Entry 0748: Blog: 1

Hi

I have just collated the various kit, games and software
that has arrived since the last update and it is as follows.
I have avoided this session any large batches of kit for 
sale as I have very serious storage issues now. Saying
all that still quite a healthy update on the way...

COMPUTERS - CONSOLES [ summary ]

*Commodore 386SX-20 Desktop computer
*Acorn PocketBook II boxed
*Acorn RISC Station computer
*Atari Lynx boxed
*Atari 520ST boxed
*Atari XE boxed
*Amstrad NC100 Notepad boxed
*Grundy New Brain boxed
*ORIC-1 boxed
*ORIC Atmos boxed mint
*Yamaha MSX CX5MII/128 Music Computer
*ZX81 Boxed
**ZX81 Boxed ( 2nd one )
*BIT79 One Key BASIC System
*Orange Dreamcast Japanese Import
*Nintendo GameBoy original boxed
*Nintendo GameBoy Advance original boxed
*Nintendo Gameboy AdvanceSP boxed
*Nintendo Family BASIC Keyboard computer
*White Sega Saturn Japanese import
*Wonderswan blue
*Wonderswan silver
*Wonderswan COLOR Final Fantasy special boxed Japanese Import
*NeoGeo Pocket Japanese Import
*NeoGeo Pocket Japanese Import
*SONY PocketStation boxed
*Playstation 3 Console

[ In Detail ]

AMIGA

Zydec Handscanner plus disks and interface
A3000T Service Manual
PD Disks approx 300 disks of varying houses
Amiga Disks varied - approx 500
Amiga Kickstart 1.3 for the Amiga 1000
Apollo 1260 Upgrade Kit
Minimig PCB and Instruction Manual
Anram RAM upgrade for the A500
Amiga 500 replacement keyboard
Amiga 500 replacement motherboard
Amiga A2065 ethernet card
Amiga for Beginners - Abacus
AmigaDOS Inside and Out - Abacus
The Kickstart Guide to the Amiga - Ariadne Software
Music Mouse - Dr T
PageStream 3.1 - Soft-Logik
Hyperbook - Gold Disk
InterOffice 2.0 - Interactivision
Organiser - Digita
Deluxe Paint III - Electronic Arts
Amiga PD DVD - New
Fredfish CD - Dec 1993
Workbench Booster Pack 3 - BSB
Amiga A1200 Beginners Pack - BSB
Photogenics - Almathera
Comic Setter
Mapped and Cracked Vol 2
Amiga Action ( Last Issue ) Dec 1996
Amiga Format May 1998
Amiga Format CD Disc26
3 copies of ZERO Nov 91, Jan 92 and Feb 92
Virtual Karting - OTM
Power Up - Ocean
Sim City De Luxe - Infrogrames
Darkseed - Action 16 Cyberdreams.
Storm Master - Silmarils
Dreamlands - Silmarils
Jungle Strike - Ocean
Robocop 2 - The Hit Squad
RoboCop 3 - Ocean
Sensible Soccer European Champions - Sensible
Striker - Rage Software
World Cup USA - US Gold
Manchester United Europe - Krisalis
Slam Tilt - First 21 Century
Amiga Pinball Mania First 21 Century
Lemmings - Psygnosis
Castle Master - The Hit Squad
Stun Runner - The Hit Squad
ZOOL 2 - Gremlin
Hostages - Infrogrames
Syndicate - Hit Squad
MAX - Turrican II ST Dragon SWIV Nightshift - US Gold
Beneath a Steel Sky - Virgin
Dungeons of Nadroj - PDN
PowerMonger - Electronic Arts
Hoyle Official Book of Games - Sierra
Leisure Suit Larry - Sierra

COMMODORE

*Commodore 386SX-20 Desktop computer
Oceanic OC-118N 5.25" drive with JiffyDOS
GP-100VC Graphic Printer - Seikosha
Turrican II - Kixx
The New Zealand Story - The Hit Squad
Spy Vs Spy - First Star
Mini Office II
Commodore 64 Computing - Ian Sinclair
Commodore64 Users Guide - CBM
40 Educational Games for the Commodore 64 - Vince Apps
The Working Commodore 64 - David Lawrence
PET/CBM Personal Computer Guide - Adam Osborne
Mastering the Commodore 64 - A J Jones

ACORN

*Acorn PocketBook II boxed
*Acorn RISC Station computer
Acorn Pocket Book A-Link boxed

ATARI

*Atari Lynx boxed
*Atari 520ST boxed
*Atari XE boxed
ST BASIC Programming Language
Atari ST User x 7
Atari Computing x 6
ST Format x 7
Atari ST x 9
ST Action x 1
One ST x 1
Atari cartridge Star Raiders

AMSTRAD

*Amstrad NC100 Notepad boxed
Spy vs Spy - HiTec Software
Spy vs Spy II - HiTec Software
16 x 3" Software Disks Locoscript etc

BIT79

*BIT79 One Key BASIC System

CASIO

FX-720P FX-820P Program Library - Casio
PB-410 FX-720P FX-820P Data Bank Reference Manual - Casio
PB-410 FX-720P FX-820P Owners Manual - Casio

DRAGON

10 copies of Dragon User

GRUNDY

*Grundy New Brain boxed

ORIC
*ORIC-1 boxed
*ORIC Atmos boxed mint

SINCLAIR

**ZX81 Boxed
**ZX81 Boxed ( 2nd one )
Spectrum Interface 2
16K boxed RAM
The Spectrum Pocket Book - Trevor Toms
ZX81 BASIC Programming Manual
ZX Computing - Oct/Nov 1982
Sinclair User - Dec 82
Galactic Patrol - Omega 

YAMAHA

*Yamaha MSX CX5MII/128 Music Computer

LINUX

Red Hat Linux 9
Ubuntu

PLAYSTATION

*Playstation 3 Console
Heavenly Sword - Ninja Theory
FIFA 08 - EASports
Oblivion - Bethesda
Enchanted Arms - Ubisoft
*SONY PocketStation boxed
Sensible Soccer 2006 - Codemasters
FIFA 06 - Electronic Arts
Metal Gear Solid 2 - Konami
Resident Evil Dead Aim - CapCom
Spider-Man - Activision
Dirge of Serberus - FFVII - Square Enix
Metal Gear Solid 3 - Konami


CONSOLES

*Orange Dreamcast Japanese Import
*Wonderswan blue
*Wonderswan silver
*Wonderswan COLOR Final Fantasy special boxed Japanese Import
*Nintendo GameBoy original boxed
*Nintendo GameBoy Advance original boxed
*Nintendo Gameboy AdvanceSP boxed
*Nintendo Family BASIC Keyboard computer
*White Sega Saturn Japanese import
*NeoGeo Pocket Japanese Import
*NeoGeo Pocket Japanese Import
Gameboy Advance Essentials boxed
Polar Express for the Sp
Cars for the SP
Wonderswan Memories of Festa
7 cartridge games for the Famicom
HORI Track Controller
Favicom SD Station
Nintendo Replacement Stylus Kit

CALCULATORS

Casio HL-807
Casio FX-720P173
Toshiba BC-08088

MAGAZINES - BOOKS

RetroGamer - Load 42
RetroGamer - Load 43
RetroGamer - Load 44
Imagine FX Dec 2007
3D World Dec 2007
PLAY Issue 159
PSM Dec 2007
LINUX Mag Dec2007
LINUX Format Christmas 2007
MicroMart all weeks from last update
Computer Programming Basics - LR Carter
Illustrating BASIC - Donald Alcock

COMIX 

Wizard World Los Angeles Witchblade#55 - Limited Edition
Wizard World Texas 2006 Witchblade#68 - Limited Edition
Witchblade Takeru Manga
Witchblade 106
Witchblade 107
Witchblade 108
Witchblade 109
Witchblade 110
Fathom Kitani 1

Characters

Lara Croft - Playmates
Bag of Final Fantasy Characters
Shunya Yamashita character

VARIOUS PC CRAP

MSDOS 6.22
Microsoft Windows for Workgroups
Assortment of disk boxes
LogicLink USB to PS2 Adaptor x 3
2 x 300W Power Supplies
SDRAM various approx 6
Pentium III 1 GHz Processor
60GB Maxtor Hard Drive
500GB External Seagate USB Hard drive
USB Port Hub
PCLine Wired USB keyboard
QDI Advance 10F Motherboard, +866MHz P3 CPU
INNO3D NVIDIA MX4000 GeFORCE AGP 128MB
NVIDIA TNT card
Switched scart box
Samsung SyncMaster 2232BW Flatsceen Monitor
SONY Bravia KDL-32D3000 flat screen TV monitor/TV

[ YET TO COME ]

Apple IIe disk drives and monitor
G5 SORD boxed
Compaq III portable
Amiga 600 boxed
A4000T disk module
Sinclair Spectrum plus interface and Microdrive

.... And I think that's all.

scuzz

Entry 0748: Blog: 2

I hadn't realised that the guy I've been dealing with lately
regarding the postage on a couple of disk boxes was going
to send me so much. I am like a kid in a sweet shop here
cus included with the two very large disk boxes full of original
games and software are all the manuals and much more.
The books and stuff were not shown in the sale image, so
you can imaging for me just what this means. I am so so
happy this morning whooo hooo...

[  bit of a list ]

Manuals/books

Aegis Sonix
Alien Breed
Alien Breed II
Alien Breed 3D
Amiga Gamers Guide
Amiga Surfin
Baal
Barbarian
BAT II
Black Crypt
Bloodwych
Chaos Engine
Chaos Strikes Back
Clawmarks
Corporation
Defender of the Crown
Deluxe Music Construction Set
Deluxe Music
Deluxe Music Version 2
Deluxe Paint III
DevPac Amiga
Dr T's Music Software
Drakkhen
Dungeon Master
Dungeon Master Editor
Dungeon Master II
Epic
Eye of the Beholder
F16
FA-18 Interceptor
F29
Fears
Final Writer
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Frontier Elite II
Generation Stealth
Grimoire RuneLore
Heimdall 2
Infestation
Lotus Turbo Challenge
Menace
Music Studio
Mucis-X Jr
Obliterator
Perfect Sound
PGA Eurpoean Tour
Qwak
R-Type
Robocop 3
Sensible Soccer
Shadow of the Beast
Starglider
Starglider 2
Stryx
SuperJam [ thick manuals ]
Super Hang On
Syndicate
Syndicate Playing Guide
Thunderhawk
Virus
Wing Commander
Worms
Xenon

[ Extra on Disk without manuals ]

Amiga Vision
Apache
Bars and Pipes
Bat
Carrier Command
Empire Strikes Back
Flexidump
Firebird
Garrison
Gods
Home Accounts 2
Kickstart II
MicroBase
Naksha Mouse
Perfect Sound
RamPage 1,2,3,4,5
Skrull the Barbarian
Stampede

Plus all the original disks to the above , the Robocop
dongle and a SunRize Industries sampler.

And not one bootleg copied disk in the bunch and only
one cover disk. This was a man who really like playing
on the Amiga... Just Magic.

scuzz

Entry 0748: Blog: 3

The history of the computer based Bulletin Board System can be traced back 
to Chicago, IL in 1978 to Ward Christensen, who wrote the first BBS system 
software.

Texfiles BBS Timeline 1978 

Snowed in during the Great Chicago Snowstorm of (January) 1978, 
Ward Christensen begins preliminary work on what would eventually 
become CBBS (Computer Bulletin Board System), the first Bulletin 
Board System. 

[ This is fascinating ]

------------------------------------
The Birth of the BBS
By Ward and Randy (1989)
------------------------------------

I met Randy prolly late '75 at Cache - I went to most meetings 
starting with the 2nd which was Sept '75. He and I worked with 
Tarbell cassette exchanges for a while - built-in assembler, 
editor, etc. 

Saved stuff to cassette by a speaker and microphone on a 300 
baud acoustic coupler. 

Met Rob't Swartz - now of Mark Williams company fame - he had 
CP/M in '76. I bought a license in Jan '77 and took my diskette 
to his house. He showed me the CP/M editor and assembler and 
I wrote a program to "beep" the contents of my floppy to 
cassette via a modem. (the modem wouldn't generate the carrier 
without hearing another, and Bob happened to have a cassette 
of modem "stuff" around, so we played it into the modem to get 
it to generate the tone). Used 128 byte blocks and a checksum - 
the bare essentials for XMODEM though I didn't think of it 
as a protocol at the time. 

Sometime around there Randy also got CP/M, but HE got the 
"real thing" - IBM format 8" diskettes. 

I needed a way to swap stuff with Randy and others - so on 
late summer '77 wrote MODEM.ASM and tossed it into the CP/M 
users group. 

That program became the singly most modified program in computing 
history due to the many hardware environments in which it had to 
operate (no standards - no "IBM" to say where serial ports should 
be addressed, etc). 

Dave Jaffe wrote a routine "BYE" to allow remote users to call in 
to your CP/M system and operate it. I put up a 70K/diskette 
Northstar system with BYE and my modem program. Keith Peterson 
would call from Michigan and fill the diskette in one night or 
so. I got tired of that and took it down. Turns out that was - as 
others say - the first "remote CP/M system" since apparently 
Dave never put up a system for any length of time. 

Keith thought there should be an easier way to run MODEM than 
having to remember to use a "Q" option (Quiet - i.e. don't 
chatter about block numbers to the console) so he stripped 
MODEM down and called it XMODEM. Since that was a more 
"recognizable" name, that stuck as the protocol name. 

Others hacked MODEM/XMODEM to add CRC, multi-file transfer, 
etc. Chuck Forsberg wrote it in C, and for Unix became RB 
and SB, YAM, etc. 

Chuck's 1K protocol as implemented in rb/sb needed a name, so 
I suggested he call it "Ymodem" which he did. He later wrote 
Zmodem, a protocol to send continuous blocks with asynch ACKs 
to allow max transfer throughput. 

================

[ quote ]

IBM and Compatibles: DOS: AXIS

Author:  Zip Code of Z-TEC
Versions:  Revision .c (November 24, 1995)

Additional Notes:  Motavar writes: "I am the author of the Axis BBS software
written in the early 90's. AXiS is a WWIV hack completely rewritten to
support multithreading support allowing multiple copies to run at once.

"You may wonder where AXiS and other "Forum Style" bbs softwares came from.
Well.. half the forum style boards are actually WWIV hacks. With the
purchase of the WWIV bbs software admins would receive a free copy of the
source code for "Modding". While many of us "kids" (ages 14-18) did not have
jobs ( or a dollar to our name ) we would download the latest copies of the
source code from friends and play around with it changing features. There
was a huge following of people who did changes (mods) to the WWIV source
code. They would release pieces of code on how to add new features to WWIV
including detailed information on how to make the change, such as: "On Line
254 in the modem.c file change modem=1 to modem=2", etc etc. This allowed
anyone the ability to download WWIV, add a few lines of Mod code and change
the look of WWIV to something cool looking (Because the basic wwiv software
looked like ass). Eventually I became hooked on modding and learning C
programming. This became the start of AXiS. AXiS was designed from the
ground up to be a pirate bulletin board system to support the warez scene.

------------

BBS FAQ

From: (G. Wolfe Woodbury)
Subject: 2. What is a BBS?
Date: Wed Aug 11 19:29:48 EDT 1993

BBS is an acronym for Bulletin Board System.  This is software that allows
a computer to be used as a message posting and reading system that has
some similarities to a bulletin board you might find in an office
or in a grocery store.  Users of the system can post messages and read
messages posted by others.  Many computer BBSes also allow the users to
send private messages to other users, and to "download" files that are
stored on the computer.  Some BBSes also allow users to run other
programs (such as games) in addition to the BBS program.

Some BBS programs allow the individual BBS systems to share messages by
using a communications medium to exchange the messages via a standard
protocol which the BBSes understand.  Such systems are "networked"
BBSes.  There are several BBS Networks around the world. Among them are
FIDOnet, WWIVnet, RIMEnet, VNET and Usenet.

[ end BBS FAQ ]


Magic 

scuzz