Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
GENERAL => General chat => Topic started by: DrewPee on June 20, 2008
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Hello again,
I know a lot of you have already been to have a visit and left some kinds words. I thought I would start this to keep you informed on what is going on . . .
btw if you haven't visited already please do! www.retrocomputermuseum.co.uk
As of today (20th June 2008) I have another 5 machines added to the collection (including a Sega Genesis Nomad - woo woo), some of the machines I still need are:-
Dragon 32 or 64
Mattell Intellivision
Commodore Amiga 1500, 3000, 4000 and 4000T
Commodore CDTV
Amstrad CPC 664
Amstrad CPC 6128
Amstrad GX4000
+ loads of other bits - especially Amiga monitors!!!
We love donations! but obviously do pay for stuff as well. I have a collection of almost a hundred computers and consoles plus various add ons/peripherals.
If you take a look at the website you will understand what me (Andy) and wife (Linda) are trying to do.
Regards and respect to all of you
Andy and Linda Spencer
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Cool Site, nice work. 8)
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Commodore CDTV
Do you mean the CDI? I worked on a prototype of one of them - the circuit board was laid out and screwed to a couple of planks of wood!
Jim
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What a cool idea, great hobby you got there, though it looks like its not a hobby any more :P
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Still need a Vitual Boy, Sega CD and Intellivision. :)
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I have several Sega CD games that work on an emulator!! They were dontated last week! Intellivision are going for stupid money!!
I have never even seen a virtual boy - let alone own one! Although I thought that about my Sega Genisis Nomad! lol!
It was a hobby but now it is out of control! lol!
No I defintely mean the CDTV - it was a black box, with black keyboard and mouse etc. Basically it was an Amiga 500(ish).
Although I had forgot about the CDI, made by Phillips wasn't it? Does anybody have one of those they don't want?
Cheers
Andy
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There's also the commodore cd32, i think it was somewhat compatible with the cdtv software.
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I have see virtua boy in second hand shop last year and they were selling for 150 pounds!!!
I think Virtua boy is very rare item because it is very hard to find!
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I have a CD32 in very good condition with around 20 or so games, lovely bit of kit that was! Very underrated - again messed up by Commodore! They should have pushed it much harder and that way more games would have been written with it in mind rather than just ported from the Amiga 1200.
I am just in the process of compiling a full list of what I have . . . well computers and console wise - not games and peripherals . . .
Please bear with me and I will post here soon!
Andy
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I meant CD32, damn! CDI was Philips' set top box. What's a CDTV?
Jim
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my cousin used to have the cd32 with quite a few games.i remember a 2d stunt flying game for it and a pirate tresure hunt game that was very adictive.
the nintendo vritual boy can be found on ebay be warned though they were discontinued for making people sick.
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Here we go . . . In no particular order . . .
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad MegaPC (Megadrive built into a PC!)
Atari STe
Atari Lynx (v2)
Atari 2600 (6 switch)
Atari 2600 (4 switch black (darth))
Atari 2600 (new version)
Atari Jaguar
Commodore Vic20
Commodore +4
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Commodore 64c
Commodore 128
Commodore Amiga 500
Commodore Amiga 600
Commodore Amiga 1200
Commodore Amiga 2000
Commodore CD32
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum 16k
Sinclair Spectrum 48k
Sinclair Spectrum 48k+
Sinclair Spectrum 128k
Sinclair Spectrum +2A
Sinclair Spectrum +2B
Sinclair Spectrum +3
Sinclair QL
Memotech MTX512
Acetronic Games System
Gamepark GP32
Nintendo NES
Nintendo SNES
Nintendo N64
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Pocket
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gamecube
Acorn Electron
Acorn BBC Model B
Sega Mastersystem 1
Sega MegaDrive
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Gamegear
Sega Genesis Nomad
Sony PSOne
Apple Mac II Classic
Apple Mac 4400
Apple Mac 7200
Apple Mac G3
Apple Mac G4
+ different versions of the above . . . and quite a few I have missed!!
Andy
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Jim,
Here you go . . . http://www.cdtv.org.uk/
I have just found out that a mate of mine might have one for sale!!!
Andy
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DrewPee do you know of this site :
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/index.php
It is a site for people that collect consoles / vintage PC's / Arcade machines / Pinball machines, you name it they got it. The members sell rare collectables to each other. And they also share info on games that have different versions / SDK's for consoles / rare peripherals etc.
You probably already knew of assemblergames but just in case thats the link
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Why don't I remember that, Drew? I mean, it's 15 years ago, but my brain must have reused the storage space :)
Thanks for the link!
Jim
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Rain - No I didn't know about that site - I do now, just registered and going to have a look around!
Thanks!
Nice one Jim!
Andy
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No problem DrewPee Something tells me that you love that place. They do take a few days before they reply to applications. I waited a week before they got back to me but Im not a collector with the list in your collection it shouldnt be that long
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I apopreciate people holding on to their old consoles and not just selling them and 20+ games for the newest system.
I have the following (in working condition)
Nintendo
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
Gamecube
Wii
GameBoy
GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance
Nintendo DS (meh)
SEGA
Sega Genesis
SegaCD
Sony
Playstation
Playstation 2
PSP (meh except for Gradius Collection)
PC
Compaq Presario
Acer Aspire m3100-1718
And you guys probably have better computers than I do.
I do have one question to ask you. Is it unwise to purchase older computers given their age and storage mediums? I've always wanted to code on very limited systems.
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The old cartridge based consoles require either a microcontroller programming board (cheaper, more flexible, more work) or a development cartridge (expensive and only one project per devcart) or you could pay someone else to flash your program onto a cartridge for you (stupid cos there are no emulators 100% compatible = buggy code that doesnt work on real hardware)
There is another option Xgamestation or Hydra Paralax which are homebrew consoles. You build the console yourself and they come with an official SDK something you wont find with real consoles, last time I checked an Xgamestation cost $30
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I have
Playstation
Playstation ONE
Playstation 2
C64
Amiga 600
Amiga 1200
Atari 65XE
ZX Specturm 48K
GameBoy (BLACK N WHITE) WITH Oringal TERIS !
The machine that I have sold are
Dreamcast
Sega Megadrive
Gameboy Advance
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mmmm atari 65xe - nice machine - forgot about those buggers! a few ataris i don't have as well
Andy
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Are the computers in the long list above the ones you're looking for, or the ones you have?
I have an Amstrad CPC464 which might be available if my wife will part with it, and an Amiga with a floppy disk drive, but no boot disk. I'll have to check which model it is.
The Amstrad has a monitor, and I have a second modified Amstrad monitor which works with the Amiga.
If you want them, I am in Doncaster. I'll find out how much it will cost to send them.
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combatking0
Thanks for the post and the offer of the machines, the long list is the machines I have but I am always looking for duplicates as eventually one will go pop! (Although some bits are very easy to fix!).
I could always pick them up from you if it is ony in doncaster? Not too far to travel for nice computers!
Regards
Andy
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Cool. I'll pester the wife when I get home tonight.
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Nice list of machines! Gotta say though, for a museum based in the UK you HAVE to get some RISC OS based machines - they're the birth of ARM processors, and born right here in the UK! *sigh* I miss my old A3000.
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Naptha,
Sorry - I knew there was a machine missing, I have an Acorn Archimedes A3000 - it has the hard drive removed and a Compact Flash card in place . . . loads really quickly and is full some great software. ;D
Regards
Andy
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Naptha,
Sorry - I knew there was a machine missing, I have an Acorn Archimedes A3000 - it has the hard drive removed and a Compact Flash card in place . . . loads really quickly and is full some great software. ;D
Regards
Andy
Ah, sweet!
(btw, hard drives were optional extras on the A3000 - the OS is stored on a ROM chip which is why it loads so fast ;) )
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Hello Drewpee
How about the 3do was a great console (the first fifa game i ever liked)
shame about the software support :(
alas i no longer own one sold it with some other bits n pieces due to having to move oh well
I still kick myself now ! :/
RageSnax
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Interestingly, the CTO of 3DO company was RJ Mical, one of the engineers who's name is etched on the inside cover of every A1000 Amiga :)
Jim
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Don't suppose anybody has an Amiga 1000 they don't want? lol!
Drew
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I would love to have Amiga Collections such as Amiga 1000,1500,2000,3000,4000, CD32 8)
I cant think anymore amiga machine.
Was C65 release in uk yonk ago?
Have you got Atari Falcon? ;)
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Hey DrewPee I was thinking it would be extra cool if you had some original cracktros to display running on the original hardware in your museum. It would be like a first for the demoscene. Just a thought.
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@ Hotshot,
The C65 was sort of released . . . there are only a few in existence, one of my firends has a fully working one but with a slightly poorly keyboad, it was the alternative to the amiga . . . they were designed at the same time as each other.
The other Amigas are A500, A500+, A600, A1200 and CDTV . . . nice!
No I haven't got an Atari Falcon - still looking for one of those . . . :(
@ Rain_Storm,
Yeah i totally agree that would be fantastic . . . I agree that some cracktros, intros, demos etc would be fantastic . . . Alcatraz Odyssey, Jesus on Es etc and some of the amazing stuff like that, some of demos/intros by northstar/fairlight, kefrens (Desert Dreams - One of my personal favourites), red sector etc. would be great - do we have many members of the the original groups on here? I would be honoured if anybody wrote a demo or two (eventually) to run on new hardware for the museum when we get it open? Any offers for that? Something retro . . . but cool . . .
Cheers
Andy (DrewPee)
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@DrewPee: did not get it. do you want these demos to be rewritten for "new hardware", like PCs?
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Stormbringer,
Yeah sorry - I meant on new Hardware . . . I will have couple of PCs running windoze!
Cheers
DrewPee
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DrewPee,
be sure I'll make them available ;)
ATM, I'm writing my generic routines and soon some demos will be available, not only cracktros.
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Hi, I'm having a big clearout atm and wondering if you'd be interested in any of this. Wasn't really wanting to get rid of some of it but it'll just sit at the back of a cupboard for years:
Amstrad cpc6128 (disk drive not working but I'm pretty sure it's just the drive band)
+monitor
+other stuff like plug in drum machine and mouse+interface and speech synth.
Amiga monitor, got it with A2000 but no longer have the machine.
Acorn Electron in a bit of a sorry state.
Handhelds? neogeo pocket colour
there's some manuals,software/games and magazines for that stuff too and there might be some other bits n pieces.
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Stonemonkey . . .
Well . . . the answer is a definite YES - this is the sort of stuff im still looking for!!!
Were these intended as a donation or for me to buy?
Andy