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Very nice job! Wonder what's on those EPROMS.
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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. :-/
. . . so it goes. :-/
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.
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.
Wear a really good dust mask cutting that stuff, it's sometimes referred to as the new asbestos.
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
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
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!
On the way up, I stopped off at a garage sale in Salem where I bought a Flower Power iMac for $15 ! w007!
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.
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.
