28. Commodore SFX

With the acquisition of the 'old style' C64 below I was able to test this musical keyboard overlay thing that I've had laying around for years. It worked a treat.

27. New acquisition

Reasonably interesting find (for Tassie anyway). Boxed C64, boxed 1541 drive, 1701 monitor + a few other bits n pieces for $110

26. Arcade Machine & CD32

Not technically 'unpacked' but some interesting recent additions. An old arcade machine modified running one of these 48-in-1 game boards. And a Commodore CD32.

25. Commodore Plus/4

Got this working...sort of, need to really bash the keys to type anything and the tape player doesn't seem to work.

24. Vic 20

1981! A single year younger than me. Pretty amazing when this stuff still works.

23. Star Commander

Big couple of nights of nerd-ism. I starting reading about this program called Star Commander and realised I had everything required to give this a crack stacked in a nice little pile. Essentially all I wanted to do was transfer some C64 disk images back to old 5 1/4" disks so I could load and play them as god intended (provided god intended for old games to be given away for free on the internet). And it worked! It was a bit hit and miss but I managed to get "How to be a complete bastard", all 5 disks of "Lemmings", "Mayhem in Monsterland" and "Lunix" up and running (although if you look closely Lunix is have a 'kernal panic'??!!)

That first pic is Star Commander running from a boot disk - RHS of screen is the contents of the PC's a: drive, LHS is reads and displays contents of a 1541 drive connected via XE1541 cable. Oh the joy.

22. Arfa and Marfa

Not exactly something I've unpacked but they are the newest addition to my domesticated bliss!!

21. No intro needed....

20. Intellivision...

...and some keyboard expansion unit. Don't think I've ever got it working.

19. Colecovision

Reasonably complete collection....console, expansion modules 1 (adds Atari 2600 compatability), 2 (the steering wheel) and 3 (the Coleco ADAM computer). B.I.N.G.O. All worked last time I used it.

18. Whole new room.....

Spent the long weekend putting together a new spot where I don't have to clean up after myself....much more conducive to playing around with this old crap. So here's 100's of mostly wrestling VHS.....

...which can be played on the Double Decker Amstrad Video Player....

....and here's the whole setup with a not to exciting sega master system (although I do have Sensible Soccer on the way), a C64 DTV etc

17. Jesse Ventura picture LP

Play Loud! And who are we to argue?

16. 8" Floppy....

It's stamped June 15, 1981. The good old days.

15. Magazines....

Nothing specific to see here, just a pile of old wrestling & Amiga magazines nerdishly piled in date order. Normally I get tingly feelings of nostalgia when sorting through my stuff....but they just smell old and each pile is deceptively heavy, so I'm think an ebay blitz is in order for this lot.

14. Vic 20

Need to clear some space before I can test but it worked a treat before being stuffed in a box. I also have the ram expansion cartridge somewhere which is probably worth more than the unit itself.

13. Engrish

The Japanese sure seem to love their fried chicken. If there is one thing that pops into my mind when I think of KFC it's the sincerity of Colonel Sanders.....

12. Winnie Blues....

From Macau....great aussie export! From memory they worked out to about $1.20 a packet. There wasn't much else to do (except gamble) but when you can get a packet of 20's and 6 beers for about AUD$5 I guess it doesn't really matter.

11. TMNT cans.....

Why? Not really sure.

10. 64HDD

After a bit of trial and error I got 64HDD to work...basically that's Paperboy being played on the C64 but loaded from a disk image on the old pentium sitting underneath it. My inital thoughts are that it's way better than using an emulator...it just feels more real.

9. A-Team

The A-Team board game....

Our box of stuff arrived from the UK today - lot's of things we'd forgotten about. This XE1541 cable was inside which I'm going to play around with on the weekend, I bought an old Pentium 120 on the weekend for that very purpose.

8. Amiga Forever

Got this running tonight - not that it was a challenge. It came for free with the pictured magazine a few years ago, it's a fully legal Amiga Emulator, the one on the magazine was a special version of the stuff available here. This version emulates Workbench 1.3 - so whatever you could get for the Amiga 500 should work and a lot of the old companies appear to have legally released disk images of their old games. I couldn't get a USB joystick to work but was able to have a quick game of Supefrog using the keyboard. Very nice indeed.

7. Commodore Plus/4

It worked last time I plugged it in but I'll have to move some stuff before I can test it again. From memory I couldn't do much with it anyway....

6. Beers

On the left we have a 1 litre can of Asahi purchased from a vending machine in Japan for a few dollars. Imagine the carnage if we could access these in Australia. And on the right it's an "Arrogant Bastard Ale" bottle, purchased somewhere near Venice Beach in California. Back of the bottle says "This is an aggressive beer. You probably wont like it. It is quite doubtful that you have the taste or sophistication to be able to appreciate an ale of this quality and depth..." From memory the 'quality and depth' they are referring to was a beer that really tastes like shit, it was nasty!

5. Radio Birdman "bootlegs"

Bought these from a record store in Kumamoto, Japan. Not sure if they're "original bootlegs" or "bootleg bootlegs"...not that it really matters I suppose. Anyway there is "Rock & Roll War 1976 - 1978" (462 of 500), "Death by the Gun E.P" (861 of 1000) and "Ring of Truth E.P".

4. Commodore 64

Reasonably standard however this one had a nice surprise, picked it up for $3 from Sth Hobart tip shop and when I got home I realised it had a "turbo rom" installed, can't find any info about the particular type, can only assume some guy called Peter created it. There's a switch on the back to toggle it on/off. For those keeping score at home I managed to load GEOS a whole THREE SECONDS FASTER using when I used the turbo rom combined with EPYX fastload cartridge. Hell yeah.

3. Psychotic Turnbuckles posters

Most of these have been living in a tube for the last few years, finally they have a home inside a frame:


From left to right we have promo posters for Beyond The Flipout LP, Rock 'n' Roll Terrorist 7", Swinging From The Trees compilation and Destroy Dull City "mini-album".

2. More Atari

Didn't even know I had these - not much of my stuff is actually still in the box and these are even in pretty good condition considering:

1. Atari & Winfield

Let's start with the Atari 7800 - I really only have a few games that were made exclusively for the 7800 but of course it's compatible with 2600 cartridges and I found a heap of those....

And here's a pic of the beast playing Frogger....

And finally a Winfield 25's Drink Tray!