Treasure Hunt

Todays finds were
Sheep for PSX, £1.99








Mad Catz Beat Pad for PS2, £1.99
Thrustmaster Top Gun Joystick for PC, £1.49

Total cost £5.47

News Reports and Sensationalism

This is a bit of a rant, and very much a pet peeve of mine.

In a BBC News report this morning, about D.R. Congo, the reporter stated that women in wars were always the first victims, and yet when they interviewed one of these women, who had been raped, she mentioned that before the rape she had seen 20 members of her family killed. Now this is nit-picking I know, but isn't the reporters initial statement then like saying that Great Britain came first in the Olympics, after China and America?

I really hate the over sensationalism that goes on in media.

End of Rant

Dragon 32 Again

Inspired by my own cocktail cabinet and all the electronic work I've got to do on that I had a sudden flash of inspiration about modding a proper Dragon 32 joystick, using the internals of a PSX dual shock pad. I've won a couple of ropey looking Dragon joysticks on eBay, hopefully they should be here in the next couple of days so I can rip them open and see what I can do. Photos will appear here as the project progresses

Elonex ONEt

I've bought myself an Elonex ONEt recently. Actually it was a ONE when I bought it, but they've taken so long shipping it that I got a free upgrade to the latest model. It's quite slow to start applications, and you can't run many at a time (it self limits to 3), but once it's going it's not too bad. The lack of Flash is a disappointment as it means stuff like You Tube won't run (which is a bit of an unexpected bonus). eBay works fine, as does GMail albeit slowly, and for sitting in the living room doing a bit of browsing away from the desktop it's actually pretty cool. Build quality seems to be quite high, although the interface could have done with a bit more quality control as there are tons of grammar and spelling mistakes in the dialog boxes. The WiFi didn't work out of the box as it needed a wired update to find my LiveBox,but that aside it's now up and running perfectly

Treasure Hunt

Not much on today's trip, just Madden 94 for the Mega Drive. For 25p.

Treasure Hunt

Very successful hunt today, usual charity shops and flea market I'd never visited. Today's haul consisted of:
Master System
Alex Kidd in Shinobi World
Super Tennis
Fantasy Zone
Dynamite Dux
Streets of Rage


C64 (!)
Thunder Blade
Kung-Fu Master
Grand Monster Slam
Book of the Dead
Auf Wiedersehen Monty
Asterix & The Magic Cauldron


Playstation
X-Men Mutant Academy
Jersey Devil
Carmageddon
G-Police





NES
Mission Impossible
N64
Mario Kart 64

Running me a grand total of £30.41 for 17 games

Cocktail Cabinet - In Action!

I've connected up all the basics now, and given the cabinet it's first test. All works well, although the lack of a proper control panel is quite a disappointment.

Here it is playing Space Invaders, which seemed fitting for a first game.