rpmxxipt

I think it's time we took up a collection to enable Cpuwiz or someone with some cart savvy to get their mitts on one these carts purely for analysis purposes. It shouldn't take a whole lot of money, prices on these seem to have dropped considerably in the last year or so. I'll start the Beagle Busters fund with a $10 paypal donation to CPU. All we probably need are 7 more people who'd pay $10 to end this mystery once and for all!!! rpm

Bad week this week - cut my rounds off short. Passed on some loose CV & SMS common carts @ $2.99 ea at the southwest Goodwill - overpriced in my opinion. Found a nice old HP calc with a power suppy at a Salvation Army though. It powers up, but it's a little flakey. Near mint condition though. Nice deal for $1.39!

Cool! If that were at any of the local Goodwills around here, though, the price would have been $200.00 not $20. Yours must have forgotten where to place the decimal point.

Yeah, those SlikStik setups make me drool, but I'm not THAT hardcore to pay that kind of cash.. YET! The stelladapter looks pretty cool too, but I'm kind of looking for a full rotation spinner, and it sounds like adapting a racing controller doesn't give you much resolution. Ah, hell, I'll buy one and let you all know how it works.

If you listen to some of the people here, some have snipe bots, some enjoy trying to do it manually. (I fall into the second crowd).. The times I've tried manually sniping with a cablemodem and two open parallel screens, I've won a couple in the last 2 seconds of an auction.. I imagine this can be honed down a bit, but I don't have those kinds of nerves of steel. Either way, you're probably NOT going to get a manual bid raise in the last 5 seconds of an auction, so don't even try. Snipers have a max amount calculated, and they're telling eBay to bid up to that amount on their behalf. Long and short, lets say you want a cart that's currently at $5, and you're willing to pay up to $20 (this is where you have do so some figuring), enter $20 as your maximum bid - vs. $6, let's say. That way you don't need to worry about snipers (their bids will be placed against your max) and you won't have to feel like you got crapped out on an auction because you didn't enter your best bid. On eBay, if you don't place your best bid, you shouldn't wonder about getting beaten, period. It's capitalism at it's best!

Hi Jeep, This is pretty common.. you didn't set your maximum bid high enough. This allowed people who "snipe" auctions (usually within the last 10 seconds) to outbid you at the last second. Unless you're going to snipe yourself, always set a bid at the maximum you're willing to spend, and be ready to take your chances. Most of the action on an item will take place in the last minute if it's popular or undervalued. But it can be pretty frustrating to figure you have money in the bank (especially with a dial-up) only to find out you got burned at the end. Long and short.. someone was willing to pay more than you, they just waited until the last couple of seconds to throw in the chips. rpm

Hi all, I've been a little frustrated finding a decent controler for MAME games like Tempest and I came across this product on the web today. It looks fairly cool.. but they go for $50+ shipped, and I'm a little leery about picking one up. Does anyone have one of these or something similar? http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/ I just like the idea of a USB knob..

I haven't posted lately, but I thought since Steve W was doing such a good job, and since my name is also Steve, I thought I'd share my day. Outlays: Gas - $14. Miles on my truck - 180. Copenhagen - $4.50 Picked up an Atari 810 floppy drive w/no cables for $4 Atari 800 Basic Program Cart 50 cents Complete boxed Tempest 2000 PC in NM condition $3 Wizardry Trilogy (1,2,3) complete 1987 XT version, NM condition, $10 Boxed C-64 carts Lazarian and Kickman (cool game) - $3 ea Complete TI SR-51A scientific calculator w/box $4 works loose blue TI TI-81 graphing calculator in unknown working condition $3 Orange NES zapper in well-fooded condition - $1 SNES Super Scope Receiver - $1 So not great, but I didn't strike out. Passed on two mint sealed Commie printers, one looked new in original sealed bag. I just don't do printers.

She's a shill.. the Martha Stewart of Atari resellers! Maybe Dustin should try that multimedia thing.. with a gold watch.. You are getting sleepy.. verrrry sleepy..

She seems like a NICE lady.. you guys are mean!

What's the organ in the left corner of the loose NES cart pic?

Yeah, I forgot about my disgust about the games that timed you out, regardless of skill or ability.. that and the buy-in "high score" that belonged to whoever wanted to keep throwing quarters into the slot. Is there any one game out there that combined both of these two characteristics FIRST? For some reason, I'm thinking that Mach 3 would only let you get so far, and then it was Sorry Charlie.. ante up. Bad Dudes was the last game I was ever able to play through on two quarters.. I'd neeed to spend the 2nd one to kill the last boss.. never could beat that SOB straight-up. rpm

Well, I was watching this one too, and was going to snipe in at $296 - just based on where a few of these games have ended up lately.. BUT I dumped my cablemodem this afternoon and didn't get my DSL wired in until after the auction closed, so too bad for me. My thoughts were that for 46 games x $6 each = $276 + I was going to add $20 just to be on the safe side. Shoot, Trade-n-games' boxed Picnic just ended at 46 bucks! I'll bet you could parcel this auction lot out and make a nice profit on that $332. The boxes appear to be in very nice condition.

(Hands wife the credit card for safekeeping)

... yet!

Someday the C-64 will be recognized for the awesome gaming machine it is! But yeah, this stuff does accumulate! For a system I never intended to collect for, I think could probably make about 3 auctions like this one. Still, Mindfield does a great job with his auctions.. let's see if he ships that monitor for free

Very well put! That sounds a lot like the best pool hall in Milwaukee until it got corporate and moved out of the core back in the '90s. I think the hustler/risk factor sharpened the experience. I'm going to revise my business plan for a retro Arcade to locate it in the worst part of Milwaukee.

Just a general question, why hasn't there been more action with networked Arcade systems? I noticed a Golden Tee '05 at the Bowling Alley the other day that had an LED runner advertising nationwide cash tournaments. I don't know how it links (satellite?) but I thought "Now THAT's a good idea". I don't know if it's Bally (or whoever the titleholder is now of Williams Electronics) who's been doing exclusively casino video games, but some of them I've seen are pretty entertaining as well. The one thing home systems can't do is hand you cash. Hell, give me the chance to win even a hundred bucks on a well-designed pinball game and I'd be there daily, and I'm an old fart.

I'll meet you in Sault Ste. Marie with FIFTY.. count 'em.. fifty crisp US $1 bills., you buy muchem firewater with that kind of wampum! BTW, anyone know whether the C-64 Suspended goes for the premiums the PC version does, with the mask? It seems like the C-64 is the red-headed stepkid of games, but this should still be a nice collector's piece, aina? rpm

lol, that's my 2nd favorite movie.

I'll meet you halfway and we'll split the gas money..

Ah, IOffer just isn't what it used to be.. I actually got most of my atari 800 diskware off of IOffer long ago, but those days seem long gone.. now it's Antiques roadshow vs. serpentine leeches. Still kind of fun, except I haven't seen anything worth a damn on that system in a long time

I know this topic has been discussed before, but I'd really like to hear the opinion of the gurus here. I've got a cart here of moderate value that's unfortunately got damage to the bottom half of the case. The label itself is nearly perfect, but as I said the bottom is cracked/missing chunks. I'd like to swap another bottom onto the cart, but I need to get at the fastener. If anyone's had success doing this kind of repair and ended up with a professional-looking cart after it was all done, please let me know what method you used to remove the label and reapply it. Thanks, rpm