Hakk

Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect
condition, with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style
joystick. It also came with 5 games all in their original boxes.
Everything seems to be "almost new".

There was still 2 posters all folded up in the megadrive box along with
the instructions and those other leaflets you get with electronic devices.

£5.00

Bargain, or a waste of money?

Hakk

deKay

On Sun, 29 Aug 2010, Hakk wrote:

> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect condition,
> with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style joystick. It also
> came with 5 games all in their original boxes. Everything seems to be "almost
> new".
>
> There was still 2 posters all folded up in the megadrive box along with the
> instructions and those other leaflets you get with electronic devices.
>
> £5.00
>
> Bargain, or a waste of money?

Bargain, of course!

deKay
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Hakk <delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote:
> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect
> condition, with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style
> joystick. It also came with 5 games all in their original boxes.
> Everything seems to be "almost new".
>
> There was still 2 posters all folded up in the megadrive box along
> with the instructions and those other leaflets you get with electronic
> devices.
>
> £5.00
>
> Bargain, or a waste of money?

Bargain I would say, I managed to pick up some Nintendo Game & Watch but
they were missing battery covers

Also got a ZX Spectrum with games

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Toby Newman

On 2010-08-29, Hakk <delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote:
> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect
> condition, with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style
> joystick. It also came with 5 games all in their original boxes.
> Everything seems to be "almost new".
>
> There was still 2 posters all folded up in the megadrive box along with
> the instructions and those other leaflets you get with electronic devices.
>
> £5.00
>
> Bargain, or a waste of money?

Seen on freecycle today:

OFFER: Sega mega drive plus a few controllers - untested

Drive for offer, dont know if it still works but certainly did the
last
time I had a go. Theres a few controllers, one or two games, but I
think
the games are in my parents house.


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The dog from that film you saw

"Hakk" <delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote in message
news:cIGdne-pS9npXOTRnZ2dnUVZ8jqdnZ2d@bt.com...
> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect condition,
> with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style joystick. It also
> came with 5 games all in their original boxes. Everything seems to be
> "almost new".
>
> There was still 2 posters all folded up in the megadrive box along with
> the instructions and those other leaflets you get with electronic devices.
>
> £5.00
>
> Bargain, or a waste of money?
>
> Hakk





bargain after a fashion - but will you use it when you could just fire up
the megadrive emulator alongside every decent megadrive game ever on your
pc?

plus, uk megadrives run in slo-mo - didn't realise at the time when i had
one, but then when a friend got a 60hz one it was like night and day - far
more arcade like.



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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <8e1ebeFakuU1@mid.individual.net>,
The dog from that film you saw <dsb@removethisbitbtinternet.com> wrote:
>"Hakk" <delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote in message
>news:cIGdne-pS9npXOTRnZ2dnUVZ8jqdnZ2d@bt.com...
>> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect condition,
>> with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style joystick. It also
>> came with 5 games all in their original boxes. Everything seems to be
>> "almost new".
<<snip>>
>> Bargain, or a waste of money?
>
>bargain after a fashion - but will you use it when you could just fire up
>the megadrive emulator alongside every decent megadrive game ever on your
>pc?

Five years ago I would have made the argument that playing Megadrive games
on a real television has a quality that can't be duplicated in emulation.
But now that CRT screens are not standard issue hardware in western homes,
it turns out that plaing on an LCD or plasma screen with a fixed pixel
size is more like emulation. So your five pound Megadrive also really
needs a hundred pound screen (in both weight and cost, sadly.)

I deliberately bought a very high-quality Sony Wega screen years ago that
I knew would have a long operating life. On the few occasions that I do go
shopping for electronics of that scale, I bring along an Atari 2600 Jr. to
plug into test models to see how they handle the old NTSC chroma
information. I'll probably be buried with my 8-bit kit.

-KKC, sneaking in Phantasy Start Portable 2 demo time at work.
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have 'em in your pocket but you don't | @ io.com
remember they're there." - Bill Withers | http://www.io.com/~kkc

Toby Newman

On 2010-08-30, Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io> wrote:
> In article <8e1ebeFakuU1@mid.individual.net>,
> The dog from that film you saw <dsb@removethisbitbtinternet.com> wrote:
>>"Hakk" <delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote in message
>>news:cIGdne-pS9npXOTRnZ2dnUVZ8jqdnZ2d@bt.com...
>>> Today I bought a Megadrive, with original packaging, in perfect condition,
>>> with one 3 button joypad and one quickshot arcade style joystick. It also
>>> came with 5 games all in their original boxes. Everything seems to be
>>> "almost new".
> <<snip>>
>>> Bargain, or a waste of money?
>>
>>bargain after a fashion - but will you use it when you could just fire up
>>the megadrive emulator alongside every decent megadrive game ever on your
>>pc?
>
> Five years ago I would have made the argument that playing Megadrive games
> on a real television has a quality that can't be duplicated in emulation.
> But now that CRT screens are not standard issue hardware in western homes,
> it turns out that plaing on an LCD or plasma screen with a fixed pixel
> size is more like emulation. So your five pound Megadrive also really
> needs a hundred pound screen (in both weight and cost, sadly.)
>
> I deliberately bought a very high-quality Sony Wega screen years ago that
> I knew would have a long operating life. On the few occasions that I do go
> shopping for electronics of that scale, I bring along an Atari 2600 Jr. to
> plug into test models to see how they handle the old NTSC chroma
> information. I'll probably be buried with my 8-bit kit.

I still need to find the time and expertise to up the frequency of the
RF out on my Pong machine so that it lands somewhere between 470 and 862
MHz. (All my TVs only tune from TV channels 21 to 69, and for some
reason it outputs at something lower than this.)

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Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.

Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <i5j4e0$n2r$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
HarpingOn <HarpingOn@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>On 31/08/2010 15:32, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>> In article<-oCdnXV-LNH4kuDRnZ2dnUVZ8oSdnZ2d@bt.com>,
>> Hakk<delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote:
>>> On 31/08/2010 11:45, deKay wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Hakk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Luckily, I still have a 15" CRT tv in my games room just for this
>>>>
>>>> I found a 15" Archimedies monitor in my garage the other day. It's got
>>>> SCART and everything! Yay!
>>>>
>>> What state is your garage in if you just happen to find something of
>>> that size?
>>
>> In America we say that items of that description 'fell off a truck'. It's
>> a little bit more plausible.
>
>In the UK that sounds much like 'Fell off the back of a lorry (or
>wagon)' and is a euphemism for stolen goods!

Well yes, I was attempting to make a comedic accusation based on deKay's
otherwise unlikely luck, and you've gone and ruined it with your literal
literalness.

Back on topic, I did used to have this lovely amber NTSC monochrome
monitor that I would connect the Commodore 64 to. It could have handled
the digital output of the C-128, and it was a goal of mine at one point to
connect two monitors for the (very few) multi-screen, multi-player games
that had been written. Sadly, I never did pick up a C-128 and I keep
forgetting to look for one.

-KKC, who needs to clean out his garage.
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deKay

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io> wrote:
> In article <i5j4e0$n2r$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
> HarpingOn <HarpingOn@127.0.0.1> wrote:
> >On 31/08/2010 15:32, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
> >> In article<-oCdnXV-LNH4kuDRnZ2dnUVZ8oSdnZ2d@bt.com>,
> >> Hakk<delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote:
> >>> On 31/08/2010 11:45, deKay wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Hakk wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Luckily, I still have a 15" CRT tv in my games room just for
> > > > > > this
> >>>>
> >>>> I found a 15" Archimedies monitor in my garage the other day.
> > > > > It's got
> >>>> SCART and everything! Yay!
> >>>>
> >>> What state is your garage in if you just happen to find something
> > > > of
> >>> that size?
> >>
> >> In America we say that items of that description 'fell off a
> > > truck'. It's
> >> a little bit more plausible.
> >
> >In the UK that sounds much like 'Fell off the back of a lorry (or
> >wagon)' and is a euphemism for stolen goods!
>
> Well yes, I was attempting to make a comedic accusation based on
> deKay's
> otherwise unlikely luck, and you've gone and ruined it with your
> literal
> literalness.
>
> Back on topic, I did used to have this lovely amber NTSC monochrome
> monitor that I would connect the Commodore 64 to. It could have
> handled
> the digital output of the C-128, and it was a goal of mine at one
> point to
> connect two monitors for the (very few) multi-screen, multi-player
> games
> that had been written. Sadly, I never did pick up a C-128 and I keep
> forgetting to look for one.
>
> -KKC, who needs to clean out his garage.

I think the chances of such a monitor falling off a lorry are somewhat
slimmer than finding one in my garage.
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Gunther Gloop

On 31/08/10 16:48, deKay wrote:
> Kendrick Kerwin Chua<kendrick@nospam.io> wrote:
>> In article<i5j4e0$n2r$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> HarpingOn<HarpingOn@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>>> On 31/08/2010 15:32, Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
>>>> In article<-oCdnXV-LNH4kuDRnZ2dnUVZ8oSdnZ2d@bt.com>,
>>>> Hakk<delharrymjdel@delbtinternet.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 31/08/2010 11:45, deKay wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Hakk wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Luckily, I still have a 15" CRT tv in my games room just for
>>>>>>> this
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I found a 15" Archimedies monitor in my garage the other day.
>>>>>> It's got
>>>>>> SCART and everything! Yay!
>>>>>>
>>>>> What state is your garage in if you just happen to find something
>>>>> of
>>>>> that size?
>>>>
>>>> In America we say that items of that description 'fell off a
>>>> truck'. It's
>>>> a little bit more plausible.
>>>
>>> In the UK that sounds much like 'Fell off the back of a lorry (or
>>> wagon)' and is a euphemism for stolen goods!
>>
>> Well yes, I was attempting to make a comedic accusation based on
>> deKay's
>> otherwise unlikely luck, and you've gone and ruined it with your
>> literal
>> literalness.
>>
>> Back on topic, I did used to have this lovely amber NTSC monochrome
>> monitor that I would connect the Commodore 64 to. It could have
>> handled
>> the digital output of the C-128, and it was a goal of mine at one
>> point to
>> connect two monitors for the (very few) multi-screen, multi-player
>> games
>> that had been written. Sadly, I never did pick up a C-128 and I keep
>> forgetting to look for one.
>>
>> -KKC, who needs to clean out his garage.
>
> I think the chances of such a monitor falling off a lorry are somewhat
> slimmer than finding one in my garage.

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Demarent laures
Demar trux
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