+hloberg Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 Anyone got some new retro toys for Christmas. I sorta did, I bought me a TiPi & FinalGROM a couple weeks ago. Real Christmas I got some stuff for my other hobby; N scale train buildings for my layout. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 Been playing Turi's Mario Bros. on my FinalGrom 🙂. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Appeelicious Posted December 25, 2023 Share Posted December 25, 2023 My family surprised me with the Lego Atari 2600. I also got a Gamestation Pro from my arcade. And secretly, to myself, I got a retro gaming monster joystick. It's kind of nice, it's 2 button compatible and has a button mapped to up. I plan on clearing out some space to get my TI99 out again for 2024. Exciting times. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 25, 2023 Author Share Posted December 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Appeelicious said: My family surprised me with the Lego Atari 2600. I also got a Gamestation Pro from my arcade. And secretly, to myself, I got a retro gaming monster joystick. It's kind of nice, it's 2 button compatible and has a button mapped to up. I plan on clearing out some space to get my TI99 out again for 2024. Exciting times. nice haul 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kchula-Rrit Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 On 12/25/2023 at 7:06 AM, hloberg said: Anyone got some new retro toys for Christmas. I sorta did, I bought me a TiPi & FinalGROM a couple weeks ago. Real Christmas I got some stuff for my other hobby; N scale train buildings for my layout. Sort-of for me, too. My Shift-838 IDE board arrived the week before Christmas, along with a cartridge-breakout board. Also, I ran across a LogicPort analyzer I had bought ages ago (and forgot about) in my storage. Now I can play with (hack) cartridges! The N-scale stuff sounds cool, too. I have been working on my first layout, except that the cat took it over as a tanning bed. K-R. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I got a NeoGeo game pad. Was the only thing I got, but at least I got something! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+retroclouds Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Got myself an evercade VS. Fake retro, but it allows me to play Sydney Hunter. Good enough for me. The Collectorvision Phoenix is basically unobtainium, at least in Europe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 I received my 838ide board and finally got around to putting in my 2mb ramdisk, I have an extra F18A to put together in a clean console I received last month. Oh what fun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kchula-Rrit Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 26 minutes ago, GDMike said: I received my 838ide board and finally got around to putting in my 2mb ramdisk, I have an extra F18A to put together in a clean console I received last month. Oh what fun Jackpot! K-R. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 1 hour ago, retroclouds said: Got myself an evercade VS. Fake retro, but it allows me to play Sydney Hunter. Good enough for me. The Collectorvision Phoenix is basically unobtainium, at least in Europe. Which is funny considering how many people bitch about how they want to get rid of theirs cause it's not perfect. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duewester Posted December 26, 2023 Share Posted December 26, 2023 Well, not retro but going into retro - Pi Zero 2w to replace a Pi zero in a C-64. Got two new SATA drives and two M.2 PCIE drives for some Pi5 experiments. Hint - PCIE is sooooo much faster. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 3 hours ago, Tursi said: I got a NeoGeo game pad. Was the only thing I got, but at least I got something! Naw, you also got our unending thanks for the Mario game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 5 hours ago, Kchula-Rrit said: Sort-of for me, too. My Shift-838 IDE board arrived the week before Christmas, along with a cartridge-breakout board. Also, I ran across a LogicPort analyzer I had bought ages ago (and forgot about) in my storage. Now I can play with (hack) cartridges! The N-scale stuff sounds cool, too. I have been working on my first layout, except that the cat took it over as a tanning bed. K-R. Just started my layout. Small, since I don't have a lot space in my home office, but it's fun to build. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kchula-Rrit Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 (edited) Started mine during the Corona epidemic. I'm making a 3x8 footer, basically an oval with some sidings. Track is laid, but not much else. Got discouraged when the locomotive consistently "jumps the track" at one spot. Not looking forward to ungluing all that track! To stay on the topic, I got a snow-plow for my ATV, which guaranteed no snow for Christmas. Curse you, Murphy! 8-) K-R. Edited December 27, 2023 by Kchula-Rrit 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 21 minutes ago, Kchula-Rrit said: Curse you, Murphy! My grampa used to say, Murphy was an optimist. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 Tang Nano 20k's to use as video chip substitutes for my Geneves, IDE PCB cards from Shift838, an Usb2XT adapter, a new old stock TI99/4a and a lot of IC's, sockets, resistors, and capacitors. Had a good Christmas season. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 14 hours ago, Kchula-Rrit said: Started mine during the Corona epidemic. I'm making a 3x8 footer, basically an oval with some sidings. Track is laid, but not much else. Got discouraged when the locomotive consistently "jumps the track" at one spot. Not looking forward to ungluing all that track! mine is simple green grass sheet stapled around bottom and Kato track nailed on top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 14 hours ago, Kchula-Rrit said: To stay on the topic, I got a snow-plow for my ATV, which guaranteed no snow for Christmas. Curse you, Murphy! 8-) K-R. Snow, what's snow? actually when I lived in Atlanta we once had snow on the 26th of December. closest we ever had to a white Christmas. Here in Central Tx. we get a dusting every few years or so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted December 27, 2023 Author Share Posted December 27, 2023 14 hours ago, RickyDean said: Tang Nano 20k's to use as video chip substitutes for my Geneves, IDE PCB cards from Shift838, an Usb2XT adapter, a new old stock TI99/4a and a lot of IC's, sockets, resistors, and capacitors. Had a good Christmas season. Wow, Nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveB Posted December 27, 2023 Share Posted December 27, 2023 19 hours ago, OLD CS1 said: My grampa used to say, Murphy was an optimist. Your Gandpa was an optimist ... But hey, an optimist is not someone who thinks that everything will turn out well ... an optimistist is a person that thinks he will be doing well, not matter how things turn out ... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 56 minutes ago, SteveB said: Your Gandpa was an optimist ... But hey, an optimist is not someone who thinks that everything will turn out well ... an optimistist is a person that thinks he will be doing well, not matter how things turn out ... I tried be an optimist, but I never thought it would do any good. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted December 28, 2023 Share Posted December 28, 2023 I tried to be an optimist, but I misheard and turned into a red truck. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshire Noir Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 Sorry, late to the thread, but my Retro Christmas present arrived 2 days after Christmas 🙂 I got a TRS-80 Model 1, complete with Expansion Adapter. Hoping to get it working so I can play 13 Ghosts. Don't worry, I spent yesterday evening cleaning off all that dirt. Chesh 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kchula-Rrit Posted December 29, 2023 Share Posted December 29, 2023 The Model 1 sounds like a great score! I used to see them in Radio Shack, before getting sucked-in by TI's 16-Bit computer advertisement. Three things arrived today! First, the equipment. I finally bought a "real" bench-top power supply, a three-output model with two 0-30V and one 0-5V outputs. A couple of ZIP-DIPs arrived for my DoG cartridge project. Then I went to the mailbox and found my Cartridge-to-Breadboard adapter boards. to use for the DoG project. K-R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serafini Lapo Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I put a nice 50 inch, I have to say that playing like this is truly a pleasure... until they throw me out of the house! 🤣 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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