On Jan 19, 2004, at 11:21 PM, Jim Leonard wrote:
Just saw
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemitem=3072836862ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1 on ebay if anyone
is interested. This pertains to our you mean InfoComic #4 is rare?
discussion we had recently.
Shhh! I was hoping to keep
Even I cringed when I read this description:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?
ViewItemitem=3069631145category=11030
Given the seller's handle, I was amused by the graded mint scale ('gem
mint'), too. Perhaps MobyScale 2.0 could add precious stones as
qualifiers for each grade.
What do you all think of this:
I made a trade with someone on the game trading zone for a particular game.
I won't tell you which one so you won't try to figure out who it was.
Anyway, I described the condition of the game I was sending in some detail.
We made the trade, and then noticed that
As, poeple have already mentioned, 3.5 may be more useful, but it's obvious that
5.25 is more valuable. Look at the games that sell for the most on eBay (we're
talking $500 - $2000 range). They're all 5.25 or cassette. Ask the guy if he has a
cassette drive :-).
Hugh
-Original
Lee K. Seitz wrote:
I would hope anyone interested in vintage games would be knowledgable
enough about the item(s) they want to know what format(s) it was
available on and ask if they knew it came on more than one. It was
very rude for them to give you negative feedback without e-mailing you
I recently built a new machine and attempted to get an old dual drive
like this working but couldn't :-( Light was constantly on, like the
cable was bad. I'll try again.
That does sound like a bad cable, or even a good cable turned 180 degrees.
- Peo
Actually, I realized that I accidentally already gave out enough info to
figure out who I'm talking about. The person is a fairly high profile trader
on gametz, but he deals mostly in CD-ROM games. The game in question was
(don't cringe, C.E.) Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2.
Stuart
-Original
On Jan 20, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Lee K. Seitz wrote:
[Snip]
On this list or in the general population? 8) I think you'll find
most of this list has some older hardware tucked away for just such
occasions.
I was mainly thinking of the average gamer. For people like us I take
it as a given we have
Jim Leonard schrieb:
It's not the calculators: It's what makes money. You shouldn't be scared
that accountants and suits are ruining the industry; instead, you should be
scared that the core sales of most computer and console gaming are the way
they are. It is a hard pill to swallow that
Marco Thorek wrote:
True. It's only that once upon a time the profit didn't matter as much.
Yes, but the market was completely different then. There's an interview with
Ken Williams on the Roberta Williams collection where he says something to the
effect of In the old days, we all went on
Edward Franks wrote:
Who needs mo'slo when you can play
Ultima 2 in all its CGA glory? ;-)
You know, this brings up something that I've always maintained: No matter how
convenient an emulator is, or how much it enhances or speeds up a game (ie
making the game more 'snappy' because there are
Howard Feldman wrote:
So I can still use it as a 5.25 drive, or a 3.5 drive, just not both
at the same time. I must open the computer and switch jumpers to get it
to work! So in summary, watch out before buying Asus Motherboards!!!
(Can anyone list decent contemporary M/B manufacturers whose
Dan Chisarick wrote:
At the hight of my media conversion insanity, I had everything on a
4-port KVM. Now all the old machines are on their own network. I used a
P-90 running Windows 98 w/a 5.25 Gateway drive that I sold and later
asked for it back (they weren't using it). I also have a CPS
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