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ApolloBoy
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« on: July 09, 2012, 03:05:08 PM »

Picked up this beauty over the weekend from a local electronics supply store for $50:

[img width=700 height=525]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/ApolloBoy/DSCN0286.jpg[/img]

It also included an external floppy drive and all the necessary cables except for a monitor cable. Until I can get ahold of an RGB SCART cable I'm making do with this:

[img width=700 height=525]http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b144/ApolloBoy/DSCN0288.jpg[/img]
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2012, 03:18:03 PM »

Very cool!  Get any games?
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2012, 03:28:53 PM »

Very cool!  Get any games?
I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2012, 03:37:34 PM »

Very cool!  Get any games?
I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.
Are they 3 1/2" floppies?
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« Reply #4 on: July 09, 2012, 04:51:03 PM »

That thing looks brand new.
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« Reply #5 on: July 09, 2012, 05:03:59 PM »

Very cool!  Get any games?
I didn't get any although the place I bought it from has loads of CIB ST games. I've been making some floppies instead, although it's been largely a hit or miss process. What's nice is that you can write ST floppies using just a PC, whereas with the Amiga you have to get special PC hardware or link together the Amiga and a PC using a serial cable in order to write disks. I might get an Ultrasatan later on though, which plugs into the ST's hard drive port and lets you use an SD card as a hard drive.
Are they 3 1/2" floppies?
Yep, although they're double density so you either have to track down real double density disks or use HD disks with the extra hole covered up.
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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2012, 05:23:22 PM »

Very wicked find, ApolloBoy.  I've been on the lookout for one of these babies at a good price for a coons age now, but no luck.  Most people around here won't budge for under $150 (no box but otherwise complete) and that is for a system with no games!  Too bad about the SCART, though.  Composite is just no way to view the the TOS "green screen."  Have you priced a SCART to VGA or do you have an old 15-pin CRT sitting around?

Just out of curiosity, what games are you firing up on it?
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