Old tech found in drawers...
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Disastrous said:
That reminds me of my old G5. It sadly expired (well, the computer didn't but the screen did) after I ended a furious phone call by hurling my phone (at the time, one of the Sony Erricssons featured above) at my desk in frustration. I then watched in slomo horror as it bounced off the desktop and smashed the display panel, cracking it vertically. It flickered once and then the lights went out, never to come on again.
I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
I still have a Cube on the shelf in my office.I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
It's utterly useless - sometimes I consider stripping it out and sticking something more up to date in the case.
Trabi601 said:
Disastrous said:
That reminds me of my old G5. It sadly expired (well, the computer didn't but the screen did) after I ended a furious phone call by hurling my phone (at the time, one of the Sony Erricssons featured above) at my desk in frustration. I then watched in slomo horror as it bounced off the desktop and smashed the display panel, cracking it vertically. It flickered once and then the lights went out, never to come on again.
I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
I still have a Cube on the shelf in my office.I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
It's utterly useless - sometimes I consider stripping it out and sticking something more up to date in the case.
I would definitely pay someone to, if such a service existed!
Disastrous said:
That reminds me of my old G5. It sadly expired (well, the computer didn't but the screen did) after I ended a furious phone call by hurling my phone (at the time, one of the Sony Erricssons featured above) at my desk in frustration. I then watched in slomo horror as it bounced off the desktop and smashed the display panel, cracking it vertically. It flickered once and then the lights went out, never to come on again.
I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
Ouch! The Museum i went to used G5 towers as benches for the small (try these machines yourself) section, just had a small seat cushion on top of em.I haven't the heart to throw out the tower so use it as a doorstop in my studio.
Trabi601 said:
I still have a Cube on the shelf in my office.
It's utterly useless - sometimes I consider stripping it out and sticking something more up to date in the case.
I do like the Cube case, but i shudder to think about modding them, its all so tiny and bespoke, a mITX mobo should fit in there though, but making it all look good...It's utterly useless - sometimes I consider stripping it out and sticking something more up to date in the case.
Disastrous said:
Everyone keeps saying I can make a 'hackintosh' and I kid myself I will, but I won't. I don't have the techy chops to make it happen.
I would definitely pay someone to, if such a service existed!
You mean a Hackintosh in general, or a hackintosh built into an old apple case? The former is just building a PC with some careful component selection (plenty of guides out there to ensure compability) and installing Mac-OS, shouldnt be too difficult, and if you have a halfway computer savy friend (that guy who built his own PC), its doableI would definitely pay someone to, if such a service existed!
Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
Vitorio said:
You mean a Hackintosh in general, or a hackintosh built into an old apple case? The former is just building a PC with some careful component selection (plenty of guides out there to ensure compability) and installing Mac-OS, shouldnt be too difficult, and if you have a halfway computer savy friend (that guy who built his own PC), its doable
Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
The latter - I just like the G5 case and it would be a shame to bin it.Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
Maybe a bench is more doable, haha!
CoinSl0t said:
Not exactly in a drawer, but within my office and very near to a drawer 
That brings back some memories.In my teens I was chucked off one by an arcade manager after "playing for too long" - my 10p had lasted three hours so far and my score was over 3 million, with 104 ships and 94 smart bombs remaining to use - to say I was annoyed is an understatement.
The world record at the time was 10 million points !
Disastrous said:
Vitorio said:
You mean a Hackintosh in general, or a hackintosh built into an old apple case? The former is just building a PC with some careful component selection (plenty of guides out there to ensure compability) and installing Mac-OS, shouldnt be too difficult, and if you have a halfway computer savy friend (that guy who built his own PC), its doable
Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
The latter - I just like the G5 case and it would be a shame to bin it.Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
Maybe a bench is more doable, haha!
i.e. making an Amiga or Atari ST ( or 68k based unix box) behave as a classic mac and run System 7 / Os8
Or a self built x86-64 based system running the current version ofthe MacOS
lunarscope said:
That brings back some memories.
In my teens I was chucked off one by an arcade manager after "playing for too long" - my 10p had lasted three hours so far and my score was over 3 million, with 104 ships and 94 smart bombs remaining to use - to say I was annoyed is an understatement.
The world record at the time was 10 million points !
[nerdmodeon]You clock them at 999,999, although technically the highest achievable score is 999,975, if you go over that you clock it and won't get your name on the high score table.In my teens I was chucked off one by an arcade manager after "playing for too long" - my 10p had lasted three hours so far and my score was over 3 million, with 104 ships and 94 smart bombs remaining to use - to say I was annoyed is an understatement.
The world record at the time was 10 million points !
Marathon and Tournament settings make things a whole lot harder, the record is circa 40m depending on who you ask.
There were 3 or 4 different ROM sets giving different behaviour, that's why some machines played differently than others, plus the operator was able to set the difficulty levels.[/nerdmodeoff]
Bluedot said:
I used to have the 'coffee-table' version of Asteroids.
Cocktail versions are lovely, worth a few quid if original and tidy. There's loads of tat on Ebay with hacked internals and people asking silly prices.My Defender is completely original apart from the cabinet artwork, this has been professionally re-sprayed using colours matched to the originals.
Mine is also signed by the game designer, Eugene Jarvis, I'd never sell it, but it's worth in the region of £1500ish I suppose.
mph1977 said:
Disastrous said:
Vitorio said:
You mean a Hackintosh in general, or a hackintosh built into an old apple case? The former is just building a PC with some careful component selection (plenty of guides out there to ensure compability) and installing Mac-OS, shouldnt be too difficult, and if you have a halfway computer savy friend (that guy who built his own PC), its doable
Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
The latter - I just like the G5 case and it would be a shame to bin it.Modding an apple case to take standard hardware is more difficult though..
Maybe a bench is more doable, haha!
i.e. making an Amiga or Atari ST ( or 68k based unix box) behave as a classic mac and run System 7 / Os8
Or a self built x86-64 based system running the current version ofthe MacOS
https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=G5+hacki...
CoinSl0t said:
[nerdmodeon]You clock them at 999,999, although technically the highest achievable score is 999,975, if you go over that you clock it and won't get your name on the high score table.
Marathon and Tournament settings make things a whole lot harder, the record is circa 40m depending on who you ask.
There were 3 or 4 different ROM sets giving different behaviour, that's why some machines played differently than others, plus the operator was able to set the difficulty levels.[/nerdmodeoff]
The one I played in 1980/81 definitely showed scores in seven figures. I got to something like 3,114,00 or thereabouts before the manager switched it off. It took months of practice to get from the tens of thousands to the big scores. The speed of play was incredibly fast on the higher levels - no time to think and was pure reaction/sub-conscious. Best arcade game ever in my opinion.Marathon and Tournament settings make things a whole lot harder, the record is circa 40m depending on who you ask.
There were 3 or 4 different ROM sets giving different behaviour, that's why some machines played differently than others, plus the operator was able to set the difficulty levels.[/nerdmodeoff]
you lucky, lucky person!Disastrous said:
Not sure what else to call it. A search for 'G5 Hackintosh' brings up a page of results describing what I mean:
https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=G5+hacki...
Depends on what OS it runs i guess, AFAIK "hackintosh" refers to a non-apple built machine running OSX, a windows machine in a G5 case is still just a windows machine.https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=G5+hacki...
lunarscope said:
The one I played in 1980/81 definitely showed scores in seven figures. I got to something like 3,114,00 or thereabouts before the manager switched it off. It took months of practice to get from the tens of thousands to the big scores. The speed of play was incredibly fast on the higher levels - no time to think and was pure reaction/sub-conscious. Best arcade game ever in my opinion.
Trust me, they don't go to seven figures, not even the Mame versions, possibly on the home versions?8bit hardware and tiny amounts of expensive ram were the limiting factors, plus the design team never thought people would get anywhere near 7 figure scores.
Vitorio said:
Disastrous said:
Not sure what else to call it. A search for 'G5 Hackintosh' brings up a page of results describing what I mean:
https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=G5+hacki...
Depends on what OS it runs i guess, AFAIK "hackintosh" refers to a non-apple built machine running OSX, a windows machine in a G5 case is still just a windows machine.https://www.google.co.uk/?client=safari#q=G5+hacki...
You can't run an up to date version of OS X in it without ripping out the innards and basically just starting again with a re-purposed case so I thought Hackintosh seemed very apt but I'm not techy at all and find the level of pedantry that computer people seemingly require before they can help you to be soul-suckingly awful, so will probably get no further than being frustrated about not even knowing what to call the f
king thing!nigelpugh7 said:
Still got this complete in its box, with all manuals, and extra such as the 512k flash card, modem, orange phone data connection etc.
Still works fine too, the Wood Effect Limited Editon was cool back in 1993 too!
I reckon £450 in old money from 1993 must be equivalent to about £750 in today's terms, I must have been mad!
Love how council the wood look is. Like the technological version of a Rover. Does it still work? Looks very interesting.Still works fine too, the Wood Effect Limited Editon was cool back in 1993 too!
I reckon £450 in old money from 1993 must be equivalent to about £750 in today's terms, I must have been mad!
burritoNinja said:
Love how council the wood look is. Like the technological version of a Rover. Does it still work? Looks very interesting.
Yep it's fully functional, and the apps and data still intact too, don't think the orange cell phone SMS cable would work any more as it needs a 90s Orange phone! lunarscope said:
CoinSl0t said:
Not exactly in a drawer, but within my office and very near to a drawer
That brings back some memories.In my teens I was chucked off one by an arcade manager after "playing for too long" - my 10p had lasted three hours so far and my score was over 3 million, with 104 ships and 94 smart bombs remaining to use - to say I was annoyed is an understatement.
The world record at the time was 10 million points !
My highscore was 3.5 million and I got banned from my local arcade, as I was on it too long and the machine only made 10p in one day!
Mega geek points for having a marquee signed by Eugene Jarvis!
mp3manager said:
You are me!!
My highscore was 3.5 million and I got banned from my local arcade, as I was on it too long and the machine only made 10p in one day!
Mega geek points for having a marquee signed by Eugene Jarvis!
My highest is circa 250,000. I just don't have the reactions to get beyond this level no matter how many games I've played over the years.My highscore was 3.5 million and I got banned from my local arcade, as I was on it too long and the machine only made 10p in one day!
Mega geek points for having a marquee signed by Eugene Jarvis!
The Defenders near me at the time 1981/82 all had very hard settings set by the operators as too many people were able to get massive high scores.
I've got another Defender in storage, nowhere near as tidy as this one, but I did have them side by side for a few years.
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