That is my favorite version of the CoCo 2. It always worked with 3rd party upgrades like RGB or memory expansion or 9 and 25 pin serial port boxes (of course the vast majority of those upgrades were only good for OS9 stuff, but they were fun to have). Now you need to get a pair of delux joysticks and a few games. I recommend Ghana Bwana, Thexder, Pitfall II, Dungeons of Dageroth, and Zork 1, 2, and 3. There are a ton of great games, with some being on cartridge, so don't forget to look for those as well.

The talking in the rare sound card thread made me buy this little card, an impulse buy! 😀

It isnt Artex card, sorry Artex but the shipping cost from the US + VAT + customs fee + customs handling fee just sucks and shipping stuff such as this as regular mail to avoid the fees is not a good idea.

The price wasnt low but it wasnt mind boggling either, a bit cheaper than Artex card but it looks a little bit worse for wear aswell. Why did they solder those caps with so much of the "legs" sticking out from the PCB?

The seller is the German Ebay shop that sold me an AWE32 with a short near the EMU8000 chip muting its output, Im hoping for better luck this time. (In all fairness I did get some of my money back and I managed to fix the AWE32.)

The sellers picture. Roland SCC-1A. Sold as tested and without faults.

This AGP card arrived recently, but only got around to giving it a proper run today. Played Far Cry and Need for Speed Most Wanted at 1600 x 1200 and it does well.

It's the HIS X1950 PRO IceQ 3 Turbo 512MB.

Latest purchases, the dock and extra ports connector for my vgn-ux90, the Kingmax Scenic Wonder MPEG PCMCIA card, and the BeSpecific 1 software disc:

A Roland SC-33 and a MT-32

An Octane USB to MIDI cable

And a TV Wonder Pro

Do you have a 16megapixel monitor to watch a 16megapixel photos?

I think i have to adjust my camera 🤣, next time i will make sur they are the right size. Meanwhile you can copy past the adress. 🤣 Still sorry, new cellphone ...

ExTneicsol wrote:

I think i have to adjust my camera 🤣, next time i will make sur they are the right size. Meanwhile you can copy past the adress. 🤣 Still sorry, new cellphone ...

Well...
You can allways resize them in photoshop, and "save for web", in order to make them small in size.

ExTneicsol wrote:

I think i have to adjust my camera 🤣, next time i will make sur they are the right size. Meanwhile you can copy past the adress. 🤣 Still sorry, new cellphone ...

use this: http://imgur.com/

They actually WERE hosted on imgur, he just didn't choose the "generate Thumbnail code" option (actually it looks like they have moved this feature somewhere) - FIXED. 😁

Stiletto, thank for correcting my post. 🤣

I picked up a second 2mb VRAM expansion module for my old Mach64GX cards today. Although I didn't really need it, the price was right, and these don't pop up all that frequently. You have to be careful when matching modules up with the cards, as some share the same connectors but are incompatible. I once bought a PCI Mach64 hoping to rob it of the expansion, but it didn't work because the part number was different.

Stiletto wrote:

They actually WERE hosted on imgur, he just didn't choose the "generate Thumbnail code" option (actually it looks like they have moved this feature somewhere) - FIXED. 😁

The method they use for thumbnail images is really straightforward.

Simply add a "s" "m" "l" (lowercase L) or "h" to the filename for small, medium, large, and huge respectively.

E.g.

i.imgur.com/xxxxx1.jpg becomes:

i.imgur.com/xxxxx1s.jpg
i.imgur.com/xxxxx1m.jpg
i.imgur.com/xxxxx1l.jpg
i.imgur.com/xxxxx1h.jpg

It's pretty clever actually!

Found this Tandy 1000TX a little while ago at an estate sale hiding under a blanket in the basement, including CM-11 keyboard and monitor. It's literally flawless; not a single scratch or a spec of dust anywhere including the monitor and keyboard. I intended to make this my childhood revival system but it's too nice; going to pack it back up and tuck it away, it's something special. Not bad for $20US.

So, considering I still needed a daily beater, I bought this 1000TL off of Ebay for $100 shipped, with another CM-11 monitor and 101-key Tandy Enhanced keyboard. Keyboard has some issues but I think a good cleaning might fix it up.

Souped it up with a RAM upgrade, IDE-XT adapter, Tandy joystick, HxC-enabled GoTek drive, and a no-name serial touchpad.

All set and ready to game!

The CM11 was my favorite monitor for the 1000's. It's better in every way compared to the CM5 or earlier models. Great buy.

Those Tandy's look great, remember looking at those in the shop when I was using Amstrad PCW on daily basis and thinking they were very cool(but way too expensive here in the UK).
Anyway, bought this beauty today, a RiSE MP6 266 CPU, been looking for one of these for over 12 months, so very happy, of course it's coming from China so will be a while.

Hoping one of motherboards actually supports the thing, and it actually works, but fingers crossed. These chips were never sold here in the UK so i have always been curious about them.

BSA Starfire wrote:

Hoping one of motherboards actually supports the thing, and it actually works, but fingers crossed. These chips were never sold here in the UK so i have always been curious about them.

This is on my watch list - let me know if you receive a working chip and I'll take a chance myself. It performed quite favourably in WaybackTECH' socket 7 shoot out.

Will do, I'm pretty sure one of the 4 Super 7 motherboards I have will do the trick, they all have BIOS revisions after the RiSE MP6 was released. I expect it will be at least a month before delivery though, post from China to UK is not going to be swift, but it's the only option and it was only £11 and change with delivery so worth a go.

I did also find something I have been looking for today, the ASUS P/I-XP55T2P4.

Its a i430 HX board with ATX form factor. This is an early revision so only 50, 55, 60, and 66 MHz FSB but it does have a TAG ram socket for 512MB cacheable range 😀. It has a working dallas RTC, with luck it's socketed (it's not that easy to see in the picture) and if not it will become sockted when it runs out. I guess this must be one of the first ATX board released. Also included were 16MB memory and an AMD K5 100, the price was 35 euro + 11 euro shipping.

The sellers picture.

Nice find, the K5 100 is worth at least £10 & the RAM must be worth similar, so nice cheap board, and ATX is always so much easier to handle these days(I do remember when it was the opposite). HX was the performance Intel chipset too, although how much that counts after VIA, SiS and Ali socket 7's i'd not like to say.