600XT DDR4 cards when they first came out, might see if i can locate a couple of them cheaply. either that or if the NV thing is true I have a soft spot for the 7600GT as had a Galax GS-T Overclocked weird model and was a great card!

Decisions, decisions!!!!
 
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Day off today so have been chilling reading a few more pages of this great book.
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Excellent book that I supported on Kickstarter back then and highly recommend for any Amiga fans out there.
I even had a few email conversations with the author giving suggestions and such on what Amiga game to include and he seemed like a great guy.

In fact, he sent me this when all the KS book had been shipped out after I had been too late to back this specific limited edition on KS.

LE Putty Squad Boxed (only 100 exists)
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This was a follow up to the 1992’s Amiga game Putty and completed in 1994 for the Amiga with reviews out, a demo and even a SNES port was released.
The Amiga version however disappeared until around 20 years later at Christmas 2013, developer System 3 together with members of the Amiga community finally got the game released as a free digital download.

There is quite an interesting story on how this game was saved.
https://codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/galahad-masters-amiga-putty-squad/
 
NinjaCool said:
Excellent book that I supported on Kickstarter back then and highly recommend for any Amiga fans out there.
I even had a few email conversations with the author giving suggestions and such on what Amiga game to include and he seemed like a great guy.

In fact, he sent me this when all the KS book had been shipped out after I had been too late to back this specific limited edition on KS.

LE Putty Squad Boxed (only 100 exists)
Putty1.jpg

Putty2.jpg

Putty4.jpg

This was a follow up to the 1992’s Amiga game Putty and completed in 1994 for the Amiga with reviews out, a demo and even a SNES port was released.
The Amiga version however disappeared until around 20 years later at Christmas 2013, developer System 3 together with members of the Amiga community finally got the game released as a free digital download.

There is quite an interesting story on how this game was saved.
https://codetapper.com/amiga/interviews/galahad-masters-amiga-putty-squad/
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WOW I never knew that the physical version existed, that is amazing and a real collectors item!

Putty on console never really had the charm of the Amiga versions!

Is that Amiga free download version still available? (apologies, just scrolled right to the bottom....wanted to read the whole article so didn't think to lol)
 
phatboy said:
WOW I never knew that the physical version existed, that is amazing and a real collectors item!
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Yes although newer then most of the rarer games in my collection, I still categorize this boxed editing as a very rare collector’s item and I'm happy to have it :)
The box is using the same design the developers originally planned to use back in 1994 for the Amiga release so I think that's a nice touch.
 
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