Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social)

Nice little gaming/computing haul from my shopping trip!

Toshiba T1910CS 486 laptop from 1994, in a custom made carry case.

I recently swapped the screen and repaired the floppy drive, it runs: MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11

Early Saturday morning paper craft today, I made a little reflector to catch as much Autumn sun as possible. These three are all ready for retro-brighting, I wrapped them all separately so I can swap and move them around, let's check back in a few days or so....

I've fully refurbished the Plextor PlexWriter on the bottom, inside and out, I need to get these other three sorted! 👍
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They turned out nicely!
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2.5 day update: still cooking, but looking 👌

This is what I like to do with my Friday nights and have no shame about it, that is all. 🤓

Sim City 2000 Big Box (MS-DOS 3.5" floppy version) [1993]

Some weird RAM, if you know what this is from we can be friends!

New retro acquisition! 📼

1999 Battle Stations

@foone yes, it was part of a birthday present and it's my son's favourite game in the world, loves football. But still it is an insane price, I agree.

@foone i think the Pico would be a good platform, having the ability to debug everything over WiFi or Serial would be amazing. Also how cool would it be to have a little web interface so that you can see codes being sent/received, or even being able to change key codes with it too. I wish I had more programming skills!

Being a parent, when you have to preorder the latest football game for your kid, as it's now become a tradition WTF! 😲😳

@foone cheers, what kind of hardware are you using for the base of your own converters?

@foone thanks for that bit of info, just out of interest, I'm assuming they would just be hex codes? I'm hoping to reprogram my Soarer's Converter to work fully with it, I've kind of got to the point where I'm hoping I can just configure the controller and it's not going to be impossible with the firmware. 🤔

The Keeb:

I have a mechanical keyboard from a lunchbox laptop (1990), it has 5 connectors (2 are ground). I've figured out VCC and I can get the lights flash on, like it's switched on properly. For the life of me I cannot get the clock and data to work via a PS/2 to USB converter. 🤔

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