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Ant · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:48 am Post subject:

airship wrote:

Second, a Joystick Switcher from OZ, $35.00 AU. Bought mostly to buffer the CIA inputs, not necessarily for swapping controllers.

Hey airship. Is there a website or contact for that joystick switcher? Or was that an eBay purchase?

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Gammapooka · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject:

Australian C64c
C64 Breadbin
Commodore 1351 mouse boxed
Commodore 1541-II drive boxed
2 x C2N datarecorder
1531 datarecorder + converter for C64
2 x powercartridge (1985/1989?)
Original converter from Commodore from Monitor to tv
Resetswitch userpoort
Commodore 1802 Monitor

Original boxed games :

Solo flight
Samanta Fox strippoker
Skyfox
2x wegwijs op uw Commodore 64 v2.0
Battle for Normandy
747 Flight Simulator
Ricochet
Olli & Lissa 3
F15 Strike Eagle
Radarsoft Tempo Typen
Mini Office
Super Huey Helicopter Simulator
2 x Radarsoft Databasis
Rock 'n Roll
Radarsoft Hopeloos
Colossus Chess 4.0
Little Puff
Odyssey
Scarabaeus
Impossible Mission
NOS Best of Basicode 1,2,3
Radarsoft Kruiswoord
Orpheus
Frogger (Chuck Benton)
Superbasic voor C64
Beyond
In den Beginne
Programmeercursus Basic (Kluwer)
Strike Force Harrier
Interview
Hardball
Summer Games 2
Flight Deck
Nightshade
Bionic Commando

Floppy :
Scooby Doo
Kennedy Approach

hbhzth · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:44 pm Post subject:

Gammapooka wrote:

Australian C64c
C64 Breadbin
Commodore 1351 mouse boxed
Commodore 1541-II drive boxed
2 x C2N datarecorder
1531 datarecorder + converter for C64
2 x powercartridge (1985/1989?)
Original converter from Commodore from Monitor to tv
Resetswitch userpoort
Commodore 1802 Monitor

Original boxed games :

Solo flight
Samanta Fox strippoker
Skyfox
2x wegwijs op uw Commodore 64 v2.0
Battle for Normandy
747 Flight Simulator
Ricochet
Olli & Lissa 3
F15 Strike Eagle
Radarsoft Tempo Typen
Mini Office
Super Huey Helicopter Simulator
2 x Radarsoft Databasis
Rock 'n Roll
Radarsoft Hopeloos
Colossus Chess 4.0
Little Puff
Odyssey
Scarabaeus
Impossible Mission
NOS Best of Basicode 1,2,3
Radarsoft Kruiswoord
Orpheus
Frogger (Chuck Benton)
Superbasic voor C64
Beyond
In den Beginne
Programmeercursus Basic (Kluwer)
Strike Force Harrier
Interview
Hardball
Summer Games 2
Flight Deck
Nightshade
Bionic Commando

Floppy :
Scooby Doo
Kennedy Approach

You got all these games recently, in a lot or bought one at a time?
How much for the hardware? And the software (if in a lot)?
Would be nice to know Very Happy

Nice collection BTW.

Gammapooka · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:29 am Post subject:

It was a big box with everything in it, i did trade it with a PSP (lol).

hbhzth · Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 4:55 am Post subject:

Gammapooka wrote:

It was a big box with everything in it, i did trade it with a PSP (lol).

Looks like you did a VERY good deal there. Very Happy

BTW; nice to see you joining this site. Hope you'll be posting more stuff in the future.

hbhzth · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:25 pm Post subject:

Some new tape additions....

Witch Switch (English software):

A software house I remember from the old times. I always was curious about their games, but never seemed to get hold of many of them. Except Electra Glide and some others. This one I never had - before now.

Blagger goes to Hollywood (Alligata UK special release):

Only sold in UK says the cover. Offering a Tshirt and sticker for those who write in the enclosed postcard.

Eye of Horus (Logotron):

I was very much drawn to the wonderful cover artwork. Besides being a huge fan of Egyptian mythology this was a title I HAD to get for my collection. It had a lovely poster that came with it too.

Aghamix (a French game):

I had never heard about this title before I found it on German ebay. I did find an entry at GB64 but it was not much information there. The cover have a different name of producer than GB64.

There will be more games posted in near future....

hbhzth · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject:

It's so little action on this thread that I feel I have to contribute as much as I can to keep it alive Wink

Here are some new disk & tape titles I got hold of the last month or so...

Lords of Chaos:

Was lucky and got hold of this AWESOME game on ebay for a cheap buck - around £7.50 incl. shipment.

3 Supersoft titles on Tape (Did Supersoft release any of these titles on disk?)

#1;Burger Chase

#2;Crazy Kong

#3;Tank Atak

Eclipse Legionnaire:

An old classic I have not had any experience with earlier. Looks nice.

MicroProse Software/US GOLD F-15 Strike Eagle (Tape);

Wild Bill's modern jet fighter (of the mid 80s). He released an update with extra missions - where you could raid Ghaddafi's H.Q. and bomb the s**t out of him. N.Y. Times refused to print an add for this update, because it was in "bad taste" they thought. Quite odd when thinking about what happened there recently.

Anirog Flight Path 737 (Disk):

One of my most valuable disk releases at the moment, to me at least. I am a fan of Anirog software and having this on disk is quite nice. It's the 541th disk they released of this game (inlays are numbered). Of how many I don't know. Anyone who knows, please PM me.

Epyx/US GOLD Championship wrestling (Disk):

A game that scored high in the English computer magazines when it came out. It had such nice graphics I thought. I had a copy on disk, but I did not play it that much. Tag Team Wrestling was my choice of the time. Also played a bit Rock 'n Wrestle too, but it got boring quite quickly. Wrestling games are best with two players I think.

Accolades Comics (Disk):

I'm not sure if it's called just Comics? Think they added Accolades to make it stand out of comics in general or when people list it in adds or whatever. Just Comics sounds confusing on it's own. Cover says Comics on the side of box, so... Anyone from the Accolade team out there?

Gurt · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 3:43 am Post subject:

Got my U1541-II's tape adapter the other day (forgot I bought it, it took almost two months!), but only just got the energy to test it - I hadn't unpacked since the Brisbane C64 Night, so all my stuff was sitting in boxes in the gaming room.

Even though there was no manual, no indication which way to connect the pins to or even which way was the correct way to insert the adapter (ie which was up), it worked first go even though I only had one .TAP on my card. I didn't even know how to load it properly - seems all you have to do is much the same as disk; mount it, then exit out, then type LOAD as normal (CBM+RUNSTOP mapped to %* in Retro Replay, didn't think of SHIFT+RUNSTOP though). Tested on Fruit Bank (why?).

Great product for the money, if you have a U1541-II and want to load tapes this is a great solution for little money. I struggle to think of what else it could do.

Oge_user · Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2011 11:49 am Post subject:

hbhzth wrote:

Aghamix (a French game):

I had never heard about this title before I found it on German ebay. I did find an entry at GB64 but it was not much information there. The cover have a different name of producer than GB64.

Please share the TAP of that game Smile

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Picked this up tonight for $75.00!

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hurminator · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:30 am Post subject:

Wow, Sheppy, it looks mint!

GigerPunk · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 12:03 pm Post subject:

hbhzth wrote:

Accolades Comics (Disk):

I'm not sure if it's called just Comics? Think they added Accolades to make it stand out of comics in general or when people list it in adds or whatever. Just Comics sounds confusing on it's own. Cover says Comics on the side of box, so... Anyone from the Accolade team out there?

(I'm not from Accolade, but...) I've always known it as "Accolade's Comics", it's what all the magazines called it in their reviews at the time so I always went with that. Never paid much attention to the spine of the box. (I say spine as mine is actually a flat cardboard wallet, about 30cm square, like small gatefold album - is yours in an actual box?)

Always liked it but hated the minigames, would have been great if you could choose to play either the action sequences OR the story parts - you had the option to 'practice' the action games by themselves, but you couldn't play just the story parts.
Always felt it was like the difference between Lucasarts' adventure games and Sierra's, where you could get some way through the game and then have it suddenly end, seemingly unfairly because the action sequence had killed you. Lucasarts always made sure that never happened, whereas Sierra's stuff like King's Quest would kill you off quite happily from what I recall.

Still, nice game, especially if you liked comics and "Choose-your-own-adventure"-style books - maybe someone will do a hacked version at some point with the action sequences removed.
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Sheppy · Groupie Joined: 12 May 2011 Posts: 154 Location: S.W. Ohio

hurminator wrote:

Wow, Sheppy, it looks mint!

It damn near is! Was pretty dirty but cleaned up so nice. It has a couple of blems but they are very minor. The keyboard is as mint as they get. This makes me very happy because my old 128D is a great machine, but the keyboard is badly yellowed.
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hbhzth · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:36 pm Post subject:

GigerPunk wrote:

Never paid much attention to the spine of the box. (I say spine as mine is actually a flat cardboard wallet, about 30cm square, like small gatefold album - is yours in an actual box?)

Mine is the same as yours, just had a hard time describing it Smile

You also see the spine says COMICS all alone at the top? If it was titled Accolades Comics, shouldn't it stand that there too? On the front there is different colours and fonts for Accolade and Comics, thus separating them from each other.

I agree with you that everywhere it's called Accolades Comics - Think it became that way if/due to the title was Comics. "We have tested comics" or "I like/don't like Comics". Accolades Comics is not to be misunderstood as easy.

This being said, it can also be I am wrong, that it's actually called "Accolades Comics".

Still there should be a definite way to know this. The makers should be able to tell. Others I am not sure with in this case. If I am right then most people THINK it's called Accolades Comics and gladly type it wrong everywhere - magazines does it and so does everyone else too.

An analogy: It's like my first name. It's written slightly different than it's normally written; HAVAR usually written HAVARD here in Norway. It was registered on my birth papers and later at official government index as my parents decided. Trivia: I think there is like 15-20 people that write my name as I do last I checked.

Then by the 90s they went from paper to digital system. The person responsible for the conversion wrote my name as it is normally written (with an D at the end), thus making an error. Nobody but me seems to mind this problem, all my mail and identification papers works fine. I keep writing my name without D, HAVAR, but when getting replies and such it's written HAVARD again. They try to correct me, like I don't know my own name. Smile

Same when I got a VISA card. Now I have to misspell my name when I try to use it online. Computers can't understand logic either so it's no point in trying else it's refused due to WRONG name. I have tried to write to the official government agency responsible, but they say I have to CHANGE my name. So I have to mend their errors, by filling out lots of papers, sign my name and send it by snailmail.

GigerPunk · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject:

hbhzth wrote:

It's like my first name.

Ouch. Have you seen the film Brazil? Sounds like you could be in a similar situation to Mr. Buttle/Tuttle...(if you've not seen it, simple bureacratic error (fly in typewriter causes typo) causes absolute nightmares)

Of course, the error could simply be that the spine of the packaging was incorrectly printed and should have said Accolade's Comics, rather than just Comics...
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hedning · Über Groupie Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Age: 34 Posts: 336

I just got a nice box with a Amiga 500 and a Amiga 1200. Both with memory expansions. Price? About €120. I don't know if that is considered high or low.

airship · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 7:22 pm Post subject:

Scored some stuff from Mitch's recent giveaways here on Lemon, for just shipping costs:

CPC ACIA Wedge cartridge
2x 1541 boards
CBM Datasette service manual
CBM 1540/1541 service manual
& etc.

Very nice of him to just give these away.

Also picked up a GBS-8220 CGA/VGA converter board from the eBays to (finally!) get my C128's 80-column display onto an LCD VGA monitor. Goodbye, 1902A!

Can't remember if I already listed these, so if it's duplication, well, EXCUUUUUUSE ME! Smile

3-way User port expansion board w/reset button

Clonemaster dual-Datasette port adapter.

Dual SID cart.

Link-232 expansion port interface.

I also have several other modern boards ordered, which I'll list as they arrive.
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hbhzth · Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject:

GigerPunk wrote:

hbhzth wrote:

It's like my first name.

Ouch. Have you seen the film Brazil? Sounds like you could be in a similar situation to Mr. Buttle/Tuttle...(if you've not seen it, simple bureacratic error (fly in typewriter causes typo) causes absolute nightmares)

Seen the film, and it is really hilarious. I like it just as much as any of the other Terry Gilliam movies out there. He's a very original director.

GigerPunk wrote:

Of course, the error could simply be that the spine of the packaging was incorrectly printed and should have said Accolade's Comics, rather than just Comics...

I hear you - might be the case, sure, plausible. I have also read the spelling Accolades Comix, but that may be just a stab at having fun with the title?

dmackey828 · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:11 am Post subject:

airship wrote:

Scored some stuff from Mitch's recent giveaways here on Lemon, for just shipping costs:

<SNIP>

Also picked up a GBS-8220 CGA/VGA converter board from the eBays to (finally!) get my C128's 80-column display onto an LCD VGA monitor. Goodbye, 1902A!

<SNIP>

Hey Airship, if you get that working, PLEASE Provide details of HOW you did it, I want to do the same thing. TIA
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hedning · Über Groupie Joined: 31 Jan 2011 Age: 34 Posts: 336

I just got the Chameleon. Will be a interesting weekend.

hurminator · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:49 pm Post subject:

hedning wrote:

I just got the Chameleon. Will be a interesting weekend.

Congrats! Please post some feedback on the forum about it to let us know what you think. I, like many others, are on the fence about buying one.

lukasSid · Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject:

Finally! Works like a dream. Build quality is amazing and looks mint!
Need to read manual tonight Very Happy

I had to sell my 1581 and add some £ to get this.
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hurminator · Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2011 2:29 am Post subject:

That is one awesome drive, lukasSid. You are gonna love it! Very Happy

Demonger -X- · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:04 am Post subject: ECCC Haul...

Here's some pix and an explanation. First, as I was going to be going to ECCC, I was watching a zzap 64 magazine auction. As these don't come up very often in the US, and being a magazine collector, I was very interested in them. I noticed he was located in the Chicagoland area, and asked if local pickup would be ok, since I was going to be there over the weekend. He said yea, that would be fine on Sunday(the last day of the expo). So I bid on all 3 auctions. After I'd won the auctions, he said he'd had alot of other things on ebay that hadn't sold, but wondered if I would be interested in anything else. I said sure(as my car was already loaded from ECCC., hehe). So I get there, get the zzap's/yc's/cci's, and pick up all the rest: a ton of compute/compute's gazettes, run magazines, several commodore books, a warp speed cartridge with manual, 2 printers(1 nx1000c and 1 okimate 20), 3 joysticks, 3 boxes of floppies including 1 box of 3.5's (1581 disks), etc. The total for the zzap auctions was right around $10 combined, he asked $30 total for all of it, which I pleasantly paid and fit into my car for the 6 hr drive back home.
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http://db.tt/AA73TXTc
http://db.tt/4vP15xUM
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http://db.tt/rVzIZgZs

The rest of the pix were from what I picked up from ECCC. Many of the books I either got from the free tables, or paid very little. I estimate including the 128 and SSv5.22 cart i paid around $70 for the lot, from various people. Quite a good haul.

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Ps. sorry for all the linx instead of posting the pics in the message. Still working my head around the posting syntax.

DemongerX