Console clutter - oldschool

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I had purchased an Atari Jaguar after getting all excited about it in reading a Retro Gamer mag focus article, but shelved it due to no physical space.  Retro Gamer got me all excited, again, about the Sega Saturn and I just grabbed one of those.

It seemed time to make space for these things.

I recently put up a shelf in a corner of my computer room to accomodate these consoles.  I've got an old Teknika screen (mid-80's) that accepts chroma / luma on separate RCA inputs (we now call this S-Video in a 4-pin mini DIN) as display for all 5 of these consoles through a 6-port S-Video switchbox.

Anyway, I took a pic of the lot in this messy, setup state and thought folks might be amused:

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/consoles/console_chaos.JPG.html

(What's the most obscure thing you can find in there?  (You can access higher res versions after the jump.) Heh.)



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Indeed.

http://oldcomputers.net/ti994a.html




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Marco wrote:
I dunno if it's the most obscure or not, but certainly the thing I want the most out of that pile is the original pressing *rare-as-fsck* wipE'out" in the long box, not to play it of course (I've got 2 ordinary copies for that) but to frame it and build a shrine around it.

That's not so weird is it?

There's two wipE'out" long-boxes, there.  The one to the far left is for the PSX, the one to its right on the desk is for the Saturn.  I just got the Saturn version as I'd always wanted to do a side-by-side comparison.  Indeed, the PSX version is a clearer rendering and has a noticeably higher framerate.  Saturn version is not bad for a machine that lacks actual "3D hardware," though.  (Is the long-box rare?)

It was seeing a friend's PSX playing wipE'out" that made me run right out and grab a PSX back in 1996.  I was astounded.  I hadn't purchased a console in nearly 20 years (well, my parents actually purchased that old Atari 2600 back in '79 or so, when I was 7).




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reddwarfer wrote:
Is that wall design stencilled on Blakespot?

Nope.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/6425/



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CLS2086 wrote:
Arnaud ? Bigdan you mean ?
I also have Wipeout 2097 for AmigaPPC and SegaSaturn too...

Great, you have the Ti PeeBOX. How much is it populated ? RAM ? Printer port ? Floppy extension ?
Did you put new capacitors and new diodes ? I know people who saw theirs smoked years ago ...

Why do you use a so small screen ? and why do you connect your machines in Composite or Svidéo mode when you can do it in RGB

Yea, got the PE Box for my TI-99/4A.  It has a 32K RAM expander board in there, bringing the system to 48K total.  Back in 1983, it cost $299 for that 32K upgrade.

Printer port and Floppy controller in there, as well.  I did not replace capacitors, but did have to replace the main unit's motherboard when the video chip died.

The TI-99 does not have RGB out.  That screen accepts S-Video and Composite.  S-Video is offered by all the consoles I have hooked to it, RGB is not.  S-Video seemed the best fit, and I already had the screen.  The small screen for these consoles is fine for their 320x240 (most of them) resolution and, anyway, I have a larger screen for the more recent consoles...




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humppa wrote:

blakespot wrote:

reddwarfer wrote:
Is that wall design stencilled on Blakespot?

Nope.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/cubegoodies/6425/

LOL, seems like you actually cleaned up the mess for making the think geek "action shot":

LINK

Or did your collection really grow _that_ fast?  :lol:

It grew that fast.  :-)



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Debaser wrote:
Nice IIgs too! What's under the hood?
 

http://pix.blakespot.com/view/computers/apple_IIgs/IMG_3284.jpg.html



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Marco wrote:

blakespot wrote:
(Is the long-box rare?)

Exceedingly, over on wipEoutZone the longbox is like the holy grail of wipEout stuff, except possibly for the t-shirt worn by (IIRC) Sarah Cox on the advert for the first game (which was banned in Germany because they thought it promoted drugs). Two of the lonboxes together (for different formats as well) should cause a reality implosion or something. If you have a copy of wipEout Fusion in a lenticular sleeve (pseudo-3D effect thingy) that is also quite rare. Though not looked upon so highly as the longbox as Fusion is regarded by wipEout fans as a bit of a train-wreck.

Only 2 people on wipEoutZone so far as I know have the Amiga version of wipEout2097: me and this French guy called Arnaud who has copies of pretty much everything wipEout related and holds most of the time records there.

Interesting.  

I took a pic of my wipE'out" stuff and posted it in my gallery.



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