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[JRL1511844959]

Very nice job! Wonder what's on those EPROMS.

 

[mcdermd]

With no stickers on them, there's a good chance there's nothing on them.

 

[MinerAl]

I'll make this Bad Dudes cab switchable and pick up a steering wheel game (Spy Hunter? I'd love it!).

If you thought Mac collecting took up a lot of real estate...

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Gaming console collecting is mainstream acceptable. Almost anyone with a home theater/bonus room seems to be envious of those who have one a/o are actively looking for one or a few. Gaming consoles are retro-cool, but it's "just weird" to collect enough "old computers" to fill the cubic of a single gaming cabinet . . .

. . . so it goes. :-/

 

[mcdermd]

Well, a lot of my spare project time is being taken by an arcade project. I'm building a replica "Fix It Felix Jr." cabinet as featured in Disney's Wreck It Ralph.

I have the cabinet plans, custom vinyl graphics, about 2/3 of the hardware pieces, the monitor and the computer hardware all set. The game (original leaked Disney version) is booting invisibly and working well with the arcade controls wired up on a temporary control panel. Now all that's been shook out, I can start cutting MDF and putting the thing together.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Wear a really good dust mask cutting that stuff, it's sometimes referred to as the new asbestos.

 

[mcdermd]

Oh, yeah. Instant cloud. Worse than demo-ing plaster lathe walls.

 

[uniserver]

demo-ing plaster lathe walls.

i think this is one of the reason my dad decided to have kids.

one thing i can say is a campfire made of oak lath, gets insanely hot.

 

[mcdermd]

lol, nice.

 

[mcdermd]

These arrived today ...

 

[MinerAl]

Nice! Was that a package or did you design it?

 

[mcdermd]

I bought it as a package from ArcadeSkins (RidicRick). I didn't have any desire to reinvent the wheel with hours in Illustrator when someone else already did it for us.

 

[MinerAl]

Smart. I never could get Kinkos to print me a 2/3 scale Galaga marquee back when I built a mini for the kids. Stupid copyright laws...

 

[mcdermd]

Thanks to jt my latest is ... a Kanga. One of the elusive machines I never thought I would find. Thanks, comrades! I'm sure you all know how much we can help each other out!

 

[CC_333]

A Kanga?!

Wow! I'd like to have one of those as well.

Good find, though!

c

 

[volvo242gt]

Hey Dylan,

Is there anything else that I need to bring down with me this weekend, other than the gs?

Just want to make sure that your next "My Latest..." post has everything you need.

-J

 

[mcdermd]

I met up with volvo242gt at the big Volvo swap in Portland today where he had brought a II GS down for me. Maybe now I can get my old one running again. Thanks a million for bringing it down! I had intended on cruising back by and chatting for a few but I got a call from my wife telling me our younger kid was headed to urgent care so I had to split back home.

On the way up, I stopped off at a garage sale in Salem where I bought a Flower Power iMac for $15 ! w007!

 

[markyb86]

awesome! Flower power is probably my favorite iMac besides ruby

 

[mcdermd]

Don't look too far back in this theead then.

 

[mcdermd]

Well, you only ever get a really great score once every year or so. This is one of the best two I've ever gotten. Both have ended up with the start of a geek friendship at the end.

Cut to the chase, I ended up heading over the Cascades and meeting up with the guy advertising the ANS 700. He turned out to be a really neat guy and we chatted it up for three hours or so. He also happened to have worked at Apple for a couple of stints in the 1990s which meant he had all sorts of crazy stuff. He was very generous to me and I ended up getting a number of unique items:



I think the most unique was the PowerBook 500 prototype. The open window is so they could swap in the firmware du jour. Note the coloring is light. No idea on specs yet. I hope to start snooping through these tomorrow.