more retro gaming stuff

[Chris H]

won this little lot eariler, well happy with this one!

eBay.co.uk: 5 Sega Game Gear consoles & some boxed games (item 130055601436 end time 11-Dec-06 20:20:20 GMT)

I know how to repair them as its a few cap's on the sound board.

The spectrum power supplies I won came today and I had to do a bit of resolderign as the previous owner done the lets wind the cable tightly aroudn the body of the transformer. Anyway 1 speccy sort of works nothign on the other, apparently I have a lot of soldering to do.

[Neal]

I HATE it when people wind my controller cables for any of my consoles up round them.

One of my housemates is a neat freak and would habitually wind them all up, despite me telling I didn't want him to do it, and why.

then I told him if he does it one more time ill move the lot to my room and he won't be able to play them any more. he stopped doing it after that... now he just tucks the cables under the tv stand

[Roger Red Hat]

ive just been watching the tralior for motor storm

YouTube - PS3 graphics (Motor Storm)

holy shit is all i can say.

[Chris H]

yeah it really pisses me off, gfirls do it with hairdryers etc then ask 'why did it explode?' Because your a dolly bint is my usual reply.

Anyway the speccy that works, it powers up, keyboard etc is recognised and works. However its like the pictures not tuned in (it is). Apparently I need to change caps and transistors, I tried to get more specific info and it seems that I need to change all of them! Trouble is I can't be arsed doing them all and I am not to clued on on chosing equiv's for 23 year old parts!

Can't wait for my game gears though! I need to get the telly thing for it, I remember at school back int he early 90's we used to watch the telly during class, good times, good times...

[The T.I.B.]

I spent about 3 of my years playing game gear... still remember the first time i completed sonic!

[Neal]

The Game Gear was my nemesis, I was an Atari Lynx lad. Far superior 16bit technology

Shame about the games

Still got a Lynx 1 & 2, plus a shedload of boxed games, brilliant.

[Chet T16]

Was it really 16bit or did they stick in 2 8bit processors and claim it to be 16bit?

[Neal]

It was real bona fide 16bit!

I did have friends who claimed that the Mega CD made the Mega Drive 32bit though, they were both 16bit therefore adding them together made a 32bit machine

[Chris H]

I have been looking at the lynx's on the bay as well. But the availability of games (gamestation sell GC games £1.50 each) and the fact I got 5 for that price meant that was the one to go for.

The Lynx specs

Technical specifications
MOS 65SC02 processor running at up to 4 MHz (~3.6 MHz average)
8-bit CPU, 16-bit address space
Sound engine
4 channel sound (Lynx II with panning)
8-bit DAC for each channel (4 channels × 8-bits/channel = 32 bits commonly quoted)
Video DMA driver for liquid-crystal display
4,096 color (12-bit) palette
16 simultaneous colors (4 bits) from palette per scanline (more than 16 colors can be displayed by changing palettes after each scanline)
8 System timers (2 reserved for LCD timing, one for UART)
Interrupt controller
UART (for ComLynx) (fixed format 8E1, up to 62500Bd)
512 bytes of bootstrap and game-card loading ROM
Suzy (16-bit custom CMOS chip running at 16 MHz)
Graphics engine
Hardware drawing support
Unlimited number of high-speed sprites with collision detection
Hardware high-speed sprite scaling, distortion, and tilting effects
Hardware decoding of compressed sprite data
Hardware clipping and multi-directional scrolling
Variable frame rate (up to 75 frames/second)
160 x 102 standard resolution (16,320 addressable pixels)
Math co-processor
Hardware 16-bit × 16-bit → 32-bit multiply with optional accumulation; 32-bit ÷ 16-bit → 16-bit divide
Parallel processing of CPU and a single multiply or a divide instruction
RAM: 64Kbyte 120ns DRAM
Storage: Cartridge - 128, 256 and 512Kbyte exist, up to 2Mbyte is possible with bank-switching logic.
Some (homebrew) carts with EEPROM to save hi-scores.

Ports:
Headphone port (mini-DIN 3.5mm stereo; wired for mono on the original Lynx)
ComLynx (multiple unit communications, serial)
LCD Screen: 3.5" diagonal
Battery holder (six AA) ~4-5 hours

[Chet T16]

Originally Posted by Neal

It was real bona fide 16bit!

I did have friends who claimed that the Mega CD made the Mega Drive 32bit though, they were both 16bit therefore adding them together made a 32bit machine

Just checking, it wouldn't be the only time they done it!

[Neal]

Well the Jaguar was 64bit!

Look at Doom, even the MegaDrive 32X version is faster than the Jaguar's!

[Chet T16]

Jaguar was 32bit!

I want a 3DO