t.skid Posted September 24, 2023 Share Posted September 24, 2023 3 minutes ago, t.skid said: I got this, not on eBay - the seller sold this also there - : it's the Ultra Saint , a cheaper version of the UltraSatan. It cost me just about 50 bucks with s&h. Maybe it's a little rough, but works like a charm 🙂 Wops... made a mistake... not 8 bit related 😛 Last thing 8 bit is an Atari 130xe sold as not working, beaten up and dirty. Just 30 bucks, with mt rams and a defective power switch. Now is back to life, repaired the power switch and removed all the non-working ram. Just need to replace the key, yet. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 19 hours ago, t.skid said: Wops... made a mistake... not 8 bit related 😛 Well, the thread only has „Atari“ in the title… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 as had been mentioned a number of times the Topic title is lacking, What's the latest Atari 8 bit related thing(s) you've bought online? etc. was discussed and asked for... who knows, maybe it will finally come about? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinadan67 Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 On 9/1/2023 at 10:44 PM, Overange said: Mine is competition pros, I currently have over 35 different versions. A very nice and colourful collection! I like the framed Speccy as well 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 Occasionally, just occasionally Ebay sellers surprise you and you hook a real bargain. It's happened to me a few times in the last couple of years. Today was one of them and an early morning quick check of new listings netted me this for a very very low price. Aside all the bundled extras I've been after a 400 with an after market mechanical keyboard for a while now. I've a few 400s already but with the original and notoriously awful membrane/touch keyboard. Sold as seen/not tested with no PSU or cables. I'll fix it if it turns out to have issues. Looks in very good condition aesthetically. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 On 10/10/2023 at 2:08 AM, Beeblebrox said: Occasionally, just occasionally Ebay sellers surprise you and you hook a real bargain. It's happened to me a few times in the last couple of years. Today was one of them and an early morning quick check of new listings netted me this for a very very low price. How very civil of you not to tempt us to fall into envy's arms by not divulging what little money you had to spend to get this bounty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beeblebrox Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 45 minutes ago, slx said: How very civil of you not to tempt us to fall into envy's arms by not divulging what little money you had to spend to get this bounty. I can tell you if you like? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deffroe Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 ...or you can search eBay for sold/completed Atari 400's. It is a bargain! 😉 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 B-key is nice to have japan-spec 1010 - nicer than the more common one i saw the listing and thought it'd be a nice pickup for someone at that dough but i dont need another 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overange Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 21 minutes ago, deffroe said: ...or you can search eBay for sold/completed Atari 400's. It is a bargain! 😉 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overange Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 12 minutes ago, Overange said: Na seriously, sometimes its having that quick eye for bargains. I just grabbed a CD32 gamepad that was listed as the SNES version for BIN 10 GBP, if you know your Honeybee Controllers then you know that the CD32 version is very sought after and tend to fetch a good price 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 11, 2023 Share Posted October 11, 2023 I just did an impulse buy on two 800s a retro-seller picked up from an estate sale. Supposedly they're untested with no power supplies. The no power supplies thing seems a little odd since the seller has 400/800/1050 PSUs for sale elsewhere. Still, the one in the pictures looks to be in relatively decent shape, if a little dirty. There were no pictures of the second unit but it was described as being in similar condition. Compared to what I've seen 800s going for recently, it didn't seem like a bad gamble. Hopefully, they'll be running just fine. If not, hopefully they'll be relatively easy to fix. The 800 was my first computer that I stupidly threw away in the mid-80s because of a broken keyboard. This was a decade away from the start of the Internet as we know it and I lived in a small area with almost no other Atari users. I wish I'd known then what I know now. Anyway, hopefully, I can get at least one of these going and add an 800 back to my collection. If I can get the other cleaned up and running, I may sell it off in a few months. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325842892444 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 On 10/11/2023 at 6:07 PM, deffroe said: ...or you can search eBay for sold/completed Atari 400's. It is a bargain! 😉 Found it. A bargain indeed, especially if it's the PAL unit I assume it to be. Some people would try to charge more for the books and 1010 that came with it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted October 12, 2023 Share Posted October 12, 2023 Bought a boxed MidiMate from a fellow ABBUC member. Now I have two and can try to set up MidiMaze! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deffroe Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 8 hours ago, slx said: Found it. A bargain indeed, especially if it's the PAL unit I assume it to be. Some people would try to charge more for the books and 1010 that came with it. Such a good bargain I'm sure Beeblebrox did a Victor Meldrew....I don't believe it. 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Some Atari 1040STF units for fairly cheap, one with a Mega ST keyboard swapped in for whatever reason. All of the original floppy drives work, which is a big plus as I've yet to program the GoTeks. A SC1224 and SM124 to complement as well, plus a VGA cable I'll try to find a 15khz monitor for... One of the ST PSUs gets warmer than usual, but removing the RF shield helps nominally with airflow. The other produced wavy lines and the ST spontaneously reboots (yay) so I know it'll need to be replaced. Or a simple recap, but that can be tricky... I also saw, by pure chance and complete surprise, a Indus GTS-100. It with the 1040STF look marvelous when placed next to the Indus GTs next to the 130XE. Those GTS units are disturbingly quiet, and can format disks for slightly greater capacity. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CommodoreDecker Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 On 9/1/2023 at 4:06 PM, Beeblebrox said: Heh heh... This image... out of context... could look... quite interesting... If you catch my drift!!! 😜😁 ...joystick envy? 😏 Sign me up! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 That GTS-100 really is a nice drive. Got a few of those. One of them I replaced the mech with a Gotek... though.... Can't say I've ever used it. (I'm a bigger fan of real disks). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lbaeza Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 My last order from retrogames.co.uk Just arrived. Regards, Luis. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Strip poker on a cassette? That's insane. I'm seriously supposed to wait that long for Marlena to take off her bra? You gotta be smokin' crack. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leech Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 1 hour ago, lbaeza said: My last order from retrogames.co.uk Just arrived. Regards, Luis. I have an amazingly hilarious story about that particular version of Strip Poker. Back in the day, my brother got a copy of it, but it was backwards, the more you won, the more clothes they would put back on... of course it was easy to fix it, just rename the files. A dude I was going to school with at the time also had an 800xl, so I gave him a copy of the fixed version. I just happen to be over at his house one day and showed him the trick of renaming the files... He kind of freaked out and told me to fix it because his mom would only let him play it until they had their underwear on! Laughed my ass off. My parents never really cared if I were playing for pixelated nudity. Latest Atari item I have bought was shipped yesterday... Atari 50th Anniversary Arcade1up! Still don't know where I will set it up... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macsonny Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 6 hours ago, Tillek said: That GTS-100 really is a nice drive. Got a few of those. One of them I replaced the mech with a Gotek... though.... Can't say I've ever used it. (I'm a bigger fan of real disks). What is an Indus GTS-100? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tillek Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 24 minutes ago, macsonny said: What is an Indus GTS-100? Indus (later Future Systems) made two Indus GT variants for the Atari ST (technically three from what I understand). The Indus GTS-100 was a 3.5" drive (720k) for the ST There was also an Indus GTS-1000 which was a 5.25" drive identical in looks to the A8 version of the Indus GT, except for the ST connector on the back..... Can't find a picture online. I actually own one, but it's 1am so I'm not going to try to pull it out just so that you can see that it looks just like the A8 version Now I say "three" because my understanding is that the GTS-1000 5.25" came in two variants with 40 and 80 tracks. (360k DSDD and 720k which would be DSQD if I recall right). Whereas some 5.25" drives for the ST actually could handle both 40 and 80 tracks with a switch, or were only capable of 360k DSDD (which I believe was the case with the PCF-551). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deffroe Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 9 hours ago, Tillek said: Strip poker on a cassette? That's insane. I'm seriously supposed to wait that long for Marlena to take off her bra? You gotta be smokin' crack. Only a 30 minute loading time on cassette, at least with the Americana budget release. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deffroe Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 9 hours ago, leech said: I have an amazingly hilarious story about that particular version of Strip Poker. Back in the day, my brother got a copy of it, but it was backwards, the more you won, the more clothes they would put back on... of course it was easy to fix it, just rename the files. A dude I was going to school with at the time also had an 800xl, so I gave him a copy of the fixed version. I just happen to be over at his house one day and showed him the trick of renaming the files... He kind of freaked out and told me to fix it because his mom would only let him play it until they had their underwear on! Laughed my ass off. My parents never really cared if I were playing for pixelated nudity. A friend had a speccy and bought Sam Fox strip poker with it's digitised images. When sat a joystick cable length away from the screen the only you could make out was the hand of cards drawn from the deck. Every time the image changed we had to run to other side of the room just have an idea of what we were looking at.🤣 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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