What retro things have you done today?

My only worry would be essentially sharing a common ground between output devices, which might introduce noise, but there’s only one way to find out!
 
Looks and sounds great. I think the extra buttons on the pro are more to do with music production than anything else, the core GS and GM compatibility and sounds are all the same.

MA-20s turned up today, looks like i need to retrobrite them.

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I had to fix the belt on my Sharp Twin Famicom Yesterday. The disks were not reading, the belt was just spinning on the drive mech. I wiped the belt down with a baby wipe and it seems to have fixed it. Now reads disks again.
 
cee-S-dee said:
I had to fix the belt on my Sharp Twin Famicom Yesterday. The disks were not reading, the belt was just spinning on the drive mech. I wiped the belt down with a baby wipe and it seems to have fixed it. Now reads disks again.
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Which Twin Fami have you got? I have one myself :) I have two X68000s, a Pro 2 Desktop with 6mb, and an XVI tower with 6mb, SCSI2SD and a midi card.
 
vanpeebles said:
Which Twin Fami have you got? I have one myself :) I have two X68000s, a Pro 2 Desktop with 6mb, and an XVI tower with 6mb, SCSI2SD and a midi card.
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TWO X68000s!? Man i'd love just one hahaha. I love the boxes for the X68000 Disks. So cool.

I just have a Standard AN500B Twin Famicom. I keep meaning to do the NESRGB mod too it. I have done it too my Fami Jr and the Picture is ace.
 
cee-S-dee said:
TWO X68000s!? Man i'd love just one hahaha. I love the boxes for the X68000 Disks. So cool.

I just have a Standard AN500B Twin Famicom. I keep meaning to do the NESRGB mod too it. I have done it too my Fami Jr and the Picture is ace.
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I have a 505 in black :) Both x68000s were reasonably cheap. I had to repair the XVI, it needed recapping and some chips replacing, and I replaced the PSU too. The Pro 2 runs a PC PSU, and the XVI uses a pico with an adapter PSU.
 
vanpeebles said:
I have a 505 in black :) Both x68000s were reasonably cheap. I had to repair the XVI, it needed recapping and some chips replacing, and I replaced the PSU too. The Pro 2 runs a PC PSU, and the XVI uses a pico with an adapter PSU.
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What display do you use to run them? Don't they run some funky resolution?

I've been thinking of selling on my Twin Famicom as i don't really use it much, but i can't bring myself too :D

I mainly play on this, and Balloon Fight is probably the only game I play on it at the moment hahahah!

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cee-S-dee said:
What display do you use to run them? Don't they run some funky resolution?

I've been thinking of selling on my Twin Famicom as i don't really use it much, but i can't bring myself too :D

I mainly play on this, and Balloon Fight is probably the only game I play on it at the moment hahahah!

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Haha looks great. For the x68000s I just use VGA. Some games need 15hz but they are few and far between.
 
Armageus said:
This popped up on my Google feed earlier

https://www.pcgamer.com/amp/the-very-specific-horror-of-old-graphics-card-packaging-art/
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I like the way that they couldn't even keep the first card to the subject of their opening paragraph! "Back through the mists of time, in the late 1990s and early-to-mid 2000s..." "Palit GeForce 9600GT Sonic (2008)" Since when is 2008 "early-to-mid" 2000s?

But yes, the packaging was on the whole, godawful. The 3DFX Voodoo series was great though!
 
Quite impressed with the MA-20s, frequency response is excellent, loads of detail in the sound, must have been something else back in the day.

Anyone have any idea how much they cost each back in 1993?
 
Chieftec Dragon turned up, case is in great condition, even has a neon tube installed in the bottom :D

The AN7NX installed in the case has leaking caps, as does the other one which came with it.

Video card in the machine was an FX5200, not sure on the cpu yet. In another box was an MX400, XP 2500+ and 1gb DDR.

Can't argue for the price, especially since the case is in very good shape (with keys even)!
 
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