July 2010 Finds

[NayusDante]

Kitsune, I made a thread about Gamebox 1.0 a while back, but nobody responded. I'd like to know what you think of it...

[Kitsune Sniper]

Kitsune, I made a thread about Gamebox 1.0 a while back, but nobody responded. I'd like to know what you think of it...

Hm...

I'll bump it to the top of my "Now watching" pile, just for ya. ;p

[InsaneDavid]

Been ill the past few days after taking the weekend off to spend with family. Just one find, PlaySation Analog Joystick, $20.00...



I love this freaking thing. I have a week and a half of vacation coming up so it'll be time to finally play through Colony Wars. The prime reason I've waited until now to play the games is I wanted to have this stick first. Also works great for Descent and Ace Combat 2.

[allyourblood]

Been ill the past few days after taking the weekend off to spend with family. Just one find, PlaySation Analog Joystick, $20.00...

I love this freaking thing. I have a week and a half of vacation coming up so it'll be time to finally play through Colony Wars. The prime reason I've waited until now to play the games is I wanted to have this stick first. Also works great for Descent and Ace Combat 2.

Descent? That game is the official, undisputed king of zero-second motion sickness for me. When playing that particular game, said controller shall be dubbed "The Sick Sticks". (And yes, I watched Minority Report recently.)

[InsaneDavid]

Descent? That game is the official, undisputed king of zero-second motion sickness for me. When playing that particular game, said controller shall be dubbed "The Sick Sticks". (And yes, I watched Minority Report recently.)

Descent is my all time favorite PC game. The PlayStation port of the original and rework of the sequel are great as well. On the PS1 the left stick is forward / back movement and left / right roll. The right stick is left / right rolling yaw and up / down pitch. The hat switch controls up / down / left / right directional glide.

[allyourblood]

Descent is my all time favorite PC game. The PlayStation port of the original and rework of the sequel are great as well. On the PS1 the left stick is forward / back movement and left / right roll. The right stick is left / right rolling yaw and up / down pitch. The hat switch controls up / down / left / right directional glide.

I'm sitting here getting dizzy just reading that.

[ScourDX]

My pickup for today



Game Gear with 2 CIB games from CL - $28
Tetris DS from CL - $5
Blokus Portable - $0.99
Puzzle Guzzle - $2.50
Trackmania - $10
Eternal Sonata - $15

Also my import package has arrived

[DigitalSpace]

Purchased at a Goodwill Tuesday evening:

Sonic Unleashed (PS2, new) - $1.99

And here's the webcam photo (complete with fingers):

[garagesaleking!!]

Glad to see there is another meatloaf fan on the forums. That is a great album you have right there.

[Kitsune Sniper]

Glad to see there is another meatloaf fan on the forums. That is a great album you have right there.

How could I not like him? He loves tacos!

[Eduardo]

I got The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers for PS2 at Gamestop for $2, the guy offering a $1 insurance on a $2 game was pretty amussing.

[Dreadstar]

I had one of those wacky PS sticks at one point but I traded it in to the local store a while ago.

Found some goodies at Goodwill today. An original boxed Simon with instructions for 2.99, an Atari Flashback 2 with two working joysticks for 4.99, and a loose working 1998 GI Joe MOBAT tank for 2.99. The Simon didn't work on the first try, so I pulled the corroded battery contacts and am going to try to clean them.

[philinchio]

Scored a CIB PS1 Wild Arms and a strategy guide for $5 total at the midtown Salvation Army and also found a cart only Super Mario 64 for $1 at the other SA closer to my house.

[thetoxicone]

yeah two fairbanks alaska finds in a row.

I picked up

Mario Party, Snowboard kids 2, and Call of Duty World At War (360 loose) for $10, Call of Duty was thrown in since it was disc only and pretty scratched...hope it works as it is the only Call of Duty I don't have and as long as it works I could care less if it has a case and booklet.

Also grabbed a lp picture frame for $6.50 from a thrift, now I only wish I had some of my cool lp's up here from storage as I have a few that'd look great framed.

[NaturalChemical]

Bubsy CIB - $7

The shop seems to have a ton of CIB Genesis and 32X titles right now. Thinking about picking up a few.

[philinchio]

yeah two fairbanks alaska finds in a row.

Actually, I'm in Anchorage for the summer. I've just been too lazy to change my location. :P

[Tupin]

Odd find today, I was walking into my local Best Buy and I saw a guy unloading old computers onto a trolley to take them in to be recycled. One that stood out was a Bondi iMac G3. Cost? Free, he said I could have it, they were going to get recycled anyway.

No mouse or keyboard, which sucks because I actually do not have a USB keyboard. All I have are PS/2. It boots up to a question mark, but at least it was free!

[rodarkone]

offtopic
You can use an USB to PS2 adapter - it's cheap and easy to find.



or this one (if I understand corectly that you don't have USB peripherals)



ontopic

My news:

[Tupin]

A bigger problem is that it doesn't boot up all the way. You hear the chime, the screen turns on, you can hear the hard drive going, but it just shows a folder that alternates between the Finder logo and a question mark. I'll post this on an Apple help forum or something, maybe they can help.

[otoko]

A bigger problem is that it doesn't boot up all the way. You hear the chime, the screen turns on, you can hear the hard drive going, but it just shows a folder that alternates between the Finder logo and a question mark. I'll post this on an Apple help forum or something, maybe they can help.

It means it can't find a OS, so the system has no Operating system.

If you indeed have a Bondi system and it's the one I'm thinking of you have a system running a 233mhz processor and has a tray loading disk drive. Your OS options are limited to OS 8, OS 9, and OSX 10.1 I believe. I wouldn't do OSX 10 because it'll run terribly on that computer. Slot loading iMacs can do up to 10.4 but I don't think you have that one.