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Fabtastic, Al.

Shame about the power light but other than that, she looks a beaut your new 800XL.

Your 130XE ad looks slick too - I reckon you will receive offers as the SD max certainly offers so much more for the retro games player in terms of instant gaming action and if the offers are anywhere near your required £175 then I'd accept, matey.

Good luck with all that and balls to anyone who doesn't like your Subbuteo collection - they obviously haven't lived and flicked to kick...



Quiz question, fellas - name these two 70s/80s ex-football larkers - one played for Scotland and one for England.

 

I was half right, Channon, had forgotten about the other guy (been a while since I heard his name)

 

I bought my complete, but used copy in excellent condition for $15 on Etsy, and shipping was a bit more, all in it was under $20. But I could have done better. I was browsing Video61's disk software list yesterday and I see they have NOS copies of it for only $12.95. That might not be a bad price for even you, depending on shipping.

http://www.atarisales.com/compdisk.html

Orders these days are all through e-mail, no phone calls or online checkout. But Lance is a great guy to support.

 

How is the Pokey 3, it was one I wanted to get but real life ended that, still keen to know what its like though

 

Well, I have yet to get it fully installed, they've released no clear wiring instructions yet for it (though Duddie said he would the next day about a week ago!) all there is posted is a general pin-out, which I could figure out, but it means dragging out the old FSM and following schematics, but I've been busy again with work and haven't had time to continue things from my last post; my 800 is still showing it's guts waiting for me.

But I can tell you about the Pokeymax V2 Quad +Covox, at least the Pokey part as I haven't had time to investigate Covox yet either. But I love the Pokeymax because with the configuration program you have quite a bit of control and my favorite part is that EVERY SINGLE ATARI GAME can have stereo sound of you set the settings for it! It will use the extra Pokey's and you can assign the 4 original Pokey voices used in games to output on the second Pokey too and choose L or R speaker for any one voice to come out of. This is actually my favorite thing so far about the Pokeymax, even though stereo games still sound even better with 8 voices. Now we just need more that use 4 Pokeys which should start happening now the Quad pokey is the standard on V3 and beyond!

 

GREAT to see Matt's XL Command Centre going from strength to strength. Whenever I see a fellow retronaut's bootiful collection taking such great shape it always helps to kick my butt out of a sense of stasis (been seemingly making no progress at all for bloody months now) and gives me a feeling of hope and a better set-up in the future.
If mine ends up looking half as good, I'll take that for now.
Thing is I'm torn between a new contemporary gloss white cube type storage / display solution (with neon ambiance lighting etc) but then finding my old gear sticks out like a sore thumb style clash-wise so sticking to some old style furniture but then seriously testing Bev's wrath as she will kick off if I turn one of her new looking rooms into a 70s MDF / Habitat throwback! Oh, the dilemma, my fellow retro gear chums!!

 

Yes, as you said, we chatted about it and its deffo on my want list..

Love the PC Engine, thought I was going to get my brother's one, but that went south. Signed up for Magic Engine back then just to play Gunhead again, cracking set of shooters on the PCE.

R-Type was almost a perfect conversion..

 

I love the steampunk look, I used to go to all the cosplay events as my daughter was a performer, steampunk was a big thing at them, obviously anime was the biggest.

 

Best of luck with all your side projects, Matt, you need another 24hrs in a day

And yes, 60's stuff just isn't right..Gaudy is the only word I can use for it..

 

Tell me about it Paul! I'm always feeling like the days are too short or time is flying by too fast. Another 24 hours a day, and having Tony Montana for a neighbor might help me move things along too. I do tend to spread myself to thin with many planned and half-finished hobby projects. But this time of year it seems more-so because I'm busy with the business and trying to squeeze in time for a 1001 projects that still need to get done on the house and land. And this has been one of the wettest springs on record, with weeks straight of rain. So I can't run my business, I can't do most of the work on the house, even in-doors, because too much of it requires open windows and exhaust fans for ventilation.

Plus, I've got no shop for my business yet either, so all mechanical maintenance has to be done outside. But the few days in-between rain and waiting for the ground to dry were the only days I have to catch up on entire weeks of missed lawn and other outdoor services, and of course that's more difficult because of irregular care and over-growth. Then throw in Murphy's law when it comes to all of our equipment and continual break-downs on the days we can service customers. I've been going crazy this spring! You wouldn't believe it if I told you all the break downs and unusual mechanical issues that hit us right after another. I dream of a day with a semi-ordered day and regular routine leaving a bit of time for relaxation and hobbies. I did take advantage of the rainy days for some electronics projects, but not enough to finish anything yet.

Anyway, I've been taking it all in stride as my experience and wisdom allow. I may get stressed in the moment, but I don't worry, I just keep running against the wind.

 

Sounds like you are up against it, my friend, but your attitude towards it is exceptional.

Having Tony Montana as a neighbour may not be a good thing, running around with flared white nostrils at a million miles an hour might get more work done, but I suspect shooting the already broken machinery when it's not going right may be a negative

Hope the weather lets up, the world seems crazy, Canada at 49C, you're getting flooded and my daughter's Uni roommate went home to Cyprus and now suddenly half the island is on fire from a heatwave..

Here, it can't decide if it's summer or spring.. Seems constantly mild to cold, overcast and wet with the very odd warm sunny day thrown in..

I hope things sort themselves out for you and you get to complete one part of it all at the very least.

All the best to you and the pups..

 

I echo Paul's sentiments, mate.

Some days/weeks/seasons are sent to test us and it sounds like your Spring sprung a leak somewhere along the line. That many fails on equipment makes you feel like you must've run over a dozen black cats or something bloody unlucky.

The weather is officially.... nuts. Nothing adds up, nothing is consistent and nothing seems to work anymore. We do seem to be in an ecological crisis with these flash floods, fires and god awful news about disaster upon disaster.

All we can do, gents, is give it our best shot (Matt ticks that box), boot up our old beauties (he gets a tick there too) and relive our glory days of the late 70s/early 80s (and 90s too if you like your 16bit/later game consoles etc) so I don't think there's much more to be said, really.

We're both self-isolating as our poorly neighbour Nick has tested positive for the old Corona/Covid evil biscuit germ when he was admitted to hospital after suffering a mental breakdown...

I tell ye what, I've never known times like these, fellas.

Dig in and keep smiling through, one and all - treasure and adore whoever & whatever you are lucky enough to have that makes you happy as god knows there's plenty of grief and suffering out there.

 

Nice alternative discovery there, Alan...

My daughter was telling me this morning that the kids use lemon juice on the lateral flow test swabs, so they get time off to isolate Little gits..

And as they will be doing the in school tests in a booth by themselves, I dare say the practice won't stop.

I wonder who found out that little fraudulent practice..

As for those goons in Westminster, all they care about is shagging, apparently there's a list kept by those in charge of who the top shaggers are, seems Gove and Hancock were the top two..

Poor Boris, can't even win that one..

Good luck England, not talking the footy (but good luck to them), I'm talking England, Scotland and Wales after the 19th, I give it two months max before we are in deep do do...

 

Nice find with the controllers!

As to your other half, if you want to scare her with a practical joke, tell her that you and I have decided to make a trade and that you'll have a suitcase full of vintage electronics to swap with a suitcase full I have and ask for her to carry it along and "swing by" and exchange with me...her

 

She's a bit of a nerd herself so would probably be up for that and want to know what was in the cases

 

She can never know what is in the cases

It's for 'local' people....(See if Matt watched The League of Gentlemen)

 

Its a UK TV comedy series and not the Sean Connery film

 

Like the lads say, Matt, so glad it made it through intact, buddy.

You can't beat the real deal and this 7800 (ex-Al's) looks a lovely example - enjoy, fella.

Get blasting!

 

Nice Matt. It's a really good shooter, still pretty amazing what our little Atari's can do after all these years.

 

You have been playing the original, FREE, ABBUC 2020 edition, right?

I may never even get beyond the 4 levels of the ABBUC version, let alone all 8 in this final release version! But I will try! I've yet to even make it half-way through level 2 of the ABBUC version! Not that I've had time for gaming the last few months, nor could I have since my computers are disassembled for upgrades and repairs for the last few months too!

 

Nope, haven't played any version yet, Matt, just watched the clip on You Tube, buddy with the aerial and ground targets/opponents.

Looks well programmed, slick n smooth.

Wonderful that guys are still making quality releases for our old Atari classics so thanks for flagging this up.

 

If you want to see something really cool, check out Flob! Some great game mechanics.

 

Some cracking kit there @M.D.Baker loving the Jag kit on show…^10

 

Spot on Paul. Enjoy all the bits you have bought Matt. You must have enough projects lined up now to last you a few years!

 

Oh, yeah, I suppose I should share pictures of my birthday present from my mother and brother...A nice new electronics tool kit.