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Inviere

Merry Christmas everyone

Unfortunately, Wand of Gamelon wasn't under the tree...suppose I'll have to wait. Maybe next Christmas, if I'm really really good.

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

Mess Christmas everyone

Unfortunately, Wand of Gamelon wasn't under the tree...suppose I'll have to wait. Maybe next Christmas, if I'm really really good.

Maybe fate decided not to punish you with the game.
Wand of Gamelon might be the new "Sack of coal" or "Getting forced to watch Michael McIntyre", what happens when you have been naughty.

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Maybe fate decided not to punish you with the game.

Thank Christ, imagine, I'd have to buy a CDi then!

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

Thank Christ, imagine, I'd have to buy a CDi then!

I'd say Trump is waking up to a CDi and all the games this morning.

Inviere

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'd say Trump is waking up to a CDi and all the games this morning.

A few rounds of Axis & Allies?

CiDeRmAn

Inviere wrote: »

A few rounds of Axis & Allies?

Ha!
More like Wargames....
I can see him there, in the Oval Office, with an Atari 400 in front of him, typing in that he wants to have a go of "Global Thermonuclear War"

Linoud

Merry Christmas y'all! Have a good one!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday, was too sick to post (still had a good day though)

CiDeRmAn

Hope you're feeling better today!
Me, I'm on duty, Christmas leave over
Still, could be worse... could have a CDi!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hope you're feeling better today!
Me, I'm on duty, Christmas leave over
Still, could be worse... could have a CDi!

Unfortunately not, out of hours doc said its a throat and chest infection, be fine in a few days sure.
That's a balls, had you time off last week? One of the lads is back in the hospital lab today but he had since last Monday off

Tom Mann Centuria

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Hope you're feeling better today!
Me, I'm on duty, Christmas leave over
Still, could be worse... could have a CDi!

The joys of HSE work, CNM 2 in general nursing are a scarce sight on bank holidays though. You ID folk are obviously better managers!

80s Synth Pop

Happy Christmas to all!

Lashed through Double Dragon 2 on the nes mini yesterday. Still remembered the trick to the cyclone kicks was to press the kick button at the apex of the jump. It's like a cheat to breeze through the game once you master that.

Then I read this today about Double Dragon 4 http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/dd4/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f8RV4Q8t4

Check out the hilarious combo action at 1.18 Can't wait for this!

CiDeRmAn

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

The joys of HSE work, CNM 2 in general nursing are a scarce sight on bank holidays though. You ID folk are obviously better managers!

I am, it's true, and so is my wife!

CiDeRmAn

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Unfortunately not, out of hours doc said its a throat and chest infection, be fine in a few days sure.
That's a balls, had you time off last week? One of the lads is back in the hospital lab today but he had since last Monday off

I don't mind, been a lovely day so far, on until 20:40 and off tomorrow, but Mrs Ciderman is on tomorrow, give me time to play some games!
I'm back on this Wednesday, off Thursday and Friday then on New Years Eve and Day, again I don't mind too much.

Digital Solitude

Is this the forum to be asking about vinyl records lads? Didn't really see anywhere else that jumped out.

Just looking for a recommendation of a few sites to buy some if there's anywhere good outside the eBay/adverts/gumtree likes

Santa was good to bring me a player

Nerdkiller1991

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

Happy Christmas to all!

Lashed through Double Dragon 2 on the nes mini yesterday. Still remembered the trick to the cyclone kicks was to press the kick button at the apex of the jump. It's like a cheat to breeze through the game once you master that.

Then I read this today about Double Dragon 4 http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/dd4/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0f8RV4Q8t4

Check out the hilarious combo action at 1.18 Can't wait for this!

BOOO! Bimmy's not returning!

80s Synth Pop

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Is this the forum to be asking about vinyl records lads? Didn't really see anywhere else that jumped out.

Just looking for a recommendation of a few sites to buy some if there's anywhere good outside the eBay/adverts/gumtree likes

Santa was good to bring me a player

The head and goldendiscs stores are great for new commercial releases and re-issues.

For older stuff, www.discogs.com has every vinyl release ever made indexed and there is usually someone somewhere selling a copy of what you are looking for. If not you can add it to your "wantlist" and it will email you when someone puts one up for sale.

I got the rare South African release of "Wham! - Final" double album just last week from a seller on discogs so I could annoy everyone in the house with the 10 minute Christmas Pudding edit of Last Christmas...and then the news of George's death broke

Consider getting yourself some good stylus like the Shure m44-7 to keep the records minty.

MrVestek

Speaking of which...

Dealz seem to have gotten in some Vinyl Record frames for the usual €1.49 a pop.

Not bad really.

I plan to put some of the artwork from the DATA DISCS releases in there when I get home later today.

Edit: These lads here:
http://www.dealz.ie/photo-frame-record

Andrew76

@Digital - Tower Records in town also sell them if you fancy bricks & mortar (Dawson Street and above Easons).

Jack burton

Andrew76 wrote: »

@Digital - Tower Records in town also sell them if you fancy bricks & mortar (Dawson Street and above Easons).

I was in there today. Picked up a nice few!

Really need to invest in a decent player now.

Digital Solitude

Jack burton wrote: »

I was in there today. Picked up a nice few!

Really need to invest in a decent player now.

Might call up to Dublin to go on a hunt soon, overdue a visit to Forbidden Planet anyways.

Got a Bush CTT-939, lovely looking machine, no speaker makes it a bit awkward for use by me but I'm sure I'll come to appreciate that in time, it's a real nice player.

Jack burton

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Might call up to Dublin to go on a hunt soon, overdue a visit to Forbidden Planet anyways.

Got a Bush CTT-939, lovely looking machine, no speaker makes it a bit awkward for use by me but I'm sure I'll come to appreciate that in time, it's a real nice player.

I'll take a look at that. I want to get one sooner rather than later.

One I have at the moment is skipping on brand new records so I'm really sceptical about playing some of my more expensive stuff on it incase it damages them

Anyone else have a recommendation for a good player? Something that's not €1000+ though

Digital Solitude

Jack burton wrote: »

I'll take a look at that. I want to get one sooner rather than later.

One I have at the moment is skipping on brand new records so I'm really sceptical about playing some of my more expensive stuff on it incase it damages them

Anyone else have a recommendation for a good player? Something that's not €1000+ though

Ah it's probably not great but does the job.

Got my hands on my grandmothers old collection, surprising amount of republican songs

Doge

On the topic of music, I just discovered today that Yuzo Koshiro wrote the Streets of Rage soundtracks on a PC-8800 which uses a similar sound chip to the YM2612 thats in the Mega Drive.

Then I stumbled across this Wikipedia page that is very insightful into how he composed the music, and what inspired him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discography_of_the_Streets_of_Rage_series

Plenty of gorey details in there.

It appears that Data Discs have recorded the soundtrack from both the PC-8800 and a Mega Drive and mixed the audio together,
so it sound slightly different to what you would hear on a standard Mega Drive.

Doge

Jack burton wrote: »

One I have at the moment is skipping on brand new records so I'm really sceptical about playing some of my more expensive stuff on it incase it damages them

Anyone else have a recommendation for a good player? Something that's not €1000+ though

There's a good article on this here if you want more normal / elegant looking turntables:

http://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-8-best-budget-turntables-that-wont-ruin-your-records/

A cheaper option is to buy a DJ turntable which can fit standard headshells, and really opens up a world of options on the kind of cartridges and needles you can buy for it.

You can get a direct drive turntable for as little as €129 new:

https://www.thomann.de/ie/american_audio_ttd_2400.htm

More options here, just stay clear of the first 2 Numarks and the Akais which use the ****ty red generic needles:

https://www.thomann.de/ie/turntables.html?oa=pra

Jack burton

Doge wrote: »

There's a good article on this here if you want more normal / elegant looking turntables:

http://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-8-best-budget-turntables-that-wont-ruin-your-records/

A cheaper option is to buy a DJ turntable which can fit standard headshells, and really opens up a world of options on the kind of cartridges and needles you can buy for it.

You can get a direct drive turntable for as little as €129 new:

https://www.thomann.de/ie/american_audio_ttd_2400.htm

More options here, just stay clear of the first 2 Numarks and the Akais which use the ****ty red generic needles:

https://www.thomann.de/ie/turntables.html?oa=pra

That's brilliant. Thanks for all the info. I was looking at this

https://theaudiobarn.co.uk/product/rega-planar-1-turntable-with-carbon-cartridge/

I'll try and get a good setup in the next month or so. Really is so much stuff in it though and so many options. I'm no audiophile just want something decent

geotrig

The entry level pro-jects and rega's are nice tt.
There is also some very nice retro Sony's ps-q3 being one of my favs ..
If you are getting an old DJ deck outside of the technics I would say the nunmark ttxs are the best and sometimes can be had for relatively cheap they weigh a tonne though lol, the only problem is finding them with s arms

Jack burton

geotrig wrote: »

The entry level pro-jects and rega's are nice tt.
There is also some very nice retro Sony's ps-q3 being one of my favs ..
If you are getting an old DJ deck outside of the technics I would say the nunmark ttxs are the best and sometimes can be had for relatively cheap they weigh a tonne though lol, the only problem is finding them with s arms

Ah I just want to get myself a good reliable setup for basic playback. I have a decent selection at the moment and want to get the best out of them and play them on something that won't **** them up.

But I'm a bit of a style dickhead as well so I want something that's a bit different looking haha

https://m.thomann.de/ie/roland_tt_99.htm?o=6&search=1483108261

That Roland is gorgeous imo but I really don't know what to look for. Same with amps, do I need a preamp or any of that stuff?

geotrig

I know nothing about that Roland but have a fondness for all their gear.it does looks nice. that one says it has phono and line out. So due to the line out ,an amp is not needed straight off .it can hook straight up to a stereo that can take rcas. An amp could be added later on if wanted.

CiDeRmAn

No criticism of the turntable conversation ongoing here, but there is a dedicated forum for audio discussion, including the trusty record player.
Here's the link
Audio Hi-Fis & Separates