I couldn't end this day, the 9th May 2007, the very day of my birth without celebrating in some small way the latest additions to the collection. This has been a truly magical session for me, with such wonderful acquisitions, that have knocked each previous session into a cocked hat. One guy summed it all up today when he queried whether my list was truly the new arrivals, or in fact the whole collection. So massive is the intake. The list represents all that I have collected over the last three months... trust me. And as The Average White Band once sang.. ' Lets go round again '... The list has been all over the place today..... AMIGA KIT ------------------------------------- Video Toasters - 3 boxed mint NewTek Tapeless Video Toaster Boxed Mint Video Toaster 4000 Toaster 4.2 boxed mint NewTek Video Toaster 4.0 A500Plus' computers two number A500 computers four number with RAM cards and switchers Amiga 2000 computer Amiga Magic Pack with A1200 computer boxed Amiga standard A1200 boxed Amiga 2 times A500 workstations Amiga A4000/040 desktop mint computer with HD and OS3.9 A1500 Checkmate computer boxed Ateo Concepts A4000 tower with: Picasso IV Graphics Card Concierto Sound Card Pablo and Poloma cards Buddha Interface Hypercom card Tower comes complete with feet. 5 ( five ) Amiga A1200s and 1 bare case. A1200s generally have RAM cards and clocks. A570 CD-Rom drive sidecar GVP HD+ sidecar with 2.04 installed Nine number external floppy drives Amiga Hyperpad - Interact L2000 Lola genlock Power Computing CD-Rom Drive Power Computing Buffered Interface CDTV Computer with remote control and keyboard CDTV - CD1301 Genlock Module Blizzard 1230-IV Boxed RCA120 Ramboard and clock Ellbox Fast ATA -2 EIDE and Allegro CDFS ProMidi Interface - MicroDeal VidiAmiga - Video Frame Grabber Fusion Video Genlock - Amitek Pablo Video Encoder Commodore 68020/030 Board IOBlix Interface and software Amiga Master Sound Sampler - Microdeal GVP A3000 PVA/FYE Rev IV Graphics Card CSA Mega Midget Racer Mc68030 accelerator KCS PowerPC Board V4.5 A4000 Floppy Drive NewTronics Sample Studio 8 Bit Sound Sampler - Datel Boot Blocker - Datel Electronics Commodore 1942 Monitor 2 x A4000 power supplies AMIGA SOFTWARE------------------------------------------ Turbo Challenge 2 - Gremlin Pagesetter II - Gold Disk Amax II Macintosh Emulator - Ready Soft Digi-Paint 3 - New Tek Music-X - Micro Illusions Inter Office - Interactivision Hanna Barbera - Animation Workshop HighSoft - Sqirrel Software Buddha Software Disk Catweasel Controller Disk Turbo Print 6 VillageTronic - Install Picasso IV V.1.33 VillageTronic - PabloIV - Install VillageTronic - PalomaIV - Installer 1.3 VillageTronic - Concierto Installer 1.1 Amiga DevPac - HiSoft Dr T's Music Software and Binder AMIGA CDs-------------------------------------------- Amiga OS3.5 Developer CD V2.1 17 Bit Collection for the CDTV 17 Bit The Continuation Disk 17 Bit The Fifth Dimension 17 Bit Phase Four LSD and 17 Bit Presents Compendium Deluxe Vol 1 LSD and 17 Bit Presents Compendium Deluxe Vol 2 Amiga CD Rom Collection - WOD's 94 Amiga Tools 7 - TGV Haupt Assassins CD - Weird Science BCI Net CD Animations - Weird Science CD Exchange Vol 1 CDPD - Almathera CDPD II - Almathera CDPD III - Almathera CDPD IV - Almathera CDTV Demo 2 - Almathera CDTV - Pandoras CD The Demo Collection for the CDTV Demomania 1 Euroscene 1 Frozen Fish - Amiga Library Services Gigapd GoldFish Vol 2 - Amiga Library Services Hottest 4 - Hottest 6 - CD Rom Software Lock n Load Northwest Meeting Pearls - Vol 1 Net Connect - Active NetConnect II Lite NFA AGA Experience Octamed V6 SAAR AMOK II The Second AMUG CD STFax Ultimate Amiga PD Demo Collection Ultimedia II - Welcome to CDTV Multimedia Zoom - Active Software AMIGA GAMES--------------------------------------------- Noddy's Playtime - Jumping Bean Mega Traveller 1 - Empire Strategy Ishar 2 - Silmarils Carvup - Core Sim City Architecture 2 - Action War in Middle Earth - Mellbourne House Sensible Soccer - Mindscape Archipelagos - Logotron Targhan - Action Sixteen Microprose Soccer Rick Dangerous - Firebird Fantastic Worlds - Ubi Soft Microprose Golf Falcon Mission Disk Vol 1 - MirrorSoft Subbuteo - Electronic Zoo Sports Spectacular - Elite Eye - Enducame Dungeon Master - FTL Dark Seed - Cyberdreams AMIGA BOOKS- GUIDES---------------------------------- The Amiga Shopper PD Directory Quick Installation Guide - Buffered Interface Buddha IDE Controller Instructions Pablo IV - Village Tronic Concierto - Village Tronic Paloma IV - Village Tronic Picasso IV - Village Tronic Get the Most out of your Amiga 1994 Octamed SoundStudio - Manual A2000 A500 Amiga Basic XTRA Drive Integrated Information Technology Turbo Print6 Manual Workbench 3 Manual Catweasel Mk 2 Controller Manual Main Actor Software and Manual Pablo Manual A1200 Floppy Only System Addendum AMIGA - COMMODORE MAGAZINES --------------------------- Amiga Buyers Guide Winter 1991 Commodore World - Issue 9 Vol 2 No 4 Amiga World - Aug 1991 Amiga Power - Dec 94 Amiga Format - Issue 93 Jan 97 Amiga Format Special - The Good Hardware Guide C64 White Lightning C64 Important ' Please Readme ' Leaflet A number of Amiga Format Backstage issues COMMODORE KIT ----------------------------------------- C64GS Boxed Games System Boxed Commodore Communications Modem Speech64 - Currah 1530 Datassette Unit - Model C2N Book 1764 Ram Expansion C64 Sound Studio - Music Sales Limited 1531 Datassette boxed 1530 Datassette boxed C64C three number computers 1541 Floppy Drive 2 x 1541-II drives Commodore 64 Quick Data Drive MPS801 Matrix Printer C64 computer Light fantastic boxed C64 computer Night Moves boxed C64 SOFTWARE ------------------------------------------ The Expert Cartridge and Manual Power Cartridge and Manual 3 boxes 5.25" disks including Commodore Disk User 1541 Test Demo Disk C64 Easy Spell User Guide C64 Simons BASIC - Commodore Best of PCW Software for the C64 Machine Code Tutor - New Generation Software The Filer - Long Marketing SuperBASIC - Interceptor Software The Graphic Adventure Creator - Incentive Software The Image System - CRL The Real You - Apllied Systems BusiCALC - Supersoft White Lighning Software - Oasis Software The Artist - ValueWare TurboDisk - Supersoft SupaBASIC - Interceptor Software Laser Compiler - Ocean C64 - BASIC Programming Course - Dr Watson C64 Assembly Language Course - Dr Watson COMMODORE BOOKS----------------------------------------- MPS-801 User Guide 1541 User Guide 2 x C64 User Manuals Easy Script - Commodore Easy File - Commodore Future Finance - Commodore Easy Calc - Commodore The Commodore 64 Disk Book - Tony Hetherington VicSoft for the C64 C64 GAMES-BOXED -------------------------------------- Monopoly - Leisure Genius WEC Lemans - Coreland Colossus Chess 2.0 - CDS Micro Systems After Burner - Sega Ikari Warriors - Elite Lord of the Rings - 2 copies - Melbourne House Football Manager - Addictive Ghost Busters II - Activision Trivial Pursuit - Horn Abbot Power Drift - Activision Gazza Super Soccer - Empire Dynamite Dux - Activision Combat Lynx - Durrell Software World Cup Soccer - Italia 90 Virgin Terminator 2 Judgement Day - Cartridge Live Ammo - Ocean World Cup Carnival - Pique Daley Thompsons Olympic Challenge Taito Coinup - Imagine Tolkien Trilogy - Beau Jolly Wargame Construction Set - Strategic Simulations The Armageddon Man - Martech Vlahalla - Legend Shadows of Mordor - Mellbourne House Rockford the Arcade Game - Melbourne House Power CD-Rom User Manual Shuttle - Virgin C64 CASSETTES---------------------------------------- 3D Snooker -Zeppelin 1943 - CapCom 720 -Kixx 6 Pak - Hit Pak ACOS - Melbourne House Action Fighter - MicroProse Action Force - Mad Mad Mad Airwolf - Encore Alien - Mind Games Army Days - Light Fantastic Asterix - Melbourne House Atom Ant - HiTec Barbarian - Kixx Basil the Great Mouse Detective - Gremlin Batman - Ocean Battle Ships - Encore Battle Valley - Hewson Best of Elite - Hit Pak Beyond Spy vs Spy Blaze Out - Ocean Blinkys Scary School - Zeppelin Blue Barron - Zeppelin Bouder Dash II - First Star BMX Racers - Mastertronic Buggy Boy - Encore Bulldog - Scumball Burger Chase - Supersoft Chiller - Mastertronic Combat School - Ocean Cosmic Cruiser - Imagine Crazy Cars - Hit Squad Crazy Kong - Interceptor Cybernoid II - Hewson Devastating Blow - Beyond Belief The Double - Summit Double Dragon - Tronix Dragons Lair - Encore Dragon Ninja - Data East Eliminator - Players Premier Emilyn Hughes - Touchdown Encounter - Atlantis FA Cup - Mastertronic Fantasy World - Dizzy Flight Path - Anirog Software Gangsters - Light Fantastic Garfield - Edge Ghostbusters - Ricochet Ghost 'n' Goblins - Encore Giana Sisters - Go Goblin Towers - Supersoft GunBoat - Piranha Hektik - Mastertronic Hellfire Attack - Martech Hollywood and Platoon - Ocean Huxley Pig - Alternative Hyper Sports - Hit Squad Ikari - Elite International Soccer - AudiGenic Jocky Wilson Darts Challenge - Zeppelin Joe Blade II - Players Kane 2 - Matertronic Kwik Snax - Codemasters Last Ninja - System Three Software Legend of Knucker Hole - Americana Mad Games Magic Carpet - Mastertronic Match Day II - Hit Squad Mind Control - Mastertronic Mini Golf - Magic Bytes Mini Office - Summit Music Maker Play Along Album The New Zealand Story - Ocean Nightbreed - Ocean Ninja Rabbits - Value Outrun - Sega Paper Boy - Encore Panic - Interceptor Peter Beardsley International Football - Premier Pop Quiz - Elite Pitstop II - Kixx Professional BMX Simulation - Codemasters Pulsoids - Mastertronic Quattro Cartoon Rabbit Pie - Illusion The Race - Players Premier Raging Beast - Firebird Rallycross - Codemasters Rambo III - Ocean Road Blasters - US Gold RoboCop - HitSquad Run the Gauntlet - Hit Squad Scamble64 - Interceptor Schwartzenegger - Total Recall - Hit Squad Scout - Matertronic SideArms - Capcom Sigma 7 - Encore Silkworm - Virgin Six Shooter - Ocean Sly Spy Secret Agent - Ocean Snowman - Commodore SpaceWalk - MasterTronic Stallone Cobra - Hit Squad Star Command - Supersoft Strike Force Harrier - Alternative Super Hang On - Hit Squad SuperSprint - Hit Squad Super Stock Car - M Plus Talladega - Top 10 The Thinker - Atlantis Thrust - Silver199 Ranger Thunder Blade - Sega Time Traveller - Light Fantastic Tomcat - Players Toolbox - Audio Tape Toolbox - Music System Toolbox - Shoot em up Construction Kit Toolbox - The Image System Toolbox - Typing Tutor Transformers - Ocean Turbo Outrun - US Gold Vegas Jackpot - Mastertronic Vindicator - Imagine Wanderer 3D - Encore Wildfire -Supersoft World Class Leader Board - Kixx Yie Ar Kung Fu - Hit Squad Your Commodore - ExBASIC Zoids - Alternative POWERPACKS - 17,21,22,25,28,30,37,38,44,48,49,50 RELATED ----------------------------------------------- 9GB Server Hard Drive - Seagate STA10800WD 4GB Server Hard Drive - Barracuda 9A8001-130 4GB Fujitsu 3.5" Hard Drive 1GB 2.5" Seagate ST91350AG Hard Drive LS120 Drive by Fujitsu Floptical Drive by Mitsubishi LS120 and Floptical Discs - 2 x MO 230 Optical Disks Maxell - LS120 Super Disk - 120 MB Iomega SCSI ZIP Drive SyQuest EZ-Drive EZ-135 PhotoCD CD-ROM SCSI drive plus robbons and termination 5.25" to 3.5" drive converter Power Computing external hard drive External double floppy drive bay External 5.25" floppy drive ACORN SOFTWARE------------------------------------- NOOT - Demo disk by 4Mation Acorn JP150 support disk My Town/ Village - Northwest Simple Stuff - Skeletons Ethnic Poster - 4Mation Poster - Borders, fonts - 4 Mation My World Artisan RISC User Movie Maker Presenter GT - Ligenuity Junior Database Vision Digitiser - Mono RISC OS - Smart Demo Disk Chameleon - Use Udit Snippet - 4Mation Modern Languages - 4Mation Granny's Garden - 4Mation Killer 2.204 Virus Protection Arthur - Cambridge Software House Screenplay - Widget Poster - 4Mation Quest in the Curriculum Craftshop 1-2 - 4Mation Artisan - Edition Genesis II - Oak Solutions 300 blank Acorn disks - Abandonware Grid Processor - 4Mation RISC OS Support Disk RISC OS Application Disk 1 RISC OS Application Disk 2 RISC OS3 Application Disk In all 8 copies of the RISC OS Software Enter the Realm - Fourth Dimension Dorway - Christmas Disk 1993 Dorway - Killer Disk 1995 Dorway - Christmas Disk 1996 Junior Insight Six French Games - AVP Computing Talking Pendium Archimedes Logo Exploration and Encounters Pt1 and Pt2 Archimedes Log Logotron Maths Circus 4Mation Archimedes PenDown AMSTRAD------------------------------------------------ CPC664 computer, monitor and manual Amstrad CTM-644 Monitor GX4000 boxed ATARI--------------------------------------------------- Atari ' Woody ' Boxed Atari 65XE Computer Atari XC12 Datassette Atari Cartridges: Centipede - Atari Pheonix - Atari Jr PacMan - Atari PacMan - Atari Kung Fu Master - Activision Road Runner - Atari Defender II - Atari COMPAQ-------------------------------------------------- Compaq Portable.. original computer luggable IBM----------------------------------------------------- Another IBM Luggable PS2 computer. MACINTOSH----------------------------------------------- Macintosh G4 Computer Macintosh Performa 6320 computer with mouse and keyboard MacWorld April 2007 MacWorld May 2007 Mac Format - Future March 2007 Mac Format - Future May 2007 Tomb Raider - Last Revelation Mac OSX Illustrated 10.3 EXTRAS: Samsung flat screen monitor Belkin hub controller White Macintosh keyboard NINTENDO---------------------------------------------- SuperFamicom Junior Console plus controller plus two games... including StreetFighter II PHILIPS----------------------------------------------- Philips CDi 450 console and controller SEGA-------------------------------------------------- Dreamcast console and game controller Dreamcast VMU Sonic Adventure Dreamcast Dreamkey SINCLAIR---------------------------------------------- Sinclair ZX BASIC Programming Spectrum+ User Guide Spectrum +3 Power Supply Sinclair Spectrum+2 computer TANDY------------------------------------------------- Tandy Radio Shack Model 100 plus manual TRS-80 Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 4 computer GAMING------------------------------------------------ Final Fantasy XII The Game Final Fantasy Limited Edition Hardback Guide Final Fantasy Softback Guide GENERAL----------------------------------------------- CBS Coleco Vision Cartridges GORF - Bally Midway Donkey Kong Junior - Nintendo Smurf - Ideal Zaxxon - Sega Cosmic Avenger - Universal Turbo - Sega Ladybug - Universal MouseTrap - Exidy MAGAZINES BOOKS--------------------------------------- NewType Moving Picture Magazine - March 2007 Retro Gamer - Load 34 Retro Gamer - Load 36 Retro Gamer - Load 37 ImageFX - April 2007 Interfacing to the IBM Personal Computer TRS-80 Assembly Language Programming - William Borden JSP A Practical Method of Program Design - Chartwell Pascal - W Findley Cobol Programming - NCC COMIX-------------------------------------------------- TAO - Spirit of TAO 3,4,6,8,10,12 Witchblade - 67, 101, 102, 103 Elektra 28, 29 And that was that for 9th MAY 2007 Time for a cuppa tea me thinks scuzz
Toaster - Checkmate - Mega Midget Racer - C64GS
A2000 - Compaq Portable - TRS-80 Model 4 - Amstrad CPC664
Macintosh G4 - Amiga 1200's - Amiga 4000d - Philips CDi 450
Hi I often trouble myself over the emulator, which as much as I try just doesn't feel right. Its like entering that code in Manic Miner that gives you infinite lives. When you finish the game you always have the nagging doubt that you didn't actually successfully play and win the game. Thing is, we all know that to get an Amiga working with CDs and the like you have to get your hands dirty. Same goes for the BBC, Acorn, Atari etc etc. To get modems working and networks you have to bend the rules. I mean, just consider the various file systems that supported disk formats on the C64. The given applications not only needed the software but often the hardware hacks also. .... Thinks. Anyway, to the point ' Does it Matter ' . This really relates to losing the intellectual and technical know how that was propagated in the early years of computing. Many of us lived through this, and still get a warm glow from the memory of those days setting up hard drives on systems that really never seriously were intended to have such. Or working a computer with various interfaces to achieve the otherwise impossible. The old grey matter was truly tested by OSs that gave the basics but little else, and which could never have imagined the dizzy heights to which they were augmented. And yet, I am still troubled. Does it matter that GEOS fades into the dull and distant past. Does it matter that four way buffered interfaces and power flyers are just not necessary any more. Do I care that to play a video on a PC you just have to click an icon and that's that. I dunno... Its not about challenges anymore, its about letting go the past. And in letting go do we forget all that went before. As I say I dunno... I have a weekend like this where I escape the ravages of MS and I just joy in the past and always feel kinda sad that it all ended... That's all. scuzz PS: What's the difference between classic hardware and an emulator ? .... You can't download hardware. ;-)
Hi I reflected today on my first experience of my very own computer and that being of the ZX81. There was a moment some 25 years ago when I was probably more close to computers than I have ever been. I could never have foreseen the wild adventures that were to follow from this humble beginning. For as I sat watching that flashing cursor for the very first time I realised then that I had the power to model and control responses from an intelligent machine. I saw the computer as a very very clever child that with time could become a friend and a helper... Obedient yet capable of surprise. Those early days were very very magical, there was nothing to confuse. No Microsoft, PCWorld, Vista, Internet, etc etc just me and the ZX81... And I felt very close to the world of computing cus although it was a vast expanse, it held no boundaries at that time, and me and computing were at its birth for the home user. We were as one and for that reason I guess I felt very very close to what was happening, and believed this to be a magical time. Not so today.... The mist of time has faded and we are left with the super highway of modern machines, cheap as you like and as disposable as any other household appliance. Fortunately I can remember my days with the ZX81, and BASIC, and Manic Miner and nothing but nothing other than my very own home computer... Sadly I think we lost something on the journey. Dunno..... scuzz I just listed my favourite computer moments.... 1: Building my very first data base on the ZX81 [ Travelling all the way to Glasgow for a keyboard for my ZX81 ] 2: Creating an adventure game on the Spectrum [ Staying up all night, trying to get the code right.. and falling asleep at work ] 3: Spending nights inputting BASIC from magazines [ pages and pages of code and for what... ? For fun ] 4: Drawing with Logo on the Amstrad [ Not only drawing but understanding program basics to get that turtle to move ] 5: Using CPM to create a data base [ Launching CPM was a great distraction from working on the word processor it was like the sweet in the jar that I raided when I felt like fun. No games on the PCW, and so CPM and Mallard BASIC were the only way to getting something else from the computer. Great fun ] 6: Writing my first book on the PCW [ Living , breathing, eating, sleeping with your words, you need a good machine to assist. The PCW was a dedicated brute of a computer and I even had the protective mesh screen over the monitor. I can still hear the noise of the disk drive as it chunked away. Wet cold winters the beginning of the nineties. Hard times, but with my imagination and the PCW I was happy ] 7: Creating my first animation on the Amiga [ Morphing... slicing and creating animation frames from video was ( is ) so easy on the Miggy. Again... just loads and loads of nights without sleep.... ] 8: Ishar 2 on the Amiga... [ Even with the walkthrough, I found this game very very hard. And yet a great joy and so deep. I just loved sitting here in the otherwise dark, sinking into the world of Silmarils. No other game has ever come close... And that music so haunting. Just pure fantasy in computer land ] 9: Mucking around with AMOS... magical times [ When ever I am on the road and feeling a touch low, I reflect on AMOS Professional, dunno why. Just makes me happy. When I discovered AMOS, I just couldn't wait to get home. It was so much fun. There just wasn't anything I couldn't do with it. ] 10: Doing it all over again... [ I am so lucky. I can live out my computer fantasy all over again. And I mean this most sincerely... Modern computing sucks .. cus it really isn`t computing... It's click and go ] ... The comments on this page are my own views of computing and should be treated as such. scuzz
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