Beeblebrox Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 Been after getting this classic again after I sold mine back in the late 90's. This one came up for a reasonable price so I went for it. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 looks quite mint - nice find! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hueyjones70 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 An Atari 1200XL "non-working". It wasn't working because one of the OS chips was bad. Trouble shooting took about 10 minutes which included taking the cover off. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 5 minutes ago, hueyjones70 said: An Atari 1200XL "non-working". It wasn't working because one of the OS chips was bad. Trouble shooting took about 10 minutes which included taking the cover off. Nice. Pop up some pics.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Most recent eBay purchase: a pair of upgraded replacement PCBs for the CX-40. They've gone into a set of sticks being included with a Christmas-present-to-be Heavy Sixer for my Father-in-Law. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 On 12/12/2022 at 6:50 AM, Beeblebrox said: Been after getting this classic again after I sold mine back in the late 90's. This one came up for a reasonable price so I went for it. What price? £42? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 44 minutes ago, ClausB said: What price? £42? Better, got it for a little over £30 here in the UK. Although I've still not received it as we have experiencing horrendous postal strikes here at the moment. I've got ebay orders from 3+ weeks ago I've not received. Will probably see it arrive after Christmas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 6 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: Better, got it for a little over £30 here in the UK. Although I've still not received it as we have experiencing horrendous postal strikes here at the moment. I've got ebay orders from 3+ weeks ago I've not received. Will probably see it arrive after Christmas. Coincidentally, I finally got the survey for the Douglas Adams kickstarter I backed ages ago! Now I want a copy of this game... never did finish it on the Atari, back in the day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tep392 Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 On 12/22/2022 at 9:23 AM, leech said: Coincidentally, I finally got the survey for the Douglas Adams kickstarter I backed ages ago! Now I want a copy of this game... never did finish it on the Atari, back in the day. I picked this up complete in box a few months ago, including a nice bag of microscopic space fleet. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, but may have some time over the holiday. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 😁 Mine has still not arrived yet. Have very fond memories playing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reifsnyderb Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 53 minutes ago, Beeblebrox said: 😁 Mine has still not arrived yet. Have very fond memories playing it. Did you drink the beer and eat the peanuts yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 39 minutes ago, reifsnyderb said: Did you drink the beer and eat the peanuts yet? Not played it in years. Just dropped a screen shot from tinternet as a reminder. Interestingly in the last few days in real life I've definitely drunk beer and eaten peanuts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark2008 Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Here's my latest purchase. That's barely chewed. Add some rubber to that, and it's as good as new. (ok, part of a bundle...was going for an untested 130xe). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnusfalkirk Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Here's the latest Atari related thing I bought three days ago on eBay: Controller, an Air Traffic Control game from Avalon Hill. I have an ATR image of the game but no istructions and can't find them anywhere online. When I saw the sealed box of the game available on eBay I jumped on it. This game looks different than any other ATC game I've seen for 8 bit computers. It actually has a radar scope! I was an air traffic controller in the Air Force for 20 years, so I'm curious how this game runs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 29 minutes ago, magnusfalkirk said: Here's the latest Atari related thing I bought three days ago on eBay: Controller, an Air Traffic Control game from Avalon Hill. I have an ATR image of the game but no istructions and can't find them anywhere online. When I saw the sealed box of the game available on eBay I jumped on it. This game looks different than any other ATC game I've seen for 8 bit computers. It actually has a radar scope! I was an air traffic controller in the Air Force for 20 years, so I'm curious how this game runs. https://archive.org/details/controlleravalonhill/mode/2up It's also on Atarimania but mine (above) is downloadable as a PDF. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnusfalkirk Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 5 hours ago, Allan said: https://archive.org/details/controlleravalonhill/mode/2up It's also on Atarimania but mine (above) is downloadable as a PDF. Thank you for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 On 12/23/2022 at 6:35 PM, Beeblebrox said: Not played it in years. Just dropped a screen shot from tinternet as a reminder. Interestingly in the last few days in real life I've definitely drunk beer and eaten peanuts. Cheers to that! But...just gotta mention my cousin Mike playing this game somewhere around that point... After you leave the bar, the dog will bark incessantly at you, pretty much non-stop. You can appease it, if you brought something from the bar. However, just for absolute total kicks 'n giggles, do what my cousin did (yeah, he's weird) and type in "rape the dog"... The response is super appropriate and funny as all get out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 2 hours ago, DarkLord said: Cheers to that! But...just gotta mention my cousin Mike playing this game somewhere around that point... After you leave the bar, the dog will bark incessantly at you, pretty much non-stop. You can appease it, if you brought something from the bar. However, just for absolute total kicks 'n giggles, do what my cousin did (yeah, he's weird) and type in "rape the dog"... The response is super appropriate and funny as all get out! Funny thing... when my friends and I first started playing that game, we hadn't read the books yet.... I probably should try some of those again now that I'm older and more well read. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DarkLord Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 You really should. Heck, everyone really should... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Hhgttg and all Adam's books should be a compulsory read in schools IMHO. Love em!!! 😁 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 18 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: Hhgttg and all Adam's books should be a compulsory read in schools IMHO. Love em!!! 😁 Fully second that. While still completely outside the literary canon known and pretty much unknown in Austria I managed to put the first three HHGTTG books on the reading list we had to prepare for our final high school exam in 1986. My reckoning was that it would be pretty unlikely for the grizzled English teacher presiding over the exams to ask questions about a SF title unfamiliar to him and even if he did I‘d know enough about the contents to talk myself out. (I think I only knew about the books by reading a review of a non-Infocom Apple II HHGTTG game.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark2008 Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 21 hours ago, Beeblebrox said: Hhgttg and all Adam's books should be a compulsory read in schools IMHO. Love em!!! 😁 those were big favorites of mine too, bitd. I also loved reading Terry Pratchett and Stanislaw Lem, which to me were similar in style. I was remarking the other day that I hadn't really read everything Pratchett wrote, however - just couldn't keep up. Now, turning the subject to game titles, googling around I see Pratchett had a game release in 1986, the Colour of Magic, for Spectrum and Commodore 64, but afaik never got an Atari port. Googling for a Stanislaw Lem "world" based game, I cannot find any 8-bit title, although top on the google search was an upcoming 2023 Steam game- the Invincible, although they say hard core sci-fi, not satire. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 On 12/24/2022 at 10:11 PM, Mark2008 said: barely chewed its like the black rubber got so chewed up, it departed. but the desire to chew continued... that stick survived a heavy chewer! 😬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariGeezer Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Found a Dell SE178WFP monitor at the local Salvation Army thrift store to use on my 1088XLD with the Sofia board. Looks great mow And it was only $10... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted December 27, 2022 Share Posted December 27, 2022 Ha, not that I needed yet another 800xl... but I ordered one with a VBXE and U1mb already added. Anyone have notes on the bug with the Rapidus, and if the 800xl (PAL) would have issues with it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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