Post here every time you get something new!

Jack burton

Yeah thats the thing, only reason I got it is because it wasnt an completly outragous price. €45 posted, and checked on ebay then and there was one BIN for £99 so seemed alright to me. Glad I got it though, doesnt come up that much around that place

o1s1n

From what I've seen, you got it for a great price. I'll have to add that to my ebay saved searches. Seems like an interesting thing to have.

o1s1n

Is it just me or have RGB cables come down loads in price? I just got a Snes one for €8.00 delivered. And it's from consolegoods.co.uk's ebay account, so it's definitely legit.

johnny_ultimate

My copy of Death Smiles arrived in the post today - a Saturday :eek: Was up early (well, 9 AM) to head into the film festival in town, was a nice gift on the doorstep when I hazily left my house!

Myrddin

Picked up my Amiga 600 today. Chuffed, 25 quid for God sake men it's a steal!







Slightly yellow in places, but for the cost I can live with that. I'll do all the mod-cons to it eventually, including the hdd etc. I might even try the yellowing removal solution too.

The same seller has another one up for €20, twenty quid lads. No mouse, someone buy the bloody thing though!

http://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/amiga-600-power-supply-joystick-kickstart-37-300/457333

amacachi

Is that a german keyboard or something? First noticed the y and z being switched then (I think) the umlauted letters on the right.

Myrddin

amacachi wrote: »

Is that a german keyboard or something? First noticed the y and z being switched then (I think) the umlauted letters on the right.

Lol, actually it is. Can I exhange the keys & change the option to use the standard QWERTY in the system?

amacachi

EnterNow wrote: »

Lol, actually it is. Can I exhange the keys & change the option to use the standard QWERTY in the system?

If it's like windows then yeah. I assume you've already made sure it's mapped as the buttons are laid out.

Myrddin

amacachi wrote: »

If it's like windows then yeah. I assume you've already made sure it's mapped as the buttons are laid out.

Never assume anything when it comes to me I'll check it again later, I'm already looking at better kickstarts :rolleyes: it's over for me now, save yourselves!

Ron DMC

EnterNow wrote: »

The same seller has another one up for €20, twenty quid lads. No mouse, someone buy the bloody thing though!

http://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/amiga-600-power-supply-joystick-kickstart-37-300/457333

That is really rather tempting. But twenty quid when you're a student is still twenty quid. I'd probably never use the thing anyway.

o1s1n

There are region options on my A1200. Not sure about the 600 though? Would imagine there are.

I found out as the OS on my one was set to German when I got it :eek:

Almost had a heart attack.

Anyway, someone, please buy that 600 that Enternow linked before I do! I really don't need another, but at that price it's pretty feckin hard to say no.

Dan_Solo

Another Commodore laptop to add to the collection (OK, I've three :-) )
This one's a 286, probably 6 or 8 MHz chip, probably 1MB RAM, dead battery as usual... I'm usually happy if the HD works...

yrwhu8jxtni06a

"Keymaps" are on one of the wb disks,its what your looking for.

When you install wb you can change the settings in with keymaps,it will ask you,heres pics to guide you through-

http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/tutorial_1/7.php

Kickstart chips for the A600 are here-

http://www.vesalia.de/e_kickstart%5B154%5D.htm

Myrddin

Magnolia Nutty Minority wrote: »

"Keymaps" are on one of the wb disks,its what your looking for.

When you install wb you can change the settings in with keymaps,it will ask you,heres pics to guide you through-

http://www.lemonamiga.com/help/tutorial_1/7.php

Kickstart chips for the A600 are here-

http://www.vesalia.de/e_kickstart%5B154%5D.htm

Your a gentleman & a scholar, cheers!

yrwhu8jxtni06a

Just to add,if anyone upgrades their migs,the standard psu is shoite,was only suited for light stuff,so if you get to levels of accelerator/turbo cards,you need to adapt and PC psu or buy something like this-

*which is an pc psu itself *make sure you tick the euro psu setting at bottom when order
http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=866

Or DIY Pc psu the hack guide here-
http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/Amiga_Power_supplies/body_amiga_power_supplies.html

Anything with hard drives etc,A500 supply should do fine,the mig supply its external so it only draw what it needs.

alpahaeagle

Have a mig1200 myself. The power supply went bang when I turned it on one day. So I DIYed a PC power supply to use on the mig and the thing goes fine now. Except that the Floppy has failed, so I am going to have to buy the HD SD card drive.

Dan_Solo

EnterNow wrote: »

The same seller has another one up for €20, twenty quid lads. No mouse, someone buy the bloody thing though!

http://www.adverts.ie/other-computers/amiga-600-power-supply-joystick-kickstart-37-300/457333

I don't know adverts.ie. It's all pick up only, right?

yrwhu8jxtni06a

alpahaeagle wrote: »

Except that the Floppy has failed, so I am going to have to buy the HD SD card drive.

Turn it on and listen for the ticking sound,then you know its not dead,not ticking then open up A1200 and check for loose connection

Drives on amigakit are too expensive,ebay is the way-

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Chinnon-Internal-disk-drive-Amiga-1200-600-computers-/310296232922?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item483f18c3da

Myrddin

Dan_Solo wrote: »

I don't know adverts.ie. It's all pick up only, right?

Yep, pickup from the Ballymun area. It's very easy to find, & parking etc is right beside him.

Dan_Solo

EnterNow wrote: »

Yep, pickup from the Ballymun area. It's very easy to find, & parking etc is right beside him.

I've no doubt that if I lived in Dublin I would have little difficulty picking it up!
Curse of the bogmen. No good concerts. No cool pickups.

Myrddin

Dan_Solo wrote: »

I've no doubt that if I lived in Dublin I would have little difficulty picking it up!
Curse of the bogmen. No good concerts. No cool pickups.

Oh I dunno about that man, I've seen plenty of gems on Adverts that were outside of the Black Pool, & available to yee country folk Might be worth asking him about postage even, it still might work out cheap?

Retr0gamer

Was in Rage and bought something that I told myself I wouldn't get.

Got an NTSC N64, Conkers Bad Fur Day (NTSC) and Doom 64 (PAL).

Now should I rebuy all my games as NTSC games or be content that if I buy 3 more games I'll have every game I ever wanted for the N64?

Need to get an s-video cable to get the most out of the NTSC N64 though and I'll report back on if it makes a big difference.

Dark Savior

Picked up these today from the car boot,nothing major but I got them all for €16.Can't wait to get stuck into Pro 18 :world golf tour:rolleyes:

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Need to mod the console for RGB, seeing as the NTSC units have RGB natively to get the most out of the NTSC N64 though and I'll report back on if it makes a big difference.

Fyp dude.

How much was the console if ya don't mind my asking?

Retr0gamer

Unfortunately it's one of the later models. It might be a snazzy transparent aquamarine but no RGB mod. Still there's no noticeable difference between s-video and RGB. It was only 20 in Rage, think they might have another one. Would you know if the power packs are transferable between PAL and US since it will save me breaking out the step down converter?

If you want to have a mess around with it for modding when you are bored let me knowand I'll let you have it even though I've no real use for a modded one

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Unfortunately it's one of the later models. It might be a snazzy transparent aquamarine but no RGB mod. Still there's no noticeable difference between s-video and RGB. It was only 20 in Rage, think they might have another one. Would you know if the power packs are transferable between PAL and US since it will save me breaking out the step down converter?

If you want to have a mess around with it for modding when you are bored let me knowand I'll let you have it even though I've no real use for a modded one

To the best of my knowledge, the power packs are transerrable so there should be no need for step down's.

How do you know it's not moddable? The only verified way it to open it & check...

I got one from Augmerson so if I have success with that, I'll certainly do it on yours. But RGB is better than S-Video surely??

Stoner

I picked one iup at christmas, c/w RGB scart it does make a difference alright. I know that this forum had caimed that they cannot be modded before, but to the best of my knowledge there is a mod chip and its a pig of a job with a low sucess rate and generally considered to be not worth it.

the power packs are interchangeable.
The scart cable I got was a Blaze Ultra 64 pro series RGB/Scart Connector. You are welcome to borrow it and see for yourself if you want

Myrddin

Stoner wrote: »

I picked one iup at christmas, c/w RGB scart it does make a difference alright. I know that this forum had caimed that they cannot be modded before, but to the best of my knowledge there is a mod chip and its a pig of a job with a low sucess rate and generally considered to be not worth it.

the power packs are interchangeable.
The scart cable I got was a Blaze Ultra 64 pro series RGB/Scart Connector. You are welcome to borrow it and see for yourself if you want

Well PAL units are unmoddable for RBG to the best of my knowledge (however there were early SECAM ones that could be modded). But some NTSC ones can be modded with two methods

1) Building a small amp as the display is too dark

Or

2) There's a non amped mod, which is generally more favoured.

I'll check my own one & see if it can be done, but your right, I'm almost certain RGB scart is better quality than s-video.

Retr0gamer

RGB is supposedly better than s-video but the difference is so small that it's barely noticeable. You can take a look at it if you want but I've a feeling it's unmoddable. I checked mmmonkey and it's usually the early models that are moddabble. My version number isn't listed as moddable unmoddable but it's a later version than any that are listed so I assumed that it isn't and he also says that the coloured later models are usually unmoddable so I assumed it was.

Retr0gamer

Found this on the wiki for s-video, a place in germany that modifies PAL N64's to RGB:

http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/8382/cPath/133_145/nintendo-64/umbau-n64-pal-auf-rgb-incl.-rgb-booster-kabel.html

Bit expensive!!!!

On a side note it's funny that Conkers Bad Fur Day has slight PAL style borders in the NTSC version

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Found this on the wiki for s-video, a place in germany that modifies PAL N64's to RGB:

http://www.wolfsoft.de/shop/product_info.php/products_id/8382/cPath/133_145/nintendo-64/umbau-n64-pal-auf-rgb-incl.-rgb-booster-kabel.html

Bit expensive!!!!

On a side note it's funny that Conkers Bad Fur Day has slight PAL style borders in the NTSC version

Ouch, it must be their own MOD though, & prob requires external bits n pieces. Priced out of the water imo. If they priced that mod @ €30 they'd have every EU retro collector looking for their business.

In the meantime I checked my own (christ I've never seen a console screwed together so well, there must be nearly 30 screws before you get the mobo out :eek:

Mmmonkey says this:



And I've got:



Looks like I'm in luck :cool:

Retr0gamer

What is your NS number? it's on the bottom of the console on the sticker with the barcode.

Mines NS293379449 which I'm presuming is too late a model.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

What is your NS number? it's on the bottom of the console on the sticker with the barcode.

Mines NS293379449 which I'm presuming is too late a model.

NUS-001

Is that what you mean?

Retr0gamer

Nope there should be a different sticker on the bottom with an NS number which will be NS xxxxxxxxx underneath a barcode.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nope there should be a different sticker on the bottom with an NS number which will be NS xxxxxxxxx underneath a barcode.

Ugh, it's gone back to the attic & that will have to wait I have the NUS - 001 with the (A)VDC-NUS chip though, that's been confirmed to be RGB moddable.

Retr0gamer

Think all N64's are NUS 001, mine is anyway. The NS number is what will tell you when it's made. Just wanted to know if it's a late on and if there's hope for mine. Was it a coloured N64 or a black one?

Retr0gamer

You wouldn't know german by any chance?

http://free-for-all.ath.cx/daten/n64rgbmod.html

amacachi

I'm pretty sure "Spiele" means "wire".

Myrddin

I'm also pretty sure BMW, Mercedes Benz, & Audi & VW all mean 'cool badge, poor car'

Em mine's a black one (the usual colour). Apparently the translucent NTSC ones like yours are more favourable for overclocking though...

johnny_ultimate

Retr0gamer wrote: »

You wouldn't know german by any chance?

http://free-for-all.ath.cx/daten/n64rgbmod.html

I actually do speak a bit of German, and I understand some of that just because of their habit of spelling newer words slightly differently than English :pac:

But there is a friend in need, and it is called google chrome. Auto-translation, and quite good at that! Kind of miss the days of completely broken English responses though: now it's only partially broken.

Who does not know? to check out his Nintendo 64 back out and closes it to be HD-TV and all the games look not so good (noisy, blurry, etc.), as it is but still so well remembered her ^ ^ °

Now this is partly because, at that time was not a norm or RGB standard for consoles as it is at this day.

Here you can create in a limited form of relief with the Mod depending on the
of relatively simple to complicated.

There are three variants of RGB mods for the Nintendo 64 consoles

- Mod No.1 is only for NTSC consoles with the revisions
NUS-CPU-01 to NUS-CPU-04
and the very rare French PAL consoles, called NIS 001 (FRA) or revision NUS-CPU (R) -01
because these revisions to the VDC-NUS chip inside the video have created an RGB signal.

- Mod No.2 is only the French PAL console and that these consoles have an S-RGB chip inside the Developer in the brackets in it.
This is because the Nintendo to at that time was not yet known, which was introduced in France now and PAL as the standard.
Because at that time, France had only SECAM TV standards.
This is good in the sense as it only a few missing solder SMD components must.

- Mod No. 3 is a time now gone bankrupt company were developed and then was offered as an example, Wolf soft conversion.
this mod was time for the PAL consoles with the DENC chip.
This conversion is now almost impossible
since you do not get the chips used for the A / D converter still really need the data to be burned onto the chip.
Qualitative but according to opinions of people at that time, the mod could not be installed at Wolf Soft are very good and who will rebuild this mod variant,
1. lucky to find the necessary things and
2. be familiar with programming chips, etc..

PS get the necessary components at Conrad Electronics and Reichelt
the components in the lists are linked to the entries from Reichelt.

Otherwise, I recommend a 4.5 mm External Torx screwdriver or bit to get

Retr0gamer

Hmm overclocking? So the rare games won't feel like you are walking through treacle... hmmm interesting although there might be complications like with o1s1ns megadrive.

Retr0gamer

Some N64 RGB goodness:

http://img528.imageshack.us/i/zelda64021ch5.jpg/
http://img528.imageshack.us/i/zelda64054vf7.jpg/

Looks amazing. Composite really does look so piss poor, it seems especially bad on the N64. I was reading about s-video, seems that the difference between it and RGB is that RGB will have slightly better colour but s-video gives the same sharpness and also doesn't have the composite artifacts. Think I can live with that. Hope it makes conker look good because it looks awful in composite.

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Hmm overclocking? So the rare games won't feel like you are walking through treacle... hmmm interesting although there might be complications like with o1s1ns megadrive.

I've no idea really. The complications were that I used too long of a piece of wire form the new oscillator to the cpu, once I shortened it it was perfect. Of course then his sound amp gave in a few weeks later, but i reckon he was trigger happy. I replaced that off an old MD to his oc'd one & as far as I know it's all still working??

To be honest, I don't think the N64 is worth the attention of overclocking etc. I doubt any significant gains could be made for all the hassle. A relatively universal RGB N64 would do me

I have a PAL one, & and an NTSC one, & also that passport thing so there shouldn't be much I cant run.

o1s1n

EnterNow wrote: »

I replaced that off an old MD to his oc'd one & as far as I know it's all still working??

It's still working yep. Gave it a go the other day with a Megadrive FPS called Bloodshot. Normally the game is totally unplayable due to the frame rate- something the overclock really improved significantly.

Myrddin

o1s1n wrote: »

It's still working yep. Gave it a go the other day with a Megadrive FPS called Bloodshot. Normally the game is totally unplayable due to the frame rate- something the overclock really improved significantly.

Complications, complications are made to be figured out. I laugh in the face of complication (excluding the PSone 8 wire stealth install method for SCPH-102 model PAL PSone units of the Sony Playstation video gaming console of the late 90's).

o1s1n

Was someone saying before that n64 overclocking wouldn't work as the games were capped at a certain fps?

On the topic at hand, I got the ps1 jamma connector. It's a lot smaller than I thought and will definitely work with the PSone. It's just a small board with a Jamma edge connector, dip switches, two controller connections and a connection to go to the AV out.

I don't think there was a power cable though. Maybe it needs a separate cabe running out of the console.

CiDeRmAn

Picked up my beloved Super Gameboy today in Rage, happy days!
Nearly ended the marriage though

Still, now I get to play Gameboy DonkeyKong, the greatest GB cart ever, in full colour!

Retr0gamer

GB Donkey Kong really is amazing. Starts off like a port. Turns into one of the best puzzle platformers ever.

Myrddin

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Nearly ended the marriage though

Sounds to me more like that Super Gameboy nearly done you a favour :D (joke!)

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Was someone saying before that n64 overclocking wouldn't work as the games were capped at a certain fps?

Think a lot of the Rare games are capped at 25 FPS or lower. Still it might make a difference since most of the rare games don't even hit that most of the time.