Found an Amiga bargain lately?

Solid Snake · 14 July 2006, 23:44

Picked up a strange Amiga item today from the local flea market. A Golden Image 3A-1D external floppy drive with track display. The item was boxed as new for £2UKP. I remember owning various external floppy drives for my A500, but not one with a display. Just for completeness does anyone have the owner's manual that was supplied with this drive? A scan or PDF of the manual will suffice. Thanks.

DDNI · 14 July 2006, 23:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Picked up a strange Amiga item today from the local flea market. A Golden Image 3A-1D external floppy drive with track display. The item was boxed as new for £2UKP. I remember owning various external floppy drives for my A500, but not one with a display. Just for completeness does anyone have the owner's manual that was supplied with this drive? A scan or PDF of the manual will suffice. Thanks.

Yup, recently got given an Apollo 1240 25mhz FPU MMU 16mb ram Accelerator.

Today I got given a Commodore 3 button PC serial mouse (I have a Serial port adaptor, but no software...) an A500 with 512k expansion card Immaculate case, solid sounding FDD with Warranty seals still intact and a Dell Ultrascan 14" monitor (dunno if it syncs to 15khz yet though..).

Solid Snake · 15 July 2006, 00:04

This is surreal. I have had this Apollo accelerator card (with 16mb) since 2001.

alexh · 15 July 2006, 10:34

I think oxford must be an Amiga free zone. I never see any amiga stuff in any of the "usual" places.

keropi · 15 July 2006, 10:47

got these eBay items REAL cheap! can't believe it, lol
a New in box Elbox Fast ATA 1200 Gold IDE controller , an Elbox USB spider2 card and a New in box Elbox eFlash 4000/1MB all for 42$

and 2 years ago, I grabbed a complete towered with zorroII slots 1200 with 1260 and another fastata for 220euro...

BippyM · 15 July 2006, 13:29

got a fully working 1200 motherboard off BinoX for the cost of postage

and a USB disk-drive for free of Binox too

The guy is a legend in my book

keropi · 15 July 2006, 13:58

free stuff eh?

nothing beats that!

Solid Snake · 15 July 2006, 18:42

Even though Amiga gear is rare, it does pop up from time to time. I have found many bargains at local flea markets. It is a shame that many users simply binned their machines & hardware when M$ began to dominate the home computer market circa 1993.

This year I spotted an Amiga 500 (with few games) at my local GameStation store. They shrink wrapped it and labelled it "retro console" for £50!

Today, I picked up three PSX bargains. Warcraft II, Bomberman and the movie tie-in The Fifth Element. All in excellent condition for only £6.

whiteb · 17 July 2006, 12:29

I noticed an A500 with A590 and OTHER devices going for *FREE*.... some git beat me to it by about 5 minutes

Solid Snake · 17 July 2006, 14:34

Picked up "Shadows of the Empire N64" for 99p! at my local market. The N64 - IMHO one of the best consoles ever. Why? It continued the Nintendo tradition of giving gamers true plug'n'play gaming. No platform can compete with the beauty of instant access. The CD quality sound is also a big plus.

It was enjoyable replaying SOTE after ten years. How time flies, eh? The Battle of Hoth, Asteroid Field and Beggars Cannon stages are still addictive and get the adrenaline pumping.

After being disappointed with the majority of FPS available on the current gen consoles, I invested in a preowned N64 & a copy of the phenomenal GOLDENEYE

- the BEST shooter to appear on any platform.

keropi · 17 July 2006, 14:40

although I have a n64, I don't really like it... got it mainly for castlevania's...
I like better the megadrive, snes,psx and saturn consoles... 2D fan!

dlfrsilver · 17 July 2006, 14:42

got an A1200 + Overdrive 170 mb for 80 euros hehehe ^^

T_hairy_bootson · 17 July 2006, 15:01

2 Heavilly modified A4000s (and not in a good way)
and a vanilla A600.

Traded for my spare CDTV+remote.

DanE · 06 August 2006, 15:29

Hows this for cool then,

Im a postman in Lincoln and last week when i was delivering to someones house they had aload of rubbish on the drive and i noticed a tatty amiga 600 box,

I could see through the side that there was an amiga in there and knocked on the door and ask the bloke if he was throwing it out and he said i could have it.

When i got it home it looked brand new, much better then my a600 with its yellow keyboard, So i swapped my rom chip and harddrive around and now have a brand new looking A600.

Solid Snake · 09 August 2006, 21:31

A great find DanE. I visited my local flea market yesterday and found a couple of bargains. A 100MB external Zip drive complete (£1.50) and boxed N64 game "Mickeys Speedway USA" . Been looking for this game for 6 years! It was one of the last games coded by Rare - A great Mario Kart clone with 20 courses!

After watching Moonraker on the box last night, I had the urge to play the fantastic Moonraker level in Goldeneye. Still my BEST first person shooter.

Does any one know where I can get the complete music from the game in mp3/cdda format?

BippyM · 09 August 2006, 23:17

I think we are VERY off-topic here!

If you guys want I'll split the crap out so you can continue discussing goldeneye etc.. if not then just get back on topic thanks

DamienD · 09 August 2006, 23:19

Sorry bippym, got a bit carried away there

That would be awesome if you could move the GoldenEye stuff to somewhere else

25 August 2006, 23:05

- COMMODORE 64 (model 2)
- COMMODORE 64/128 C2N Datasette Model 1530
- Amiga CDTV, incl. orig. keyboard and mouse.
- Two external floppydrives.
- Commodre A520 tv modulator.

And the best part, everything works flawlessly (and in mint condition)!!

Unknown_K · 26 August 2006, 06:59

Last commodore bargains I got were a C64c and the older original C64 setups with 1541 drives plus 2 printers and an 1802 monitor on the local freecycle. Cleaned those units up and they look brand new, work well also.

The last Amiga I got was a slightly yellowed A3000 that I just paid shipping for. The A3000 has a nice mouse systems 3 button optical but I don't have the metallic looking mousepad for it to work.

T_hairy_bootson · 26 August 2006, 07:05

Quote:

Originally Posted by remmah

- COMMODORE 64 (model 2)
- COMMODORE 64/128 C2N Datasette Model 1530
- Amiga CDTV, incl. orig. keyboard and mouse.
- Two external floppydrives.
- Commodre A520 tv modulator.

And the best part, everything works flawlessly (and in mint condition)!!

Nice!

You can buy a remote control for the cdtv from amigakit/versalia/softwarehut.

14 July 2006, 23:44	#1
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	Found an Amiga bargain lately? Picked up a strange Amiga item today from the local flea market. A Golden Image 3A-1D external floppy drive with track display. The item was boxed as new for £2UKP. I remember owning various external floppy drives for my A500, but not one with a display. Just for completeness does anyone have the owner's manual that was supplied with this drive? A scan or PDF of the manual will suffice. Thanks.

25 August 2006, 23:05	#18
remmah Posts: n/a	found these items in a dumbster :) - COMMODORE 64 (model 2) - COMMODORE 64/128 C2N Datasette Model 1530 - Amiga CDTV, incl. orig. keyboard and mouse. - Two external floppydrives. - Commodre A520 tv modulator. And the best part, everything works flawlessly (and in mint condition)!!

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15 July 2006, 00:04	#3
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	This is surreal. I have had this Apollo accelerator card (with 16mb) since 2001.

15 July 2006, 10:34	#4
alexh Thalion Webshrine Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oxford Posts: 14,337	I think oxford must be an Amiga free zone. I never see any amiga stuff in any of the "usual" places.

15 July 2006, 10:47	#5
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	got these eBay items REAL cheap! can't believe it, lol a New in box Elbox Fast ATA 1200 Gold IDE controller , an Elbox USB spider2 card and a New in box Elbox eFlash 4000/1MB all for 42$ and 2 years ago, I grabbed a complete towered with zorroII slots 1200 with 1260 and another fastata for 220euro...

15 July 2006, 13:29	#6
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	got a fully working 1200 motherboard off BinoX for the cost of postage and a USB disk-drive for free of Binox too The guy is a legend in my book

15 July 2006, 13:58	#7
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	free stuff eh? nothing beats that!

15 July 2006, 18:42	#8
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	Even though Amiga gear is rare, it does pop up from time to time. I have found many bargains at local flea markets. It is a shame that many users simply binned their machines & hardware when M$ began to dominate the home computer market circa 1993. This year I spotted an Amiga 500 (with few games) at my local GameStation store. They shrink wrapped it and labelled it "retro console" for £50! Today, I picked up three PSX bargains. Warcraft II, Bomberman and the movie tie-in The Fifth Element. All in excellent condition for only £6.

17 July 2006, 12:29	#9
whiteb Fanatically Amiga. Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Age: 54 Posts: 1,557	I noticed an A500 with A590 and OTHER devices going for FREE.... some git beat me to it by about 5 minutes

17 July 2006, 14:34	#10
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	Picked up "Shadows of the Empire N64" for 99p! at my local market. The N64 - IMHO one of the best consoles ever. Why? It continued the Nintendo tradition of giving gamers true plug'n'play gaming. No platform can compete with the beauty of instant access. The CD quality sound is also a big plus. It was enjoyable replaying SOTE after ten years. How time flies, eh? The Battle of Hoth, Asteroid Field and Beggars Cannon stages are still addictive and get the adrenaline pumping. After being disappointed with the majority of FPS available on the current gen consoles, I invested in a preowned N64 & a copy of the phenomenal GOLDENEYE - the BEST shooter to appear on any platform.

17 July 2006, 14:40	#11
keropi . Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ioannina/Greece Posts: 5,040	although I have a n64, I don't really like it... got it mainly for castlevania's... I like better the megadrive, snes,psx and saturn consoles... 2D fan!

17 July 2006, 14:42	#12
dlfrsilver CaptainM68K-SPS France Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Melun nearby Paris/France Age: 46 Posts: 10,413	got an A1200 + Overdrive 170 mb for 80 euros hehehe ^^

17 July 2006, 15:01	#13
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 46 Posts: 2,084	2 Heavilly modified A4000s (and not in a good way) and a vanilla A600. Traded for my spare CDTV+remote.

06 August 2006, 15:29	#14
DanE Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Lincoln, England Age: 46 Posts: 113	Hows this for cool then, Im a postman in Lincoln and last week when i was delivering to someones house they had aload of rubbish on the drive and i noticed a tatty amiga 600 box, I could see through the side that there was an amiga in there and knocked on the door and ask the bloke if he was throwing it out and he said i could have it. When i got it home it looked brand new, much better then my a600 with its yellow keyboard, So i swapped my rom chip and harddrive around and now have a brand new looking A600.

09 August 2006, 21:31	#15
Solid Snake Wonderful World Of Amiga Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 359	A great find DanE. I visited my local flea market yesterday and found a couple of bargains. A 100MB external Zip drive complete (£1.50) and boxed N64 game "Mickeys Speedway USA" . Been looking for this game for 6 years! It was one of the last games coded by Rare - A great Mario Kart clone with 20 courses! After watching Moonraker on the box last night, I had the urge to play the fantastic Moonraker level in Goldeneye. Still my BEST first person shooter. Does any one know where I can get the complete music from the game in mp3/cdda format?

09 August 2006, 23:17	#16
BippyM Global Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Derby, UK Age: 48 Posts: 9,355	I think we are VERY off-topic here! If you guys want I'll split the crap out so you can continue discussing goldeneye etc.. if not then just get back on topic thanks

09 August 2006, 23:19	#17
DamienD Banned Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: London / Sydney Age: 47 Posts: 20,420	Sorry bippym, got a bit carried away there That would be awesome if you could move the GoldenEye stuff to somewhere else

26 August 2006, 06:59	#19
Unknown_K Registered User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ohio/USA Age: 55 Posts: 1,380	Last commodore bargains I got were a C64c and the older original C64 setups with 1541 drives plus 2 printers and an 1802 monitor on the local freecycle. Cleaned those units up and they look brand new, work well also. The last Amiga I got was a slightly yellowed A3000 that I just paid shipping for. The A3000 has a nice mouse systems 3 button optical but I don't have the metallic looking mousepad for it to work.

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