KiwiArcader

Okay .... so I won a rather large magazine auction the other day and I thought I'd show everyone how much work I now have backed up.... The pile in the bookcase is my current collection while the stacks on the ground are the new lot I won. Most are pre-2000 so you can see I have my work cut out for me for the next millenium or so Excuse the grunge carpet. Beggars can't be choosers when trying to keep the Man-cave warm in winter.

Oh Man ....... $175.00AU to ship surface mail? If that isn't an airmail price then what's the world coming to? It would be cheaper to fly over with empty bags and pay for extra luggage at the airport. There's something wrong with that picture. Sigh!!!! Geez ...is anyone else on Retromags living in Oz that could take them? Be a real shame to lose them.

Gee ... I wonder what the postage cost would be to ship them across the ditch to New Zealand via surface mail?

That's true .... but his solo career music is all Pop & while it appeals to the masses his best MUSIC definitely came out of his time with the Genesis. That's usually the way though, when everyone teams up to produce something special. YES is another band for example, where all the members produced solo efforts but when you put them together they sound so much better than their individual efforts. No one person should ever be indispensible. It would be a travesty if just because Shigeru left that Nintendo were to fold. And that is a little disrespectful to everyone else employed by them. Now IF it came to pass that they collapsed ...well ... that's a different story ...

That's what I was thinking. With the Crashbox 360 & PS3 out for 2 years now the PS2 is now old school and the game prices have dropped through the floor so indeed a great time to grab one. No incentive to even consider modding it at this point in time & I always like original games sitting on the shelf. And what's wrong with buying yourself a prezzie when you know the wife loathes anything to do with old PC's or consoles? And the kids don't have jobs so cannot really buy much for the wife and I, nor would we expect them to. Anyway, I didn't know what games came with them so you could say I was definitely surprised by what I got ... sounds prezzie like to me Well ... I do have the whole basement area to myself. So I have the Amiga 1200 setup next to my old Compaq Deskpro EN which will be used to transfer floppy games over to it via null-modem cable. The rest of the Amiga's & Atari's are sitting on the shelf at present.

Not exactly retro but this Xmas I got a PS2 at long last .... the slim version .... so I am sure that qualifies as retro ...sort of .... And if you want real retro .... I just picked up 2 x Amiga A1200's to go with the 4 x Amiga A500's I obtained a few weeks back. The A1200's both came with 8MB's of RAM instead of the standard 2MB. Both function perfectly. Also picked up a Commodore 1942 monitor, bulk power supplies[very handy for those A500's], bulk software on disks and original manuals. Quite a haul ... and the whole lot cost me $51.00. Nice chrissy prezzie if I do say so myself.

The later copies of these mags were bigger than A4 in size so the cropping is probably a result of that. I have an A3 scanner so I can do the whole page in one go .... much easier and no cropping at all.