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Thanks! I did a bit of editing while you were replying...a new picture, etc. added above...

 

It all OOZES class, Matt. I love all the original Atari "killer" apps that you are still using too plus the Atarilab hardware. It's all very definitely still in daily use and very definitely still very lurved - you clearly get immense pleasure from your CX and XL Command Center setups and of course the CoCo treats to come.... lucky you, fella!

 

Well, it's about 50 euros for both the printed books. Not cheap, but a good deal imho.
The PDF files alone are worth it, as they were nicely corrected in detail. Perhaps other print-on-demand services may offer a lower cost. Lulu.com made a good job.

 

I see Missile Command in your future...

 

I've not even had a chance to look at the machine or in the bags yet and see what other hardware is installed or if the A1200 actually works. That's a project for this weekend.

Just had another retro item turn up in the post, so will post some pictures over the next couple of days.

 

Good luck to you...Have fun..

 

Ok, I'll go 20

 

Yes, nice problem indeed...

The WHDLoad stuff is a dream once you have workbench on the HD and the latest version of WHDLoad is free and just unpacks into the C and Startup dirs.

I'm happy it's a keeper Al, as I always say, I love seeing a machine get used, usually people who say that it's a keeper or the like use those machines, maybe not every day or week or month, but they still get played with and are not just ornaments gathering dust (grrr).

But should the love affair end, then I'm here to be the knight in shining armour and rescue the good old 1200

Have fun Al, there's plenty to enjoy there...

 

It is actually rather sunny up here in dear old Glasgow. Even going to go for a wander in the park later

 

I remember finding out that Jay Miner was connected to the Atari chip set after I had my Amiga, I had a notion that he may have been when I saw the Amiga had Copper Lists and thought "that sounds very like our Display List" on the old Atari. Its such a weird story of how a group of CBM workers left to move to Atari and then made their own company later that Amiga / Commodore brought out, bringing it full circle, and there we had the Amiga 1000.

Such a smart set of fellows, both Atari 8bit and Amiga, years ahead of their time, mostly down to the clever use of custom processors sharing the load.

 

Hi Matt, yes got the 32 in 1 a while back, I'm pretty sure I left a message to say it had arrived. Not fitted it yet, been having hand problems, so not soldered anything for a while.

Will post when it's installed, thank you again.. No Rev C chip but no worries with that, see if someone else needs it..

To paraphrase Jaws, "I think were gonna need a bigger PSU" With all those carts..

 

Hi Matt, am using a good old Atari 9VAC supply, chunky and reliable (I hope)

As for your machine, I know how technically proficient you are, was purely a joke re the PSU, I know you would have taken all that in to consideration, come on, it's The Mighty Modder, you know your stuff...

 

I can't unsee / unread that...Blergh... Makes me think of The League of Gentle men breast feeding the pig...

 

That's why I used the old Atari one, they just are indestructible...A bit like Captain Scarlet

 

That Genesis controller is going to look awesome in the white with blue buttons. Very nice Matt.

 

Thank's @nysavant , the START button (or is it a PAUSE?) was painted grey, it's not in the picture, though that button is currently useless, I may mod the controller further for 4 compatible Joy2B+ buttons, but I don't know if anything is out yet that supports more than 3 buttons. And Star Trek S.O.S. is the only game I'm aware of (haven't checked the hack list lately) that supports all 3 buttons on the Genesis modded controller.

I might have shown you boys my custom painted Dreamcast last fall, I don't recall, I know I showed pictures on my profile update on AA. Anyway, I have printed out a stand for the DC and controller and VMU holders and wanted to show them off too anyway. The controller holder fits both style Atari Jaguar controllers and works good with the 7800 joypad too, so I'll be printing out more for all of them and another for my second DC controller. As I haven't found ready-made models to print made for those system's controller specifically anyway. Only for the 7800 pro-controller I showed you guys before. I'm sure they have some for 2600 controllers which will cover that system and my XL computer controllers, I just haven't looked yet.

This custom paint job was necessary after retro-brighting twice and yellowing returning with a vengeance...just in case I didn't talk about this here before...once again, Canyon Black, satin, and the same nickel paint in satin I've used for XL stuff. I replaced the LED with a blue one that goes well with the new colors, though I have been thinking of changing it to pure white, which might look even better.

And next to the VMU in the holder is an SD card interface that plugs into the back of the DC, and there's a loader disk for it I've temporarily misplaced. So I'll be able to fill up a card with disc images and load them from a menu instead of searching through my dozens and dozens of DC CDR's I made over the years. I used to have quite the real collection of games for it from buying it new in '99, but I sold it off around 2004 when I moved to Texas and I only have half a dozen real GDR's now and the rest are all CDR's.

 

Nice paint job on the DC. Looks more in line with the other Sega consoles that way.
Sega had lots of good ideas with the Dreamcast and I saw a couple of new releases for it last week in-store which was cool
(and by the looks of it you have same little HDMI switcher as me).

 

Yeah, I have my Xbox 360, Blue Ray Player and DVD player (only for old VCD's it supports-and upconverts!) as HDMI so I needed the switcher and the output goes to my projector. Everything else, Dreamcast, Jaguar, original Xbox and the various vintage media format machines are all connected via VGA, either directly or through one of two VGA converter boxes, one for RGB/component and one for composite/S-video. They all get upscaled to progressive scan 480/576p (depending if they are PAL or NTSC machines, I have both, and output on all of them is 75Hz VGA in either 640x480/576 VGA or XGA (1024x768) or WXGA (1600x1000+p anyway I forget offhand). They can all be sent as direct and only upscaled to progressive scan (line doubling) or also go through the converter's adaptive 3D combing and filtering and anti-aliasing processes and upscaled to high-definition like is done with DVD's on Blueray players. The RGB to VGA coverter box is hidden behind the DC next to the HDMI 3-way. You might catch a glimpse in one of the pictures.

 

That looks smashing Matt. Like the LEDs. And think I'd go for gray button surrounds like you mention.

 

I think gray would look best there as well Matt

 

I've spent the last couple of weeks playing about with an ex-post office bike and now finally have it up and running. If the weather stays okay might even take it for a little ride out this weekend to the local country park.



Also plan on doing a little bit of gaming on the XL and maybe have a shot of one or two of the other machines as well.

 

Nice Bike! I have an old mountain bike from a junk haul-off job I did last year that I intend to get up and running again. Though I'd rather just have a good old Schwinn Cruiser like I had in my twenties out in California. Simple, like your postal bike, except it had the curved upper frame bar.

 

Thanks Matt. It's made by an old British company called Pashley and built to last with hub gears and drum brakes. The plan is to use it for cycling to the park, shopping etc. I'll fit a couple of large pannier bags to the rear rack next.

Always been a bicycle fan since my earliest exploits on two wheels as a child. At one point I was up to nine bikes but now have it down to just this one and two others (an electric bike and a very nice hybrid ).

The Schwinn Cruisers are lovely bikes too but you don't tend to see a lot of them over here which is a pity. I liked the coaster brakes on some of the models. Like you say, nice and simple. Be interested to see what you could do to a mountain bike with all your talents for customisation!

 

So...I was on Etsy, purchasing some more Atari and Dreamcast metallic decals for my custom stuff, including a better than original quality 800XL name plate to go on my friend's 800XL that will ship soon. But this isn't a show and tell for those, you've seen those decals (except the XL) on my other stuff.

No, this post is about the metallic decals I found for my future robot, currently just parts of one arm in a case...but it all started with just an arm didn't it?

I've got two of them on the way so far for now...

Image does not represent actual size of product​

 

Wow, now that is a cool looking bit of equipment!