?

[bronze sonnet]

Whats so retro about it?

Just the keyboard..?

[keen chasm]

@pearl marten

[halcyon cargo]

It’s not a keyboards it’s A Commodore 64 pc with an Atari 1040STf pc underneath

Setup is meant to look 90s

Random stuff collection
Old pc
Games on floppy
A big mess

[bronze sonnet]

How do you scroll?

[halcyon cargo]

Scroll what ?

Drag on the bar with the mouse

[bronze sonnet]

Oh

Ouch

[halcyon cargo]

Rarely happens

[tawny jolt]

thats not 90s thats 10s

my dude

[halcyon cargo]

Since floppies of dd are 720kb

[bronze sonnet]

I thought floppies were about 3mb?

[halcyon cargo]

I’m still saving for an crt

[halcyon cargo]

Depends

[bronze sonnet]

My mates got a few

You got windows 95 too?

[halcyon cargo]

Not all floppies are the same

[halcyon cargo]

Nah

[bronze sonnet]

2000?

[halcyon cargo]

My Atari dead ass runs gem TOS from 1985

One of the first graphical os’s

[bronze sonnet]

Nice

Idk that far back..

Never really cared about PC's :(

[halcyon cargo]

Oh

[halcyon cargo]

If you want too learn some stuff I recommend watching the 8 bit guy

[bronze sonnet]

Ok

I normally just ask my friend

[pearl marten]

The boomer tech hoarder doth been summoned.

[pearl marten]

STF huh, nice, that stock or have you re-capped the psu?

[halcyon cargo]

Stock and working

[pearl marten]

I'd get that PSU capped if you get the chance, that's pretty much the first thing that goes on those sadly.

[halcyon cargo]

No bad caps spotted

Yet

I check it every two weeks

[pearl marten]

More committed than I am for my vic, I always cross my fingers

[halcyon cargo]

My collega still has one of their CBM PET on display

[pearl marten]

Beautiful.

[halcyon cargo]

And Vic 20

They told me I could have the c64

Or the vic20

Chose the 64 because of parts and spares and games

[pearl marten]

Guy was selling his locally under musical instruments of all things...

[halcyon cargo]

Kind a glad I did since Vic psu are a Pain to find

[halcyon cargo]

Lmao

Vic chip I guess

[pearl marten]

I just bought a replacement (since the later vics and c64 share it), least that's how I justified it.

[halcyon cargo]

BRB in 5-10 min

I’m back @pearl marten

[pearl marten]

Nice, but yeah, I take it you're trying to find the matching monitor for that bad boy?

[halcyon cargo]

Yeah

I have an Atari mono monitor that’s basically useless

I don’t really care too much about the monitor

It’s mostly gaming experience

And giving the pc’s one last chance at what they are best at

Tbh if I sell something I won’t sell it to a random person I would only sell too someone intrigued and exited and I would sell it for cheap too

It’s just a piece of plastic in the end

[halcyon cargo]

If I can i would tbh

But I’m money short

I spend money on games and accessories for my st

I can barely afford a display cable for my c64

[pearl marten]

Fair enough, especially for authentic games and such.

[halcyon cargo]

Ye

I mean lcds don’t look to bad

I mean I love my crt

But it’s a pain too get a good one

And it’s just hard too find

So I’d rather buy a bunch of adapter cables that work

Then buy a singular monitor

When I get a second job I’ll consider

But this is good for now

[pearl marten]

That's fair, I took the L and just grabbed an earlier LCD, does pretty much what I want, it isn't one to one, but I mean it gets close enough which is all I'm really eyeing (also 10 cad at a local yard sales years ago is hard to beat for myself)

[halcyon cargo]

Yeah true

I got mine for free

I have a lot off connections

Most of my retro stuff was free

[pearl marten]

Let me see if I can find where the damn thing is, give me a second, the number of connections is borderline comedy

[halcyon cargo]

Got my c64 gifted by a professor at college and my Atari stf from my boss at work

[halcyon cargo]

Lmao

[pearl marten]

LOOK AT HOW CLUTTERED this is

Like that includes RGB in, jesus

[halcyon cargo]

That’s pretty dope for retro gaming

[pearl marten]

It also has XGA support

[halcyon cargo]

So you don’t have too get 10 different monitors

[pearl marten]

So this thing somehow squeezes out HD

[halcyon cargo]

Jesus

Same for mine

[pearl marten]

Now my theory personally was this was just a rehoused monitor panel

[halcyon cargo]

Ye

[pearl marten]

I can't prove it, but it is only 15 inches so..

it reeks of rehousing

Metal vesa mount was the icing on the cake

[pearl marten]

Pretty much why I'm so content with a not 100% perfect match

Though I do mooch off my neighbors crt the odd time

[halcyon cargo]

?

[halcyon cargo]

???

[pearl marten]

Like for aesthetic.

[halcyon cargo]

Ah

[pearl marten]

It sticks out like a sore thumb when I hook it up to anything else

[halcyon cargo]

True

[pearl marten]

I also swear the composite on it is dubious.

OR that's just my tandy being a pain in the ass as usual.

[halcyon cargo]

Sturm can you teach me how to use rf on my commodore tommorow? If possible

[pearl marten]

I thought it was just a switch box on the back no?

[halcyon cargo]

Nope

[pearl marten]

EH?

[halcyon cargo]

I have no clue on rf

It’s a screw thing

I need to check under the rf shield

[pearl marten]

Aye please do

Because mine have been "plug in the cable dummy" and that's it

[halcyon cargo]

How do I get it off💀

[pearl marten]

Yeah I absolutely need a photo of this, I'm super curious.

[halcyon cargo]

I’m in my bed so I can’t rn

[pearl marten]

This for a 64 or a 128?

[halcyon cargo]

64 breadbin pal

[pearl marten]

Oh PAL

The good one

[halcyon cargo]

?

[pearl marten]

(The joke is the NTSC version is the shit one since almost 2/3 of the library of anything decent was PAL region only)

[halcyon cargo]

Oof

[pearl marten]

Since y'all loved it

While NA went "eh"

[halcyon cargo]

Same for the ST

[pearl marten]

Poor ST was murdered here

Didn't deserve it

[halcyon cargo]

When I look on eBay USA st shit is expensive

[pearl marten]

It just didn't sell that well here tbh

[halcyon cargo]

And on my local market place I bought 3 games for 30€

[halcyon cargo]

Ouch

Man I want an Atari falcon

Or STE

[pearl marten]

Don't we all

[halcyon cargo]

So bad

Ye

Atari falcon is soo damn good

Played it at a fair once

So lucky

[pearl marten]

Nice

[halcyon cargo]

They sell for over 500€ in my country

How expensive is it in USA or Canada

??

[pearl marten]

I don't want to even think about it

I can't even remember if it launched here

[halcyon cargo]

Like 1k?

[pearl marten]

Especially because of how the vic took off here.

I just don't know honestly.

[halcyon cargo]

Pain

[pearl marten]

The last atari computer

lmaaoooo

Love ebay sometimes I tell ya

[halcyon cargo]

Ye

Also what type of adapter cable for the monitor port in the c64 should I got if the rf is fried

Since I don’t get display

[pearl marten]

You can get a pretty cheap adapter for composite

[halcyon cargo]

Only static that changes with adjusting

[pearl marten]

The picture isn't perfect, but it is passable, even on the cheaper end cables, hang on

[halcyon cargo]

Ok

[pearl marten]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/390257910632?

It is very much a caveman output with caveman results, but it is passable.

[pearl marten]

Aye sounds like some of the caps went kaput (pretty normal)

[halcyon cargo]

Is it true it’s the same as a Sega genisis 1

[pearl marten]

I..wouldn't dance on that

[halcyon cargo]

Ok

[pearl marten]

Mind you I own a Genesis 2

[halcyon cargo]

That’s a different port

[pearl marten]

But I try to leave the "well technicality" stuff to the bin

[halcyon cargo]

?

[pearl marten]

Like what I'm getting at is, yeah it probably worked, but I think as these things age, you want to be a bit more picky and careful

[halcyon cargo]

Ok

Ima sleep bye

[halcyon cargo]

One last thing

Do you know who I Am ?

[pearl marten]

Is it rude to say "No"

Because I don't really know anybody in my defense.

[halcyon cargo]

Did you forget WANING?

[pearl marten]

NO

||No way||

Nice

[halcyon cargo]

Yes way

[pearl marten]

Sick, now go get that sleep huh, I don't wanna keep ya up ❤️

[halcyon cargo]

Bye ✌🏾

See ya tommorow I hope

[halcyon cargo]

I’m on na way to work

[halcyon cargo]

hi