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tingo wrote: I prefer Mini vMac for running classic Mac OS software: http://www.gryphel.com/c/minivmac/
PowerPC? Too new :-P

I've used it to emulate a Mac Plus. A very nice piece of software!
I find Mini vMac a lot more useful than Basilisk, and it is quite swift.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * RDI PrecisionBook * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
itsvince725 wrote: A Sega Saturn!

I'm hoping I can mod it for JP games and homebrew and stuff.

I'm not aware of any homebrew on the Saturn? Dreamcast yes, but not Saturn. Ths CD has only recently been cracked...
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For region free-ness, you certainly need a mod chip, it would be quite difficult to source one of those these days me thinks o.0
yetanother**ixuser wrote: snagged a nice powerbook g4 12" from a local fleamarket. its fully loaded and in near mint condition. useless but beautyfull *g*


It makes a lovely recording station with Logic 8 or Logic 9. Can't do much of plugins and mixing. Goes well with LiveStage too.
Or a computer for writing and programming when you don't want to be too disturbed by the Interwebs. The keyboard is way better than the super shallow key travel keyboards of nowadays.
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I know of a modchip called the Phantom that's still in production but I don't believe it's region-free. I'd love to add a region-free BIOS too but then I'd have to find someone who can remove and replace SMD components...
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So, I am more freaking bored than a fish in its water ball. I have to prepare a PCI card for a customer, which means design it on Altium, hot-air solder a Spartan fpga, prepare the interface, blablablabla.

From the office window I see a beautiful swimming pool full of people who take fresh water and sun. Lucky they are! Including those two lifeguard blond girls in red swimsuit.

What is actually annoying is ... I am still waiting for customer's constraints, they have meeting time, and meeting time, and meeting time, and I am still waiting for their decision, I can't proced without them, and I can't leave the office.

I am going to have my lunch time (1 hour and half) to the swimming pool. As my latest purchase I have ordered three-days-tickets (with 2% of discount), since I suspect they will take a lot of time (say until Tuesday) to take a decision and to provide me inputs.

Swimming pool time 8-)
Head Full of Snow. Lemon Scented You
MacBook Pro late 2012 with high-DPI display.
I wouldn't buy such new computer, but it's a gift for my brother. It looks brand new, but needs a new SSD (and some cleaning).
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be careful about getting any water or alcohol around the keyboard and touchpad. They seem to be very sensitive to contaminants.
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I just plunked down for an SX Andromeda II from Rondo Music. It's basically the 4-string deluxe version (single-piece neck, high-mass bridge, better tuners) of their Jazz Bass clone I already own. I've found that to be a majorly sweet instrument, but after some serious consideration I find that the low B-string mostly just gets in my way and rarely gets used for anything other than a makeshift thumb-rest. I figure I'm going to sell off my little Ibanez and try this; if I don't find myself seriously missing the 5-string, as I expect I won't, I'll probably sell that as well, and be down to one really nice hollow-body short-scale bass and one really nice solid-body medium-scale one (and have a little more space in my living room!)
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/HS-80/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/M1, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Emax HD/Proteus-2, Casio CZ-5000, Moog Satellite, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600
commodorejohn wrote: I just plunked down for an SX Andromeda II from Rondo Music.


Very cool! I hadn't realized that Rondo Music still was around. They started as a small family business a few blocks down the road from where I grew up in NJ. I used to go there often as a teenager and drool over the idea of someday buying a Les Paul. (At the time, the most I could afford was a cheap, no-name, imitation model.) Unfortunately, the main store closed at least a decade ago. When it closed, I heard that one of the family members was going to try to make a go of it as an online store run out of New Hampshire. Nice to hear that they are still in business!
Interesting! I only found out about them when I got that 5-string Jazz Bass clone off of Craigslist, but I've been genuinely amazed by how nice an instrument it is considering they sell for $150-250 depending on the model. I went down to a pawn shop this afternoon just to satisfy my curiousity by trying a genuine Fender version, and it really wasn't any nicer than their clone. Looking forward to seeing what the deluxe model is like.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/HS-80/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/M1, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Emax HD/Proteus-2, Casio CZ-5000, Moog Satellite, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600
I got a Sega CD and a 32X over the weekend. Now I can really play with Sega power.
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itsvince725 wrote: I got a Sega CD and a 32X over the weekend. Now I can really play with Sega power.


Sonic CD is pure gold!
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Man, I need to fix my Sega CD (I think a fuse blew in it.) Lots of strange, interesting stuff for that system, especially for fans of early-'90s anime aesthetics (and early-'90s anime dubbing!) Keio Flying Squadron alone is worth the price of admission.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
Synthesizers: Roland JX-10/SH-09/HS-80/MT-32/D-50, Yamaha DX7-II/V50/TX7/TG33/FB-01, Korg MS-20 Mini/ARP Odyssey/DW-8000/M1, Ensoniq SQ-80, E-mu Emax HD/Proteus-2, Casio CZ-5000, Moog Satellite, Sequential Circuits Prophet-600
Yeah, and thanks to a complete lack of copy protection it's easy to play all-time classics like Keio and Lunar!

I've heard about the fuse, it's apparently extremely common and relatively easy to fix.
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I managed to get my hands on a Tezro.

It appears to be a reasonably specced machine, but I will only have enough time to take a good look at it in about the next month or so.













:Onyx2: Quad R14K 500Mhz, IR3 :Tezro: Quad R16K 700 Mhz 8Mb, V12 :Octane2: Dual R14K 600Mhz, V12 :O2: R12K 400Mhz :Indigo: R4400SC 150Mhz, ELAN :320: Dual 1Ghz PIII :Indigo2: R4400SC 200Mhz, Extreme :Indy: R4400SC 200Mhz, XZ :Indy: R5000SC 150Mhz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups).
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300Mhz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100Mhz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb (System disk), Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative Soundblaster X-fi Fatality Pro.
Hey, that looks in pretty good shape. hinv and pr0n that sucker when you get it up and running.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , 175MHz R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * RDI PrecisionBook * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
I will definitely do so!
:Onyx2: Quad R14K 500Mhz, IR3 :Tezro: Quad R16K 700 Mhz 8Mb, V12 :Octane2: Dual R14K 600Mhz, V12 :O2: R12K 400Mhz :Indigo: R4400SC 150Mhz, ELAN :320: Dual 1Ghz PIII :Indigo2: R4400SC 200Mhz, Extreme :Indy: R4400SC 200Mhz, XZ :Indy: R5000SC 150Mhz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups).
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300Mhz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100Mhz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb (System disk), Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative Soundblaster X-fi Fatality Pro.
http://i.imgur.com/7azeQCH.jpg

Got a bunch of PC hardware for 20 bucks.
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