30th March, 2007 The next haul from Japan just arrived, and she's a B-I-G one :-) There's even some rare stuff and a few free items too! Mahjong Cafe Doll Mahjong Fantastic Love Mahjong Vegas Mahjong Summer Story Hana Gokou Koi Koi Shimasho Super World Stadium '98 Super World Stadium 2000 Super World Stadium 2001 Kaiun Quiz Touken Retsuden 3 Puzz-let Combat Hawk (Sega/Sanritsu, 1987). This one was hella expensive... very, very rare Guilty Gear Isuka.... free (Sammy, 2004) The Rumble Fish.... free (Sammy, 2004) Plus one other free Atomiswave cart with Japanese text (i.e. unknown ATM) I suspect that many more free Atomis carts will be coming off the arcade floor eventually because they don't seem to last long in Japan before people are tired of them and revenue drops to zero :-) I think Dyq/BNathan paid for most/all of the mahjong games, so don't worry, I didn't blow a stack of donated money on them :-D
Also in this package was a Block Maze cart for the Epoch Pocket Computer, thanks to Ranger Lennier Oh, that reminds me, I also recieved a big box full of very old rare console carts and a few old consoles too, also from Ranger Lennier about a month ago! I guess I should post some news about that too....
In a separate package that also arrived today I received a Street Fighter EX top board for what looks like a different revision of the game (Euro maybe?). But I forget who sent it! ;-)
I also got a new baby.... bought from a local friend (Hi John!)
My friend's wife was very, very happy to see it all go, especially the big stack of software that he threw in for free. I wonder why?????? Everybody loves the Amiga :-D
The machine is/was a 4000/EC030, but inside is a GVP T-Rex II 68060/50 w/128MB RAM, A2386SX Bridgeboard, Ariadne II network card and a 2.5" 800MB IDE HDD. The monitor is an NEC Multi Sync II. In front is a Quicknet 2000 network card and A2091 SCSI controller with 1GB Connor CFP1080S HDD. I've been playing around for a few days and I now have it booting OS3.9 from a 4GB Compact Flash card via a CF-IDE adapter. Works pretty well! I'm looking for a few Amiga-related things, like an RTG card (Picasso IV anyone?), A2320 Flicker Fixer, A4091 SCSI controller and other things. If you have any fruity Amiga bits for sale, let me know :-)
