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3 hours ago, taxman said:
I can't find him on ebay.
Here's his Barnstorming. A few giveaways here: it's super-glossy, and the BARNSTORMING name font is a little different than normal.
See also River Raid which is super-glossy and has a slightly different font than the real label.
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I think pboland's repro labels are great - I've ordered them and placed them on my own carts, and it really improves the "curb appeal". They make a lot of sense for me, particularly for a lot of the older/common/worthless carts that almost always look like trash. However not everyone may feel that way, which is perfectly fine.
Which brings me to eBay seller "jowrober". He's got a number of old carts up for auction now that are using the repro labels, but he doesn't appear to be aware of that (he said: "I bought it in a large estate sale and have no idea."), and they're not mentioned as such in the auction. These are mostly all commons, and they do look clean with the repro labels, so take that for what it's worth.
He appears to have a bunch of completed auctions in the past 6 months for carts that, to a one, all use repro labels including some dupes. It is, of course, possible that his estate sale purchase had multiple copies of Stampede and so on that all had repro labels.
Caveat emptor.
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11 hours ago, Osgeld said:
the real lesson is if you bought some boxes and put a little up front in work you could have made a couple grand instead of begging someone to take it from you in a very limited area
This is a good point. I thought I'd touched on this before, but I realize now that I only mentioned it on Twitter. I don't want to directly link to my Twitter account, so let me repost what I wrote there:
"I have had **great** luck giving away my oldish-but-not-too-old Mac stuff via AtariAge. It has felt so good to ditch a lot of this early 2000s stuff that is heavy but not worth much on the open market. I'm down to just 3 Airport Extremes and some broken crap.
The other thing I've realized is that while I could have sold some of this and made a few hundred bucks, it was never going to be worth the hassle of trying to find a way to pack the large stuff up. And I feel genuinely good about giving it away to people who want it.
Now I'm at a new stage. I have lots of Apple II-era bulk that I don't want: Monitor ///s, an extra //e (!!), an ImageWriter and so on. I would feel mighty good giving that stuff away locally, even knowing I could again make a few hundred $$. Charitable? Maybe a bit. Lazy? YES.
I'm for damn sure not going to trust giving this stuff away on Craigslist. I've heard too many stories. Offerup is an option, but I feel like a giveaway with retro enthusiasts via AtariAge counts for a lot in saved hassle.
One of the guys picked up an old iPad pre-Retina. I wasn't sure it still worked, but he told me today it was fine, and he's letting his little toddler use it for YouTube and the like. I can't imagine it being put to a better use. That made me so happy to hear."
tl;dr: I'm definitely lazy and making suboptimal financial decisions, and I'm happy -- thrilled, even -- with the way it's gone so far.
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6 minutes ago, FujiSkunk said:
Cool, I prefer the originals over the Platinums anyway, at least for my "show" set-ups.
Ah, ok. I can spray-paint it metallic green for you!
(Don't hurt me.)
But seriously, I don't know that I want to bother with shipping. I'll give it a think.
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34 minutes ago, FujiSkunk said:
I realize shipping this stuff is a pain, but if you do decide to take the chance, I'd be interested in the IIe. Is it the original design or Platinum?
It's an original design. I haven't fired it up in a few years, but my recollection is that it is also non-enhanced, e.g. "Apple ][" vs. "Apple //e" on startup.
I think that's why I've kept it all these years, but I could be remembering wrong.
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12 hours ago, FujiSkunk said:
(Mario Bros. was never officially released on the Apple II. Even so, I played it to death back in the day too.)
Wow, I had no idea! It was *really* well done.
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OK, I've updated the OP, probably for the last time. Just 3 Airport Extremes left, and a pile of what I'll charitably call "spare parts".
I'll keep this for a few days longer, and then it'll go to Apple recycling in one easy-to-carry trip. Lesson learned: be better about getting rid of older computer stuff I truly don't want when upgrading.
I should redeem my retro cred by saying my office is still stacked with much older computers, so it's not all a ghost town here.
I'm pondering getting rid of a few extra LCs I don't need, and some extra Apple II-era hardware that I somehow wound up with duplicates of (an extra //e, an extra //c Plus, some Monitor ///s, and an ImageWriter). If there's local interest in those, maybe I should start a new giveaway thread. Like the others, I *really* don't want to deal with shipping this stuff.
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1 hour ago, Mike_2000 said:
I have to ask-- what is a speakerhat? Is it just a hat with Bluetooth speakers? Why would I want that? I absolutely hate it when I'm on public transit and there's some jerk playing music from a speaker. Is this a hat for people who want to walk around with terrible music playing from their hat and get dirty looks from strangers?
As god is my witness, as I sit here today, I was 100% sure it wasn't actually a hat with speakers, but just something that looked weird and earned a mocking speakerhat name somewhere in the bowels of this thread.
Then I googled and saw it was real, and my world has been upended. There's a darkness in this world that must be stopped.
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10 hours ago, airsoftmodels said:
This is me at age 15 playing Mario Bros. on the IIc in 1984. Please note: OP shorts, CH Joystick, Scribe Printer, and that big black thing to my left is my clear black acrylic locking disk box! This was my after school life for 3+ years of high school until I met my first girlfriend.
OP shorts - that brings back some suppressed memories! Just pop over to Mervyn's or Miller's Outpost and see the latest styles!
Also, Mario Bros! The Apple II version is probably the version I've played the most. It was a surprisingly well-done port.
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Updated again to reflect what's left. Only a few good items left, and a few pretty crappy items.
I'd also like to once again say that I'm extremely grateful to everyone who has helped me out with this. I've said this to a few folks now, but I have zero qualms if anyone (re)sells any of this stuff, because frankly I couldn't be bothered, particularly for those large and heavy items.
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Updated list to reflect a few more takers. Also added a Logitech desktop speaker setup that I forgot to mention before. Thanks again to everyone who has helped me find new homes for all this!
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7 hours ago, Karl G said:
I'm using Stella 6.0 on Mac OSX, and I've noticed that the colors in fullscreen mode are visibly different than in windowed mode. When I took screenshots on both modes, the colors in the screenshots appear to be the same. I suspect that it's a video driver issue rather than a Stella issue, but I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this.
Edited to add: This also is happening on Stella 4.73, so it's almost certainly an issue on the Mac side instead of Stella, as I've never observed this issue before.
Wild guess: could be an issue with slightly different gamma tables in fullscreen vs. windowed, particularly if your screenshots come out the same. You may want to take pictures with your phone for the bug report, esp. if the screenshots are otherwise identical.
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If I ever sell my 2600 on eBay, it'll be the "Lunch Edition" and I'll pack in a greasy sack of Carl's Jr as a "bonus". Who wouldn't want that?! P@@p
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56 minutes ago, taxman said:
Did you receive any messages from the bidder that you blocked? I imagine he tried to bid on others and was pissed.
No, haven't heard a peep. I'm a little fuzzy on if he could even contact me once blocked. It's possible he bid under another account name, but there were no more retraction shenanigans.
If you look at his bidding history thing above again, you'll note that he now has 76 retractions in the past 6 months, up from 74. He must have very slippery fingers.
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FYI, my latest batch of sealed Apple II games ends tomorrow at 11am MST: [ebayseller]bradman2[/ebayseller]
Edit: welp, that BBcode link didn't work, but my items are here. Feel free to edit in any Atari Age affiliate tag magic.
I've scheduled a new set of sealed Apple II and IIgs games to go up in the afternoon (2pm MST).
I'll probably continue doing this every Saturday for some time as I clear everything out. There won't be too many sealed games after tomorrow's batch. It'll go back to boxed-but-open game batches for several weeks, I think.
If anyone has any interest in a (mostly?) complete run of Nibble magazine, I may list those too. They're kind of a pain due to size and weight, but I do want to get rid of them.
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On 6/26/2019 at 2:50 AM, Gunstar said:
LOL! I'm so oblivious...right after seeing the Rob Lowe picture too, which I literally read as that word alone, and the fact it is also "LiteRally" right in front of my face I didn't catch! I need a stiff drink and a Java chaser...too much stress in my life atm, I'm just glassing over everything else. Emotionally I'm in the exact state as that monkey's "reaction."...
Here's to hoping that ? Ann Perkins! ? will be a playable character.
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7 hours ago, Keatah said:
Freecycle! Thanks for the reminder. I'm beginning my Apple II collection reduction and have the first load completed. Just don't want to go through the hassle of arranging individual buy/sell/trades and all that.
That reminds me that I also need to figure out what to do with an old ImageWriter I and a giant stack of tractor-feed paper!
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I've updated the list to remove some items (thanks Cole!) and add a few more that I forgot to mention.
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48 minutes ago, _The Doctor__ said:
That's wonderful, use the keys a lot, sometimes surface oxidation on the swipes will wipe away...
does the space bar work?
Space bar works, yes. Most keys work, but some (about 30-40% of them) require multiple keypresses to register, and some don't seem to register at all (maybe 10%). I'm assuming because some of them require multiple presses that it's (hopefully!) just an issue with dirty contacts either in the keyboard or on the connector, but that's just blind speculation. I did try a quick search of the forums but indexing still isn't complete so I'm not getting any useful hints. I'll ask about the keyboard in a new thread in a few days, after I've had time to do some bare-minimum troubleshooting, if it's still wonky after that.
Thanks again all!
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FYI, the final update on this: the computer arrived today and fired right up with the proper AC adapter!
The only thing I noticed is that some keys don't register on the first press (or at all) but I haven't done any diagnostics on that, and probably won't have time to look at it further until the weekend. For now I'm going to assume it's unrelated and easily fixed, for no reason other than blind optimism.
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On 6/22/2019 at 10:23 PM, Deemar said:
Am I the only one that thinks this is awesome?
The most amazing thing to me, aside from the sheer quantity, is that someone took the time to type out the software names and copyrights on both the disk labels and the disk sleeves.
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I have nothing constructive to add aside from "wow, looks great". Please accept this picture of the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread:
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2 hours ago, taxman said:
Well, looks like you got them bid up anyways. At least I won two of them
My very first surprise is that even though I explicitly didn't add international shipping (because I didn't want to deal with that right out of the gate), some other guy bid and won 2 items -- and his shipping address is in South Korea. I'm hoping that goes smoothly, but it wouldn't shock me if that falls apart either.
I also realized (too late!) that I'd listed these as shipping via Media Mail but that's expressly not allowed for video games and software. I fixed that for my second batch of auctions - now up.
Anyway, thanks all for the help, and thanks to those of you who bid. This first batch was a bit stressful and time consuming, so I hope I can get into a better (and faster) rhythm as I clear out more stuff.
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Just a bump to say that all my stuff is still available.
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Intellivision Intellicart
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While cleaning out my office this weekend, I ran across an Intellivision Intellicart that I bought way back in the day and never used.
It's time for a new home, so I put it up on eBay. (I can't get the AtariAge BBcode stuff to work, so apologies for that.)
I haven't the faintest clue what it's worth, and the only other active unit on eBay has a stupidly high price. I figured I'd start mine out at about what I paid, not counting for inflation.