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Star Lord

I remember those kind of dust covers being pretty common back in the day, but they probably wouldn't have had any UV protection in them at that time!

Andrew76

Ah ok now I understand. They look useful.

Steve - is your C64 modded to load games from SD? As much as I love the machine the loading times have always put me off buying one again. I often wonder how I would fare these days with Track & Field compared to my 8 year old self. :pac:

Doge

Andrew76 wrote: »

I often wonder how I would fare these days with Track & Field compared to my 8 year old self. :pac:

Andrew76

Thankfully I was too young to have a haircut like that!

He's also an amateur - for proper fast times in T&F the joystick needed to be on a stable surface and you only moved the stick far enough for the microswitch to register. Zipstick was king.

CiDeRmAn

Andrew76 wrote: »

Thankfully I was too young to have a haircut like that!

He's also an amateur - for proper fast times in T&F the joystick needed to be on a stable surface and you only moved the stick far enough for the microswitch to register. Zipstick was king.

I had it on the Spectrum, or at least I had Daley Thompson's Decathlon, which was a clone of sorts.
Many Quickshot 2 sticks died to bring us entertainment....
Or least other peoples did, and I fixed them!
My personal stick was a Competition Pro,

similar design to the Zipstick


But this is the Hypersports/Track&Field game I'm hoping to buy in the coming weeks, on the Famicom, with a dedicated controller.


And, because Japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac68e_jpXgA

OwaynOTT

First purchase in an age

Hope these little whippersnappers appreciate this little gem

Steve X2

Andrew76 wrote: »

Ah ok now I understand. They look useful.

Steve - is your C64 modded to load games from SD? As much as I love the machine the loading times have always put me off buying one again. I often wonder how I would fare these days with Track & Field compared to my 8 year old self. :pac:

No it doesn’t load via SD(my A600 does). It’s got an internal 8GB CF Card HDD and boots to workbench with WHDLoad and the standard floppy on the side. I decided to leave the floppy for loading up my real physical games and testing new purchases.
This A1200 also has a few upgrades to the proc, memory etc so WHDLoad works pretty well.

Doge

I have the 1541 Ultimate II Cart which has a microSD slot and even a usb slot for plugging in flash drives or hard drives.

Seeing the manufacturer and model of your flash drive appear on the c64 screen when you plug it in is uncanny.

Its quite expensive at about 130 euro and theres a waiting list, but it is a fine peice of technology.

Its a full FPGA emulation of the 1541 Disk Drive so it has maximum compatibility with games unlike the cheaper ones. A lot of c64 games used fastloaders which took advantage of the extra processor in the disk drive to load games faster, which is why cheaper ones like the SD2IEC can't load them

It emulates cartridge games too which load instantly and you can even connect it to the cassette port to emulate tapes using the tape adapter!

Theres quite a few disk based games after been converted to cartridge format in recent years by folks on Csdb.

The user interface is great also, all you have to do is press the middle button to bring up the menu and from there you can use the joystick or keyboard to browse through roms and load up a game. Theres also a SID player.

Theres a new version being developed which will include an ethernet port for connecting to the internet or to network shares (i think).

Its an absolute beast of a cart but if youre only looking to play a few games it might be worth looking at the SD2IEC.

Steve X2

Doge wrote: »

I have the 1541 Ultimate II Cart which has a microSD slot and even a usb slot for plugging in flash drives or hard drives.

Seeing the manufacturer and model of your flash drive appear on the c64 screen when you plug it in is uncanny.

Its quite expensive at about 130 euro and theres a waiting list, but it is a fine peice of technology.

Its a full FPGA emulation of the 1541 Disk Drive so it has maximum compatibility with games unlike the cheaper ones. A lot of c64 games used fastloaders which took advantage of the extra processor in the disk drive to load games faster, which is why cheaper ones like the SD2IEC can't load them

It emulates cartridge games too which load instantly and you can even connect it to the cassette port to emulate tapes using the tape adapter!

Theres quite a few disk based games after been converted to cartridge format in recent years by folks on Csdb.

The user interface is great also, all you have to do is press the middle button to bring up the menu and from there you can use the joystick or keyboard to browse through roms and load up a game. Theres also a SID player.

Theres a new version being developed which will include an ethernet port for connecting to the internet or to network shares (i think).

Its an absolute beast of a cart but if youre only looking to play a few games it might be worth looking at the SD2IEC.

Thats just C64 though, yes? Not Amiga.
Or is there a way to connect and use it on Amiga's now?

Andrew76

Steve X2 wrote: »

Thats just C64 though, yes? Not Amiga.
Or is there a way to connect and use it on Amiga's now?

Yep, I was asking about the C64 not Amiga.
I have my 1200 modded with a HDD, was just curious what the options were for C64. That 1541 cart looks tasty.

Steve X2

Andrew76 wrote: »

Yep, I was asking about the C64 not Amiga.
I have my 1200 modded with a HDD, was just curious what the options were for C64. That 1541 cart looks tasty.

Ahhh
Me sleepy

CosmicSmash

I never saw these before, build your own paper arcade.




http://petes-emulation.com/ftp/acm/docs/AeroCity_PaperCraft.jpg

Doge

I wonder how they made the ball tops in the first picture though!

Steve X2

Doge wrote: »

I wonder how they made the ball tops in the first picture though!

Doge

Steve X2 wrote: »

After a reverse image search I'm afraid to ask how you know what "pearl headed pins are!" :P

Steve X2

Doge wrote: »

After a reverse image search I'm afraid to ask how you know what "pearl headed pins are!" :P

Added pins like these to some 3D printed arcade machine mini's a while back

Steve X2

Had to be done, my collection was lacking.
Terrible terrible yolk

Retr0gamer

Why?....

Steve X2

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Why?....

I already had a CDi

o1s1n

Scart port on the back of it so I guess they at least did something right.

Andrew76

Kinda reminds me of those Cylon spaceships from Battlestar Galactica, the original one with Face from the A-Team in it. :pac:

BGOllie

another MSX Bee card added to the collection

eddhorse

OwaynOTT wrote: »

First purchase in an age

Hope these little whippersnappers appreciate this little gem

Ah i have a shabby boxed version, great game, music sticks in my head, multiplayer fun

OwaynOTT

eddhorse wrote: »

Ah i have a shabby boxed version, great game, music sticks in my head, multiplayer fun

I use to have a mint boxed copy, I'm settling for any auld cart now for as low as possible.

Doge

BGOllie wrote: »

another MSX Bee card added to the collection

You just need to get your act together now and but a GX400 to match its controller you bought in the haul!

Steve X2

And just in the door, something to mess around with on the GX4000.

CiDeRmAn

Happened to be in Dublin today, swung by The Rage and had a look.
Picked up Fifa 97, Madden football, both for the MD, and Thunder blade for the Master System, and all for €2 each.
Then I picked up Puchi Carat for the PS, which is compatible with my Namco Volume Controller.

Steve X2

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Happened to be in Dublin today, swung by The Rage and had a look.
Picked up Fifa 97, Madden football, both for the MD, and Thunder blade for the Master System, and all for €2 each.
Then I picked up Puchi Carat for the PS, which is compatible with my Namco Volume Controller.

Steve X2

Got one of those bluetooth NES controller adapter thingies.
Work well and no noticeable lag yet. Connects to 8bitdo controllers without issue.

Star Lord

Steve X2 wrote: »

Got one of those bluetooth NES controller adapter thingies.
Work well and no noticeable lag yet. Connects to 8bitdo controllers without issue.

Hoping they bring out a SNES version soon, my 8bitdo controller is in better nick than the proper controllers!