teh "what did you buy today"-thread

[lwizardl]

bought this on christmas eve and it just got here yesterday.

FM Towns Marty, listed as broken. Got it for $122.50+$67 shipping


Opened it up and found the door sensor broken.


Taped the sensor down and it read a audio cd, later tested free software collection vol2, splatterhouse, and muscle bomber all loaded fine.


tested a floppy diskette and it sounded really loud, removed the drive and found broken belt. WIll be replacing that next.


Now to find a controller

[Opethian]

any MSX/x68000 controller will work on those

[lwizardl]

Yeah I seen that only issue is the run/select buttons. Some of the ones I seen didn't have them and the fm towns uses doubled up button combos as run/select (up+down=Select, Left+Right=Run). Also seen a simple cable could be make to use genesis controllers so I may do that for the time being.

[jtucci31]

That's a nice looking Marty! Usually the working ones that are asking $500 are terribly yellowed and junky looking

[lwizardl]

Thanks jtucci31! I think I just got lucky with the find. it was only at $1.02 with like 45mins left on the auction. No way I was going to allow someone to get a marty for that 

[Opethian]

I don't know what games you intend to play but I never some across a game that needed the run/select buttons to start.

[lwizardl]

oh didn't know that, i thought it needed them. That will make it easier to find i think

[SuperDeadite]

A lot of games use the Run/Select buttons.  You will need them.  I have never seen a game that uses the Zoom button though.  However of all the official Towns pads, the Marty ones are the best.

[lwizardl]

I've never played anything fm towns but always was interested in it to see the port of Splatterhouse. So that will be the first game I plan to play on it. I was reading a genesis controller can be modded for the fm towns use so I may do that first.

[jtucci31]

Thanks jtucci31! I think I just got lucky with the find. it was only at $1.02 with like 45mins left on the auction. No way I was going to allow someone to get a marty for that 

That's weird. I was watching a Towns tower CPU on ebay a few weeks ago that was at like $2 for the longest time before it sold for $120ish.

[lwizardl]

interesting that was how the marty was.  I seen a few for $360, 500, and then $1.02 I was like umm mine.

[Tatsujin]

wow, soon 1000 pages 

[sirhcman]

wow, soon 1000 pages 

not really much of a shock, lots of collectards here!

[esteban]

wow, soon 1000 pages 

I guess it depends on how many messages you display per page...my count says 298 pages...

...which is still a hell of a lot of pages.

Also, WHERE THE F@CK HAVE YOU BEEN??!!

[Opethian]

wow, soon 1000 pages 

Shamisen ross