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brianregan09

Anyone have any recommendation on a stand for a bartop arcade machine ?

CiDeRmAn

brianregan09 wrote: »

Anyone have any recommendation on a stand for a bartop arcade machine ?

They are simply meant to be table top devices.
Otherwise why not just make a custom frame, or pick up something the appropriate height and width from IKEA.

Atavan-Halen

BDJW wrote: »

I got my MegaDrive 2 back from my sisters attic recently, but the power adapter is missing. Anybody know the best place to get one?

eBay or consolegoods? Make sure it's for the model 2 though as I believe the it's a different power supply than the model 1.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

eBay or consolegoods? Make sure it's for the model 2 though as I believe the it's a different power supply than the model 1.

Thanks, will try them both!

Tom Mann Centuria

Crash, Spectrum magazine of the 80s is kickstarting a Christmas annual. I was always a Your Sinclair reader but I've backed this, so have to a good few others, hit it's target in under 24 hours.

Crash Annual 2018 - The next chapter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/crash-annual-2018-the-next-chapter

CiDeRmAn

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

Crash, Spectrum magazine of the 80s is kickstarting a Christmas annual. I was always a Your Sinclair reader but I've backed this, so have to a good few others, hit it's target in under 24 hours.

Crash Annual 2018 - The next chapter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/47744432/crash-annual-2018-the-next-chapter

You can feck right off so... Your Sinclair readers, second in the witless charts, only Sinclair User readers are more thick.....
Crash FTW!

Dr Bob

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You can feck right off so... Your Sinclair readers, second in the witless charts, only Sinclair User readers are more thick.....
Crash FTW!

Ah jaysus ..speccy owners with your wonky colours and weird joysticks...
Zapp!64 was obviously the superior mag!

CiDeRmAn

Dr Bob wrote: »

Ah jaysus ..speccy owners with your wonky colours and weird joysticks...
Zapp!64 was obviously the superior mag!

Get
Out

Skerries

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

You can feck right off so... Your Sinclair readers, second in the witless charts, only Sinclair User readers are more thick.....
Crash FTW!

we'll agree on the SU reader, splitters!
but YS was where it was at in the latter stages of the Speecy's life as Crash went to shít

Your Sinclair had the best cover tapes, who can forget batty!

Skerries

yeah Batty was a free Breakout clone released on the front of the mag but was so good it could have easily been a full release game

Tom Mann Centuria

Skerries wrote: »

yeah Batty was a free Breakout clone released on the front of the mag but was so good it could have easily been a full release game

It was the best breakout clone available, free or paid for. It's fantastic, it did feature on a compilation after but you could never buy it on its own in this neck of the woods. I still play it periodically ☺️

Watching a Spectrum doc, apparently the lads from Your Sinclair and Crash were best of enemies and used to make sure they got pitches next to each other at shows etc. Well according to the great Roger Kean and Oliver Frey anyway, they weren't so keen on Sinclair User and Kamikaze Bear though!

CiDeRmAn

Crash got in a lot of trouble when they published a satire in their mag called "Sinclair Abuser" they had the right typeface and everything, priceless.

Here's a great article on "The Cover Tape Wars"
http://www.wizwords.net/the-spectrum-covertape-wars/#.WXRdtMrTVnF

Kolido

I joined retromags.com I think its a relatively new site with the aim of preserving game mags from around the world, scanned by its members.

I'm assuming everything is above board and there is no copyright infringement.

Tom Mann Centuria

Kolido wrote: »

I joined retromags.com I think its a relatively new site with the aim of preserving game mags from around the world, scanned by its members.

I'm assuming everything is above board and there is no copyright infringement.

Excellent. There's also complete set of scans for Crash, Your Sinclair and the rest on Archive.org. Nothing quite like reading the original magazines though. Cost 2 or 3 pounds each to rebuy.

Firefox11

Skerries wrote: »

yeah Batty was a free Breakout clone released on the front of the mag but was so good it could have easily been a full release game

Yeah, hard as nails but a great little arkanoid clone.

I backed the Crash 2018 annual too. Despite being a Your Sinclair reader back in the day.:P

Great Video on the Spectrum 'tape wars' back in the day.

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

Doge

We haven't heard from Steve x2 in a few weeks now.

Hopefully he didn't blow himself up trying to modify that PSU for his Ridge Racer cab!

Steve X2

Doge wrote: »

We haven't heard from Steve x2 in a few weeks now.

Hopefully he didn't blow himself up trying to modify that PSU for his Ridge Racer cab!

I'm still alive
Not much free time lately with travel and also starting a little side business I hope to grow over the next year or so.

Nerdkiller1991

Went to Token last night. Managed to beat Sunset Riders.

smurf492

Steve X2 wrote:

I'm still alive Not much free time lately with travel and also starting a little side business I hope to grow over the next year or so.

Welcome back Steve... Your like the Gandalf of this thread ðŸ˜

Steve X2

smurf492 wrote: »

Your like the Gandalf of this thread

Old and with a beard?

CiDeRmAn

Steve X2 wrote: »

Old and with a beard?

I thought that was a description of me?

MrVestek

Ahh lads relax... you can both be old grumpy bastids! :P

CiDeRmAn

we are all getting old now, aside from Atavan and Touch Fuzzy, they seem to be well preserved... must be all the gin!

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

we are all getting old now, aside from Atavan and Touch Fuzzy, they seem to be well preserved... must be all the gin!

It's umm my DNA ... not some kinda magic or rune or something like that ... that's stupid.

DinoRex

My baboon heart is the only thing that keeps me going.

Retr0gamer

Think I'm a bit boned.

Had a lot of stuff to bring home from America so got my friend to ship it to me. However he sent it by DHL and they are holding my stuff until I show them the value of the goods. Thing is I've not receipts or anything to show how much it is.

Inviere

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Think I'm a bit boned.

Had a lot of stuff to bring home from America so got my friend to ship it to me. However he sent it by DHL and they are holding my stuff until I show them the value of the goods. Thing is I've not receipts or anything to show how much it is.

You shoulda done it the other way around, bring everything back yourself & get him to ship all your clothes etc back

What's to say you didn't buy all that stuff at a flea market?

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Think I'm a bit boned.

Had a lot of stuff to bring home from America so got my friend to ship it to me. However he sent it by DHL and they are holding my stuff until I show them the value of the goods. Thing is I've not receipts or anything to show how much it is.

Find an ended ebay auction of similar stuff in the US, take a screenshot and send it on. I did this before and it worked

CathalDublin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Think I'm a bit boned.

Had a lot of stuff to bring home from America so got my friend to ship it to me. However he sent it by DHL and they are holding my stuff until I show them the value of the goods. Thing is I've not receipts or anything to show how much it is.

Fake a paypal statement. That's what I usually do, it's not new stuff so they cant prove what you paid for it.
Open your recent transactions and then use inspect element to change all the values/descriptions if needed and print as a PDF, hey presto, you just bought all that stuff for €50;)