Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Electronic HandHeld Games & Vintage Toys, Home Consoles & Computers => Topic started by: level42 on March 04, 2014, 01:41:03 PM
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Well....I thought since my good friend Béla was so brave, I could not stay behind..picking this up in a few hours.....
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Well....I thought since my good friend Béla was so brave, I could not stay behind..picking this up in a few hours.....
A Mortal Kombat ? ;D ;) ;D ;) ;D ;) ;D
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No it's not THAT dark. ....but you're close....
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No, André would never buy that, it will be something more interesting. ;D
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May the Atari gods forgive my sin !
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I'd like to play Giana Sisters ones again, loved it as a kid
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Good choice ;)
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Welcome to the club of C64 owners, I'm really curious about your opinion about the differences between our favourite games like Blue Max, etc. in these 2 brilliant systems. ;)
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There I agree......IMHO they were the two best systems of the era.....with the Atari of course being 3 years older and thus the most amazing one of the two ;);););)
But guys.....I expected you guys to make more fun of me.....I'm disappointed ;D ;D
I got some extra turbo card thing with the set and the seller demonstrated it, makes loading of games a lot easier and most important MUCH faster....
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IMHO they were the two best systems of the era.
I think the MSX Konami games were the best Home Computer games of the 80s
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I dont have my C64 anymore, but i may have a power cartridge in the attic somewhere.
http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/brochure/item/kcs_power_cartridge_02/nl
(http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/power-cartridge-c64_1.jpg)
at one point in time i also had the Final cartridge III which was more advanced than this one.
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Finally one of us!
Welcome Level 64 (don't forget to change your avatar).
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LOL......
Not sure what that turbo cart I got with the system is....it's a small PCB without a case...
KCS still exists by the way !
http://www.elektronica-assemblage.nl/index.asp?page=profile&lang=n
MSX was old when it was released.....I haven't played a lot of games on them I admit, but what I've seen didn't impress me a lot. I had moved to the 16/32 bits era by then...
I also knew absolutely no-one who owned one....
Can you list 10 of the best games on MSX Patrick, want to check them out because I -am- ready to believe you ;)
@Chris....sorry mate, you know the final answer to everything will always be.......42 :)
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the games I remember from my MSX:
- Track & Field series (like the arcade game)
- Yie ar Kung Fu 1 en 2
- Knightmare
- King's Valley
- Athletic Land
- Comic Bakery
- Ping pong
- Goonies
those are all Konami titles, there were many more I can't think of right now
Off course I played Jet set Willy and Manic Miner, BC 2 Grog's revenge, Boulder dash, Chucky Egg, Auf Wiedersehen Monty, O Shit (=pacman), Oil's Well and other titles. But the quality of Konami was very good
Now that I think of it, the Activision titles were very good too, Beam Rider, Pitfall 2, Ghostbusters, etc
My friend had a C64, but I remember it as been very sloppy games
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Funny you mention T&F as first because that is the game I always relate to MSX. I think it was demoed a lot (Firato maybe ?) then ?
Problem is......I don't like T&F and similar games... :)
Apart from Goonies no other title says anything to me, but I'll see if I can watch some videos...
Back to the C64:
That is one fucking big box for a floppy disk !
(At Atari they were called floppy disk DRIVE......:)
I plan on doing a nice video comparing the systems :)
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nice :)
looking forward to that video
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This is the cartridge, does anybody know it? Looks bootleg/self built to me.
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There where mulitple variants of the floppy drive:
1. i think the first by looking at the closing mechanism
(http://www.mainbyte.com/vic20/1541_floppy.jpg)
2. the standard with a lever closing mechanism:
(http://www.bluelake.nl/oldsite2/1541.jpg)
and i think they came in black and beige
3. the one i had, a much smaller formfactor, the 1541-II:
(http://ocaoimh.ie/ocaoimh/2012/02/C64-IMG_5372.jpg)
Which one you got there ?
but i believe the bigger ones have the powersupply build in ?
mine had a separate adapter like the one from the C64 itself
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Which one you got there ?
All three models .... the last one 1541-II works great!!
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I have a C64...
Sadly, it's buried in some box, I only have a black-and-white video cable, and I lost the cable for my disk drive (1541-variant) a couple years ago, and that cable is ridiculously hard to find... :'(
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I have a C64...
Sadly, it's buried in some box, I only have a black-and-white video cable, and I lost the cable for my disk drive (1541-variant) a couple years ago, and that cable is ridiculously hard to find... :'(
http://store.go4retro.com/commodore-iec-disk-drive-cable/
or just make one, 2 "DIN6" plugs and youre done..
http://www.amazon.com/6-Pin-DIN-Plug-240-b0/dp/B000LDWV80
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Thanks :)
Anyway, my C64 collection (taken with my awful camera):
(http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab168/zxthehedgehog/C64_zpse3352ed8.jpg)
C2N Datasette 1530 on top of box for C64
Floppy Drive (in-box) with C64 leaning against it
Datasette box (I even have the original foam)
Binder of tapes
Science III and IV Commodore Public Domain Series + Floppies
Commodore 64 Disk Bonus Pack
as well as the power supplies.
Sadly, the power light does not glow anymore. Is it possible to replace it?
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I hope your collection is not always spread all over the floor ;)
Replacing the PowerLED is something that even I could do ;)
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No, that's out of the boxes they usually hide in.
So, it's just a normal LED?
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Yeah, what else would it be ;D
The C64 is constructed the Tramiel way: as fucking cheap as possible. The LED has two wires running from the lid to the main-board. maybe the connector came loose or someone who worked in it has connected it backwards. This doesn't damage anything, just makes the LED not light up.
LEDs last VERY long, ALL my vintage computers and peripheral with LEDs from those times still work just fine. LEDs almost never die.
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I thought it was some standard bulb with a cover, possibly.
There's probably a bad wire from the board, since I got mine from a guy who said he'd tried everything and couldn't get it to work. Turns out, it just needed a new video cable. I quickly put two and two together when when I saw that the one he gave me had all the pins cut off.
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Yeah, while Atari went the expensive by using trained fireflies (can you imagine how expensive it is to train fireflies to do that?) which had to put their glowing butt into a small transparent dome when getting 5V, Commodore used the far cheaper LEDs for their 'bread bin'.
No? I wonder what (NASA?) technology else was used in Atari's power lamp ???
;D :P ;)